CRT

Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 08.03.22

* Affirmative action as a 1st Amendment issue? Let's see how this goes over. [Wa Po] * Yale Law decides to be #1 when it comes to helping students that could use some financial aid. [ABC News] * Wait, are they actually considering fetuses people for tax purposes? Gotta give it to Georgia! [Huff Po] * Georgia's heartbeat law also has some new implications for wrongful death suits. [11 Alive] * An Oklahoma school gets docked after a teacher reported it for having their colleagues sit through staff training on implicit bias. I expected the childishness to come from the kids. [Ed Week]

By Chris Williams
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 07.15.22

* Ohio's GA wants to hit the doctor that helped a 10-year-old rape victim get an abortion if they didn't do all the proper paperwork. Kafkaesque doesn't even start to explain that. [Politico] * Live in Missouri and thinking about getting a divorce? Sure hope you aren't pregnant. [Riverfront Times] * Remember the whole preemption argument for allowing abortions in health threatening scenarios? Yeah, Texas would rather you or your sister just die. [Axios] * Indiana wants SCOTUS to really make sure Roe is a no go. And quickly. [CNN] * Want the real deal on Intersectionality and CRT instead of whatever nonsense fearmongers are selling? You should register for the 3rd annual Critical Race Theory Summer School! Expect big names and thorough analysis. [AAPF]

By Chris Williams
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 04.18.22

* Love the way you lie: Court decides that Musk’s 2018 tweets about buying the country were phony. [CNBC] * Property professors! New hypo just dropped! One man’s trash is another man’s…you know. [Insanememeshub] * Not adding up: Math textbooks are now on the CRT ban chopping block. Too many of the numbers are Black or something? [Business Insider] * Kansas officers are taking liberties with filing reports on seized property. Didn’t expect to see a takings issue in criminal procedure! [LawrenceKSTimes] * Virginia law classifies the sexual abuse of animals as a felony. I’m definitely going to be clarifying the next time I hear the phrase “heavy petting”. [NBC 12]

By Chris Williams
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 12.08.21

* Applying for law school and worried you can't rely on mom and dad for good Bluebooking advice? You aren't as alone as you might think. [U.S. News] * Massachusetts is looking to update its hate crime laws after 30 years. [Boston Globe] * The "Remember the Alamo" state is about to spend $15M to make sure kids don't learn about the unimportant stuff. Like slavery. [Yahoo] * The first steps on the "Momnibus" bill hope to make it safer to birth while Black. [The Lily] * New Jersey's Attorney General Andrew J. Bruck is making it easier to record officers and more difficult to obtain "No-Knock" warrants. [RLS Media]

By Chris Williams
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 12.02.21

* The first action under Tennessee's anti-CRT law is accusing MLK of being un-American. Who would have dreamed of this? [Insider] * A clean conscience: Law that protects donors from civil and criminal liability finds it easier to donate female sanitary products. [AP News] * Yale student who claims they were blackballed ends up getting the prestigious scholarship anyway. [Yale Daily News] * For a lot of people, the current push against abortion rights doesn't make sense. Here's a look for how forcing birth will impact Mississippians trying to make cents. [NYT] * A thinner blue line: A new North Carolina law makes it so that police have to report their co-workers within 3 days if they see them using excessive force. Sounds like this should have been a duh rule, but I'm glad it's a law now. [WITN]

By Chris Williams
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 11.17.21

* The CRT Parents™ don't want their kids taught suicide prevention and mental health in school now. Think Alabama is gonna follow suit? [NBC News] * Mayor gets charged with 50 counts of distributing revenge porn on Reddit. Let it be known that sharing isn't always caring. [Independent] * Environmental groups are doing a better job of recruiting folks of color. Let's see how well they do with retention. [Bloomberg Law] * You've been arguing for what feels like ages —  finally, time for your closing argument. One problem, mask on or mask off? [ABA Journal] * Ghislaine Maxwell's trial for sex trafficking will be starting soon. Be on the lookout for jury details. [NPR]

By Chris Williams
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 09.22.21

* A six-point memo detailing how to overthrow the 2020 election directed at Mike Pence was discovered and circulated. My hunch is that the first point was to walk up to Joe Biden and tell him "You're Fired." [Esquire] * Principal's contract is not renewed because he dared to suggest systemic racism is a thing. [The Daily Beast] * Texas AG goes to court over right for people to deadname their employees. This is just a goofy employment law hypo, right? [LGBTQ Nation] * Amazon doesn't care if you smoke(d) weed and will be lobbying for its legalization. Will they change their slogan to "Toke hard, Have fun"? [CNBC] * There has been a new addition to the X that Y's itself list -- a chair! Related, I am now keenly aware that I don't remember the last time I've cleaned my chairs.  [The First News]

By Chris Williams