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Non-Sequiturs: 01.13.15
* From the "Why the hell didn't you settle this?" file: Now that Alexandra Marchuk's case against Faruqi & Faruqi and Juan Monteverde has gone to trial, it seems the firm is getting all sorts of publicity -- mostly negative. [New York Post] * Supreme Court justices are really just like us... they show up late to work, too. Because Justice Antonin Scalia was stuck in traffic this morning, Chief Justice John Roberts had to summarize two of Scalia's opinions from the bench. Oops! [NPR] * Speaking of Justice Scalia, the Supreme jurist managed to sneak in a citation to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice in his opinion in Whitfield v. United States to show the common usage of the word “accompany." [Volokh Conspiracy / Washington Post] * Remember Dennis Doyle, the lawyer who lost his job and dropped $25K to see every single Knicks game this season? He said this of his tragic endeavor: "I can’t shut it down. I’m in too deep. ... I’ll see it through—if it doesn’t kill me first." [Bleacher Report] * An Idaho prosecutor is having regrets over the fact that he chose to issue an arrest warrant for a 9-year-old boy on gum-stealing charges, calling it “a mistake under the circumstances.” That kid must be the coolest on the playground. [ABA Journal] * "Trying to suppress [the value of parody] with violence is a fool’s errand." In the wake of the horror of the Charlie Hebdo shootings, it's worth recognizing that here in the U.S., we owe much to rappers who have capitalized on free speech. [LinkedIn]
Non-Sequiturs: 01.08.15
* 60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft got to live out many an American's fantasy: he got to screw a lawyer, again and again. [Gawker] * "I guess if I had to change one thing, it would have been to go to law school after college. But I didn’t know what I wanted to be when I grew up until I actually grew up, and by then it was a little too late for those goals." [XX Factor / Slate] * Hoboken councilwoman Beth Mason and her husband, Wachtell Lipton partner Ricky Mason, just got hit with more than $40,000 dollars in fines for election finance reporting violations. [Politicker NJ] * Some thoughts from Professor Jonathan Adler on standing up for free speech in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo shootings. [Volokh Conspiracy / Washington Post] * Speaking of Charlie Hebdo, Professor Ann Althouse isn't a fan of slobbery kisses. [Althouse] * How do legal rules contribute to the evolution of the institution of marriage? Thoughts from Professors Naomi Cahn and June Carbone. [Concurring Opinions]