Non-Sequiturs

Non-Sequiturs: 01.22.15

* A representative for Amal and George Clooney has denied the rumors of an impending divorce plastered all over the newsstands this week. "This story is totally made up in order to sell their magazines." Now we can go back to wondering when Amal is planning to sue President Obama. [Aceshowbiz] * Roe v. Wade is 42 years old (or 126 trimesters) today. How much of the original holding is left? Not that much actually. [TBT Legal] * Some 1st or 2nd year in D.C. is banging another associate and felt obliged to give us an anonymous blow-by-blow account. Think of it as a Penthouse Letter to the ABA Journal. [Reddit] * Speaking of Penthouse, the affidavit from the Prince Andrew/Alan Dershowitz sex scandal is just bats**t amazeballs. Check out the full document on the next page. [South Florida Lawyers] * "Jews in the U.K. never won a reported discrimination case against non-Jewish defendants." I mean, who'd have thought the country that brought us The Merchant of Venice would have issues with Jews? [Tablet] * Americans decry European laws prohibiting certain kinds of hate speech. But Professor Faisal Kutty explains that liberal societies have their own secular sacred cows even if they don't want to admit it. [Al Jazeera] * If you presume the clientele for litigation financing services are helpless, you're selling them short. [LFC 360] * The latest threat to unsuspecting Americans: zombie debt! [Public Justice] * NYU admits it probably should have told the police when a student allegedly lit a classmate on fire and videotaped it. Ugh. NYU's gone soft. In my day, we set each other on fire all the time and we liked it dammit! [Chronicle of Higher Education]

By Joe Patrice on January 22, 2015 4:59 pm

* A representative for Amal and George Clooney has denied the rumors of an impending divorce plastered all over the newsstands this week. “This story is totally made up in order to sell their magazines.” Now we can go back to wondering when Amal is planning to sue President Obama. [Aceshowbiz]

* Roe v. Wade is 42 years old (or 126 trimesters) today. How much of the original holding is left? Not that much actually. [TBT Legal]

* Some 1st or 2nd year in D.C. is banging another associate and felt obliged to give us an anonymous blow-by-blow account. Think of it as a Penthouse Letter to the ABA Journal. [Reddit]

* Speaking of Penthouse, the affidavit from the Prince Andrew/Alan Dershowitz sex scandal is just bats**t amazeballs. Check out the full document on the next page. [South Florida Lawyers]

* “Jews in the U.K. never won a reported discrimination case against non-Jewish defendants.” I mean, who’d have thought the country that brought us The Merchant of Venice would have issues with Jews? [Tablet]

* Americans decry European laws prohibiting certain kinds of hate speech. But Professor Faisal Kutty explains that liberal societies have their own secular sacred cows even if they don’t want to admit it. [Al Jazeera]

* If you presume the clientele for litigation financing services are helpless, you’re selling them short. [LFC 360]

* The latest threat to unsuspecting Americans: zombie debt! [Public Justice]

* NYU admits it probably should have told the police when a student allegedly lit a classmate on fire and videotaped it. Ugh. NYU’s gone soft. In my day, we set each other on fire all the time and we liked it dammit! [Chronicle of Higher Education]

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