School Shootings
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Courts
Mom Held Responsible In Deaths Caused By Son
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Law Schools
In The Wake Of Deadly UNLV Shooting, Law School Postpones Finals
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Deaths
Ode To Michigan State University, MSU Law, And A Grieving Spartan Nation
You can only hope these students can pick up the shattered remains and seek solace and refuge in each other’s arms, harbor hope, and not remain jaded by such senseless acts.
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Guns / Firearms
Some Of Those That Join Forces Are Just For Decoration
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 06.23.22
* Good Morning! School shootings are so routine that our schools will have panic buttons in them now. Like bank tellers on the job, we kind of just factor in our kids encountering guns as a business expense. [CBS News]
* The Cost of Caffeine: NLRA claims Starbucks is illegally trying to stop unionizing. I heard if you order a Venti Justice with two pumps of Equity the company will leave you alone. [CBS News]
* Insurance company gets dropped by Allstate and Progressive after pulling some light Juneteenth ignance. Told you it was coming. [NPR]
* Marjorie Taylor Greene pulls a South Park caricature after a UK journalist asks her about gun crime. [Huff Post]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 06.22.22
* Preventing collusion with enslavement in China has Americans worried things won’t be as cheap. Very strong “Ethical accountability is cool and all, but I need to eat chocolate!” vibes. [NYT]
* Texas’s Robb Elementary school is slated to be demolished. [Reuters]
* SCOTUS thinks having a gun during a theft isn’t inherently violent. Little weird but okay. [CNN]
* Still figuring out where the Carson v. Makin ruling came from? The signs were there all along. [CNN]
* Rule of discretion: Sheriffs are running on the platform of NOT enforcing the laws they’d be sworn to protect. Like a bunch of them. [Colorado Sun]
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Government
In Impassioned Speech Following Uvalde School Shooting, Senator Begs Colleagues To Pass Gun Control Laws
This senator is calling out his colleagues for their inaction and begging for change. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 12.01.21
* In the only country where it is a regular event, the completely unforeseeable 28th school shooting of this year happened in Oxford, Michigan. [NY Times]
* Saying Dr. Fauci has Dr. Mengele vibes is decidedly not the best way to celebrate Hanukkah. I know free speech is important; I just wish news sources were more quiet about it from time to time. [Vanity Fair]
* If Roe v. Wade gets overturned, it’s worth having a battle plan in mind. Here’s a good start. [Scientific American]
* Professor who goes on record saying “Hey! Sex discrimination is pretty good, actually!” proceeds to double down. Definitely won’t be the basis for lawsuits if his female students just happen to have statistically significant lower grades than their male counterparts. [Daily Beast]
* Nashville is banning booze on open air party vehicles. Where else are you supposed to drink after eating a goofy spicy chicken sandwich?! A bar?! [Tennessean]
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Police
Taking Facebook Racism Seriously Potentially Thwarts School Shooting
New Jersey mom and Kentucky cop teamed up to care, and that made all the difference. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 03.14.18
* Ever since Judge Alex Kozinski of the Ninth Circuit, who had been accused of sexual harassment by 15 women, retired, a working group within the federal judiciary has been trying to come up with reforms to be made as far as sexual harassment is concerned. Thus far, they’ve come up with about 20 reforms, and Chief Justice John Roberts is confident the group’s work will “ensure an exemplary workplace for every court employee.” [National Law Journal]
* Time’s up, UK: The Solicitors Regulation Authority of England and Wales has warned law firms not to use nondisclosure agreements to cover up sexual harassment and assault scandals. After all, these are instances of professional misconduct, so of course a professional regulatory agency wants to know about that. [American Lawyer]
* Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will be turning 85 later this week, and she says she’s “feeling fine.” Many hope that the self-described “flaming feminist litigator” continues to feel that way until we find a way to turn her into a little RBG judicial bot that will never, ever short-circuit — or until there’s a Democrat in office. [USA Today]
* Nichole Ashley Collins, the Pennsylvania lawyer who was fired for allegedly stealing money from her firm and then returned to the firm to allegedly steal more money to buy sex toys, has been disbarred. Who would’ve expected such a thing… [FOX 43]
* Prosecutors in Florida will seek the death penalty against Nikolas Cruz for his role as the accused gunman in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre. Last week, Cruz was indicted by a grand jury on 17 counts of premeditated murder in the first degree and 17 counts of attempted murder in the first degree. [CNN]
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Law Schools
Students Are Last To Know When Gunmen Reported On Campus
Would you want to know if there was an anonymous (later revealed to be unfounded) tip about gunmen in your law school? -
Bankruptcy, Biglaw, Education / Schools, Guns / Firearms, Kasowitz Benson, Non-Sequiturs, Pornography, Pro Se Litigants, Women's Issues
Non-Sequiturs: 01.22.13
* Two guys, one gun, three wounded. Definitely what the Founders intended. [KENS 5] * Here’s the affirmance of the dismissal of Greg Berry’s $77 million lawsuit against Kasowitz Benson. Fun times. [Appellate Division, First Department] * Ex-girlfriends are uniting to go after a revenge porn site. If this stupid site ruins Section 230 for everybody, I’m going to be pissed. [Jezebel] * Not that anybody should need the help, but here is another reason to hate lawyers. [She Negotiates / Forbes] * Honestly, I kind of forgot Gitmo was still open. What with all the talk of having a progressive president, I kind of assumed that this would have been a promise he kept and stuff. [How Appealing] * Speaking of things I’ve forgotten about, say hello to the 27th Amendment. [The Volokh Conspiracy] * It looks like the world has forgotten about Atari. [Bloomberg Law] -
Education / Schools, Election Law, Federal Government, Guns / Firearms, Minority Issues, Money, Non-Sequiturs, Police, Violence
Non-Sequiturs: 01.10.13
* Wait, are we really going to have to debate the legal merits of this platinum coin thing? Really? Can’t Congress just not hold the country hostage so we don’t have to start messing around with crazy coins and the Fourteenth Amendment? Like, you don’t have to start doing bats**t crazy Carrie Mathison things if you don’t let terrorists take Nicholas Brody in the first place. [The Volokh Conspiracy] * There was another school shooting today. It just makes you wonder if the terrible reign ushered in by Grand Theft Auto will ever end. At least, in this case, the teacher was armed to the teeth WITH WORDS to TALK DOWN the shooter. [Huffington Post] * “Illegal” trades don’t mean the same thing to bankers as they do to everybody else. Well, that’s not true. Maybe the disconnect is more with the word “consequences.” [Dealbreaker] * Yeah, I’m going to go on and say that I’m not going to believe anything coming out of the Trayvon Martin police report. Just like I wasn’t considering anything coming out of racist ass Mark Fuhrman. [Tampa Bay Times] * There’s a lot to lose if Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act gets struck down. [Slate] * I suppose it’s good that lawyers don’t have “I’m going to do a half-assed job here” fees. [Underdog]
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Crime, Education / Schools, Guns / Firearms, Murder, Violence
Open Thread: School Shooting In Connecticut
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Crime, Guns / Firearms, Law Professors, Law Schools, Texas, Violence
Shooting at UT Austin: Law Professor Shot At But Unharmed
Breaking this morning, there’s been a shooting at the Perry-Castaneda Library on the University of Texas – Austin campus. The Houston Chronicle reports: A man opened fire with an automatic weapon on the sixth floor of the Perry-Castaneda Library early Tuesday, UT police spokeswoman Rhonda Weldon said. “He subsequently shot himself. He is deceased,” she […]