Mass Shootings

Next on the list — banning kneepads and hard hats.

Because the real school safety discussion this nation needs to be having RIGHT NOW is about how comfy Ilya Shapiro feels about insulting judicial candidates at a prestigious institution.

Mass shootings are a tragedy elsewhere. Here? They're routine.

Wonder what the penalty for not having insurance would be.

* Accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, who’d reportedly been taken off suicide watch, died by suicide this weekend as he awaited trial. AG Bill Barr is “appalled,” and has called for an investigation into the circumstances of Epstein’s death. [New York Times]

* In light of Epstein’s death, his victims want prosecutors to turn their sights upon Ghislaine Maxwell, who has been described as the financier’s “protector and procurer, his girlfriend and his madam.” [Washington Post]

* Will the Supreme Court be able to delay hearing cases about expanding Second Amendment rights considering the fact that this country has quite the problem with mass shootings? Not too hopeful here. [USA Today]

* Joel Sanders, defunct firm Dewey’s former CFO, wants his criminal conviction to be tossed out and his $1 million fine to be vacated with it. [New York Law Journal]

* So much for those Biglaw raises… According to a report recently published by the ABA, lawyers’ wages have been pretty stagnant, growing slower than inflation from 2017 to 2018. [Big Law Business]

* The mail bomber, Cesar Sayoc, gets sentenced to 20 years in prison for sending 16 explosive devices to journalist, high ranking officials and former elected politicians. [New York Law Journal]

* Roger Stone would really like the D.C. Circuit to lift the gag imposed last month by U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson. [Law360]

* In the wake of the latest round of mass shootings, the governments of Venezuela and Uruguay issue warnings for their citizens traveling in the U.S. [Huffington Post]

* With the courts being the way they are, don’t get too excited about the prospect of actual gun control. [Slate]

* The legal ethics behind AI: An ABA proposal urges the legal profession to address the emerging use of the technology now, before it’s too late. [Big Law Business]

* The U.K. is lowering the standard of proof in lawyer misconduct ethics tribunals. Beginning in November, lawyers will be judged on “the balance of probabilities.” [Law.com]

That took long enough.

* Two back-to-back mass shootings were committed by domestic terrorists this past weekend, killing at least 29 people with dozens more injured. Lawmakers must do something, anything about America’s gun problem. [Wall Street Journal]

* Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell claims that he “saved the Supreme Court for a generation” by denying Judge Merrick Garland a confirmation hearing because those shouldn’t be held during presidential election years — unless the president up for election is Donald Trump. [Bloomberg]

* In other news related to Senator McConnell, he’s currently recovering from fracturing his shoulder this weekend, but plans to “continue to work from home” on not doing anything about gun control. We’d offer some thoughts and prayers, but you know how meaningless those are. [CBS News]

* Per this D.C. judge, the Trump administration’s latest move to bar those who did not cross the border at a designated port of entry from seeking asylum violates the Immigration and Nationality Act. How many strikes will it take for this one to get appealed to SCOTUS? [CNN]

* Louis Vuitton wants to keep senior in-house attorney Andowah Newton’s sexual harassment claims in arbitration, while she’d prefer to have her voice be heart in court under New York’s new #MeToo law. [Big Law Business]

* Spinderella, sue it up one time: the famous DJ is suing Salt-N-Pepa alleging not only that the group failed to pay her hundreds of thousands of dollars in royalties, but that she was underpaid for appearances and sometimes wasn’t even paid at all. [Showbiz CheatSheet]

Was second prize a set of steak knives?

Ugh. More guns isn't the answer.

Nevada has some of the most permissive gun laws, but we know that ain't changing.

Anything and everything pales in comparison to the awful events in Orlando this past weekend.

What if we had a whole federal agency committed to firearms? Oh wait, we do!

Pulling this beat has to be depressing as hell -- particularly right before the holidays.

Is this law school overreacting to a former law professor's email?

How do we guard against people on the verge of psychotic breaks buying guns?

As long as we have guns, we're going to have innocent victims, and if we're going to have victims it'd be nice to have a way to compensate them for their injuries.

A shooting scare at a law school turns out to be nothing more than a classroom exercise