* Happy Shutdown!!! In case you’re wondering, the looming crisis won’t close the federal courts… for a few weeks. [National Law Journal]
* Sixth Circuit rules that cops can bust into your home and search for any reason at all. Who’d have thought putting an internet troll on an appellate court was a bad idea? [Slate]
* Coming off turning over their op-ed page to the lowest common denominator, the New York Times pens a thinkpiece that could easily have been titled, “Did you ever see Person of Interest? That was awesome.” [New York Times]
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* Apparently judges stealing cocaine from evidence lockers is frowned upon. [Legal Intelligencer]
* DLA Piper forced to do some rearranging in Saudi Arabia. [American Lawyer]
* Frank Darabont is suing Walking Dead again. Just when you thought these suits were dead, they come back to life. [Law360]