Police
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Crime, Politics
Congressional Staffer Arrested For Beating Gay Lover With A Shovel According To Police
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Crime, Police
Criminally Yours: Lying To Get To The Truth
Why would someone ever admit to a crime he didn't commit? How could anyone be so naive or stupid? But not only does it happen, it happens more frequently than you would imagine. Why? - Sponsored
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Police
Baltimore Will Pay Freddie Gray's Family While Its Cops Await Trial
I'm not sure this Freddie Gray settlement helps anybody -
Privacy, Sports
ESPN Fighting To Remove Privacy Shield From Notre Dame's Police Force
And the Indiana AG's office has thrown its support behind ESPN. -
Minority Issues, Police, Racism
Berkeley Law Prof Breaks Down The Role Of The Police
Real talk from Berkeley Law prof john a. powell on racism, a year after Ferguson. -
Technology
Cops Caught Misbehaving During Pot Dispensary Raid Sue Police Dept. To Prevent Recording From Being Used Against Them
The cops caught sampling pot during a raid have some laughable reasons why that video must be suppressed. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 08.06.15
* Another American doctor is accused of illegally killing another lesser-known lion in Zimbabwe, but this time, Biglaw is in the doctor’s corner. Apparently when you’re a hunter who’s become the hunted, you turn to Blank Rome. [Am Law Daily]
* Where Dewey eat when allegedly conspiring to scam the firm’s creditors about its financial situation? According to testimony in the D&L trial, criminal activity reportedly tastes better when paired with fine dining experiences. [WSJ Law Blog]
* At some point in the very near future, it’s likely that one or more new Supreme Court justices will need to be appointed, and some say that it’s obvious that Justice Don Willett, the Tweeter Laureate of Texas, is plotting a course to be a nominee. #blessed [Forbes]
* The Fourth Circuit handed down an important opinion on cellphone location records, and it looks like the police need a warrant. Thanks for the circuit split. Quick, someone write a law review note before SCOTUS takes it. [Volokh Conspiracy / Washington Post]
* For some would-be law students, applying early decision may not be the right choice. After all, if you think you can get into ALL of the T14 schools, we bet you’d probably like to see if your huge ego is correct. [Law Admissions Lowdown / U.S. News & World Report]
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Police, Racism
Proof That Cops Didn’t Suddenly Become Racist Yesterday
The racist Alabama cop story is a story of progress, I tell you. -
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 08.03.15
* Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh likes hanging out with the Supreme Court. Harbaugh characterizes Justice Thomas as very enthusiastic. Seriously. This guy thinks someone else is enthusiastic. [Wall Street Journal Law Blog]
* Darren Wilson isn’t racist, everybody. I mean, he thinks black people have bad upbringings and prefers to eat out “Where it’s not a mixing pot,” but he really wants you to know he’s not racist. [Gawker]
* Whatever happened to the SCOTUS clerks of ten years ago? [Excess of Democracy]
* How terrifying is Heien v. North Carolina? Cops are now stopping people for air fresheners and using it as a pretext to search the car… and courts are approving it. [The Marshall Project]
* A Shearman & Sterling partner arrested in a DWI sweep. [The East Hampton Star]
* Do you use LinkedIn Pulse to grow your brand? You probably should. [Law and More]
* The true story of a prosecutor who went undercover and strapped on a wire for over 3 years to root out corruption in the judicial system. His new book is titled Operation Greylord (affiliate link). [My Fox Chicago]
* Health care discrimination against the mentally ill is illegal. That doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen. [Vox]
* If you missed Lat’s events at the ABA meeting over the weekend, here’s a recap of one. [American Bar Association]
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Technology
Cop To Vet On Receiving End Of Bogus Raid: Investigating Things Beforehand Just Slows Us Down
This is why you can't have nice things. If you define "nice things" as "cops staying out of innocent peoples' homes." -
Murder, Police
White Hunter Charged For Poaching Non-Lion African-American
Cops trophy hunt African-Americans all the time.
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Police, Racism
Funny Or Die Gets This One Absolutely Right
This is really funny until you start crying. -
Police
Eric Garner’s Family Rejects Opportunity To Let NYPD Save Face
Eric Garner's widow is probably making a mistake, but I understand. -
Canada, Technology
The View From Up North: Cool Piece Of Legal Tech Targets Deplorable Practice Of Carding
Knowing how to properly deal with the police? There's an app for that. -
Police
New Yorkers, You Can Still Yell At Cops On The Subway
Court of Appeals upholds fundamental right to shout at the police. -
Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 06.26.15
* Oh, the Onion… what would I do without you? Their take on gay marriage is masterful, as always. [Onion]
* Conservatives, troubled with the Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, vow to move to Canada. There’s only one teeny, tiny problem with their plan… about a decade in the making. [BuzzFeed]
* Of all the arrogant, jiggery-pokery, pure applesauce, Putsch! Find out exactly how Justice Scalia would mock you in this fun insult generator. [Slate]
* Some Alabama counties have come up with a crackerjack way to avoid marrying same sex couples. [Vox]
* The only way to get to today’s historical gay marriage case was to defeat the nomination of Judge Robert Bork, and Reagan aides always suspected this would happen. [Roll Call]
* For marriage equality fans with a sweet tooth. [Ben & Jerry’s]
* Surely you jest! Justice Scalia? Intellectually inconsistent to fit a political agenda? Pshaw. [BloombergView]
* A handy guide to today’s landmark SCOTUS decision. [Legal IO]
* News you can use: what is the legal status of cursing at cops? [The Marshall Project]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 06.17.15
* You cannot make this stuff up. The curious case of Rachel Dolezal, the former leader of the NAACP Spokane, Washington branch who resigned in disgrace after her parents made the revelation that Dolezal was white, gets weirder. The Smoking Gun has unearthed a lawsuit Dolezal filed (then known as Rachel Moore) against Howard University for, inter alia, racial discrimination. Yup, Dolezal claimed she just couldn’t make it as a white women. [The Smoking Gun]
* Fresh off of the tragedy of Kalief Browder, the man who was held in Rikers for three years awaiting trial for stealing a backpack before the charges were dismissed, comes the case of Carlos Montero. Montero, arrested as a teenager, has been in Rikers for SEVEN YEARS waiting for his day in court. [New York Post]
* I mean, they’ve only worked together for 21 years and 10 months. Justice Antonin Scalia apologized from the bench yesterday after calling Justice Ginsburg Justice Goldberg. The apology seemed sincere, but Scalia played it cool with a quip about Justice Arthur Goldberg. [Supreme Court Brief]
* The Colorado Supreme Court ruled yesterday that an employer can fire an employee for medical marijuana use, legal under state law, since the use is still illegal under federal statutes. [Huffington Post]
* If your company finds themselves the victim of trade secret theft, is there an alternative to costly civil litigation? There just might be if you get the police involved. [Corporate Counsel]