Above the Law

Morning Docket: 11.22.21

* On today’s episode of  Strange Scholarships™: Sheriffs who pick and choose when to enforce the laws they are supposed to uphold. [The Daily Beast]

* New York’s “Nourish Bill” will encourage farmers to send their surplus produce to food banks. This is the kind of corn-y I can get behind! [WIVB]

* Texas passes law that puts penalties on being too good of a Samaritan. [The Battalion]

* If you’ve served your country and need another reason to not harm your partner(s) — be horrible and they may take your precious gun(s) away. [Military.com]

* For any 0Ls who’d like some help wrapping their heads around the Rittenhouse verdict, here are a couple lawyers who might help make sense of self-defense doctrine. [NPR]

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 [email protected] and by tweet at @WritesForRent.

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