North Carolina
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Law Schools
Much-Maligned Law School In Very Serious Danger Of Losing Its License To Operate
This could sound the death knell for the embattled school. -
Law Schools, Politics
Just Checking In -- Yup, North Carolina Politicians Still Stupid
The state legislature plans to gut funding for the UNC School of Law. This is a bad idea. - Sponsored
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 05.23.17
* What are the best way for working moms to level up their childcare (assuming you have the money to do so)? [CorporetteMoms]
* It was great that Justice Thomas sided with the majority in the North Carolina gerrymandering case, but here’s the skinny on why Justice Kennedy didn’t sign on as well. [Election Law Blog]
* Louis Vuitton is gearing up to have its day in front of the Supreme Court. [The Fashion Law]
* Is “business casual” in its death throws? [The Atlantic]
* Megyn Kelly is taking on 60 Minutes. [Law and More]
* The latest Moot Court rankings. [TaxProf Blog]
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 05.16.17
* Paging Don McGahn. There’s a cleanup on aisle 1600. [Politico]
* Rod Rosenstein speaks. [Slate]
* Which SCOTUS briefs are the easiest to read? [Empirical SCOTUS]
* Paul Ryan may not be able to rally the necessary tax reform troops. [The Hill]
* Sally Yates thinks the Flynn controversy was a bigger deal than the White House does. No kidding. [New Yorker]
* You may be able to visit North Carolina with a clear conscience soon. [Huffington Post]
* Not everything is a competition. [Katz Justice]
* Dealing with the bad stuff. [Law and More]
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Election Law, Justice, Supreme Court
The Supreme Court Begs For A Case That Will Allow Them To Restrict Voting Rights
Minorities who want to vote are not safe from the Supreme Court yet. -
Law Schools, Student Loans
Troubled Law School, Under Investigation By State Attorney General, Hopes Betsy DeVos Will Come To Its Rescue
You'd think that nothing else could possibly go wrong for this embattled law school -- but you'd be wrong. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 04.25.17
* Who says you can never go home again? Neil Eggleston, White House Counsel under President Obama, return to Kirkland & Ellis. [Law.com]
* The Biglaw scandal that just keeps giving and giving and giving… The Dewey retrial nears its end. [New York Law Journal]
* North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein has opened up an investigation into the troubled Charlotte School of Law. We’ll have more on this story later today. [Politico]
* The Republican controlled North Carolina General Assembly is trying to mess with Democratic Governor Roy Cooper’s ability to appoint judges to their state courts. But Judge J. Douglas McCullough — a Republican — has at least one trick up his sleeve to thwart the plan. [Slate]
* The NRA is ramping up its legal strategy in California as they anticipate the future political direction of the courts there. [LA Times]
* The excuse “the Russians did it” just doesn’t fly in the world of tax law… not even if you are Sotheby’s. [New York Times]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 04.13.17
* Judge Sheila Abdus-Salaam, the nation’s first female Muslim judge and the first African-American woman to serve on New York’s highest court, was found dead in the Hudson River. We’ll have more on this later. [New York Daily News]
* The Ukraine-related activities of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort are under legal scrutiny — and one of his daughters, lawyer Andrea Manafort, described some of her father’s actions as “legally questionable.” [New York Times]
* Hawaii says “aloha” to the Ninth Circuit in its challenge to Trump Travel Ban 2.0 — and seeks initial en banc review, bypassing a three-judge panel. [ABA Journal]
* So the filibuster is now dead for SCOTUS nominees; are blue slips for lower-court nominees next? [Roll Call via How Appealing]
* Melania Trump settles her defamation litigation with the Daily Mail, getting an apology, a retraction, coverage of her legal fees, and what her lawyer Charles Harder describes as “millions of dollars in damages.” [New York Law Journal]
* Biglaw firms aren’t the only workplaces with gender pay gaps; it’s an issue for in-house legal departments too, including Google’s. [Corporate Counsel]
* Seriously, North Carolina? After its half-hearted repeal of the “bathroom bill,” three lawmakers in the state want to ban gay marriage. [WNCN]
* Judge Janice Rogers Brown of the D.C. Circuit seems to be a fan of Justice Neil Gorsuch’s views on Chevron deference. [Law.com]
* And Justice Elena Kagan will be throwing a party to welcome Justice Gorsuch to the Court. [Washington Post via How Appealing]
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Justice, Money, Politics
North Carolina's Cynical 'Repeal' Is For Money, Not To Help Transgender People
It's not about helping people, it is about cold, hard cash. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 03.30.17
* North Carolina lawmakers say they’ve reached a deal to repeal the state’s controversial bathroom bill. I wonder how those negotiations went: “Hey, this law is awful and is costing our state billions. Let’s get rid of it.” “Okay.” I mean that’s probably not how it went, but it’s how it should have gone. [Reuters]
* Five University of California law schools are sharing the wealth after an improper foreclosure verdict results in a big punitive damages award. The judge directed a portion of that money to go to the law schools — $4 million each — earmarked for consumer law education and direct legal services. [Law.com]
* Hawaii successfully converted the TRO on the Trump administration’s Muslim Ban 2.0 into a preliminary injunction. [Hogan Lovells]
* Seattle is the first city to sue over the Trump administration’s threats against sanctuary cities. [LA Times]
* Bridgegate results in prison sentences. Bridget Kelly was sentenced to 18 months, and Bill Baroni got 2 years. [New York Times]
* Doublespeak — the environment edition. [Politico]
* Is Sean Spicer is lying about whether the White House really wants former acting Attorney General Sally Yates to testify to Congress? [The Hill]
* Judge Andrew Napolitano is back at Fox News, and back to conspiracy theories. [CNN]
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Bar Exams, Law Schools
Law Schools Duel For The Worst Bar Exam Passage Rates Ever
Yikes! This is pretty bad. -
Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 03.14.17
* Firing 46 federal prosecutors may have unleashed 46 incredibly qualified Democratic candidates on the midterm elections. [Politico]
* This… isn’t even surprising. [Huffington Post]
* It seem incredibly unlikely this will ever happen, but it isn’t a half-bad idea. [The Hill]
* Whaddya know, actions have consequences. Blows my mind too. [Slate]
* And the North Carolina Democratic Party’s response is perfect. [The News & Observer]
* New York Attorney General Eric Scheiderman has Rex Tillerson in his sights. [Talking Points Memo]
* A look into Judge Gorsuch’s feelings on immigration. [AP]
* Really? I mean, really? The “Hearing Protection Act” will loosen laws on gun silencers. [The Slot]
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Health Care / Medicine
LabCorp Reportedly Planning $8B Buyout Of Global Contract Research Organization
Acquisition rumors have also followed this company for some time.
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Free Speech, Justice, Politics
The Conservative Need For Safe Spaces Is Laughable, Unconstitutional, And SAD!
This is what white male fragility looks like. -
Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 12.23.16
Ed. note: In observance of the holidays, Above the Law will be on a reduced publication schedule today and dark Monday, December 26th. We hope you don’t have to bill too much more in 2016! Have a happy holiday!
* Be careful when shopping last-minute holiday deals on Amazon — counterfeits are aplenty. [Slate]
* This terrible Missouri law makes school fights a felony. [Huffington Post]
* Some law professors have their panties in a twist over the University of Oregon’s handling of a law professor’s decision to wear blackface to a Halloween party. [Tax Prof Blog]
* Lessons from the North Carolina political shit show. [Salon]
* Google’s employee confidentiality agreement is the subject of a lawsuit. [Law and More]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 12.22.16
* The antitrust battle between Apple and Nokia has heated up. Apple filed a new lawsuit against nonpracticing entities, Acacia Research Corp. and Conversant Intellectual Property Management Inc., alleging an abusive anti-competitive scheme. [Law.com]
* Gibson Dunn partner Debra Wong Yang may be in line to lead the SEC under President Trump. [CNN]
* North Carolina failed to repeal their controversial law regulating the use of public bathroom by transgender people. [Washington Post]
* New York City’s plan to destroy data collected in connection with its IDNYC card program is on hold pending a hearing in a Staten Island courtroom. [New York Times]
* 2016 was a record breaking year for the SEC’s Whistleblower program. [National Law Journal]
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 12.19.16
* North Carolina’s governor-elect announced legislators will meet tomorrow to repeal their terrible bathroom law. [LawNewz]
* The first trailer for the legal television show The Good Fight, the CBS streaming spinoff of The Good Wife, is here, and piles on the sex. [Slate]
* Ohio elector resigns from the electoral college in order to keep her day job. [Election Law Blog]
* Women receive lower grades in large law school classes. [TaxProf Blog]
* A difficult, but important read: a letter from a woman to the man that raped her. [Huffington Post]
* Huma Abedin gets to be the scapegoat for some looking for a patsy for Hillary Clinton’s loss. [Law and More]
* Nearly a thousand lawyers, policy experts, and activists are expected to attend a “counter-inaugural” conference in D.C. on Jan 21-22, 2017, featuring speakers like Sam Munger (SiX), Tom Goldstein (co-founder of SCOTUSblog), Nan Aron (Alliance for Justice), Jonathan Lowy (Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence) and Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD). The conference will begin after the (free) Women’s March on Washington on Saturday morning. Learn more and register here. [Rise Above]
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 12.09.16
* So far, Justice Breyer has had the most to say during oral arguments. [Empirical SCOTUS]
* The Sioux seem to have a temporary victory at Standing Rock, so what’s the next legal step? Holland & Knight’s James Meggesto weighs in. [Salon]
* Ohio GOP looks to strip Cleveland of power. [Slate]
* Did bad teaching prevent this guy from being a successful lawyer? [TaxLaw Prof]
* North Carolina courts are against expansion. [The News & Observer]
* Tales of ambition inside the Beltway. [Law and More]
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Barack Obama, Politics, Supreme Court
President Barack Obama Schools Republicans On How The Constitution Works
Don't forget, President Obama knows a thing or two about the Constitution. -
Police, Public Interest
Inspirational Public Defender Billed As Hero Of Charlotte Protests
He withstood tear gas to try to keep people from being arrested.