FBI
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The FBI Has Apparently Spent A Year Trying To Crack NYC Mayor Eric Adams’s Personal Phone
From the MAYOR-BEATS-FEDS dept
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From the ‘reconnecting’ department.
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Sixth Circuit Reverses Conviction For Man Talked Into Criminal Acts By Undercover FBI Agents
From the make-your-own-terrorists,-lose-your-own-convictions dept.
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FBI Successfully Forced A Criminal Suspect To Unlock His Wickr Account With His Face
Physical features and the Fifth Amendment don’t mix.
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FBI Invites Public In On Its Forfeiture Racket, Promises Them A Cut Of The Take
Take a bad thing and make it badder.
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Attorney General Barr’s Anti-Encryption Efforts Aren’t Supported By Many FBI Officials
Not everyone’s on the same page.
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When In Doubt Redact It All — FBI Gets Redaction Happy With FOIA Request
Comic book characters have privacy rights too.
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The War On Whistleblowers Claims Another Casualty
The FBI was up to some troubling stuff. So the one getting punished is obviously the guy who brought it to light.
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* The possibility of Donald Trump turning the Russia case over to Alan Dershowitz is too delicious of a train wreck to imagine. Stop teasing me! [The Hill]
* Andrew McCabe’s GoFundMe has raised over half a million dollars. All you need is a righteous claim and a sophisticated lobbying firm behind you. [Slate]
* LeBron has decided he holds intellectual property rights over barbershops or something. [National Law Journal]
* While DLA Piper is out there swiping lawyers, they’re also earning plaudits for a tech solution designed to retain clients. [American Lawyer]
* Joon Kim returns to Cleary Gottlieb. [Wall Street Journal]
* Jury selection underway in extortion case over Waffle House CEO’s syrup. [Daily Report Online]
* The Supreme Court declared it’s ready, willing, and able to engage in linguistic gymnastics to get out of labor protections. So… we’ve got that going for us. [Law360]
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* Ben Wittes on James Comey’s prepared testimony (which he’ll deliver tomorrow): “the most shocking single document compiled about the official conduct of the public duties of any President since the release of the Watergate tapes.” [Lawfare]
* Could the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program be eliminated — retroactively? Thoughts from Professor Gregory Crespi. [SSRN]
* The California Supreme Court appears less than enthused about a ballot measure that would compel the courts to decide death penalty cases more quickly. [How Appealing]
* Behind every great bestseller is… a tiger mother? How Amy Chua mentored J.D. Vance, author of Hillbilly Elegy (affiliate link). [The Atlantic]
* Picking up on Shannon Achimalbe’s post from earlier today, here’s additional financial advice for young lawyers. [SoFi]
* Legal technology is a godsend — but what do you do when problems arise? [Reboot Your Law Practice]
* Mark your calendars: one week from today, on June 14 in San Francisco, it’s the Battle of the (Law Firm) Bands! [Family Violence Appellate Project]
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* IBM says Watson’s about to take away your job, which is an announcement IBM makes roughly every three months because they’re taunting us. [Corporate Counsel]
* Betty Shelby acquitted in the killing of a black motorist because apparently it’s always reasonable to believe a random black guy is going to pull a gun. [NBC News]
* Former client seeks $1.4 million back that it spent trying to disqualify BakerHostetler. [Law360]
* Latham’s Alice Fisher has pulled out of the FBI Director sweepstakes. All eyes are on Joe Lieberman right now, but folks G. Gordon Liddy is just sitting there raring to go. [National Law Journal]
* And apparently Sheriff Clarke (who I’m sure was Trump’s personal pick) is taking a Homeland Security job so he can focus on harassing the poor and disadvantaged without having to bother all those nice bankers. [New York Times]
* Judge Charles Breyer took a break from writing the best benchslaps of all time to issue a groundbreaking video game ruling citing Star Wars and Love Actually — two movies that should never, ever be mentioned in the same sentence. [Hollywood Reporter]
* Stupid fan lawsuit against Warriors center ZaZa Pachulia moves on. [KENS5]
* More horrific allegations from Ken Starr’s world-class leadership at Baylor. [Huffington Post]
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‘Backdoor’ Search Of FBI Records Helps Parents Learn How Local Cops Killed Their Son
The roundabout way that the FBI and FOIA blew the lid off a police coverup.
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Court Says FBI Doesn’t Have To Hand Over Its Rules For Surveilling Domestic Journalists
A federal judge has sided with the government, finding its investigative techniques are too sensitive to be made public.
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The Geek Squad is on the case! But maybe they shouldn’t be.
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Trump’s Pick For Attorney General A Big Fan Of Civil Asset Forfeiture
There’s growing bipartisan opposition to civil asset forfeiture… but don’t expect relief from this administration.
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alt.legal: Did A Little Data Governance Decide The Whole Election?
Given how far we’ve come, could Hillary Clinton in 2009 really have seen the risk of this coming?
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Cyberlaw, Department of Justice, Technology
While the Internet was throwing itself a party for taking down the Stop Online Piracy Act, getting drunk off its own power and shooting pistols into the air like a Mexican fiesta, the Department of Justice was already throwing up a big middle finger to offshore rogue websites, or whatever they’re calling pirates now. Everyone’s favorite hacker collective, Anonymous, struck back in revenge almost immediately. The group launched massive denial of service attacks against every media and governmental website their deranged hive mind could think of….