Police
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Justice, Police
'Comply Or Die' Policing Claims A Hearing-Impaired Victim
This issue isn't about "sensitivity" training or "political correctness," it's about getting police officers to follow the law. -
Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 08.05.16
* Josh Duggar’s problems continue: he is being sued by the guy whose pic he used in his Ashley Madison profile. [Jezebel]
* Republican statehouses have been doing what they can to make Chief Justice John Roberts look dumb. [Lawyers, Guns and Money]
* Zika might be changing American opinions on abortion. [Slate]
* Olympic scandal! Moroccan Olympic boxer arrested for sexual assault. [Huffington Post]
* NRA v. Police: Why open carry laws make policing difficult. [Salon]
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Constitutional Law
Police Prank Doesn't Jibe With The 4th Amendment
Generations of distrust sown by systemic racism cannot be undone by ice cream.
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 08.03.16
* What, exactly, did it take for Donald Trump to
evadeavoid the draft? [PrawfsBlawg]* The Supreme Court just temporarily blocked a court order allowing a transgender teen to use the bathroom according to their identity. [CNN]
* Just in time for your $180K scale… Eric Schneiderman loses a talking point, and New Yorkers can all go back to making a killing at DraftKings. [Associated Press]
* FBI arrests DC law enforcement officer for helping ISIS. If he was as good a terrorist as DC is at policing, then maybe we should have left him out there. [ABC News]
* The battle over tougher bar passage standards rages on. [WSJ Law Blog]
* And the Tim Kaine love letter about law school. [ABA Journal]
* A good website really is key to a thriving, modern law practice. [Reboot Your Law Practice]
* The ten-year anniversary of the tragic murder of Robert Wone. [Who Killed Robert Wone?]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 07.28.16
* State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby dropped all remaining charges against the three Baltimore police officers still awaiting trial in the death of Freddie Gray — a decision she called “agonizing.” [New York Times]
* Judge Paul L. Friedman (D.D.C.) ordered the release of John W. Hinckley Jr., the man who in 1981 attempted to assassinate President Ronald Reagan (and who, some argue, murdered White House press secretary James Brady). [Washington Post]
* Traci Ribeiro, a non-equity partner at Sedgwick, sued the firm for discrimination, alleging that she and other women “cannot crack the glass ceiling at Sedgwick.” [Law.com]
* A promising proposal from the Justice Department for how to deal with the law enforcement challenges presented by evidence stored in other countries (in the wake of Microsoft’s Second Circuit victory over the DOJ). [Christian Science Monitor]
* “Is fake burping in gym class enough to get a seventh-grader arrested?” Professor Noah Feldman analyzes an interesting new Tenth Circuit ruling. [Bloomberg View via How Appealing]
* Judge Janet Bond Arterton: sorry, Principal National Life Insurance Co., but you can’t escape paying out on the $10 million life insurance policy you issued to a law firm partner just because he died 15 months after the policy’s issuance. [Law.com]
* For folks finishing up the bar exam today, some advice from former ABC News president (and former SCOTUS clerk) David Westin: it’s okay to walk out of there early. Good luck! [Big Law Business]
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Crime, Shopping
Criminally Yours: Sticky Fingers, Trickier Than You Think
Shoplifting: It's embarrassing, humiliating, and what's worse, can give you a criminal record. -
Police
Miami Police Story Is Probably False, Terrifying If True
The story the cops want you to believe makes them sound worse than I actually believe them to be. -
Police
‘I Don’t Know’: Most Accurate Police Justification For Shooting Black People Yet
The reality is that “I don’t know” has become the legally accepted synonym for “reasonable use of deadly force.” - Sponsored
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Police, Racism
The Horrible Price Black People Pay For Challenging The Police
The movement to disbar Mosby is trash, but entirely predictable. -
Police, Religion
What If Taco Bell Treated Cops The Way Chick-Fil-A Treats Gays?
It is stupid to refuse people food service based on your beliefs about the validity of their choices. -
Crime, Police
Criminally Yours: Prosecutors vs. Defense Attorneys -- Who's Got It Worse?
Many prosecutors, especially new ones, don't know how to prep their cops for cross examination. -
Job Searches, Racism, Small Law Firms
Back In The Race: No One Writes 'I’m A Racist' On Their Résumé
How can an employer, especially an employer in a sensitive field like law enforcement, tell whether someone is racist? -
Minority Issues, Police
Criminally Yours: When It's Cops vs. #BlackLivesMatter, Nobody Wins
Both sides are justifiably scared of each other. It's time to start changing that.
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Police
I Feel Like Prey
As a black man, my only natural predator is a cop. Other things might kill me, the cop is the only one who acts like it’s his job. -
Guns / Firearms
BREAKING: Three Reported Dead At Courthouse Shooting
Deadly shooting in a Michigan courthouse. -
Police
Apple Gave Us The Power To Surveil The Cops, And They Can Take It Away.
It’s the video, not the actions, that cops and their defenders think are “inflaming passions,” and “inciting violence.” -
Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 07.08.16
* Which law firms fared the best in front of the Supreme Court this Term? [Empirical SCOTUS]
* Charles Fried, Solicitor General under Ronald Reagan, really, really doesn’t like Donald Trump. [Slate]
* Even David Boies couldn’t stop the shipwreck of the S.S. Theranos. [Law and More]
* Here’s what you need to know about the “bomb robot” used to take out the Dallas shooting suspect. [Buzzfeed]
* Union busters seem to be getting some help from the judiciary. [Lawyers, Guns and Money]
* Title IX has been a failure on campus rape. Here’s why. [Deadspin]
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Guns / Firearms, Police, Violence
Dallas Is Not 'The Revolution,' It's Just More Pointless Death
Nothing has been accomplished. Nothing has been learned. Nothing has been gained. The only thing that’s changed is the body count. -
Police, Racism
But We Have No Place Else To Go
America is not the place African-Americans choose to live, America is the place where we are stuck. -
Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 06.01.16
* Will wearing makeup increase your earning potential? (Yes, they only mean for women, the patriarchy is a real bitch like that.) [Corporette]
* Ken Starr says he is resigning from his position as Baylor chancellor “as a matter of conscience.” Yup, he still plans on teaching at the law school. [ESPN]
* Donald Trump’s terrible comments about Judge Gonzalo Curiel are all part of a branding exercise. [Lawyers, Guns and Money]
* Law professor Kimberlé Crenshaw is fighting to make people remember the women killed by police. #SayHerName [The Guardian]
* The cleanup after a storm can be even more challenging than weathering the storm in the first instance. [Katz on Justice]
* Has Election 2016 convinced you our electoral system is hopelessly broken? Here are the best ways to fix it. [Brennan Center for Justice]
* Reflections from Richard Levick on Peter Thiel v. Gawker (including commentary from our very own David Lat). [Forbes]