The Walking Dead

* Some are accusing Bernie Sanders of disparaging public defenders by alleging that the government does not provide “a decent lawyer” to those who are unable to pay for private counsel. [Fox News]

* The Miami Heat organization is facing an intense FMLA lawsuit brought by a former associate general counsel of the team. It is generally unwise to mess with a lawyer on your payroll. [Corporate Counsel]

* A U.S. Attorney is alleging that Prince Andrew is not voluntarily cooperating with federal authorities in the Jeffrey Epstein investigation. [ABC News]

* Led Zeppelin has won the longstanding “Stairway to Heaven” copyright infringement lawsuit. [Vulture]

* A Florida prosecutor has been arrested for allegedly offering to help a criminal defendant in exchange for sex. [News-Press]

* A lawsuit over profits from The Walking Dead television series has almost as many twists and turns as the show itself. [Deadline]

* The Florida Bar is requiring a Florida attorney to take a professionalism workshop after he shooed a stowaway raccoon off of his boat in open waters. Bet the Florida Bar was moved by the heartbreaking pictures of the raccoon in the water. [Tampa Bay Times]

* Notorious RBG threw cold water on President Trump’s impeachment law knowledge yesterday after President Trump suggested that the impeachment process could be stopped by the Supreme Court. [USA Today]

* A California lawyer has been found guilty of running a scheme to secure foreign investment visas when legitimate investments were often not being made. [Mercury News]

* The Washington State Attorney General has sued the Trump Administration over ICE arrests made in state courthouses. [Seattle Times]

* Progressive groups are calling for Justice Brett Kavanaugh to recuse himself from a case involving the constitutionality of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. [CNBC]

* It looks like the CBD industry could be facing a flood of new lawsuits, and that’s not just people being paranoid. [Bloomberg Law]

* Lawyers for a stuntman who was killed on the set of The Walking Dead is asking for up to $100 Million in damages from AMC. [Yahoo Entertainment]

* Thinking about transferring law schools? Get the ugly truth first. [Underdawg Law]

* Is it possible your smart phone shouldn’t be your everything? [What About Paris?]

* Now this is scholarship I can get behind: The Walking Dead Colloquium. [Savannah Law School]

* In trial be ready for anything… including vomit. [Katz Justice]

* NFL players and prospective law students — I totally get the similarities. [TaxProf Blog]

* Sigh… Mississippi. Still defending its ban on adoption by same-sex couples. [Slate]

* Free CLE! Next Thursday on “The U.S. & China: Perspectives on Brand Protection & Intellectual Property.” [AABANY]

* Randy Levine, president of the New York Yankees, has left Akin Gump’s dugout. He hopes to hit it out of the park and slide into his new home at Jackson Lewis. Please, no more baseball references. :( [Am Law Daily] * Thanks to Virginia, the electric chair may be making a comeback when drugs for lethal injection aren’t available. OMG, that’s so freakin’ lame. Bring back the breaking wheel or death by disembowelment. [Gawker] * A lawyer won’t have to pay an ex-law student $1M after making a hyperbolic challenge in a TV interview. Better luck reading the Leonard v. Pepsico case next time, pal. [Volokh Conspiracy / Washington Post] * Protip: when you’ve been suspended for your “contemptuous attitude,” bragging that one of the judges who disciplined you thinks you’re “probably the best DUI lawyer” isn’t smart. [Santa Barbara Independent] * If you watch The Walking Dead, you’ve probably wondered if all of the killing was legal — because you’re a lawyer, and you can’t enjoy anything anymore. Here’s your answer, from a UC Hastings Law prof. [GQ] * If you’d like your chickens to live a life of luxury before you eat them and their eggs, then you’re going to love this law in California. If not, you can move to Missouri. See Elie squawk about it here. [ATL Redline] * Ian Whittle, a recent George Mason Law grad, took a break from watching the saddest Super Bowl ever to save a little girl from drowning in a pond. Check out the news coverage, after the jump. [CBS 6 WTVR]