Non-Sequiturs: 04.28.16
* If Bush v. Gore didn't teach you that election laws are a mess, then this season of Veep will hammer the lesson home. [Strook] * D.C. Circuit Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh knows the value of saying no -- especially to a sitting president. [United States Law Week] * Oh, this is fun, well, at least if you are an avowed Trekkie. There's an amicus brief written entirely about the Klingon language. When arguing that Paramount cannot claim a copyright over the Klingon language, what better to spice up your prose than some quotes actually written in Klingon? [Popehat] * A look at the most cited law reviews in Supreme Court opinions from the 2013 Term to the present. [Empirical SCOTUS] * Wait -- what did this Oklahoma court say? That forcing an unconscious woman to perform oral sex isn't sexual assault? What. The. Hell. [Slate] * Pauli Murray, lawyer, scholar and activist, just had a residential college named after her at Yale. [New York Magazine]
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* If Bush v. Gore didn’t teach you that election laws are a mess, then this season of Veep will hammer the lesson home. [Strook]
* D.C. Circuit Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh knows the value of saying no — especially to a sitting president. [United States Law Week]
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* Oh, this is fun, well, at least if you are an avowed Trekkie. There’s an amicus brief written entirely about the Klingon language. When arguing that Paramount cannot claim a copyright over the Klingon language, what better to spice up your prose than some quotes actually written in Klingon? [Popehat]
* A look at the most cited law reviews in Supreme Court opinions from the 2013 Term to the present. [Empirical SCOTUS]
* Wait — what did this Oklahoma court say? That forcing an unconscious woman to perform oral sex isn’t sexual assault? What. The. Hell. [Slate]
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* Pauli Murray, lawyer, scholar and activist, just had a residential college named after her at Yale. [New York Magazine]
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