Police
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Crime
Stoner Rats Eating All The Drugs In Police Evidence Lockup
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Technology
Peoria Police Put Out Recruiting Poster Telling Recruits To Come Play ‘Call Of Duty’ In Real Life
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Technology
Immunity Denied To Cop Who Ticketed A Man For Telling The Cop To Turn On His Headlights
From the I-thought-this-was-America dept
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Technology
California Cops Now Have To Lead With The Pretext When Making Pretextual Stops
From the 'do-YOU-know-why-you-pulled-me-over?' Dept. -
Law Schools
Jonathan Turley Says He Was Swatted, Offers Thoughts And Prayers For Himself
Even when Turley is legitimately victimized, he can't bring himself to alienate himself from his new gravy train. -
How The Courts Have Made It Easier For Cops To Steal From Citizens
Another case heading to the Supreme Court dealing with asset forfeiture. -
Technology
Fifth Circuit: The Government Doesn’t Need To Pay You For The Home It Destroyed To Effect An Arrest
from the law-enforcement-is-our-most-troublesome-invasive-species dept -
Technology
Delaware State Police Pay $50,000 To Man Troopers Ticketed For Flipping Them Off
From the no-problem,-the-taxpayers-are-good-for-it dept. - Sponsored
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Government
Judge Who Crashed Into A School While License Suspended From Another DUI Approved Warrant To Raid Newspaper
Judge: First Amendment? Hold my beer. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 08.10.23
* Another day, another several hundred grand worth of unethical and undisclosed gifts for Clarence Thomas. [ProPublica]
* ABA encouraging law firms to redouble efforts to expand diversity… before the Supreme Court makes it illegal. [Bloomberg Law News]
* Lawsuit alleges private attorney took on upwards of 600 indigent client criminal cases, collecting huge sums from the city, and then not doing any work. That’s not totally true… the lawsuit alleges that the lawyer was quite diligent about filing motions for fees. [ABA Journal]
* Treasury announcing regulations to curb money laundering through real estate. Maybe Manhattan will be affordable again in 15 years! [Reuters]
* A Wisconsin police department refuses to divulge the name of officers who shoot people citing victim’s rights laws and arguing that if they shot someone they must have felt threatened and therefore are the real victims. [Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel]
* Don’t use AI to write your firm’s web content reports the department of obvious things. [Search Engine Journal]
* Ninth Circuit says text spam is not covered by the TCPA. Great! Just in time for generative AI to remove almost every entry barrier to mass text spamming. [Law360]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 06.12.23
* Trump indicates that he would consider a plea deal if the DOJ would “pay me some damages.” It’s possible he’s not receiving top notch legal guidance right now. [Newsweek]
* JPMorgan Chase has settled with Jeffrey Epstein’s victims. [MarketWatch]
* Civil rights lawyer arrested for filming a traffic stop as creeping fascism breaks into a sprint. [ABC News]
* 3M tried to wiggle out of earplug liability through bankruptcy. The courts seem to have grown wise to this strategy. [Financial Times]
* Government digging into allegations of COVID test fraud, where people ordered free tests on behalf of dead people. Look, I don’t know if anyone in DC is tracking the level of COVID denialism out here but maybe we don’t need to complain about anyone wanting tests. [Bloomberg Law News]
* Title IX changes expected to trigger wave of litigation. [Law.com]
* Marvel settles with classic creators who possessed the most important superpower of all: a colorable copyright interest. [Law360]
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Technology
Maryland Cops Can’t Seem To Understand Why Marijuana Legalization Means They Can’t Search Cars Just Because They Smell Marijuana
Duh, you smelled something legal. -
Courts
Police And Prosecutors Allegedly Engaged In Scheme Of Using Sex And Drugs To Coerce Confessions
This took prosecutorial discretion way too far. -
Courts
Cops Sue Afroman For Sharing Video Of Their Unfounded Raid Of His House
But did then they get high? That's a better explanation than the arguments in the complaint. -
Biglaw
Black Paralegal Mistaken For Drug Dealer Left 'Humiliated' By Encounter With Police
He was headed to a client meeting and wearing business attire when he was stopped and searched. -
Law Schools
New York Revises Bar Exam Application Question On Police Encounters To 'Promote Equity' And 'Advance Diversity'
This change that will eliminate a potential barrier to the legal profession for law students of color. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 03.09.23
* Industry report suggests firms should stop the layoffs and hold off on billing rate increases. Nice try, clients! Thought you could slip one by us. [American Lawyer]
* JP Morgan blames former executive for not keeping them in the loop on the Jeffrey Epstein thing sooner. Presumably they mean because they would’ve stopped doing business with him and not because they wanted in. [Law360]
* Bankman-Fried lawyers suggest possible delay. Hold that pre-trial release to the moon! [Reuters]
* Senator wants access to exactly WHICH classified documents Trump, Biden, and Pence had, and is threatening to kill 702 until he gets it. Watch as the intelligence community struggle with what they love more: overclassification or warrantless wiretapping. It’s like asking a robot to define love. [NY Times]
* Feds probing Memphis police and specialized police forces across the country generally. Could it be that giving a small unit of cops military grade equipment and functional immunity for whatever they want has led to abuse? [Courthouse News Service]
* Corporations run from their own diversity pledges at the first sign of white blacklash. The times they are a-staying the same. [Bloomberg Law News]
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Government
CATO Institute Is 100 Percent Right About Police Brutality
Broken clocks and what have you.