Morning Docket: 10.13.21
* A lawyer was suspended for forging a judge’s signature. There’s a good pun about lacking judgment somewhere in that. [Bloomberg Law] * Judge who jailed kids under a bogus law still under fire. If cancel culture is real, she should be the Cancelee of the Month. [WKRN] * SCOTUS Justice thinks about if cops can be sued vis a vis cigarette-smoking centaurs. I didn’t think I’d ever write that string of words, yet here we are. [Bloomberg Law] * Beware, lovers: Ohio has an antiquated law that allows for marriage as a defense to rape. [Dispatch] * California passes a law requiring a gender-neutral aisle in toy stores. Mx. Potato Heads are about to be flying off the shelves! [USA Today] * California schools now required to provide free menstrual products to their students. About damn time. [NBC News]
* A lawyer was suspended for forging a judge’s signature. There’s a good pun about lacking judgment somewhere in that. [Bloomberg Law]
* Judge who jailed kids under a bogus law still under fire. If cancel culture is real, she should be the Cancelee of the Month. [WKRN]
* SCOTUS Justice thinks about if cops can be sued vis a vis cigarette-smoking centaurs. I didn’t think I’d ever write that string of words, yet here we are. [Bloomberg Law]
* Beware, lovers: Ohio has an antiquated law that allows for marriage as a defense to rape. [Dispatch]
* California passes a law requiring a gender-neutral aisle in toy stores. Mx. Potato Heads are about to be flying off the shelves! [USA Today]
* California schools now required to provide free menstrual products to their students. About damn time. [NBC News]
Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord™ in the Facebook group Law School Memes for Edgy T14s. Before that, he wrote columns for an online magazine named The Muse Collaborative under the pen name Knehmo. He endured the great state of Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boatbuilder who cannot swim, a published author on critical race theory, philosophy, and humor, and has a love for cycling that occasionally annoys his peers. You can reach him by email at cwilliams@abovethelaw.com and by tweet at @WritesForRent.
