* Judge reassigned after mining In Living Color for the jokes best left in the 90s during a whole day of inappropriate remarks because, to put it in terms he might understand, “the court system don’t play that.” [ABA Journal]
* Big win for legal reporting in Idaho, where the top court official had been holding pleadings back in an effort to keep them from making the news. [Courthouse News Service]
* El Chapo lawyer launches music career. [AP]
Keeping Law School Accessible When Federal Loans Fall Short
As federal borrowing caps tighten financing options for law students, one organization is stepping in to negotiate the terms they can't secure alone.
* Blame US Trade laws for fentanyl. [Reuters]
* Alaska’s taxing AI and they’ve got a pretty good plan. [Law360]
* It’s not really an answer to antitrust to spin off stores into a new competitor… and then immediately shut down that competitor. [Law360]
* Lawyer cops to fraudulent Iraq war claims. [Guardian]