Felix Sater

  • Non-Sequiturs: 05.02.16
    Non-Sequiturs

    Non-Sequiturs: 05.02.16

    * Lawyer remembers when young people were encouraged to fly instead of becoming the veal in the airlines’ effort to treat us all like cattle. [Travels With Darley]

    * Starbucks iced drinks too icy? Sue. [CNN]

    * Attention Class of 2016: you may be excited because you’re about to graduate and start your real life, but here is what you need to survive law firm life. [Law and More]

    * Eastern District of New York Judge Brian M. Cogan is upping the pressure on the government to unseal documents being sought by the press in the case of Felix Sater that they believe may illuminate business dealings between Donald Trump and the mob-connected figure. [Wise Law]

    * Know your Miranda rights before you get in a sticky situation and need them. [St. Louis Tribune]

    * There are lots of stats that can be aggregated by looking at this Term’s oral arguments at the Supreme Court, like which justice spoke the most and what does that tell us about the Court’s liberal justices? [Empirical SCOTUS]

    * The gentrification of Brooklyn can be summed up pretty easily. [Redline]

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    Non-Sequiturs: 09.17.13

    * Overrated: Government surveillance is out of control. Underrated: Government spending massive amounts of money making the Army’s Intelligence and Security Command look like the set of Star Trek: The Next Generation is out of control. [Lowering the Bar] * Helen Wan explains “The 5 Rules Every New Associate Must Know.” Not included: learning all the technical details required to convincingly say your smartphone failed to get that 1 a.m. message. [The Careerist] * Another post in the fascinating series about creating visual maps of Supreme Court doctrine. It’s like a nerdier version of the The Atlas of Middle-Earth(affiliate link). [PrawfsBlawg] * Ilya Somin reviews the Supreme Court’s most recent Takings Clause jurisprudence. It’s a lot harder for the government to take your property away. But don’t worry, it’s still really easy to lose all your property to unregulated markets. [The Volokh Conspiracy] * The Office of the Solicitor General may have inadvertently helped out Frederick Oberlander and Richard Lerner, the two lawyers charged with criminal contempt for talking about a cooperator’s sentence (if you can call a $25,000 fine for admitting to a $40 million fraud a “sentence”) that the feds claim was sealed. [Wise Law NY] * A somewhat sad art show based on requests from prisoners in solitary. Some beautiful stuff here. Though I’d have expected more “Rita Hayworth” photo requests. [Gawker] * The Daily Show takes on biotech patents. Video after the jump…
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