Homelessness
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Biglaw
Billionaire Attacks Biglaw Firm For Helping The Homeless. Also Detroit For Some Reason.
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Health / Wellness
Who’s Responsible For The Death Of Jordan Neely?
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Government
Instead Of Fighting Homelessness, Missouri Has Opted To Fight The Homeless
What's next? Missouri is going to funnel money from its anti-homelessness budget in to Brett Farve's pockets?
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Government
Philly Has The Opportunity To Take Care Of Its People. Will It?
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 08.15.22
* How private is data privacy really? NPR has a great primer on what happens when cops want to know about your social media. [NPR]
* Remember a while back when folks were arguing we could either choose the rule of law or Trump? The DHS is finding that out the hard way. [The Hill]
* A Bill of Rights for the homeless may be underway in the city of brotherly love. [Law.com]
* Being out of practice by choice is one thing, but that’s not what happened to this former councilman. [Penn Live]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 07.18.22
* If these magic words won’t get you your prescription, at least it should make the eventual lawsuit a little easier to win. [Twitter]
* Missouri is really good at criminalizing homelessness! [Business Insider]
* Dobbs is gonna make it harder to deal with the natural outcome of 10 to 15 percent of pregnancies. Thanks, SCOTUS! [NYT]
* Texas found a way to bypass that whole consent of the governed thing. Cool beans! [NPR]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 04.13.22
* An Inconvenient Truth: That lady from the pedophile party wants people to just forget about that time the nation was attacked. [CNN]
* Use this IRS data leak as a reminder to do your taxes! Unless you’re super rich. They probably get money back or something. [ProPublica]
* Culver City is widening sidewalks to give homeless folks more room. I wish our approach was more Finland and less Cartman from South Park. [NBC]
* Gotta be quicker than that: Twitter shareholders sue Musk for delaying his Twitter stock buying. [Reuters]
* Mississippi mississips again by declaring April Confederate History Month. I don’t know, sounds like CRT to me. [Mississippi Free Press]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 10.22.21
* Moot Court Prof thinks she was terminated after she made comments about job insecurity. Sometimes professors give employment law hypos; sometimes they become them. [ABA Journal]
* New L.A. law bans homeless encampments in over 50 different places. Where are they supposed to go? [Los Angeles Times]
* Protest against SB8 numbering thousands takes place in downtown Los Angeles. Good to know that the Lone Star state is getting external support. [Daily Sundial]
* Some law firms are choosing real property over virtual workspaces. I guess it is harder to host team-building pizza parties over Zoom. [Law.com]
* CDC okays booster shots for the big 3 COVID vaccines. Can I mix and match? I’m in the mood for a Pfizer x JJ Arnold Palmer. [Law360]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 08.03.21
* LA Mayor responds to lack of homeless shelter beds with a general ban on camping. [JURIST]
* 14th Amendment claim against mandatory vaccinations smacked down by the 7th circuit. Also, this is what the 14th is getting used for nowadays? Ugh. [REUTERS]
* Just stay home: Fake vaccination cards cost these two about 16k. That’s almost a month of law school! [THE CRIME REPORT]
* Why can’t they just say it like $hort? SEC plans to review their whistleblower rules. [LAW 360]
* What do you mean I can’t harass you?! California’s definition of “harassment” may include behavior clearly protected by the 1st Amendment. [REASON]
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Government
San Diego Outlaws Living In A Van Down By The River
City tries again to make living in your vehicle a crime. -
Law Schools
Without Access To Loans, Homeless Student Lived In A Car While Finishing Law School
This student was only able to survive law school thanks ingenuity and the help of faculty. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 03.20.17
* Today marks the first day of Judge Neil Gorsuch’s confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Will there any big surprises unveiled about him during the hearings? At this point, the only surprise is that anyone still expects there will be a surprise about the “[d]apper, folksy” judge. The bigger surprise will be whether […]
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Public Interest
The Fight Against Homelessness Starts With Lawyers
What you can do to fight homelessness.
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 08.15.16
* This is why Merrick Garland will still be Hillary Clinton’s choice for the Supreme Court. [Empirical SCOTUS]
* Robot lawyer looking to solve the problem of homelessness. [Slate]
* Justice Sotomayor explains what it takes to be a good judge. [News Minor]
* Advice for lawyers seeking a position in Hillary Clinton’s administration. [Law and More]
* On the constitutionality of the Supreme Court hearing court-martial appeals. [Just Security]
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 06.20.16
* Does your schedule already include three summer lunches this week? Here’s how to avoid packing on the pounds. [Corporette]
* Judicial overload in federal courts in South Carolina is getting out of hand. [Greenville Online]
* A look at how the Jones Day brand might be hurting. [Law and More]
* Taking the abstraction out of the homelessness problem. [Guile is Good]
* That New York Times article about Valpo Law School is creating a lot of buzz. [TaxProf Blog]
* An in-depth look at the sad story of Biglaw partners who were de-equitized. [Law360]
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Public Interest, State Judges
Unprofessional Judge Calls Public Defender Unprofessional
Condescending judge goes viral... again. -
Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 09.25.15
* Well, this is one way to deal with the Free the Nipple campaign: ban sideboob and underboob. And while you’re at it, legalize public boners because consistency is hard. Heh. [Vice]
* The Pope’s homelessness chops are on point. [What About Paris?]
* This is the absolute best way to troll prestige whores. [Daily Lawyer Tips]
* Is this the best recommendation letter ever? [Lawyers, Guns & Money]
* This is how bigamy cases go down in the world of Facebook. [Legal Juice]
* Using forensic evidence to document human rights abuses. [Pacific Standard]
* What’s going on with Janet Yellen? [Dealbreaker]
* Interesting to legal nerds (and maybe others). The Justice Department’s very influential Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) — the division that produced the torture memos, among other things — cranks out a lot of law professors. [Yale Journal on Regulation]
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Biglaw, Harvard
Homeless Harvard Lawyer Reflects On Fall From Biglaw Prestige
Harvard-educated lawyer on the prestige of Biglaw life, and everything that comes after... -
Legal Ethics
Homeless Lawyer Is Terrible Lawyer, Says Supreme Court
As lawyers, we should be outraged over homelessness among our profession. But this particular homeless guy still seems like a jerk. -
Holy Crap, Job Searches, Law Schools
Homeless Lawyer Secretly Lived In Public Defender's Office For 5 Months
If you think you've seen the worst of the plight of recent law school graduates, you ain't seen nothing yet.