Ammon Bundy

Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 03.14.17

* Happy Pi Day to all of you who entered this profession to get away from math. [Pi Day] * Alabama will decide Chief Justice Roy Moore's ethics violations case sooner than expected because this guy just won't go away. [AL.com] * Profile of David Cole, the new national legal director at the ACLU. He had very different expectations for this job. [NPR] * Burford set to make 91 percent return on bankruptcy investment. No one's come out of a bankruptcy this good since Donald Trump. [Am Law Daily] * Cozen O'Connor is likely getting out of the $900 million RICO suit brought against it and Full Tilt Poker. [Law360] * Feds look to let Ammon Bundy's lawyer off the hook for his comical outburst. [Oregon Live] * Can you fly with legal weed? Sure. For now. [Salon]

By Joe Patrice
Non-Sequiturs

Non-Sequiturs: 10.04.16

* Why has RBG been speaking up on political issues? And what does that mean for the future? [New Republic] * Should you be using some of your new, higher salaries to invest in Manhattan property? [Law and More] * A look at Texas Supreme Court Justice Don Willet and his Twitter account. [Texas Lawyer] * So you say you want to start your own law practice. Now what? [Reboot Your Law Practice] * The bizarre trial of Ammon Bundy. [Huffington Post] * Will Donald Trump inspire a nation of tax evaders? [Slate]

By Kathryn Rubino
Non-Sequiturs

Non-Sequiturs: 06.03.16

* On the importance of having your criminal clients dressed for court, not for jail. [Katz Justice] * An eight-justice Supreme Court has inspired some fanfic! No, there aren't any group sex scenes, it isn't that kind of fanfic. [Medium] * A group of law professors have now joined Massholes in supporting Tom Brady's Hail Mary for a Second Circuit rehearing. [Profootball Talk] * We need to protect the free speech rights of teachers too. [Bloomberg View] * A Trump presidency will threaten the rule of law, at least according to a bunch of libertarian legal scholars. [New York Times] * Florida banned Medicaid patients from using Planned Parenthood, and now PP is fighting back in court. [Slate] * There seems to be more legal bad news for Uber. [Law and More] * Ammon and Ryan Bundy still don't think the rules apply to them, even when they are in jail. [Huffington Post]

By Kathryn Rubino
Non-Sequiturs

Non-Sequiturs: 01.29.16

* Five years later, and one of them enrolled at Yale Law, the kids of Tiger Mom, Amy Chua, plan to raise their own children the same way. [Today] * Rome self-censors for a state visit from Iranian president Hassan Rouhani. How, exactly, was this a good idea? [Popehat] * Should the ABA change accreditation standards to prevent students with little chance of actually passing the bar examination from attending law school in the first place? [TaxProf Blog] * Missouri paid its executioners $250,000 in cash. That doesn't seem shady AT ALL. [BuzzFeed] * The whole Ammon Bundy debacle is teaching people damn the consequences. [Lawyers, Guns and Money] * If you need to scale a courthouse in order to get a selfie with lady liberty, just don't do it, you could wind up in jail. [KWTX] * What does Rudy Giuliani really think about Preet Bharara? Plus why he loves being a lawyer. [Big Law Business / Bloomberg BNA] https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=9&v=9yGt3MF4Sn4

By Kathryn Rubino
Non-Sequiturs

Non-Sequiturs: 01.12.16

* Even at a conference, Judge Easterbrook can be intimidating. [Business Law Prof Blog] * Boeing filed a patent to make air travel slight less hellish. Good luck with that. [Travel and Leisure] * Judge plans to stick Ammon Bundy's merry band of militia men playing terrorist out in the woods with the bill for their security... to the tune of $70,000 a day. [Raw Story] * Josh Duggar is such a loser he is even losing discovery battles like a pro. [Radar] * Lawyer Eric Macleish played a role in the legal battles over child abuse by Catholic priests in Boston (as recounted in the movie Spotlight). Whether he was a villain or victim in the saga is still up for debate. [Guile is Good] * Is it possibly true that you can really discharge student loan debt in bankruptcy? [My Bank Tracker] * If you're goofing off by pretending to work from home, don't give yourself away. [Daily Lawyer Tips]

By Kathryn Rubino