Harvard
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Courts
The DOE Has Set Sights On Legacy Admissions, And Civil Rights Protections Could Be Collateral Damage
Losing disparate impact would really suck. -
Courts
First They Came For Affirmative Action. Then They Came For Legacy Admissions. Good Riddance.
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Courts
The Affirmative Action Cases Went About As Well As You'd Expect Them To. What Now?
Saw this coming from a mile away.
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Courts
There's No Way The Effects Of The Affirmative Action Cases Will Stop At College's Front Door
I'm going to change the last name on my resume to something safer just in case. How's Christopher Smith? They'd give him a job for sure. -
Law Schools
U.S. News Law School Rankings Preview Is Here: Major Shakeup Or Much Ado About Nothing?
Quite often, much fanfare signals nothing. This is one of those times. -
Law Schools
Harvard Helps Preserve Slave Quarters As Part Of Reckoning With Its Law School's History
Maybe next they can find the descendants of the enslaved and pay them directly! -
Law Schools
Harvard Law Professors Caught Using Final Exams To Outsource Copaganda
With leftists like these, who needs PragerU!? -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 12.09.22
* Repeat after me: DO NOT USE CONFUSE CLIENT MONEY FOR LOTTERY WINNINGS. [KSAT]
* Stop Woke isn’t just a Florida thing — it is a biglaw thing too. [Law.com]
* Rutgers Law is offering a certificate in hopes of combating the legacy of the War on Drugs. [Philly Voice]
* Harvard graduates are giving lip over LIPP. [The Crimson]
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Law Schools
Are Top Tier Law Schools Pulling Away From US News Because Of Concerned Action Or Concerted Action?
Sure would be cool if we all just independently did the same thing as each other within a very short period of time such that it would be as if we all decided to do the same thing together... -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 11.18.22
* Here’s a snippet of what Yale Law thinks about race conscious admissions. [Yale Daily News]
* Will Cornell opt out a la Yale and Harvard? Your guess is as good as mine. [Cornell Sun]
* No need to be curious about UC Berkeley though. [WSJ]
* Brittney Griner has been transferred out of Moscow to begin her sentence. [NYT]
* Been looking for a way to study contracts without being bored to sleep? Consider this…religious angle. [Tampa Bay]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 10.17.22
* Yale Law responds to the attempt to cancel its students. This is all just an elaborate ploy to convince people that it exists if you ask me. [Washington Examiner]
* Fewer folks are applying to be law students in 2023. This is not entirely bad. We do need more welders. [Reuters]
* Live in Nebraska and want to go to law school in order to help people? Check out their public interest scholars program! Also — consider leaving Nebraska. [News.UNL.edu]
* Harvard Law’s student body is also getting involved in political activism. If judges keep blacklisting prestigious schools for allowing their students to have opinions, we might have a Supreme Court justice from Rutgers some day! [The Nation]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 05.24.22
* Could these abortion bans be just the thing needed to spur environmentalism with teeth? [Daily Beast]
* The 11th Circuit just found the Florida law that prevents social media sites from moderating political speech to be unconstitutional. [Yahoo!]
* Harvard just uhh… sued the government for discriminating against one of its students? Am I reading this right? [The Crimson]
* Colorado just made it a little easier to be a parent. [Chieftain]
* We don’t like your kind around here: Inventions originating from artificial intelligence are butting up against patent law in interesting ways. [Nature]
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Harvard
Harvard Commits $100M To Begin Addressing The Whole 'Major Benefiter From Enslavement' Thing
I am hopeful. Suspicious that Rachel Dolezal will somehow benefit the most from this — but hopeful.
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 04.19.22
* Sovereignty denied: The Supreme Court decides to not rule on the Penobscot Nation’s control of their river. [AP]
* Hating from outside the club: Judge green lights suit to prevent Marjorie Taylor Greene from holding office again. [Common Dreams]
* Harvard Law prof gives legal argument for how a barrel of Russia’s food is worth twenty of Ukraine’s . [MSNBC]
* You can’t fire me in a way that matters: Judge rules employee fired for protesting work conditions has to get his job back. [ABC News]
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Courts
The New Judge Jackson Dog Whistle Just Dropped And It's So Bad
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 09.13.21
* One of the Supreme Court’s six Republican judges worries that the public thinks their decisions are seen as political moves. No word from Barrett on what social scientists think. [Politico]
* Turns out pay as you go isn’t an approved way to get into Harvard. Trial that questions how merit-based Ivy league admissions are starts soon. [Reuters]
* Texas’s governor is trying really hard to let people do a hate speech on social media. [Jurist.org]
* I know Balenciaga appropriating sagging isn’t personal property, but this definitely feels like theft. IP issue, maybe? [CNN]
* Lastly, a moment of silence for those lost on September 11, 2001. Here are a few stories in their honor. [Law.com]
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Biglaw
Addiction, Ethics, And Bravery
Kudos to those who are confronting various mental health issues. It’s not easy being in the spotlight and discussing such personal matters. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 06.22.21
* A lawsuit alleges that the wife of an MLB star had an affair with a former pastor. Guess that pastor allegedly made it to home base… [Fox News]
* A lawyer at Dechert has been sanctioned $10,000 for conduct during closing arguments of litigation involving purportedly defective earplugs. [Reuters]
* A defendant accused of stabbing a California attorney to death is due in court. [ABC News]
* A class action has been filed over a massive chemical fire that occurred at a Chemtool plant earlier this month. [Chicago Tribune]
* Harvard successfully dismissed a lawsuit alleging that students should receive tuition discounts due to COVID-19. Guess a Harvard education doesn’t just cost a Zoom subscription and $1.50 in late fees at the public library. [Forbes]
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Courts
Harvard Won, But Affirmative Action Is Still Set Up To Lose
Republicans were never trying to win this battle, they're trying to win their war against diversity. -
Finance
Harvard Officially Has Too Much Money
Even Princeton isn't vainglorious enough to mess with crypto.