Pigs
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When Pork Comes To Shove, It Isn't Always Easy To Know Why A Thing Is Constitutional
Jurisprudence is kind of like sausage making — it only gets more complex once you understand the process. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 10.12.22
* Troubling confession: Lawyer fined for warning school of a priest’s history of sexual misconduct. [The Guardian]
* Pig in the mine: California’s pork law is an unexpected proxy for the legal side of the culture war. [Cal Matters]
* Gauntlet thrown: Hawaii won’t make it easy for other states to criminalize abortion. [Huff Po]
* No laughing matter: Comedians claim Atlanta airport’s search practices use racial profiling. [AP]
* The right to cancel loans? You should read up on this cease and desist. [Business Insider]
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Courts
Sorry, You Live Next To Pig Poop Now
Pennsylvania court rules that locals can't stop the new pig farm.
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Non-Sequiturs: 02.18.14
* A Miami attorney is gearing up for legalized medical marijuana. He’s even selling franchises, hopefully called McKinebud’s. [Daily Business Review] * Is Gwyneth cheating on Chris Martin with an entertainment lawyer? [Defamer] * A Florida village has become a refuge to sex offenders because there’s nowhere else they can go. Isn’t this the plot of Arrested Development? [Agence France-Presse via Yahoo!] * As if law schools aren’t charging enough, they also absolutely ravage students on casebook prices. It doesn’t have to be this way. [PrawfsBlawg] * Who’d have thought it would be this hard to define a pig? [Modern Farmer] * If you aren’t following DLA Piper’s boss Sir Nigel Knowles on Twitter, then… you’re lucky. [Legal Cheek] * The vice president of the Constitutional Accountability Center weighs in on Judge Wright Allen’s marriage equality decision from the perspective of a gay, married Virginian. [Pilot Online] * See, it’s not just lawyers who get annoyed when TV doesn’t live up to the realities of the profession. Political communications professionals can get pretty irked by House of Cards. [Ditto Public Affairs] * A circuit judge just seized control of a lower court’s docket, setting restrictions on a judge’s ability to hear domestic violence cases after finding a repeated pattern of improperly blowing off these matters. It may be the Benchslap-Heard-Round-the-Nation since the slapped jurist is also the president-elect of the American Judges Association. [Detroit Free Press]
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