Supreme Court
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Supreme Court Justices Used To Pass Notes Like Teenagers During Oral Arguments
Some of them were quite entertaining. -
Politics
Supreme Court To Admit It Doesn't Care About Its Own Precedent On Abortion Rights
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Courts
Women Of Color Have Dismal Representation As Supreme Court Advocates
And women in general are sorely missed at the high court, making less than a quarter of all appearances.
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Courts
Harvard Won, But Affirmative Action Is Still Set Up To Lose
Republicans were never trying to win this battle, they're trying to win their war against diversity. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 10.02.19
* Trump wins on taxes (this time): A federal judge in California blocked a state law that would require candidates for president to disclose their income tax returns before their names can appear on the state’s primary ballot. [CNN]
* In the wake of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s accusations of sexual assault, Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s name has not been “totally and permanently destroyed” as he predicted; though he may be regarded as a “walking controversy,” he’s mostly gone back to his regular life. [Washington Post]
* Rudy Giuliani has hired former Watergate prosecutor Jon Sale to represent him in the impeachment inquiry against President Trump. Sale says of his client: “He 100 percent did not do anything illegal.” That’s a good lawyer. [National Law Journal]
* The D.C Circuit largely upheld the FCC’s right to dump net neutrality rules, but the court’s opinion still allowed for state and local governments to set their own regulations that would prohibit some customers from being charged more than others. [Associated Press]
* A judge has ruled that Harvard’s admissions policies are constitutional due to the school’s reliance on “race conscious admissions.” If Students for Fair Admissions appeals, it could go to SCOTUS and endanger affirmative action. [NPR]
* If you’ve been dreaming about going in-house and eventually becoming general counsel, now might be a good time to make a move, considering that GC pay recently hit a five-year high of $2.6 million. [Big Law Business]
* “Alabama and I had a difference of opinion, but Gainesville and I have the same opinion.” That tide has rolled, so Hugh Culverhouse decided to make a $1.1 million donation to the University of Florida Levin College of Law. [Herald Tribune]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 10.01.19
* IP professors swear IP cases are going to be interesting this time. Of course they say that… it’s their trademark response. [National Law Journal]
* Chris Collins resigns from Congress in advance of pleading guilty to abusing his board position. [Law360]
* California has fired the first, serious shots at the NCAA’s student-exploitation model. Where do we go from here? [Sports Illustrated]
* Forever 21 enters Chapter 11, learning exactly what 32 feels like. [USA Today]
* Law firm merger market remains relatively quiet. [American Lawyer]
* Companies hiring GCs increasingly consider candidates based on potential to move into executive leadership someday. [Corporate Counsel]
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Courts
Ruth Bader Ginsburg On Why She Didn't Retire From SCOTUS Under Obama
The Notorious One finally responds to a question everyone wants to know the answer to. -
Courts
Justice Sotomayor Throws First Pitch At Nationals-Phillies Game, Probably Should Join Phillies Rotation
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 09.24.19
* Boris Johnson unanimously smacked down by UK Supreme Court, a bizarre institution where jurists uphold the law regardless of whether or not it inconveniences one or the other political party. [Legal Cheek]
* The biggest law firms in the world enjoyed a good year as the rich get richer. [American Lawyer]
* The Supreme Court needs to branch out from Harvard and Yale when it comes to clerks. For that matter, it needs to branch out from Harvard and Yale when it comes to justices. [National Law Journal]
* This is about well-being coordinators but holds a universal truth: firms hiring non-lawyer professionals probably should only focus on people familiar with the law firm environment. [Law.com]
* Today’s the day Dershowitz tries to disqualify Boies Schiller from the defamation case against him. Let’s see how that pans out for him. [New York Law Journal]
* The Ninth Circuit’s Stairway to Heaven case will ramble on. [Courthouse News Service]
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ACLU
ACLU Lawyer Walks Emmys Red Carpet To Tell The World About Upcoming LGBTQ Rights Cases At Supreme Court
Laverne Cox, the lawyer's celebrity date, said the cases should be meaningful to 'anyone who doesn't conform to someone else's idea of how you should be... A man or woman or neither!' -
Courts
Brett Kavanaugh And The De Minimis Lie
Some lies are about more important issues than others, but every lie is a lie. -
Law Schools
Even Having A Supreme Court Justice As An Alumnus Couldn't Save This Law School
This closed law school still has a legal legacy.
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Are We Ever Going To Get That Code of Judicial Ethics? Cause They Seem Relevant.
The U.S. Supreme Court continues to operate under no ethical guidance. -
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 09.16.19
* Remember Deborah Ramirez, one of the first women to accuse Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct while he was going through his Supreme Court confirmation hearings? It turns out the FBI never really investigated her allegations because of limitations imposed by the Republican-controlled Senate. [New York Times]
* President Trump, of course, has come forward to defend Kavanaugh against allegations that the justice exposed himself to unwilling women in college, proclaiming, “He is an innocent man who has been treated HORRIBLY,” and that Kavanaugh “should start suing people for libel, or the Justice Department should come to his rescue.” [NBC News]
* What could happen if Donald Trump refuses to step down as president should he lose the 2020 election? National security expert Josh Geltzer says that as a nation, we should “be prepared for the worst.” [Slate]
* “Desperate Housewife” Felicity Huffman was sentenced to 14 days in jail, one year of probation, 250 hours of community service, and a $30,000 fine for her role in the Varsity Blues college admissions scandal, while “Fuller House” star Lori Loughlin has “resolved” to stay out of the Big House. [CBS News; Page Six]
* In case you missed it, Texas lawyer-politician Rep. Briscoe Cain (R-Deer Park) made a “death threat” via tweet against Beto O’Rourke, saying “My AR is ready for you,” after the Democratic presidential candidate promised to “take your AR-15[s]” during the latest debate, but there are likely no legal ethics repercussions coming his way. [Texas Lawyer]
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Courts
Neil Gorsuch's New Book Gets Dragged
New piece goes ham on Neil Gorsuch's antiquated notions of civility. -
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Courts
Gorsuch: Sorry, But Judge Judy Isn't On The Supreme Court
Don't pee on the justice's leg and tell him it's raining. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 09.09.19
* In the two years or so that Justice Neil Gorsuch has served on the Supreme Court, he’s become “everything conservatives hoped for and liberals feared,” having voted to overturn or suggested revisiting 11 of the court’s precedents thus far. [Washington Post]
* Speaking of Justice Gorsuch, here are the two rules he tells each of his law clerks to follow: “Rule number one: Don’t make it up — follow the law. Rule number two: when everybody else around you is yelling at you, asking you to make it up and condemning you for not making it up, refer to rule number one.” [Fox News]
* “I’m indebted to have his help and advice. He truly is a great American.” Frequent Trump critic George Conway, the Wachtell of counsel married to Kellyanne Conway, is informally advising former Rep. Joe Walsh’s 2020 campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. [CNN]
* According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the legal sector added around 4,100 jobs in August, outpacing U.S. job growth. This seems like exciting news, but it capped off a summer where overall growth for law jobs was mostly flat. [American Lawyer]
* A Housewife Desperate to stay out of jail: Federal prosecutors say probation isn’t enough for Felicity Huffman’s participation in the Varsity Blues college admissions scandal and want her to serve at least one month in jail, but her lawyers don’t agree. [TODAY]