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Non-Sequiturs

Non-Sequiturs: 08.03.16

* What, exactly, did it take for Donald Trump to evade avoid the draft? [PrawfsBlawg] * The Supreme Court just temporarily blocked a court order allowing a transgender teen to use the bathroom according to their identity. [CNN] * Just in time for your $180K scale... Eric Schneiderman loses a talking point, and New Yorkers can all go back to making a killing at DraftKings. [Associated Press] * FBI arrests DC law enforcement officer for helping ISIS. If he was as good a terrorist as DC is at policing, then maybe we should have left him out there. [ABC News] * The battle over tougher bar passage standards rages on. [WSJ Law Blog] * And the Tim Kaine love letter about law school. [ABA Journal] * A good website really is key to a thriving, modern law practice. [Reboot Your Law Practice] * The ten-year anniversary of the tragic murder of Robert Wone. [Who Killed Robert Wone?]

By Kathryn Rubino
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 06.16.16

* In keeping with our new morning ritual, we recap the firms that announced salary raises yesterday. We had Schulte Roth & Zabel, Robbins Russell, Arnold & Porter, Kramer Levin, Hughes Hubbard, McDermott, and Cadwalader. [Above the Law / 2016 Salary Increase] * Womble Carlyle is forming a "strategic alliance" with U.K. firm Bond Dickinson. If mergers are law firm marriages, then think of this as the law firm f**k buddy arrangement. [Legal Week / Daily Report] * This law school thinks the future of law is taking money to educate non-lawyers. [Newsworks] * Here, read Law360 describe how Law360 settled with the NYAG's office. It's very meta. [Law360] * Harvard Law grad suing NY State Board of Law Examiners for failing to accommodate her disability and causing her to twice fail the exam. [ABA Journal] * Amid criticism, Shannon Liss-Riordan agrees to cut her fee in half for negotiating a class action settlement with Uber on behalf of the drivers. Apparently she was 2x surge priced the day she secured the deal. * X marks the sanction: Attorney disciplined for hiding sunken treasure records. [Courthouse News Service]

By Joe Patrice
Non-Sequiturs

Non-Sequiturs: 06.02.16

* If only all court filings were as easy as The Onion imagines they could be... Maybe with the next Apple update. [The Onion] * Fascinating, and maybe just a bit unsettling for those that've gotten inked: how law enforcement is using biometric technology in tattoo identification. [Electronic Frontier Foundation] * Are the members of the Supreme Court getting bored waiting for a ninth justice? [Slate] * The true story of how a small, informal lawyer listserv got recognized by the Supreme Court. [New York Personal Injury Blog] * New York Attorney General, Eric Schneiderman, isn't mincing words when it comes to Trump University, calling it a "straight up fraud." [Huffington Post] * Don Verrilli is retiring, here's a look at the Solicitor General's role and success in generating petition grants when he (and his office) recommends them. [Empirical SCOTUS] * A Black Lives Matter activist was convicted on for "attempting to unlawfully remove a suspect from police officers" in a move some have criticized as an attempt to chill lawful protests. [Gawker]

By Kathryn Rubino
Non-Sequiturs

Non-Sequiturs: 05.26.16

* Did you know Virginia allows people with only a bachelor's degree to be magistrates? And they are the ones approving search warrants. [Katz on Justice] * Domino's Pizza is the latest target of Eric Schneiderman, and the pizza chain is accused of discounting the hours employees have worked. [Pacific Standard Magazine] * One way to avoid law firm layoffs is to totally restructure the way law firms operate. [Bloomberg BNA] * What does one do when they retire from the Supreme Court? [SCOTUSblog] * How much do Supreme Court justices interrupt each other? An interesting analysis. [Empirical SCOTUS] * The Baston rule and the integrity of the criminal justice system. [Slate] * The repeal of Connecticut's death penalty will now apply to the men currently on death row. [Huffington Post]

By Kathryn Rubino
Non-Sequiturs

Non-Sequiturs: 04.26.16

* Is this judge dangerous or just doing her job -- or worse, both? [Guile is Good] * So, you find yourself "in between" legal jobs at the moment. What do you do with the time? [Reboot Your Law Practice] * This University of Chicago Law student is just trying to make his nut, and he's developed a card game called "The Golfing Dead." A standard card game put through the "apocalyptic ringer." Even his law professor is on board with the fun game... it may not be important or amazing, but it is entertaining. [Kickstarter] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRN6vfrIY1c * This Anthony Weiner documentary looks like it is going to be everything you didn't even know you always wanted from a political documentary. [Gawker] * Despite blood testing company Theranos's recent onslaught of issues, including SEC and U.S. Attorney's Office investigation, David Boies reports the board is standing behind CEO and founder Elizabeth Holmes. [Vanity Fair] * When a decrease in the number of prisoners in a state is the cause of a budget crisis, you know things are jacked up. [Lawyers, Guns and Money] * Deutsche Bank is pushing back against rising legal costs. Is this the new normal that law firms have to deal with? [Law and More] * New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's lawsuit against Trump University is going forward. [Law Newz]

By Kathryn Rubino
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 03.22.16

* WHATCHA GONNA DO, BROTHER, WHEN THIS JURY'S PUNITIVE DAMAGES AWARD RUNS WILD ON YOU?!? Gawker was hit with an additional $25M in punitive damages yesterday in Hulk Hogan's sex-tape lawsuit, on top of the $115M award the jury had already slapped the media company with last week. That loud typing sound you hear is the appeals being furiously written. [Reuters] * They were gonna grant you leave to file, but then they got high? The Supreme Court has puff, puff, passed on the opportunity to hear a challenge posed by Nebraska and Oklahoma to Colorado's legalization of marijuana. Justices Thomas and Alito dissented, contending that the case fell within the Supreme Court's original jurisdiction. [NPR] * This took longer than the iOS 9 download: Hot on the heels of the announcement of new Apple products, we got the news that the tech giant and its rival, Samsung, will face off next term before SCOTUS in a patent case that's been going on since the iPhone 4 was still considered the latest and greatest in smartphone technology. [WSJ Law Blog] * "Once you start seeing leading law firms offering this, it's going to become more prevalent and pretty rapidly, because it's going to be required to compete." Lawyers with law school debt will probably jump at the chance for their firms to pitch in to repay their loans, but don't forget, all of that assistance will be taxable as income. [U.S. News] * "My job is to enforce the law, and starting today, DraftKings and FanDuel will abide by it." In a settlement reached with New York AG Eric Schneiderman, the sports betting daily fantasy sites will cease operations in the state, and in exchange, the AG will hold off on additional litigation that could force them to pay restitution to their losers. [ESPN]

By Staci Zaretsky
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 03.21.16

* What's the difference between the late Justice Antonin Scalia and Chief Judge Merrick Garland, his potential replacement? "[He] always sounds the same. Most of the time, he is very even-toned, not aggressive.” For starters, Scalia's dissents were usually fiery and entertaining, while Garland's dissents tend to be very respectful and courteous. [Washington Post] * "[T]here were errors and flaws in the way Thomas Jefferson carried out their research." An expert retained by Anna Alaburda in her suit against Thomas Jefferson Law testified that the methods the law school used to collect grads' job data were improper and could have caused some inaccurate info to be reported. [Courthouse News Service] * Donald Trump's presidential campaign -- and his path to the White House -- may be interrupted by a pesky fraud trial over his now defunct real estate school. The Donald will likely be asked to testify by New York AG Eric Schneiderman, and if he pleads the Fifth, it could have YUGE implications on his defense strategy. [WSJ Law Blog] * “When someone — or something — is going away, there are usually some people that want to get it before it goes away, for whatever reason." Racist memorabilia? Harvard Law is trying to quickly eliminate all ties to its controversial shield, but its bookstore will be slowly selling off all remaining merchandise bearing the symbol. [Boston Globe] * "The average graduate cannot expect to make enough in the years following graduation to even hope to make a dent in the student loans they take on from going to law school. And that's if they can even pass the bar and find a job as an attorney." Law profs face buyouts, but their students aren't in a much better position. [Northwest Indiana Times]

By Staci Zaretsky
Non-Sequiturs

Non-Sequiturs: 12.16.15

* In a moving long-form piece, the Marshall Project details how the criminal justice system failed a rape victim. [The Marshall Project] * "As a debater, a product of Jesuit schooling, a scholar of religion, and a legal scholar, I was taught that words matter. Rational discourse matters. Setting an example matters." NYU President John Sexton makes a powerful statement on the rise of Islamaphobia. [NYU] * Eric Schniederman is in the news for a reason unrelated to fantasy football -- he's banning the sale of realistic toy guns this Christmas. [Press Connects] * David Lat pontificates on this year's bonuses. [Big Law Business / Bloomberg BNA] * That judge who held 3 kids in contempt for refusing to visit their father now faces disciplinary action. [Jezebel] * In economic terms, what do painkillers really cost? [Law and More]

By Kathryn Rubino
Non-Sequiturs

Non-Sequiturs: 11.18.15

* Eric Schneiderman sure is keeping busy. Now he's investigating a troubled non-profit. [New York Daily News] * Legal scholar Cass Sunstein is writing a book about Star Wars. What big questions should he tackle? [New York Magazine] * Exploring the potential First Amendment implications for computers. [WSJ Law Blog] * Thank goodness she didn't! Justice Sotomayor talks about how she nearly pulled out of the confirmation process. [Daily Progress] * Law firms? Slow to change? Go on... [Geek Law Blog] * Speaking of law firms and change, here's some advice on updating your website. [Law Reboot]

By Kathryn Rubino