Department of Justice
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Department of Justice
Fake Attorney General Worries About 'Fake' Asylum Seekers
Jeff Sessions also accuses immigration lawyers of "gaming the system." -
Technology
Stupid Lawyer Tricks: Legal Tech Edition
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 10.16.17
* Colin Kaepernick, who remains unsigned six weeks into the season, has filed a grievance against the NFL and its owners alleging collusion under the latest collective bargaining agreement, claiming that he’s been deprived of employment in retaliation for “bringing awareness to peculiar institutions still undermining racial equality in the United States.” [Bleacher Report]
* Harvey Weinstein was planning to file suit against the New York Times for defamation, but Charles Harder, the hot-shot lawyer who brought down Gawker, has left the media mogul’s legal team. Harder is the third lawyer to step away from this representation, following moves made by Lisa Bloom and Lanny Davis. [Deadline]
* Attorney General Jeff Sessions has rolled back protections for transgender people in the workforce and in education, but the Department of Justice is taking a hard line when it comes to federal hate crimes that have been committed against the very people his policies have thrust into potential danger. [New York Times]
* Harvard Law students and alumni want major improvements to be made to the school’s public service loan assistance program, saying their alma mater has “fallen behind its peer schools” when it comes to supporting graduates who work in public interest. Will HLS act to preserve its stature, or to help its own? [Harvard Crimson]
* Even though women account for more than 40 percent of the school’s student body, there aren’t enough women’s bathrooms at the University of South Dakota School of Law, and students who’ve been forced to wait in long lines are pretty pissed that the administration has done such a piss-poor job of handling this issue. [Wichita Eagle]
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Federal Government, Labor / Employment, On The Job
DOJ Reverses Stance On Transgender Workplace Protections
When will this issue will reach the Supreme Court for resolution? -
Department of Justice
Justice Is Investigating Harvard For Affirmative Action? Bruh, Bring It On!
Black Harvard Students Ain't Scurred Of Your White Attorney General. -
Supreme Court
Does The Constitution Apply To Immigrants? Supreme Court Will Start To Sort That Out.
Whether the Constitution protects immigrants from Jeff Sessions will be a thing this term. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 09.28.17
* Federal law enforcement’s crackdown on NCAA coaches has likely brought an end to Rick Pitino’s career. That said, we thought his career was over when we all learned that Louisville hired hookers for recruits so maybe he still has a shot. [ESPN]
* Law firm mergers continue at a record place. Yep, there’s no fundamental market weakness here at all. [Am Law Daily]
* DOJ lawyers face an unpleasant grilling at the Second Circuit. Maybe someday Sessions can disinvite judges he doesn’t want criticizing his unsupported legal theories. [Slate]
* Women losing pregnancies while detained by the administration. I’d say we’re going to look back on this era of immigration policy in horror, but we can probably go ahead and be horrified now. [Huffington Post]
* The USD Alumni Board has weighed in on the Wax/Alexander op-ed. They take a “let’s all come together” approach, which isn’t wrong as much as it seems asymmetric. When one-side throws bombs about cultural superiority, decrying divisiveness puts the onus on the wrong side side to move. [Motions Online]
* The most likely grants from the long conference. [Empirical SCOTUS]
* Here’s how you get $4 billion in punitive damages (hint: be in Texas). [Law.com]
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Department of Justice, Justice
Jeff Sessions Promises To Use 'Free Speech' To Stamp Out Free Speech
Jeff Sessions even managed to work in a defense of hate speech, which you don't see every day. - Sponsored
Generative AI In Legal Work — What’s Fact And What’s Fiction?
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Department of Justice, Immigration, Justice
Travel Ban 3.0: We've Finally Achieved A Patina Of Legalism To Cover The Bigotry
Can you put the bigot back in the bottle? -
Federal Government, Politics
Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein Interviewed In Russian Election Interference Probe
Which high-profile DOJ official is next on the special counsel's radar? -
Department of Justice, Donald Trump
How Long Until Paul Manafort Rolls?
Let's put the Over/Under at March 15, 2018 and get a pool going. -
Department of Justice, Justice, Police
St. Louis Police Now Just Arresting And Taunting Protestors
As the Department of Justice declines to intervene. -
Technology
House Passes Amendment Rolling Back Jeff Sessions's Civil Asset Forfeiture Expansion
The House isn't going to roll over and take this.
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 09.15.17
* Yes, it’s true: Jeff Sessions came thisclose to resigning as attorney general, after Donald Trump berated him following the appointment of special counsel Bob Mueller in the Russia probe. [New York Times]
* Bye-bye to blue slips? It wouldn’t exactly be “nuclear,” since their treatment has varied greatly over the years. [BuzzFeed]
* The State Bar of California tries to cut down the arguments in favor of a lower cut score on the bar exam. [ABA Journal]
* Technology platforms are driving an increase in transparency that’s having profound consequences for the employer/employee relationship (as I recently discussed on the podcast of Akerman employment-law partner Matt Steinberg). [Akerman]
* Embattled Equifax has turned to Phyllis Sumner and King & Spalding for much-needed legal help in the wake of its massive data breach. [Law.com]
* Statutory interpretation question: can you be both the victim and the perpetrator in a child pornography case? [How Appealing]
* The ranks of nonequity partners continue to grow; has this trend gone too far? [Big Law Business]
* Prosecution of individuals in cases of corporate wrongdoing (aka the Yates Memo), and Justice Department policy on enforcement of federal marijuana laws in states where it has been decriminalized — both are “under review” at the DOJ, according to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. [Law.com]
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White-Collar Crime
What Jeff Sessions Can Learn From Betsy DeVos
What if Justice considered the rights of the accused as much as Education does? -
Department of Justice, Immigration, Justice
State Attorneys General Continue To Fight Trump At Every Turn
These guys are bringing their 2L Admin Law casebooks to work now. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 09.13.17
* The Supreme Court, without any dissents, has allowed the Trump administration’s refugee ban to stand while the case proceeds, temporarily staying a Ninth Circuit ruling to the contrary. As my colleague Elie Mystal wondered yesterday, “Why is Kennedy stepping on the Ninth Circuit here? Why do any of them want this?” [New York Times]
* Not that recommending prosecutions is part of her job, but White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders thinks that the Justice Department might want to prosecute former FBI director James Comey because his leaks “were improper and likely could have been illegal.” [Washington Post]
* “It’s going to be death by a thousand cuts if people keep leaving at this rate.” Ropes & Gray seems to be leaking partners like a sieve. In fact, 19 partners have parted ways with the firm since this past January. Not to worry, because according to management this is fine. [Legal Week]
* Lynne Hermle, a partner in the labor and employment practice group at Orrick, thinks that in-house counsel need to adopt their own versions of the Mansfield Rule when hiring and staffing their trial teams. Why not have a woman lead your trial team? Juries tend to listen to them. [Business Insider]
* Rob Ranco, a Texas personal injury attorney who landed himself on the front page of Breitbart last week after tweeting that he’d “be ok if #BetsyDevos was sexually assaulted,” resigned from his firm, agreeing with his managing partner that he’d crossed “a line that simply cannot be uncrossed.” [Law.com]
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Department of Justice, Immigration, Justice
Trump Administration Pivots From Grandma Ban, Refocuses On Banning Refugees
I cannot fathom how the Supreme Court thinks there's going to be a clean way to allow any of the travel ban to survive. -
U.S. Attorneys Offices
97.6 Percent Of Trump's U.S. Attorney Nominees Are Men
"It's a slap in the face." -
Department of Justice, Federal Government, Job Searches
Great Job Opportunities For Law School Graduates And Entry-Level Attorneys
Good luck to everyone applying for these and other government jobs.