Hate Speech

  • Morning Docket: 06.10.22
    Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 06.10.22

    * There may be some turbulence for JetBlue — an antitrust suit was just given the green light. [Reuters]

    * Massachusetts just made it easier for immigrants to drive to work. [AP]

    * Planning on getting that JD to find Mx. Right? Women share stories of what it’s like dating as a lawyer. At least they try to. There are a lot of men in the comments. [Reddit]

    * A congressional candidate from South Carolina is calling for treason executions and imprisoning the parents of LGBTQ children. Gotta love our lax hate speech jurisprudence! [LGBTQ Nation]

  • Morning Docket: 10.05.21
    Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 10.05.21

    * Whistleblower claims Facebook encourages hate speech to make money. Might explain why yesterday was so much calmer. [The Verge]

    * Todd Akin died of cancer. I thought that the body had ways of maintaining health in cases of “legitimate illness.” [NBC News]

    * Grimes’s ex’s company ordered to pay former employee $137M because of racism. [NBC News]

    * Pfizer’s COVID vaccine is very effective in the first six months, but it drops off after that. Relatable. [Washington Post]

    * The Pandora papers have opened a box of… you get it. Greek mythology joke. Here’s a summary of why it’s important. [CNN]

  • Non-Sequiturs

    Non-Sequiturs: 10.08.15

    * Even Bill Cosby cannot escape the power and force of the American judicial system. [Gawker]

    * A #tbt look at a bygone era when people took honest-to-goodness lunch breaks. [Slate]

    * Let the fanfic commence! Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg tells of the time Justice Scalia serenaded her. [Huffington Post]

    * More people pile on Mary Jo White. [Above the Law]

    * A primer on the legal issues that will dominate the next year. [Pacific Standard]

    * The British legal system is going to war over offensive tweets. [Overlawyered]

    * The closing you use at the end of your email can say a lot about you. [Daily Lawyer Tips]

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    Non-Sequiturs: 09.12.12

    * Jury agrees that Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis slandered casino mogul Steve Wynn by saying he threatened to kill Francis over his gambling debt. That’ll be $20 million. Or, Francis can just show Wynn his boobs. [Huffington Post] * Moonbeam Jerry and Chris “Destroyer of Idiots” Christie are feuding. It’s just like Biggie v. Tupac, but with hot air instead of unregistered firearms. [Daily Dolt] * Dude spies on his wife in their own home for the better part of a year. Now they’re getting divorced. Mother, tell your husband not to spy my way. [USA Today] * Judging from the intensity of the ATL Fantasy Football league after just one week of play, a lot of lawyers really wish they had this job. [Sports Illustrated] * Thank God there were no leaf blowers were involved, or one of these guys may have napalmed the whole neighborhood. [Legal Juice] * Congratulations to Goodwin Procter on a notable hire out of the Solicitor General’s Office: Willy Jay, who has argued before SCOTUS almost a dozen times. [Goodwin Procter] * Just a reminder that Elie is speaking in front of the Anti-Defamation League’s Young Lawyers division tomorrow night at the beautiful New York offices of Arnold & Porter. One of his topics is “why you don’t want me deciding your hate speech,” so at the very least, it should be lively. [Anti-Defamation League]
  • Non-Sequiturs, Violence

    Non-Sequiturs: 06.22.12

    * Welcome to the right side of history, former anti-gay marriage guy. [New York Times] * Protecting free speech has to be more important than stopping hate speech. [National Post vai Overlawyered] * Netflix is subject to the Americans with Disabilities Act. Seems unfair to me, people are already disabled, I don’t see why you have to make them deal with Netflix too. [Boston Globe] * This Tony Parker lawsuit following the Chris Brown fight is right out of Eddie Murphy’s Raw where people start suing Eddie for “sprained eyes.” (If you haven’t seen Raw in a while, click the link. So funny.) [Daily Mail] * This law would make it a crime for a teenager to breakup with his girlfriend via text. That sounds like a great idea. [Volokh Conspiracy] * See my vest, see my vest, made of lizards I’m smuggled to the U.S. [Legal Juice] After the jump, you really have to check out Brian Cuban having an aneurism over Lindsay Lohan’s continued freedom...