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Morning Docket: 08.19.15
* This is a footlong you definitely don't want (but it's probably much more like a six-incher if he's lucky). Former Subway spokesman Jared Fogle is expected to plead guilty to child-pornography charges. We can't wait to see what his plea deal with authorities actually entails. [CNN] * Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's lawyers filed a brief in favor of their client getting a new trial because his attack on the Boston Marathon apparently wasn't a "crime of violence" within the meaning of the law he was sentenced under at trial. [WSJ Law Blog] * “To achieve those solutions, wouldn’t it help if you had a free press?” Justice Ginsburg's travels recently took her to Vietnam, where she spoke to a packed house about the country's need for greater freedom of press to promote social justice. [Voice of America] * Here's a little-known fact about Biglaw: many of its most well-known partners were "White House rejects." For example, Willkie Farr, Dewey & LeBoeuf, Bracewell & Giuliani, and Davis Polk are all named after failed presidential candidates. [Am Law Daily] * A New Mexico criminal defense attorney charged with a slew of criminal offenses is representing himself in a trial having to do with his shooting of a man outside his office. His best defense thus far? The man was a "methed-out lunatic." [Albuquerque Journal]
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Non-Sequiturs: 07.30.12
* Vietnam is now getting on the right side of history. A song, played on a same sex saxophone. A gay man sound, a lesbian sound, a cry that tells us love isn’t just for heteros. It’s telling me, to hold your tight, and dance like homophobia makes no sense in the world. [WSJ Law Blog] * If corporations are people, that means they also get to have religion. We can’t be too far away from social conservatives trying to ban same-industry corporate mergers. [The Atlantic] * Yeah, what I really want to hear is a 0L giving advice about how to choose which law school to go to. [Huffington Post] * Once again, Romney really seems to support some kind of government-mandated health insurance so long as he’s not talking to Americans while he’s running for President. [Wonkblog / Washington Post] * Whistling at whales could be a crime, because you don’t want to encourage them. No, I’m not making a BBW joke. I’m talking about actual whales. [The Volokh Conspiracy] * So if we ban illegal immigrants from getting government assistance for an abortion, then aren’t we kind of supporting anchor babies? [Associated Press] * Lat and friend model t-shirts designed by Chief Judge Alex Kozinski (for His Honor’s Romanian barbecue). [Twitter]