Second Amendment
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Crime, Violence
Our Gun Sickness In One Sentence
Nevada has some of the most permissive gun laws, but we know that ain't changing. -
Justice, Violence
Open-Carry Swords: A Civilized Second Amendment Right
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 05.05.17
* What does Biglaw firm Cozen O’Connor share in common with Brooklyn hipsters? [Philadelphia Business Journal]
* Glenn Reynolds offers concise commentary on Comey. [Instapundit]
* “Kozinski, circuit judge, ruminating” — yeah, you know you want to click…. [Volokh Conspiracy]
* Professor Ann Althouse does not “like” punishing high school students for their Facebook activity. [Althouse]
* And Professor Orly Lobel questions the use of noncompetes, especially in terms of low-wage workers and women. [New York Times via PrawfsBlawg]
* How many Jewish justices have we had in Supreme Court history? [U.S. National Archives via How Appealing]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 01.19.17
* The Seventh Circuit — in an opinion by Judge Diane Sykes, a top-tier SCOTUS possibility under President Trump — just struck down Chicago ordinances regulating shooting ranges as violative of Second Amendment rights. [ABC News]
* Speaking of firearms, law professor Fredrick Vars has an excellent proposal for preventing gun suicides. [Washington Post]
* Possible good news for legalizing sports betting in New Jersey: the U.S. Supreme Court wants to hear from the solicitor general on this issue (although we don’t yet know who the solicitor general will be). [How Appealing]
* But we think we know who the principal deputy solicitor general will be — Noel Francisco, whose imminent departure from Jones Day is now public. [National Law Journal]
* In other Justice Department news, what can we expect from Jeff Sessions’s DOJ in terms of civil rights enforcement? [New York Times]
* Are we seeing a “fragile recovery” in the number of people interested in law school? [ABA Journal]
* If you share my curiosity about the future of Chief Judge Merrick Garland in the wake of his unsuccessful SCOTUS nomination, it seems that the distinguished jurist is back on the bench — at least for now. [National Law Journal]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 09.16.16
* Former Berkeley Law dean Sujit Choudhry is suing the school, claiming that Berkeley discriminated against him by punishing him more harshly for alleged sexual harassment compared to white professors. [Law.com]
* The family of Sandra Bland settles its lawsuit over her death for $1.9 million. [New York Times]
* The Sixth Circuit, sitting en banc (and rather splintered), rules that the mental-health ban on gun ownership could violate the Second Amendment. [How Appealing]
* Congratulations to Miami corporate partner Ira Coleman, who will replace Peter John Sacripanti and Jeffrey E. Stone as chair of McDermott Will & Emery in January. [Big Law Business]
* Ashurst remains in a tailspin, with five partners (including two office heads) leaving in the span of 24 hours. [Ashurst]
* In other U.K. law firm news, Freshfields is replacing “Dear Sirs” with gender-neutral salutations in all communications and legal documents. [The Lawyer via Big Law Business]
* More exciting news for Bancroft: recognition for its pro bono work, which partners pledge will continue after they move over to Kirkland. [Law360]
* Paging parents who left Davis Polk to raise their kids: here’s a program to bring you back into Biglaw. [Law.com via ABA Journal]
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 08.11.16
* More cases are working their way up to the Supreme Court to define a religiously affiliated employer’s obligations to its employees. [Rewire]
* Is there a particular formula for getting yourself a coveted Supreme Court clerkship? [Empirical SCOTUS]
* The conservative interpretation of the Second Amendment has been prelude to Donald Trump’s veiled assassination “joke.” [Slate]
* Is criminal sentencing about to go all precog in this country? [FiveThirtyEight]
* Yes, even liberals can commit sexual assault. [The Slot]
* Remember — these pages and pages of redactions were probably done by some poor contract attorney trying to make a living. [Gawker]
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Guns / Firearms, Politics, SCOTUS
Donald Trump Suggests 'Second Amendment People' May Want To Assassinate Hillary Clinton Before She Takes Away Their Guns
This off-the-cuff remark may have been damaging to his campaign. -
Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 05.23.16
* The arresting officer in the Freddie Gray case was found not guilty on all charges. [Baltimore CBS]
* An oldie but a goodie: a lawsuit filed against “Satan and his staff” for ruining a man’s life. Unfortunately, there isn’t much a court can do without proper jurisdiction. [Boing Boing]
* Matt Bruenig may still think lawyers get paid too much, but that didn’t stop him from opening up a GoFundMe campaign after being fired from Demos Think Tank over some rude tweets. [Lawyers, Guns and Money]
* How small is too small? An analysis of the trivial doctrine under New York law. [Cityland]
* A lawyer has already been hired to file an objection to the proposed settlement in the O’Connor v. Uber case. [Law and More]
* Has University of Iowa College of Law’s enrollment finally stabilized after a sharp decline? [Tax Prof Blog]
* A whistleblower lawsuit alleges dirty tactics in the deal to move the Rams from St. Louis to Los Angeles. [Courthouse News]
* Second Amendment fanatic vs. gun control advocate. [Funny or Die]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 03.17.16
* Been there, done that: The political standoff having to do with Chief Judge Merrick Garland’s nomination to the Supreme Court is nothing new. When he was nominated to the D.C. Circuit by President Bill Clinton in September 1995, Senate Republicans refused to hold a confirmation vote for him until March 1997. If patience is a virtue, then Garland has got to be the most virtuous judge of them all. [WSJ Law Blog]
* Is he the “most anti-gun Supreme Court nomination in decades”? Conservative group Judicial Crisis Network plans to spend $2 million on an ad campaign in opposition to Chief Judge Merrick Garland’s SCOTUS nod, calling attention to his “history of general hostility to the Second Amendment,” as well as his vote in the Heller case. [POLITICO]
* Greenberg Traurig has called off its merger talks with London-based Berwin Leighton Paisner, citing the firm’s “conservative approach to financial risk.” Executive chair Richard Rosenbaum penned a 540-word break-up letter announcing the bad news. The combined firm would’ve had more than 2,500 lawyers. [Big Law Businness / Bloomberg]
* Finally! The California Supreme Court approved of changing the state’s grueling three-day bar exam to a two-day exam, effective 2017. The first test day will consist of five essays and a performance test, and the second day will be the MBE. Both days will be weighted equally, and test takers will surely be less stressed. [State Bar of California]
* If you’ve started receiving law school admission offers, now is a great time to consider weighing your options for merit-based financial aid — carefully. If you wind up with a conditional scholarship offer, you better make sure to read all of the fine print, because if you don’t, you could wind up screwing yourself. [Law Admissions Lowdown / U.S. News]
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Politics, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
Donald Trump’s Supreme Court Nominees
According to columnist Kayleigh McEnany, President Donald Trump would appoint conservative textualists who would make for excellent Scalia replacements. -
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Guns / Firearms
Second Amendment Kills Two People Like The Founders Intended
This is the kind of violence the Founders could support. -
Guns / Firearms, Politics
President Obama Lays Down The Law On Guns
Barack Obama responds to Second Amendment-obsessed critics.
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 12.03.15
* In the wake of yet another tragedy, how should the Second Amendment be balanced? [Slate]
* What are the legal ramifications of “crying porn”? Yup, apparently ‘crying porn” is now a thing. [Law and More]
* All the ways Evenwel v. Abbott could (further) gut the Voting Rights Act. [Talking Points Memo]
* What’s the problem with international labor monitoring? [Lawyers, Guns & Money]
* Texas Governor Greg Abbott is just being the absolute worst over the issue of Syrian refugees. [Wonkette]
* Would lawyers be okay with non-lawyers providing some legal advice? [2 Civility]
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Guns / Firearms
The Second Amendment Right To Tase A Bro
Does the Second Amendment protect the right to have a Taser? -
Guns / Firearms, Racism
Where You At, You Hypocritical Second Amendment Advocates?
The Second Amendment groups have been strangely silent. -
Bad Ideas, Constitutional Law, Guns / Firearms, John Paul Stevens, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
Justice Stevens Tries To Solve Gun Crisis The Dumbest Way Possible
Justice Stevens tries to rewrite the Second Amendment and creates a Frankenstein's monster of constitutional vagueness. -
Biglaw, Constitutional Law, Dewey & LeBoeuf, Federal Judges, Gay Marriage, Guns / Firearms, Health Care / Medicine, Insurance, John Marshall Law School, John Roberts, Law Schools, Money, Morning Docket, Religion, SCOTUS, Sonia Sotomayor, Supreme Court, Utah, Women's Issues
Morning Docket: 01.02.14
* In his year-end report, Chief Justice Roberts politely asked Congress to make it rain on the federal judiciary in fiscal year 2014, because “[t]he future would be bleak” without additional funding. [Reuters]
* Utah finally asked for Supreme Court intervention in its quest to stop gay couples from marrying, but Justice Sotomayor wants a response from the other side before she weighs in. WWSSD? [BuzzFeed]
* Perhaps Justice Sotomayor saw the humor in this: she just gave a group of nuns a temporary reprieve from having to give out birth control to a bunch of women who have taken vows of chastity. [Bloomberg]
* Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego Steven Davis? Oh boy, Dewey have some news for you! The failed firm’s former chairman is now the chief legal representative for Ras al Khaimah in the United Arab Emirates. [WSJ Law Blog]
* “The Second Amendment does not preclude reasonable regulation.” A judge upheld the majority of New York’s new gun laws as constitutional. Opponents are ready to lock and load on appeal. [New York Times]
* Just because your law school isn’t ranked, it doesn’t mean you can’t dream big. Case in point: one of this year’s Skadden Fellows will graduate from John Marshall (Chicago) this spring. [National Law Journal]
* Reema Bajaj, the attorney who pleaded guilty to a prostitution charge, decided that she wasn’t in the mood to ride this Johnson any longer. Like her panties, the case has been dropped. [Daily Chronicle]
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Guns / Firearms, Racism
Is The Second Amendment Racist?
A new study suggests gun ownership is correlative with racism. -
Crime, Drugs, Guns / Firearms, Women's Issues
Woman Concealed a Handgun... Where?
This fact pattern probably won't be on the Oklahoma bar exam.