Texas

* Attempts to hold the Uvalde Police Department accountable may prove difficult. You’d think we’d be better about the quis custodiet ipsos custodes problem after 2,000 years or so. [New York Times]

* Esquire of the Caribbean: Top firms want to parlay with Camille Vasquez after her big Johnny Depp win. [New York Post]

* The right to repair could be coming to Albany, NY! This is big! [Gothamist]

* A company’s right to (not) speak still remains murky due to Texas lawmakers. [Washington Post]

* The Court is set up to hear a gerrymandering case. Decision could be in by the end of 2023. Let’s enjoy voting until then. [New York Times]

* Back the children: The number of children that have been shot to death at school is higher than the amount of officers that have been killed in the line of duty. [AS]

* Oklahoma just banned abortion at fertilization. We’re like two steps off criminalizing miscarriages at this point, aren’t we? [CNN]

* NY judge maintains law that allows gun manufacturers to be sued if and when they endanger public safety. [CNN]

* Advertisers REALLY don’t like Texas’s social media law. [Adweek]

* If Roe is overturned, the right to choose will be set back 173 years in Wisconsin. [Madison]

* Could these abortion bans be just the thing needed to spur environmentalism with teeth? [Daily Beast]

* The 11th Circuit just found the Florida law that prevents social media sites from moderating political speech to be unconstitutional. [Yahoo!]

* Harvard just uhh… sued the government for discriminating against one of its students? Am I reading this right? [The Crimson]

* Colorado just made it a little easier to be a parent. [Chieftain]

* We don’t like your kind around here: Inventions originating from artificial intelligence are butting up against patent law in interesting ways. [Nature]

* Hopefully, Texas’s “Big Companies Don’t Need Freedom Of Speech” law will go to the Supreme Court. [The Hill]

* Gov. Murphy wants officers to be licensed to protect. [Bronx News]

* The Due Process clause was invoked to suspend a law that would make abortions illegal if an opinion like Dobbs overrules Roe. [MSNBC]

* Biden bumps baby bumpers to save sleeping babes. Say that 5 times fast. [NPR]

* You’re not the only one checking your emails. Hopefully, other states will make it so your job has to tell you when they snoop around. [INC]

* Young Thug got hit with a RICO charge for renting a car used to kill someone. Gunna is somehow involved too. I swear this isn’t just a Crim Law final question from a cool professor. Guess this means no Barter 9. [Daily Beast]

* Dispensaries are making so much cash it endangers their employees. If only weed were legal federally. [Politico]

* Politics post-Alito: Looks like the “neutral” arm of the government has caused some political spillover. [CNN]

* Texas is arguing social media platforms are public squares and shouldn’t allow for viewpoint discrimination as such. This is definitely gonna benefit Nazis. [Houston Public Media]

* Law students just unlocked a cool new resume builder: The Copyright Claims Board. [The Reg Review]

* Laws matter: life lost after school neglects to follow anti-bullying protocol. [WBEZ]

* The EU’s laws will be impacting American free speech, eh? Talk about long-arm statutes. [The Hill]

* Oklahoma just passed their version of Texas’s Roe sidestep. Over/under for them banning condoms too in two weeks? [CNN]

* Marjorie Taylor Greene is maintaining the Shaggy defense for her Section 3 trial. [NBC News]

* People are upset that the Texas bill disincentivizing the use of clean energy isn’t enough to keep them using fossil fuels. Sorry, not sorry. [NPR]

* Unholy inequality: PA school faces discrimination lawsuit for not allowing Satanists to set up an after-school club. What would Jesus do? [Global News]

* A Whole New World: Texas judge invites Disney to relocate. [WFLA]

* Question: Will SCOTUS be as deferential to Biden on immigration as they’ve been to Trump? Magic 8-Ball says not likely. [NPR]

* A swing and a miss: Golf course hit with $5M verdict after hitting the same house over 600 times! I thought four was the limit. [NBC News]

* New hope for a Texas death row inmate accused of killing her daughter. [PBS]

* Irate Policing or Intellectual Property?: Cops play Disney songs on patrol to prevent the public from recording them. [CNN]

* Special lasagna: Newly weds break in their relationship with criminality after dosing their special guests. [CNN]

* Texas and Florida are looking to end tenure. If only this directly impacted a certain professor at Penn. [The Hill]

* SCOTUS may give the ok for people to carry guns on NY trains. I still shudder thinking about Goetz. [Fast Company]

* Its my money and I need cash now!: Seattle law clinic helps workers fight wage theft. [King 5]

* Sick flight: airborne passengers remove masks mid flight in response to a Judge overturning federal mask mandates. [Vice]

* It’s hip to be kind: Mainers want to extend their Good Samaritan laws. [WMTW]

* Not done fighting: Wendy Davis continues the legal fight against SB8.  [KTSA]

* Governor increases penalties for selling Fentanyl.  [WAPT]

* Forgiveness ain’t cheap: NJ diocese shells out over $85 million to settle sexual abuse claims. [AP]