Non-Sequiturs: 05.14.15

* The NFLPA is appealing the 4-game suspension Tom Brady received in the wake of the Wells Report. It's more probable than not that he'll lose. [CNN] * Lawyer tackles his own client trying to flee the courtroom. Great, now litigators have to start worrying about the long-term effect of concussions. [Legal Cheek] * New rankings are out and Thomas M. Cooley Law School (or WMU or whatever) is NUMBER 1! Seriously. For real. Find out why... [Georgetown Law via TaxProf Blog] * The Wright Brothers: The Original Patent Trolls. [Concurring Opinions] * Are you into spy thrillers? What about lengthy treatises on standing? Well, then you're in luck. [Dorf on Law] * A Washington prosecutorial office rocked by misconduct allegations. Ho hum, prosecutors break the rules. But the source -- a whistleblowing veteran prosecutor -- is a new twist. [The Open File] * The jury is deliberating on Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's fate in the Boston bombing trial [Law and More] * The final two items both focus on agricultural regulations. First, a look back at the life of Roscoe Filburn, the wheat farmer at the center of Wickard v. Filburn. Now I'll never not see Homer Simpson when I think of that case. [Lawyers, Guns & Money] * Second, if you aren't following the raisins takings case, basically the government takes a share of the annual raisin crop for its own use... without compensating the growers. Put aside the constitutionality, that's startlingly inefficient when the government encourages farmers to shift away from a crop the government needs. Here's a video about the farmers at the center of the case. [YouTube] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFbzLPJtYPE