* Tennessee wants to go all in with the ballot selfie ban. [The Tennessean]
* What the hell does the 21st Century Cures Act do? [MedCity News]
* Shoe's on the other foot now, apocryphal Nigerian billionaire. [New York Daily News]
* Just after Christmas seems like the perfect time to ask the Supreme Court to figure out sales tax rules for out-of-state deliveries. [SCOTUSblog]
* We'll have recreational marijuana... when we get around to it. [ABC News]
* Poe's Law > Godwin's Law. [Slate]
* Can a president self-pardon? With the investigation of her emails by the FBI and talk of impeachment, this may be a question that Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton may be asking herself should she win the election. While the Constitution probably permits self-pardons, some legal scholars doubt anyone could do so without violating the rule of law. [WSJ Law Blog]
* Sorry, New Yorkers, but you still can't take ballot selfies on Tuesday. Judge Kevin Castel refused to issue an injunction blocking enforcement of the law since doing so would "wreak havoc on election-day logistics." After all, "the public's interest in orderly elections outweighs the plaintiffs' interest in taking and posting ballot selfies." [Reuters]
* "If women don’t start suing, and they simply wait to gradually change those numbers, then you and I are going to be having the same conversation ten years from now and twenty years from now." More women have been suing their firms, but others are afraid to come forward because they don't want to be blackballed by peers. [Big Law Business]
* "The only thing they could have done to mitigate this was not to open." Professors from Indiana Tech Law School may have plans to file suit against the school in the future, but according to Professor Brian Tamanaha, they may be facing an uphill battle because they'll have to prove that the university misrepresented its intentions. [Indiana Lawyer]
* If you want to be a judge, it may be possible to prepare for your future by focusing on your writing, choosing a law school with great clerkship placements, and researching your law school's employment statistics to make sure you'll be able to find a job that's prestigious enough add credibility to your résumé. [U.S. News & World Report]
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* Somebody cry Justin Timberlake a river, because the pop star is currently under investigation for taking a ballot selfie in his home state of Tennessee. He may face up to 30 days in jail and a fine of $50 for posting a picture of himself at a polling station on his Instagram account, where it was seen by his more than 37 million followers. [Reuters]
UPDATE: Amy Weirich, District Attorney General of Shelby County, Tennessee, said the following as to Timberlake's alleged violation of the state's ballot selfie law: "No one in our office is currently investigating this matter nor will we be using our limited resources to do so."
* If Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump were to win the election, he'd be entering the presidency with an unprecedented number of unresolved legal cases. At present, Trump has at least 75 pending lawsuits, and they'd follow him to the White House where he'd continue to be dogged by them, leaving him distracted. [USA Today]
* "Diversity is the future; embrace it or you’re obsolete." According to Andrew Glincher, Nixon Peabody's managing partner, his firm has tried to increase its diversity because while the legal profession itself is "focused on past and precedent," his firm is "future-focused," and he finds that a diverse workforce makes his teams better overall. [Forbes]
* Want to attend a law school that will teach you about real-life music issues? Want to attend a law school that's produced some of the most well-known music lawyers in the country? Then you may want to attend one of these 10 law schools (many in the T14), handpicked by Billboard for their elite alumni practicing in the music field. [Billboard]
* Citing changes in donor participation, Big Bend CrimeStoppers has reduced the reward being offered for information leading to an arrest in the 2014 killing of Florida State law professor Dan Markel. Considering three suspects have been arrested and charged -- and one of them has already taken a plea deal -- this isn't so bad. [Tallahassee Democrat]
* “The ballot-selfie prohibition is like 'burn[ing down] the house to roast the pig.'" Just in time for Election 2016, the First Circuit has struck down New Hampshire's ballot selfie ban as unconstitutional, citing the fact that it curtailed voters' free speech, and on top of that, the state was unable to identify any complaints of vote buying or intimidation. [POLITICO]
* Suspended Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore, who instructed probate judges to adhere to the state's ban on same-sex marriage, even after the Supreme Court's Obergefell ruling, says the ethics charges he faces are "ridiculous" since he never "encourage[d] anyone to defy a federal court or state court order." [WSJ Law Blog]
* Wiley Rein lost two practice group leaders to DLA Piper this week. The firm, known for its media, telecom, government contracts, and IP practices, no longer has partners in charge of its telecom group or its wireless group, but it claims these departures were anticipated, and the practice groups were merged ahead of time. [Big Law Business]
* Cha-ching! The Caesars bankruptcy is ending, which means the "fee frenzy" for lawyers who were working on the case is about to dry up as well. Nine law firms have been involved in the case since the company first filed for bankruptcy in January 2015, and hundreds of millions of dollars of legal fees have already been assessed. [Am Law Daily]
* Many jurisdictions adopted the Uniform Bar Exam for the July 2016 administration of the bar exam, and it seems like it may have had the opposite effect on test-takers than what was intended. Graduates of this law school saw their bar exam passage rate drop by 13 percent since last year. We'll have more on this later today. [Albequerque Journal]
