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Non-Sequiturs

Non-Sequiturs: 01.05.17

* President Obama is making his call for criminal justice reform in the Harvard Law Review. [Harvard Law Review] * Take cover, the amici are coming! [Empirical SCOTUS] * Ho-Love is doubling down on Philly. [Biz Journals] * The polling game ain't what it use to be, and so Nate Silver turns his attention to making college football more like a debate tournament. [FiveThirtyEight] * A look back at the sensational Menendez trial. [Law and More] * A tribute to Judge Diarmuid F. O'Scannlain of the Ninth Circuit, who takes senior status this week. [National Review] * Advice to help make that resolution stick. [Huffington Post]

By Kathryn Rubino
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 09.08.15

* Southern California Institute of Law is suing the state bar over requirements schools must maintain a 40 percent bar passage rate over 5 years. [Los Angeles Times] * Have dreams of running away from the practice of law into the welcoming embrace of academia? Not so fast. The rate of new law professor jobs has dropped 55 percent. [National Law Journal] * FBI agents cannot be sued for monetary damages in their personal capacity for keeping people on the "No Fly List" as a coercive measure in anti-terrorism investigations, says SDNY Judge Ronnie Abrams. [New York Law Journal] * Find out who are the scariest federal prosecutors according to Steptoe & Johnson partner Reid Weingarten. [Litigation Daily] * You should still say "sorry" even when you're at work. [Corporate Counsel] * A fun way to mix college football fandom with your attorney advertising. [ABA Journal] * Carey Gabay, a lawyer for Empire State Development Corp., and who formerly held positions as assistant counsel to Governor Andrew Cuomo and at Jones Day and at Schulte Roth & Zabel, was shot in the head yesterday before the West Indian American Day Parade in Brooklyn. He is in critical condition. [New York Post]

By Kathryn Rubino
Non-Sequiturs

Non-Sequiturs: 08.17.15

* A look back at the impact Justice Scalia's signature snarky style has had on the high court. [Jost on Justice] * Decry "big government" all you want, but this is a great use of its power: one Wal-Mart declared a public nuisance. [Law and More] * A horse! A horse! My law license for a horse! One attorney faces sanctions for his love of racing horses. [Legal Profession Blog] * The NLRB might have dashed Northwestern's football players' unionization hopes, but they still won a lot of concessions. [Fox Sports] * More than 50 days after the landmark Obergefell case, there are still pockets of the country where same-sex couples can't get married. [BuzzFeed] * What can the RNC offer Donald Trump to GTFO of the Republican primary? [Funny or Die]

By Kathryn Rubino
Constitutional Law

Non-Sequiturs: 01.23.13

* If you’ve been waiting for the definitive, Kashmir Hill, what in the hell is Catfishing article, here you go. [Not-So Private Parts / Forbes] * Let me just say that societies that fully utilize the talents of women have an inherent advantage over the ones that don’t. With one rules change, we now have twice as many potential combat soldiers. Glory. [Daily Beast] * A “Good Samaritan” gun owner defended a little boy from pit bulls by shooting at the dogs who were mauling the little boy. Look, as a dad, can I just say that if you see some pit bulls attacking my son, please help… by running at the pit bulls and saying, “Git, git away from that boy,” not by shooting a freaking hand cannon towards my child! [Cato @ Liberty / Cato Institute] * Okay, who has standing to sue for a violation of the 27th Amendment? Who? I want this to happen. Come on, constitutional scholars. Make it happen. Let’s see who really cares about “all” the amendments, not just the ones that allow people to shoot each other. [The Note / ABC News] * I mean we’re suing over sandwiches, aren’t we? [Legal Blog Watch] * Slow your roll, NAACP. I’m pretty sure that the 14th Amendment doesn’t protect the rights of black people to become diabetic with oversized sugary drinks. [Gawker]

By Elie Mystal