Morning Docket: 12.03.14
* Everyone's "BFF" Anthony Elonis, of the Elonis v. U.S. case that's currently before the Supreme Court, is facing additional scrutiny over a snarky note he sent to an ADA last year about burning a cross on the prosecutor's lawn. Wow, he sounds like really a "fun" guy. [WSJ Law Blog] * I was gonna go to class, but then I got high: DU Law is teaching a class about how to sell lots and lots of weed. Just kidding. According to the professor, the class is actually about the legal issues that come up when selling lots and lots of weed. [Cannabist] * The HRC's 2015 Corporate Equality Index is out, and noticeably absent from the list of Biglaw honorees is Boies Schiller. We suppose the firm forgot one of its name partners is helping to overturn gay-marriage bans across the country. [Am Law Daily] * The University of Iowa College of Law is asking -- nay, begging -- the Supreme Court to block a retrial of Teresa Wagner's claims of political bias discrimination. This is just one of the things law schools will do to keep their faculties liberal. [Associated Press] * From Yale to Wayne State, law students are getting involved in protests to spread the word about social injustice in Ferguson in the wake of Michael Brown's death. If you have a problem with this, someone from NYU might too. [National Law Journal] * Winter break is the perfect time for undergraduate students to start working on their law school applications, but we're more than willing to bet the future gunners out there have already sent all of theirs in. [Law Admissions Lowdown / U.S. News]
