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The ACLU’s Strategic Play In The Birthright Citizenship Case

This is just smart lawyering.

ACLU Threatens To Tear Down Labor Rights For All In Bid To Escape Its Own Workplace Harassment Case

The NLRB is digging into labor violations at the ACLU and the organization is pushing back with a disturbing argument.

Yale Law School Had So Much Fun The First Time, They’ve Brought Recognized Hate Group Back To Campus!

What could possibly go wrong?

Morning Docket: 08.24.22

* The ACLU is fighting an Arizona law that prevents citizens from recording police officers within 8 feet of them. Personally, I hope they win. Harder to turn off iPhones then bodycams. [CNN] * Zuckerberg is no longer party to a Meta antitrust suit. [Axios] * Shortly after being released from prison, he was deported to Cambodia. You think they'd let you enjoy society for a bit after you paid your debt to it, yeah? [SF Chronicle] * This drug pricing law could be a poison pill for cancer research. [Axios] * Pay up!: Firm wants Ghislaine Maxwell to cover her $878k tab. [Denver Post]

‘Why Can’t ACLU Get Back To Protecting Nazis?’ Whine Twitter Trolls

ACLU stands against state actors infringing civil liberties... which shocks people who think no one should have civil liberties but them.

Do Your Google Searches Count As Speech? You Better Hope So.

Look... I can explain why William Jackson Harper is in my recent search history.

Lawyer Fumbles Appellate Cold Call

And they say it gets better after law school...

Morning Docket: 07.03.20

* Tennessee has become the second state in the country to delay the administration of the summer bar exam. [Nashville Post] * A New Jersey lawyer has been disbarred for converting $92,000 from his attorney trust account. [New Jersey Law Journal] * A Manhattan judge (before whom I argued my first motion years ago!) has dismissed a conservative group's defamation lawsuit against the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center. [New York Daily News] * Joe Biden's campaign is preparing an army of lawyers as part of voter protection efforts. [CNN] * The ACLU has filed a lawsuit seeking to delay an execution because the inmate's Buddhist priest is at risk of complications should he contract COVID-19. Have to give props to those lawyers for a creative argument. [Hill]

ACLU Sues ICE Over Its Deliberately-Broken Immigrant ‘Risk Assessment’ Software

The algorithm never -- scratch that -- pretty much always lies.

Honoring Advocates For Women’s Equality In The Legal Profession

Do you know who Inez Milholland was? If you don't, you should get to know her -- and these other leading figures in the fight for gender equity.

ACLU Challenges Arkansas’s Pathetic Freak-Out Over Meatless Meat

Arkansas snowflakes are getting their patties all in a bunch.

EFF, ACLU Petition Court To Unseal Documents From DOJ’s Latest Anti-Encryption Efforts

The DOJ lost its attempt to break into Facebook but got the court to keep its failure under wraps.

Morning Docket: 06.22.18

* Paul Manafort loses evidence motion. He should embrace that feeling of loss. [Courthouse News Service] * CNBC criticizes the Cohen case Special Master, Judge Barbara Jones, for charging $330K for document review. This is, of course, an entirely reasonable fee for a case of this import but CNBC has clearly let their bias flag fly. [CNBC] * While America focuses, fairly, on children suffering institutional child abuse, please take a second to remember that cops straight up killed a teenager running from a traffic stop. One could say, "why was he running?" but I've seen the video of Philando Castile's death -- staying peacefully in a car isn't necessarily safe anymore. [CBS News] * The new awareness of widespread sexual harassment in the workplace may have another positive side effect: women are advancing to partnership faster than before. [American Lawyer] * Dumb people are up in arms that the ACLU might shift its resources away from random Nazis toward other projects that don't have hordes of self-styled rebel lawyers and downright crypto-fascist attorneys ready to defend them pro bono. This video, however, is exactly why the ACLU is right to reorient itself to focus on more pressing challenges. [io9] * Trump proposes merging the Education Department with the Department of Labor. Do you know how hard he had to work to make this not his dumbest idea of the week? We're going to have to build the Starship Trump just so America doesn't focus on this nonsense. [NPR] * NY's Mayor is doing more to protect unfairly targeted immigrants than almost anyone in America and his policy has a glaring, awful hole in its provision of legal aid. [NY Daily News]

ACLU: If Americans Want Privacy & Net Neutrality, They Should Build Their Own Broadband Networks

But hurry up, because cable companies are working overtime to make competition illegal.

Morning Docket: 12.05.17

* It's Masterpiece Cakeshop day! Let's all watch Justice Kennedy decide whether or not he wants to have a legacy! [SCOTUSBlog] * Hard-core Trump supporters are donating to Flynn's legal defense -- after his guilty plea -- because they have no idea what this plea deal means. [Newsweek] * Dr. Phil's son is developing a TV comedy about his experiences as a law student tasking with arguing real court cases. It sounds like How To Get Away With Murder... except not as funny. [Texas Lawyer] * Solicitor General Francisco and Texas AG Ken "Facing Felony Charges This Month" Paxton are hoping to cover up their own docket management incompetence by asking for sanctions against the ACLU. Sidley Austin's Carter Phillips, working with the ACLU is having none of it. [Dallas Morning News] * More law school grads are going in-house with start-ups. This is a sign of their entrepreneurial nature and not at all evidence that America is pumping out more grads than there are firm opportunities. [Corporate Counsel] * Mark Cohen takes a stab at attorney valuation. [Forbes] * The "middle class" may be rapidly eroding among American families, but it's alive and well among American companies, and some savvy law firms see catering to middle class companies as their key to success. [American Lawyer] * The Supreme Court closed the courtroom doors to a citizen harmed by a corporation even amidst evidence that the company withheld evidence? What a shocker. [Law360]