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Everything’s Sexier In California… Even Their Legal Icons

Why, exactly, did they build this?

Last week’s gathering of memes was a tremendous hit with the Above the Law audience, so let’s have another go. This is our weekly selection of terrific offerings from the genius law students over at Law School Memes for Edgy T14s. As always, I’m not naming the individual creators so they never have to answer an on-campus interviewer asking “why does your name show up in Above the Law?” but if anyone honestly wants to take the credit, let me know and I’ll put your name on here.

I’ve always practiced on the East Coast so I’ve never seen this, but apparently everything’s sexier in California.

Now that’s a rail-splitter! That’s easily the weirdest sculpture in American law, at least until George Mason University completes it’s recreation of Michelangelo’s David with a naked Scalia holding an AR-15, which I assume is the intended follow-up for the lobby.

Speaking of the Supreme Court, they made some news this week, applying the Eighth Amendment’s bar on excessive fines to the states:

That was a Ginsburg opinion, which sets up this little detour from the meme action:

That is, apparently, a Ruth Bader Ginsburg avatar doing battle in Soul Caliber IV. You didn’t know you needed that America, but there it is. The folks behind Supreme Courtship — the Supreme Court dating sim that’s just as weird a concept as it sounds — are playing Soul Caliber as the justices now and you can watch all the Court avatars battle it out over Twitch on Sunday.

God he’s even annoying as a video game character.

Meanwhile, if you’re interested in helping Supreme Courtship get to market, they have a kickstarter page you can reach through the links above.

Back to some memes. Poor Bloomberg…

I was a beta tester for the first go around of the Bloomberg product and it really was a great product. It just didn’t make it to market until after Westlaw and Lexis added basically all the same functionality. Sometimes being a Meg is all about timing.

While we’re on the Meg memes:

As a journal editor a fully agree with those tuxes. Being on a journal provides invaluable experience tracing down key evidentiary support:

Meh. It’s stronger support than the opinion in Heller.

This one seems to track the complex world of mass tort litigation:

Napoleonic Code reactions only.

Hang in there buddy…

Don’t worry, the “Law School” part will just get replaced by “Practicing” soon enough:

Like this guy…

Let’s close out today with a dog pic.

Enjoy the weekend.