SCOTUS
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 07.08.15
* FYI, it may be a “nine-week job interview—for both sides,” but summer associates hardly have room to complain when they’re being wined, dined, and paid up to $3,000 per week to work at the Biglaw firms where they landed jobs. [Wall Street Journal (sub. req.)]
* Hot take alert: Per our favorite (and sometimes controversial) blogging jurist, Richard Kopf of the District of Nebraska, “Senator Ted Cruz is not fit to be President” because he wants to allow voters to boot SCOTUS justices. [WSJ Law Blog]
* Maria Mitousis, the divorce lawyer who was seriously injured after a bomb allegedly mailed to her by a client’s ex-husband exploded in her office, says she’ll be back to work ASAP. Her hand got blown off and she still wants to bill. What’s your excuse? [CBC News]
* Former Galveston County (Texas) Court-at-Law Judge Christopher Dupuy was recently arrested and charged with two counts of online harassment after he allegedly created sex ads featuring his exes. He sounds like a real winner, y’all. [Crimesider / CBS News]
* This prospective law student got a 173 on the LSAT and wants to know whether it would be advisable to retake the exam. Are you actually kidding me with this? You’ll get in almost anywhere with a 173 and a pulse. [Law Admissions Lowdown / U.S. News & World Report]
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SCOTUS, Supreme Court
The SCOTUS Financial Disclosure Forms They Really Hope You Don't Read
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Eric Holder, Hillary Clinton, SCOTUS
Supreme Court Justice Eric Holder?
The former AG says he'd diss anyone who'd try to appoint him.
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Affirmative Action, Minority Issues, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
Opponents Of Affirmative Action Will Get Another Bite At The Apple Next SCOTUS Term
Columnist Renwei Chung looks at an important case that's on its way back to the Supreme Court. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 07.06.15
* It’s time to start shutting down law schools, but this clearly isn’t something that the American Bar Association is ready to act on. After all, new schools keep popping up, and the ABA keeps accrediting them for reasons beyond understanding. [Bloomberg Business]
* At the end of a landmark Term at the Supreme Court, some presidential candidates are fanning the flames of voters’ fears. Linda Greenhouse asks, “[W]hat, exactly, are people supposed to be afraid of now? A same-sex married couple with affordable health insurance?” [New York Times]
* Eric Holder will return to Covington & Burling, the Biglaw firm from whence he came, and he’ll be there “until [he] decide[s] [he’s] not going to be a lawyer anymore.” This crazy guy says he’d even turn down a SCOTUS nom to continue working there. [Am Law Daily]
* Congrats to Skadden, the firm that ranked numero uno in worldwide deals according to Bloomberg’s quarterly M&A league tables. Davis Polk finished $93 billion behind that, but hopefully the bonuses will be just as sweet this winter. [Big Law Business / Bloomberg]
* If you’re planning to enter law school at the end of the summer — especially if you’re a gunner in training — there’s no better way to spend your last months of freedom than to read one (or all of) these law prof-recommended books and papers. [Washington Post]
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Gay Marriage, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
Stat Of The Week: Where Same-Sex Couples Can Now Marry
A big decision creates a simple map. -
Gay Marriage, Quote of the Day
'Hero' Bigot Resigns Rather Than Waste Everyone's Time With Bulls**t
The fallout from marriage equality begins. -
Gay Marriage, Kids
Biglaw Mommy: There's Hope After All
Thanks to the SCOTUS decision in Obergefell, Mommy Dear's daughter won't remember a time when we denied equal rights to people solely on the basis of their sexual orientation. - Sponsored
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Politics, Supreme Court
'Robert Bork Wouldn't Have Changed History'? Not So Sure About That.
A columnist argues that Robert Bork wouldn't have changed history. If this sounds crazy, that's because it is. -
Antonin Scalia, Supreme Court
Advice For Those Of Us With Tenure Or Lifetime Appointments
If you engage in these fallacies in a mean-spirited, toxic way, your colleagues may think you are seriously losing it. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 06.30.15
* Which Biglaw firm is going to be changing up the way that it recruits new attorneys? That would be Quinn Emanuel. It’s planning to majorly scale back on summer associates and do something completely different. We’ll have more on this news later today. [WSJ Law Blog]
* An undergrad who once had high hopes for law school decided to ditch his legal aspirations in favor of stand-up comedy. His mom is mad since it’s a “path that has no specific stability.” She obviously hasn’t read up on law school job stats lately. [Indy Channel]
* Justice Kennedy should consider trading in his robes for a superhero’s cape, because he just swooped in to the rescue, again. With a 5-4 vote, SCOTUS stayed the Fifth Circuit’s decision regarding the closure of the majority of abortion clinics in Texas. [NPR]
* Damn you, Dewey leaders! Per recent testimony in the criminal trial of the failed firm’s former top brass, but for news of the criminal probe spreading like wildfire throughout the profession, D&L could’ve merged with any number of firms to save itself. [Am Law Daily]
* Some pretty major firms think they have better things to spend their Biglaw bucks on than donations to legal aid organizations. Only five firms were willing to publicly disclose more than $1 million in donations. [DealBook / New York Times via American Lawyer]
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Gay Marriage, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
The (Monday) Morning After: A Conversation About Obergefell With David Lat
ReplyAll conversationalist Zach Abramowitz chats with Above the Law managing editor David Lat about the Supreme Court's big gay marriage ruling. -
Environment / Environmental Law, SCOTUS
EPA Must Figure Out How Much Not Dying From Mercury Is Worth To People
Is it cost efficient to not breath mercury?
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Constitutional Law, Politics, SCOTUS
Supreme Court Kind Of Makes Up New Way To Stop Gerrymandering
The Constitution says what it's supposed to say. -
Benchslaps, Richard Posner, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
Reverse Benchslap Of The Day: Judge Posner Smacks Chief Justice Roberts
Judge Posner does not have a high opinion of Chief Justice Roberts's dissent in the same-sex marriage case. -
Supreme Court, Television
John Oliver On The End Of SCOTUScare
Reports of the Affordable Care Act's demise have been greatly exaggerated. -
Antonin Scalia, Music
Rock Band Sings Justice Scalia's Dissents
It sounds like the band must have consulted the nearest hippie when writing this song. -
Antonin Scalia, Food
This Is What Happens When The Douchiest Supreme Court Justice Goes To Brunch
Was any jiggery-pokery pudding or pure applesauce served during this brunch? -
Gay Marriage, Supreme Court
Dear Texas: You Know You ARE Actually Part Of The United States, Right?
Of course Texas has its own interpretation of how marriage equality should apply... -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 06.29.15
* The Dissent World: This is what happens when justices start being real… and stop being polite. Conservative SCOTUS justices weren’t interested in playing nice last week in their dissents. Just how much “personal dissension” is there among their ranks? [POLITICO]
* “I knew I was a workaholic and law wasn’t for me, but the circus is.” A law school graduate who only goes by Paz is now working as a world-class juggler. Law school career services officers would really like to know if this is considered a J.D. Advantage position. [Grand Forks Herald]
* A new nickname is being bandied about for John Roberts: “Umpire in Chief.” During his confirmation hearings, he said judges should be more like baseball officiants, and you could say that last week, all he was doing was calling balls and strikes. [New York Times]
* SCOTUS may have issued a landmark ruling on gay marriage, but that doesn’t mean the fight is over as far as gay rights are concerned. Protip: Next time you make a historic decision, let lawyers know what level of scrutiny is being applied. [National Law Journal]
* Some think what SCOTUS did with gay marriage was “simply putting its imprimatur on a practice that was already legal in more than two-thirds of the states.” People wonder whether the highest court will do the same with marijuana legalization. [24/7 Wall St.]