Recent Headlines from Above the Law
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Law Schools
Law Student Declares For NBA Draft Like Any Good Lawyer Would... On A Technicality
Getting into the NBA Draft is as much about lawyering as anything else. -
Courts
Police Can Legally Set You On Fire Because Someone In The 1800s Made A Copying Error
If the Reviser were alive today, maybe we'd give him qualified immunity for all the lives he's ruined. -
Movies
Immigration Justice Advocates Treated To Special Screening Of 'In The Heights' For All Their Hard Work
According to Lin-Manuel Miranda, the film version of the hit musical had a DACA-related storyline added to it. -
Law Schools
Law School Deans Call For Major Changes To Bar Admission
Deans think this is a good time to make some needed long-term changes. -
Law Schools
New York Law Student In Self-Quarantine After Contact With Coronavirus-Infected Lawyer's Firm
What is your law school or law firm doing to protect students and employees from coronavirus? -
Law Schools
Bankruptcy Judge Discharges Law School Loans -- Brief Moment Of Sanity Before Appeal
Common sense finally -- and probably temporarily -- prevails. -
Law Schools
They Really Needs To Fire This Repair Company
Can they get anything right? Elevators are breaking all over the place. -
Law Schools
When Life Gives You Broken Elevators, Make Bad Puns
Some 8-year-old out there has lost their joke book. -
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Law Schools
Law School Can't Get Elevators Working In Horrifying Metaphor
Nothing is ever going to work right. -
Law Schools
New York Is Officially GRE Country
A fifth New York law school will now accept the GRE for admission. -
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Law Schools
Another Elite Law School Eyes GRE For Admissions
Is the GRE expanding its footprint to Greenwich Village? -
Law Schools
Law Student Nearly Crushed To Death By Subway Train After Fainting Onto Tracks
Luck was on her side, because she cheated death that day. -
Law Schools
Another Law School Jumps On The GRE Train
This won't be the last law school to accept the GRE. -
Law Schools
More Law Schools Get In On The GRE Creep -- But Some Conditions Apply
Two schools are slow-playing the change. -
Law Schools
4th Law School In New York City To Accept GRE For Admission
Taking the GRE plunge is all the rage for law schools. -
Airplanes / Aviation, Law Professors
Passengers Should Have To Pay To Recline On An Airplane?
Two law professors argue that passengers should be spending more money. -
Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 05.11.17
* When New York’s largest personal injury firm collapses, who gets access to (800) 888-8888? [New York Personal Injury Blog]
* This is what it’s like when the President Tweets you. [Bloomberg BNA]
* The Indy 500 — the latest way to delay a deposition. [The Washington Post]
* Cardozo Law gets in on current events. [Law and More]
* Well this is, allegedly, awful. [Jezebel]
* The Civil War lives on at Virginia courthouses. [Katz Justice]
* Hmmm, where is Jeff Sessions in the whole Comey mess? [Slate]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 05.10.17
* Former FBI Director James Comey found out that he’d been fired in the worst way possible. He apparently saw the news of his sudden termination on television, and originally thought that it was some sort of a prank being played on him. When you get fired and everyone in the world knows about it before you do, that takes trolling to a whole new level. Ice cold. [New York Daily News]
* In other news, with Comey out of the way, President Donald Trump really wants to drill home the
alternativefact that he has no connections to Russia. According to White House press secretary Sean Spicer, Trump hired a “leading law firm in Washington, D.C.” to send a letter to that effect to Senator Lindsey Graham. Which “leading law firm in Washington, D.C.” could it be? [NBC News]* The Law School Admissions Council has named Dean Kellye Y. Testy of the University of Washington School of Law as its new president and CEO. Testy will step down from her current position to take the lead on several new initiatives at LSAC, including increasing the frequency of when the LSAT is administered and offering free online prep materials for the exam. Congratulations! [ABA Journal]
* “[W]e are reviewing all Department of Justice policies to focus on keeping Americans safe and will be issuing further guidance and support to our prosecutors executing this priority.” Attorney General Jeff Sessions seems interested in reinstating harsh punishments for low-level drug crimes, up to and including severe mandatory minimum sentences. [Washington Post]
* Andrew Luger was once the U.S. Attorney for Minnesota, but in March, AG Jeff Sessions demanded that as an Obama-era holdover, he resign from his position. A few months have passed, and now Luger will actually have an opportunity to work intimately with the Trump administration. He’s now a member of the partnership at a firm with close ties to the president: Jones Day. [Am Law Daily]
* Travel bans, and SCOTUS appointments, and executive powers, oh my! Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office were filled with such legal lunacy that professors at the Cardozo School of Law were inspired to create a 10-week course on Trumpism and the rule of law. Were they worried that the president would stop providing for material for them to work with? No, absolutely not. [HuffPost]