1st Amendment
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Law Schools
For The Love Of God, Let's Not Normalize Calling The Cops On Peaceful Protestors
Even when a famous person tells you to. -
Courts
Public School Coach Forgot How The First Amendment Works. 6th Circuit Is Happy To Remind Him
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Technology
Few Things Say Public Trust Like Preventing Citizens From Knowing How You Police Them, NYPD
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 09.29.22
* Long Arms: California’s laws on protecting abortion info will likely have spillover effects across the us. [Axios]
* Indiana judge blocked a law requiring post-abortion cremation and burial of fetal tissue. [Indy Star]
* Teacher’s virulently racist comments that could make Amy Wax blush faces consequences. I wonder how long it’ll be until she’s on the Tucker Carlson show? [Imgur]
* Need damages for your damaged Cannondale? Here’s a primer. [Forbes]
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Government
The New Ground For A Censorship-Prone America: Abortion
Given our response to COVID, are we really surprised that caring about someone else’s health is being criminalized? -
Government
Yuge Fan Of Adultery And Greed Praises Christian Nationalism
Establishment Clause? I Hardly Knew Her! -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 07.25.22
* Bleak views out the Overton window: Politicians are about 2 steps from being openly hostile toward non-Christians. [Business Insider]
* 1st Amendment; mum’s the word: more Nazis waving SS flags in support of Republicans as candidates talk about freedom. [Huff Po]
* Put your money where your politics are: Here’s an updated list of companies addressing abortion access. [NPR]
* Shoot, a copycat!: California passes the snitch on pregnant people and get 10k law, but for guns. [NYT]
* Remember that time about 200 Republicans voted against sus-ing out white supremacists in police departments? Maybe they were trying to protect Mississippi. [CNN]
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Government
How The First Amendment Will Protect Us From Our Gun Crisis
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 05.19.22
* Hopefully, Texas’s “Big Companies Don’t Need Freedom Of Speech” law will go to the Supreme Court. [The Hill]
* Gov. Murphy wants officers to be licensed to protect. [Bronx News]
* The Due Process clause was invoked to suspend a law that would make abortions illegal if an opinion like Dobbs overrules Roe. [MSNBC]
* Biden bumps baby bumpers to save sleeping babes. Say that 5 times fast. [NPR]
* You’re not the only one checking your emails. Hopefully, other states will make it so your job has to tell you when they snoop around. [INC]
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Courts
Nothing Says 'Impartial Judge' Like Clarence Thomas Publicly Making Fun Of The Press
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 05.17.22
* Gov. DeSantis doesn’t want protestors being big meanies outside of people’s homes. Remember: You only have the right to protest if it doesn’t like…inconvenience anyone. [AP]
* In Texas, the right to free speech includes broadcasting murderous rampage. Yup, progress is totally linear. [Invenglobal]
* Law firms like to see their employees faces so much, they’re threatening to cut salaries for working from home. [Law.com]
* Oregon’s failure to provide public defenders has landed them in court. [AP]
* Have you been considering Cuba? Might be a little easier to visit now. [Miami Herald]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 05.13.22
* I know that Nietzsche had some thoughts on the utility of truth and lies, but actively fighting history is just silly. [NBC News]
* No, Patrick, you cannot puff, puff, drive. [Oregon Live]
* Sports betting was legalized in Kansas. Finally, something to do for fun besides eat barbecue. [Kansas Reflector]
* Ding Dong Protest: Wonder who was behind the SCOTUS home meet and greets? [USA Today]
* The Louisiana bill that tried to classify abortions as homicides didn’t make it into law. Woop Woop! [Reuters]
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Courts
So I Guess 'Small Government' Now Includes Compelling Corporate Speech?
I can't believe they suspended me! All I said was literally the most hateful thing I could think of about Mexicans! -
Politics
Ilya Shapiro Wants To Be A Victim So Bad... Kavanaugh Isn't Too Happy Either
How will I remain relevant if they don't reprimand me? :'( -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 05.09.22
* Goodbye: ABA recommends dropping the LSAT as an admissions requirement. But how will we know who is the next Learned Hand? [NYT]
* Who cares about the 1st when you have a gun? Trump asked if it was okay to “Just shoot protestors” he didn’t like while he was in office. [NPR]
* Law school speed run sub 20: South Texas College of Law has just minted its youngest JD. Maybe they finally have the time to watch a few Elden Ring playthroughs. [KHOU]
* About 60% of Americans think that abortion should be legal federally. That’s larger than the percentage of people that approve of the SCOTUS. I wonder if they are related concepts? [The Hill]
* Senate will vote on if Roe ought be codified into law on Wednesday. Time to see where our leader’s allegiances lie. [Reuters]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 04.24.22
* Meaning what you say: Climate change activist self-immolated in front of the Supreme Court on Earth Day. [Independent]
* Are our founding principles stronger than historical revisionism? This 1st Amendment suit against banning history will let us know. [WCGU]
* Nixing the 77%: Mississippi now requires that women be paid the same amount as men for the same work. Fanfare aplenty. [ABC News]
* …And Mississippi is also banning vaccination mandates. Being newsworthy twice in a row counts for something, right? [Clarion Ledger]
* Three’s Company: Brandeis must be overjoyed about this relapse into old antitrust jurisprudence. [Bloomberg]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 03.31.22
* Texan student who was threatened with being given a failing grade for not reciting the Pledge of Allegiance earns a lot of lunch money. Gotta love the 1st Amendment. [Chron]
* Facebook and Apple were so deferential to cops that they gave sensitive information to kids pretending to be them. What happened to two-factor authentication? [Dudes Code]
* Loan company hit with a million-dollar fine for misleading its clients about loan forgiveness. Stop playing with people’s money! [Business Insider]
* Pentagon drops a 700+ list of places named after members of the Confederacy they’re considering renaming. About time we stopped handing out participation trophies to the pro-slavery people. [Military]
* Tennessee is trying to overturn Obergefell. See what you’ve started now, Texas? [LBGTQNation]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 03.18.22
* In memoriam: A son remembers a legal giant. [The Pulse]
* Gagging the 1st: 11th Circuit considers the constitutionality of a law that imposes heightened penalties on a class of protesters. [CBS 12]
* The police are called on Yale students who protested a Federalist Society lecturer. What happened to fighting speech with speech? [New York Post]
* Texas is locking up folks without filing charges or giving them lawyers. No way this is legal. [The Texas Tribune]
* Turns out Pepe does not go to the moon: 500k lawsuit follows after an NFT buyers faces the power of ctrl + v. [Notebook Check]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 03.17.22
* On truth and lies in a legal sense: Ever wonder about politicians fibbing? [NPR]
* Judge fired pregnant woman 10 days before she was due. Now that’s petty. [WaPo]
* Three anti-sexual-harassment laws are a prime opportunity to dunk on Cuomo. [NY Post]
* Stop hitting yourself: Microsoft so focused on preventing theft it labels itself a scammer just to be safe. [Bleeping Computer]
* Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Not you if the mayor of NY has anything to say about it. [Audacy]