
Law Firm Partner Apologizes After Pic Of Him In Blackface Surfaces
I pity the fool who thinks blackface is acceptable!
I pity the fool who thinks blackface is acceptable!
It's hip-hop. You wouldn't understand. Just do the diversity training, Hilary.
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* “We’re so progressive, even our diversity has diversity!” - The person who greenlit white folks doing their best Robert Downey Jr. impression to combat racism. [Buzzfeed News] * Separation of Church and Scholarship: SCOTUS will be deciding if secular scholarships can be used for religious schools. [ABA Journal] * I knew there was always money in the banana stand. But the church? [Newsweek] * Governor DeSantis is trying to create his own civilian police force. This is totally normal. Definitely not something you do before civil conflict. [WHDH] * Texas spits in the face of Roe again by making medical abortions after 7 weeks a felony. [The Texas Tribune]
'History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.'
* SCOTUS is hearing Roe Redux come December 1st. [CNN] * Shocking no one, the school that banned BLM flags and gained notoriety for its mock slave trade had a teacher show up to class in blackface. [KPTV] * FBI just straight up stole people's money from Beverly Hills bank vaults. I'm assuming it looked like this. [Los Angeles Times] * A Border Patrol agent on horseback with a whip photographed grabbing a man in Texas. Cosplaying a Django character is cool and all, but can you at least wait for October? [NBC News] * California lawmakers are looking to repeal loitering laws that make it okay to arrest you if you "look like a prostitute." Any 1L worth their weight in outlines should know this is probably unconstitutionally vague. [IB Times]
Dear White People: Calling out obvious racism is the least we can do.
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Is there any transgression serious enough to get someone fired anymore?
* Claud "Tex" McIver, the Fisher & Phillips partner who accidentally shot and killed his wife and allegedly blamed the incident on a local Black Lives Matter protest, has been charged with involuntary manslaughter (a felony) and reckless conduct (a misdemeanor). McIver will now be retiring from the firm at the end of the year, instead of in 2017 as originally planned. [Big Law Business] * "We keep being told that the administration was so surprised. Then you read what the government released. How can you possibly have been surprised?" Students at Charlotte Law are incredibly angry that the school was dropped from the federal loan program, and many feel like they were duped by the administration. Some students have even contacted local law firms to discuss filing suit against the school. [Charlotte Observer] * "Your father is ruining the country. Why is she on our flight? She should be flying private." The unruly passenger who allegedly accosted future first daughter Ivanka Trump on a JetBlue flight to Florida yesterday is -- you guessed it -- a lawyer. Daniel J. Goldstein, a graduate of UCLA Law, once worked as a labor relations specialist at the U.S. Mint before moving to Brooklyn. His current place of work is unknown. [Forward] * According to the results of an investigation by a law firm hired by the University of Oregon, law professor Nancy Shurtz committed "discriminatory harassment" by wearing a blackface costume on Halloween, in violation of the school's anti-discrimination policies. The report does not indicate if Professor Shurtz was punished, but she is no longer on paid leave and is not scheduled to teach this spring. [The Oregonian] * Michelle K. Lee, the outgoing director of the Patent and Trademark Office, says the "interactions that we have been having [with the president-elect's transition team] are very positive," and that although Donald Trump's relationship with the denizens of Silicon Valley has at times been rocky, she thinks "any administration would have a strong and robust intellectual property system as a priority." [WSJ Law Blog] * Alec Baldwin will be playing controversial Brooklyn prosecutor Michael Vecchione in a new TV series in development that was adapted from the lawyer’s 2015 book, Crooked Brooklyn (affiliate link). Not to worry, because we're sure that the actor will still be able to find the time during his shooting schedule to impersonate and infuriate President-elect Trump with his portrayals on Saturday Night Live. [Page Six / New York Post]
The intent of the professor who wore blackface as part of a Halloween costume matters, according to Dean Vikram Amar.
Don't wear blackface. Ever. IT IS NEVER OKAY.
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An unearthed photo shows the former top partner of an international heavyweight firm in blackface. And no one is apologizing.
Law students in blackface.