Immigration

The Center for Constitutional Rights reminds us that the ban has left the headlines and it shouldn't.

Criminal defense attorney Toni Messina says if she were an immigrant with an open deportation order, or an undocumented alien, having been duly warned, she'd have been laying low over the weekend. 

Trump continues to turn America into a rogue state.

What they need is a good defense, 'cause they're feelin' like they're criminals...

Congratulations -- and thanks -- to these inspiring leaders of the bar and change agents.

* The first debate night included an unexpected spotlight on America’s addiction to overcriminalization when Castro and Beto clashed over why border crossing needs to be a crime to fight sex trafficking… when sex trafficking is already a crime. Meanwhile prosecutors wearing granny’s clothing said, “all the better to leverage you into a deal, my dear.” [Washington Post]

* For all the tech transfer attorneys out there… this can’t be good news. [Law360]

* They’re turning Lee Harvey Oswald’s jail cell into a law school and here’s an update on that process. [Dallas News]

* San Francisco has banned e-cigs. I’m no fan, but it seems like analog cigs should be banned before e-cigs, right? [CBS News]

* Fintech practices are hot these days. Maybe doubling down on tech savvy lawyers will help move the legal industry into the 21st century. [American Lawyer]

* Roger Stone stares into the void of contempt. [National Law Journal]

The lawyer is asking for forgiveness and doesn't deserve any.

Who would have thought 'safe and sanitary' would be this difficult to define? Not these judges.

* During an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” President Trump falsely claimed that he “inherited” the policy of separating children from their parents at the border from President Obama, and later went on to defend the conditions that migrant children are being detained in, saying, “We’re doing a fantastic job under the circumstances.” [NBC News]

* The Supreme Court will soon be ending its October 2018 term, and there are still a dozen controversial cases yet to be decided. Which eagerly awaited ruling(s) will be released today? [Reuters]

* “So many D.C. lawyers are actors at heart. This is the drama of our time.” The Mead Center for American Theater is planning an 11-hour dramatic reading of the Mueller report. Several lawyers have signed up to read, but we wonder who will get to say Don McGahn’s famous lines. [National Law Journal]

* One woman may have settled her sex discrimination claims against Jones Day, but another just joined the gender bias class-action against the firm, bringing the total number of plaintiffs to eight. [Big Law Business]

* Cravath partners: They’re just like us! Damaris Hernández, who became the first Latina partner at Cravath in 2016, got her own profile piece on how she spends her Sundays published in the paper of record this weekend. [New York Times]

* A rundown of the legal problems with Florida’s decision to criminally charge the school cop at Parkland for not being a better guy with a gun. [CBS News]

* White House aims to take legal services and exercise away from migrant children for cruelty’s sake. [NY Times]

* Opioid manufacturer settles case for pocket change. [Courthouse News Service]

* While its former athletic director is reportedly under investigation, USC got a bit of happy news when one of its former basketball coaches avoided prison time. Fight on. [Law360]

* Cellino and Barnes battle royale gets a bit more juicy. [Buffalo News]

* Tom Brady is trying to trademark another Hall of Famer’s nickname. [BU Today]

* A day in the life of a human rights attorney. [Lifehacker]

* Now Spider-Man is trying to save America from high drug prices. Big pharma, on the other hand, is rooting for the Thanos solution. [The Recorder]

* Weekend at Bernie’s meets The Verdict: Attorney kept pushing after his client died and never bothered to tell anyone. [ABA Journal]

* Thornton Law Firm gets off on campaign fraud charges. Thornton had helped out Democrats… the Republicans on the FEC let them off. Even though this transparently helps Trump’s claims vis a vis Cohen, he’ll probably complain about it anyway. [CommonWealth Magazine]

* Law firms fall prey to cybercrime… again. [American Lawyer]

* Trump’s unveiled a new immigration “plan” that reads like one of Steve King’s wet dreams. [USA Today]

* Purdue Pharma’s legal problems mount faster than the rampant addiction problem they’ve spread. [Washington Post]

* Tex McIver, the law firm partner who killed his wife because he was scared of black people, thinks he should be able to sue over his wife’s death… that he caused. [Daily Report]

This family's situation should be on a law school final exam.

* In “dog bites man” news, a majority of young lawyers think being a lawyer sucks. [Daily Business Review]

* ICE is now curtailing immigrant access to legal counsel. [NBC News]

* Republican Senators call on Attorney General to resign for ignoring congressional subpoenas… oh, wait, that was when Holder did it. [Tampa Bay Times]

* The FTC wants a national privacy law and it’s absolutely not getting one because that would require a functional government. [NY Times]

* R. Kelly paid child support, but he’s still trying to keep the whole thing sealed. Don’t pee on my leg… actually, you know what, let’s just leave it there. [ABC News]

* Stoel Rives elects female managing partner. [The Recorder]

* Will Monsanto face a $1B verdict? [Law360]

So I guess right-wingers DO think obstruction is a crime... sometimes.

* Donald Trump won’t stop tweeting about the Mueller report, most recently claiming that he “never told then White House Counsel Don McGahn to fire Robert Mueller.” Meanwhile, the president’s allies would really like it if he just STFU about it. [POLITICO]

* Federal prosecutors have charged Judge Shelley Richmond Joseph of Massachusetts with obstruction and perjury for allegedly allowing an undocumented immigrant to leave a courthouse through a back door to prevent immigration authorities from conducting an arrest. [USA Today]

* Reed Smith, which represents Concord Management and Consulting, the Russian company indicted in special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe, has asked that both Mueller and AG Bill Barr be held in contempt over the redacted release of the Mueller report. [National Law Journal]

* The ugly side of fashion law: A senior in-house attorney at LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton Inc. has filed suit against the company, claiming that she was sexually harassed by a male coworker and punished for reporting it. [New York Law Journal]

* Weil Gotshal is willing to pay big money to pre-law students who’ve been accepted at certain T14 schools for doing nonprofit work. The Biglaw firm is planning to fork over $1 million a year so these up-and-coming law students can work at public interest jobs. [Big Law Business]

* Harvey Weinstein will face sex trafficking charges. [Law360]

* “LSU Creates Model for Colleges Embroiled in Varsity Blues Scandal.” Yeah, um, no offense but LSU didn’t have to anything to worry about. [Corporate Counsel]

* MoFo’s horribly ill-advised sanctions motion meets the swift demise it deserved. [The Recorder]

* Meanwhile, the Jones Day attorney named in its gender bias case has left. [American Lawyer]

* Sears is suing Eddie Lampert and Steve Mnuchin for destroying the company. [CNBC]

* Ninth Circuit hands Trump’s immigration plans another defeat. [Courthouse News Service]

The administration’s no-more-room-for-you approach not only is untrue but undermines the very foundation of American values.

Just when you think textualism can't get any more morally bankrupt...

* Several weeks after its release, Over My Dead Body, Wondery’s new podcast exploring the Dan Markel case, continues to top the podcast charts — and creators Matthew Shaer and Eric Benson have some thoughts on why the case has seized the public imagination. [Inside Edition]

* The Keith Tharpe case, far from representing an isolated injustice, reflects and embodies the racist roots of the death penalty in America, according to Stephen Cooper. [CounterPunch]

* The fight against racism in the justice system has been going on (and will continue) for many years — and as Texas lawyer John Browning has discovered, trailblazing African American attorneys were fighting to integrate the bar of the Lone Star State as early as the 1800s. [Texas Lawyer]

* I’ve previously argued against treating blue slips as senatorial vetoes of judicial nominees, based on their consequences for the federal judiciary — and as Thomas Jipping points out, history supports treating blue slips as a senatorial courtesy, nothing more. [Bench Memos / National Review]

* Don’t be fooled by the high level of unanimity in the Supreme Court’s first few decisions of the Term; greater disagreement lurks in the “shadow docket,” as Adam Feldman explains. [Empirical SCOTUS]

* The compromise appropriations bill that saved us from another government shutdown could also advance the Trump Administration’s “remain in Mexico” policy for asylum seekers from Central America — which Stewart Baker believes “may offer a better solution to the immigration crisis than the construction of a few miles of new wall.” [Lawfare via Volokh Conspiracy / Reason]

* Actor James Woods is out of the woods in a defamation lawsuit arising out of an erroneous tweet of his, thanks to this interesting ruling by the Sixth Circuit. [How Appealing]

* Jean O’Grady is excited about Panoramic, the latest offering from Thomson Reuters, which transforms “the ambitious idea of merging workflow and billing into an actual product.” [Dewey B Strategic]

Could it be? A happy ending for when unfortunate U.S. immigration policy and assisted reproductive technology collide?