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Law Schools
Law School Students Want Picture Of Robert E. Lee Removed From Diploma
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Legal Ethics
Study Finds That Bar Discipline Is Totally Racist Shocking Absolutely No One
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University Lawyer Drops N-Word But Self-Censors 'F**k' Because We Wouldn't Want To Offend Anybody
This just keeps happening.
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Law Schools
Berkeley Law School Group Invites Amy Wax To Headline Event In Effort To Lower The Bar Even Further
She'll be talking about immigration and exploiting Berkeley's good name. -
Law Schools
The Original Emory Law School N-Word-Using Professor Faces A Hearing On His Future Today
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Biglaw, Racism
Law Firm Fights Housing Segregation... So Town Leaders Seek To Strong Arm Another Firm Client
Towns try out a new strategy to rid themselves of powerful opposing counsel. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 09.26.19
* The LeClair Ryan dissolution enters a new chapter. But will it be Chapter 7? [American Lawyer]
* Alex Jones set to find out if it’s really defamation to tell the world that grieving parents are lying about their dead children. [Connecticut Law Tribune]
* America has the RBG Jabot-Watch, the UK has the Lady Hale Brooch-Watch. [Legal Cheek]
* Judge Preska did not seem convinced by the latest Dershowitz arguments. [The Careerist]
* Racist voting laws in the South are to be expected by everyone but Chief Justice Roberts, but usually they’re more subtle than this provision that Mississippi’s had for over a century. [NPR]
* Banks one step closer to actually cashing in on the marijuana economy. [Courthouse News Service]
* While everyone got distracted by impeachment, there are still “not qualified” judges streaming through the system. [Law360]
* Bill Cosby has to fork over some hefty funds to Quinn Emanuel. [The Recorder]
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Law Schools
Welcome To Emory Law School -- It's Been 0 Days Since We Last Used The N-Word In Class
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Law Schools
Why Can't Emory Law School Professors Stop Using The N-Word All The Time?
It's amazingly easy not to use racial slurs, and yet we're talking about Emory again. -
Politics
Alabama Governor Once Wore Blackface And Nobody Cares Because White People Have Decided That Blackface Was Okay
Governor apologizes for appearing in a minstrel sketch. -
Courts
Judge 'Didn't Mean To Offend' When He Called Undocumented Immigrants 'Wetbacks'
He'll no longer handle cases, we're told. -
Law Schools
Academia Means Never Having To Say, 'I Got Fired'
A law school professor appeared on a panel and declared that America needs 'fewer nonwhites.' She is still employed. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 07.22.19
* In a series of wide-ranging interviews across the political spectrum — or “Fake News,” per President Trump — the commander in chief’s closest allies admitted that they didn’t think he had any idea what he’d done or what kind of havoc he’d wreaked with his racist tweets. [Washington Post]
* According to House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler, former special counsel Robert Mueller’s report contains “very substantial evidence” that the president is “guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors.” Let’s see if Mueller’s testimony can change any minds on impeachment. [CNN]
* After one scandal too many, it looks like Deutsche Bank has decided to hire someone new to look after its legal and regulatory affairs. [Corporate Counsel]
* Students and alumni from Penn Law are calling for Professor Amy Wax’s ouster from faculty teaching duties following her latest foray into racism. [Big Law Business]
* Aside from Sophia Chua-Rubenfeld and Clayton Kozinski, who else will be clerking for Supreme Court justices for the upcoming October term? In addition to these controversial choices, we’ve got the second blind person to ever clerk at the high court, and someone who was picked dead last in the 2010 MLB draft. [Associated Press]
* Joan Bullock, former dean of Thomas Jefferson Law School, has decamped to become Dean at the Texas Southern University Thurgood Marshall School of Law. Congrats! [National Jurist]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 07.19.19
* Eugene Scalia, a partner at Gibson Dunn, will be nominated as the next Labor secretary to replace Alex Acosta. If that last name sounds familiar, it’s because he’s the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s son. [NPR]
* “I disagree with it.” President Trump now claims that he was “not happy” with a crowd chanting “send her back” in relation to Somali-born Representative Ilhan Omar, a naturalized U.S. citizen, at one of his re-election campaign rallies. This, after Trump tweeted that Omar and three other congresswomen of color should “go back” to their countries, despite being American-born citizens. [New York Times]
* According to recently unsealed court records, per the FBI, then-presidential candidate Donald Trump and some of his top aides were very much involved in a series of hush-money payments made to porn actress Stormy Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal. Trump, of course, has very publicly denied having knowledge of such payments. [USA Today]
* The House of Representatives passed a bill to gradually hike the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2025. Don’t get too excited, because this has little to no chance of passing in the Senate. [CNBC]
* In case you missed it, you shouldn’t really be surprised by the fact that a judge turned down bail for convicted sex offender and accused child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. He’ll remain in jail until trial. [New York Law Journal]
* Disgraced former Case Western law school dean Lawrence Mitchell (now known as Ezra Wasserman Mitchell) was quietly let go without a contract renewal at the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, where he’d been working as a visiting professor, after an investigation into his alleged misconduct. [Cleveland Scene]
* It’s been five years since FSU Law Professor Dan Markel was murdered in his own home, and we’re still waiting for his killers to be brought to justice. [Tallahassee Democrat]
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Department of Justice
Attorney General Overrules Civil Rights Division To Protect White Cop
Justice Department will not bring charges against the police who murdered Eric Garner. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 07.15.19
* President Trump had a hell of weekend on Twitter, where he implied that Democractic Congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, and Ayanna Pressley — all women of color — weren’t American citizens and told them to “go back” to their home countries. [CNN]
* Federal prosecutors have now accused Jeffrey Epstein of witness tampering, alleging that the sex-trafficking defendant paid out six figures to buy the silence of those who could testify against him. [New York Times]
* Speaking of people related to Alex Acosta’s resignation as labor chief, Patrick Pizzella, formerly of K&L Gates legacy firm Preston Gates Ellis, an associate of Jack Abramoff who notably wasn’t charged and convicted of corruption, has been named as acting labor secretary. [Big Law Business]
* The D.C. Circuit didn’t really seem all that receptive to Trump’s attempts to block Congress from subpoenaing records from one of his accounting firms. Picture Judge Patricia Millett asking this with a raised brow: “When it comes to a president’s conflict of interest, there’s nothing Congress can do … to protect the people of the United States?” [Washington Post]
* How did Justice Clarence Thomas go from being a “Black Panther type” in law school to being the Supreme Court’s “conservative beacon”? [NPR]
* According to Citi Private Bank, law firm leaders are feeling a little less confident about the second half of the year, but no one is expecting a recession just yet. In fact, they seem downright “optimistic” about the rest of 2019. Yay! [American Lawyer]
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Courts
'I Mean, You're Racist For Calling Me Racist!' Argument Fails Spectacularly In Benchslap
Unfortunately, this state's still got problems. -
Government
The Case For Legalizing All Drugs
Ridding society of the immense harms caused by prohibition more than outweighs any negatives that could ever be attributed to legalization. -
While Others Pretend To Be Colorblind, The San Francisco DA Office Acknowledges Implicit Bias And Begins Its Experiment In ‘Blind Charging’
Our implicit biases continue to tear at the fabric of our society. The question is, what are we as a profession going to do about it?