* KBJ now under fire for literally just doing her job as a public defender. How dare she! [NYT]
* Turns out Major League Baseball fumbled by not paying their minor league trainees. In other news, I clearly know about the sports ball. [AP]
* Reframing biodiversity discussions may play a key role in how litigants represent Nature. [The Guardian]
* Can’t do that! Ag-Gag law ruled unconstitutional. [Des Moines Register]
* Seeing double: Idaho is about to pass their version of the Texas Roe work-around. [Huffington Post]
* A Miami attorney is gearing up for legalized medical marijuana. He’s even selling franchises, hopefully called McKinebud’s. [Daily Business Review]
* Is Gwyneth cheating on Chris Martin with an entertainment lawyer? [Defamer]
* A Florida village has become a refuge to sex offenders because there’s nowhere else they can go. Isn’t this the plot of Arrested Development? [Agence France-Presse via Yahoo!]
* As if law schools aren’t charging enough, they also absolutely ravage students on casebook prices. It doesn’t have to be this way. [PrawfsBlawg]
* Who’d have thought it would be this hard to define a pig? [Modern Farmer]
* If you aren’t following DLA Piper’s boss Sir Nigel Knowles on Twitter, then… you’re lucky. [Legal Cheek]
* The vice president of the Constitutional Accountability Center weighs in on Judge Wright Allen’s marriage equality decision from the perspective of a gay, married Virginian. [Pilot Online]
* See, it’s not just lawyers who get annoyed when TV doesn’t live up to the realities of the profession. Political communications professionals can get pretty irked by House of Cards. [Ditto Public Affairs]
* A circuit judge just seized control of a lower court’s docket, setting restrictions on a judge’s ability to hear domestic violence cases after finding a repeated pattern of improperly blowing off these matters. It may be the Benchslap-Heard-Round-the-Nation since the slapped jurist is also the president-elect of the American Judges Association. [Detroit Free Press]
