1st Amendment

Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 11.11.21

* Congress will be mandating cars breathalyzers in cars by 2026. Is this the new seat belt or a major 4th Amendment violation? [Tech Crunch] * Looking to follow the Arbury case and would like a primer on citizen's arrest? Here you go. [CNN] * New York is encouraging employees to blow the whistle in a big way. See something, do your best referee impersonation...something. [National Law Review] * Tribes and conservation groups in Montana are forcing mining companies to clean up after themselves. I hope that this is blared as the company removes the waste, but that might be cruel and unusual. [AP News] * 1st Amendment is still under attack — and Ohio is throwing a haymaker. [AP News]

By Chris Williams
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 08.25.21

* Nirvana faces suit for child porn propagation. Looks like they should have put Something in the Way of that baby. [CBS News] * No Karoshi, No Problem!: Ending burnout culture starts with us. [Law.com] * Religious freedom case against mask mandate didn't have a prayer in the 6th Circuit. [ABA Journal] * Show me the fake news. No faker. Even faker. "There were no crisis moments under Trump!" Perfection. [HuffPost] * The majority of Floridians support mask mandates at school. Maybe Florida Man™ can be reasoned with. [Newsweek]

By Chris Williams
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 08.23.21

* It's beginning to feel a lot like last year: "Protesting" Fight Club LARPers and anti-fascists fight in Portland. Remember when being anti-fascist was super? [OPB] * First they came for the judiciary. I did not speak out. Then they came for the school boards. [LGBTQNation] * Miamians (is that a thing?) allowed to record police vices after this 1 small trick! [ABC News] * Vaccines are optional but quarantining isn't if you're in Ole Miss. [Fox News]

By Chris Williams
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 07.23.21

* Any Deleuze nerds want to read a society of control example? Check out this Op-ed on vaccination. [Business Insider] * World's first 3D printed human scale steel bridge dropped in Amsterdam.  If something goes wrong, do you sue a person or the algorithm? [Architect's Newspaper] * 1st Amendment might not be as strong for the Press. Let me get slander against minor public figures out of my system now... [ABA Journal] * Highest Court in New Mexico and Tennessee rule gas stations can be held liable for selling gas to drunk drivers. Better incentive to catch a Lyft home. [ABA Journal] * Surprising no one, Mississippi AG asks SCOTUS to revisit Roe v. Wade. [The Hill]

By Chris Williams
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 07.12.21

* Snitches get standing: New Texas law lets private citizens sue anyone aiding an abortion. [NY Times] * Burning is one thing, but a boot!? Woman charged with hate crime for smirking after stomping a Back the Blue flag. [Salt Lake Tribune] * Tesla panels storing solar energy and, err, mold? Civ Pro and Energy Law bros should love this. [Business Insider] * Is...uhh..Congress defunding their police? [CBS News] * Woman who ran over a protestor beats assault charge. [Insider]

By Chris Williams
Non-Sequiturs

Non-Sequiturs: 08.15.17

* Unwilling to relinquish his 15 minutes of fame, Anthony Scaramucci goes for laughs with Stephen Colbert. [The Hollywood Reporter] * If, and admittedly that's a big if, Donald Trump gets impeached, Mike Pence will be ready. Just ask his personal PAC. [Huffington Post] * Check out these tax professor rankings. [TaxProf Blog] * Should the 1st Amendment trump the 2nd Amendment? It is first, after all. [Slate] * Someone has had it with free speech absolutism. [Richmond.com] * Are you ready to go off the grid? [Law and More] * No good will come from this lawsuit. [Salon] * This is what Trump should have said. [Dorf on Law]

By Kathryn Rubino
Non-Sequiturs

Non-Sequiturs: 07.26.17

* President Trump's personal legal team: "It's utter chaos. Sometimes it can be like no one knows who is in charge." [Washington Post] * Adam Feldman predicts that the travel ban is going down before SCOTUS. [Empirical SCOTUS] * The Trump tweets on banning transgender individuals from the military aren't the only bad news for the LGBTQ community today. [Washington Blade] * A nice win for the First Amendment and public access to court records. [Volokh Conspiracy / Washington Post] * Ira Stoll wonders (with good reason): why did the New York Times account of this high-profile gender discrimination lawsuit name the law firm, but not the plaintiff? [Smarter Times] * Clerkships guru Debra M. Strauss, who has written for our pages on the topic, is out with a second edition of Behind the Bench: The Guide to Judicial Clerkships (affiliate link).

By David Lat
Non-Sequiturs

Non-Sequiturs: 07.12.17

* The allegations about Marc Kasowitz's drinking problem might be salacious, but the issue of alcohol abuse by lawyers is serious. [Law.com] * Fun for legal nerds everywhere: Chief Judge Diane Wood benchslaps parties for shoddy jurisdictional statements! [On the Case / Alison Frankel via How Appealing] * And more fodder for #appellatetwitter types: Adam Feldman ranks the most-cited justices of the last Supreme Court Term. [Empirical SCOTUS] * Chris Geidner wonders whether another shoe will drop concerning the emails of Donald Trump Jr. [BuzzFeed] * The trial judge in this defamation case ought to read this analysis by Professor Eugene Volokh -- or at least watch The Big Lebwoski ("For your information, the Supreme Court has roundly rejected prior restraint."). [Volokh Conspiracy / Washington Post] * Professor Paul Horwitz comes to the defense of the latest controversial comments by the artist formerly known as Judge Richard Posner. [PrawfsBlawg]

By David Lat