Insults
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Legal Ethics
Attorney Tries To Slip Sexist Insult Past The Judge... It Doesn't Go Well For Him
He thinks he's so clever. He is not. -
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Navigating Financial Success by Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Maximizing Firm Performance
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Donald Trump, Politics
Donald Trump Slams Federal Judge In That Racist Way Only Trump Can
In Trump's world, no insult, no matter how slight or deserved, can stand.
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Books, Free Speech, Movies
Court Investigates Whether Being Compared To Gollum Is Insulting
Somewhere some graduate thesis on The Character And Motivations Of Gollum Née Sméagol is about to become actually useful. -
Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 06.26.15
* Oh, the Onion… what would I do without you? Their take on gay marriage is masterful, as always. [Onion]
* Conservatives, troubled with the Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, vow to move to Canada. There’s only one teeny, tiny problem with their plan… about a decade in the making. [BuzzFeed]
* Of all the arrogant, jiggery-pokery, pure applesauce, Putsch! Find out exactly how Justice Scalia would mock you in this fun insult generator. [Slate]
* Some Alabama counties have come up with a crackerjack way to avoid marrying same sex couples. [Vox]
* The only way to get to today’s historical gay marriage case was to defeat the nomination of Judge Robert Bork, and Reagan aides always suspected this would happen. [Roll Call]
* For marriage equality fans with a sweet tooth. [Ben & Jerry’s]
* Surely you jest! Justice Scalia? Intellectually inconsistent to fit a political agenda? Pshaw. [BloombergView]
* A handy guide to today’s landmark SCOTUS decision. [Legal IO]
* News you can use: what is the legal status of cursing at cops? [The Marshall Project]
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Fat People, Lawsuit of the Day, Minority Issues, Racism
You Can Sue People For Making Fat Jokes About Black People? WHY WASN'T I INFORMED OF THIS???
Hey, hey, hey! Earl Brown, a former AIG lawyer, claims he was discriminated against because his boss kept making Fat Albert jokes about him. -
Canada, Email Scandals, Rudeness, Secretaries / Administrative Assistants, Small Law Firms
I'm Rubber and You're Glue: Is Name-Calling a Part of Law Firm Culture?
You'd figure that when people grow up, go to law school, and get real jobs as attorneys, that name-calling would stop. But you'd be oh so wrong. With the advent of modern technology, name-calling is ten times easier than it was before. Lawyers can now insult colleagues in the blink of an eye and with the click of a button, making for great email scandals. But has name-calling become a part of law firm culture? One wrongful termination suit claims that it has....