* The 9th Circuit may be determining if Twitter can be sued for sex trafficking soon. [Bloomberg Law]
* North Carolina's Supreme Court is positioned to determine if nurses can be sued for medical malpractice. [Carolina Journal]
* Must be something in the water: legal standard for water in LA could still be dangerous. [ABC 7]
* is helping cancer patients figure out their legal and financial troubles. Shouts out to Virginia! [WTVR]
* Ohio governor makes it easier to let out those Dionysian urges on a few key holidays. THE EXPLOSIONS WILL BE GLORIOUS! [WHIO]
* A group of fireworks companies has agreed to dismiss a lawsuit involving New York's COVID-19 restrictions. Guess the litigation didn't start off with a "bang"... [New York Law Journal]
* President Trump has won a motion to temporarily delay the release of his tax records. [Fox News]
* A new lawsuit alleges that McDonald's discriminates against black franchisees. [Reuters]
* A new global settlement plan has been advanced to dispose of claims accusers have against Harvey Weinstein. [Hollywood Reporter]
* A 105-year-old woman is leading a lawsuit seeking reparations for the 1921 Tulsa Massacre. [Guardian]
* Kanye West is suing to appear on the ballot for president in Wisconsin and Ohio. Maybe Kim K can put her law classes to good use... [Business Insider]
* The Law School Admission Council has lost the scores for a number of individuals who took the July LSAT. The affected test-takers are being offered refunds, so there's that... [ABA Journal]
* A New York ethics committee says that lawyers cannot practice law and provide wealth management services to the same clients. [Bloomberg]
* Check out this former Biglaw associate who quit her firm gig to launch her own estate administration startup. [LegalTech News]
* Employers across the country are being sued for allegedly failing to protect workers from being exposed to COVID-19. [Washington Post]
* Be sure to check out the ADL's Supreme Court review next week. We can all use some CLE credits! [ADL]
* Fireworks companies are suing New York officials over COVID-19-related restrictions. Hopefully their lawsuit starts off with a bang.... [New York Law Journal]
Ed. note: In observance of the Fourth of July, Above the Law will not be publishing on Monday. Have a great weekend!
* The little known religious history behind America's seal. Separation of church and state be damned. [Wall Street Journal]
* Fireworks are super pretty to look at, but dangerous. So be careful out there. [Southeast Missourian]
* 5 prosecutors are responsible for 440 death sentences. That is incredibly disturbing. [The Guardian]
* U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves blocked a Mississippi law that would allow those with religious objections to deny wedding services to gay couples. Good to see the concept of precedent in action. [Reuters]
* Republican delegates can do... pretty much whatever they want to. It is a political issue, not a legal one. [Huffington Post]
* It is shockingly easy for the government to spy on journalists. [The Intercept]
* Lawyer that sued Led Zeppelin is suspended. [MSN]
* Donald Trump is definitely coming to Pennsylvania Avenue (he's building a hotel there). [Denver Channel]
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* “They aren’t required to hear it, but this is the major social issue of the day.” The Supreme Court will likely hear a gay marriage case soon, and it’ll obviously be a vehement 5-4 opinion. [NBC News]
* But is SCOTUS really so bitterly divided now? Here’s a fun fact: The justices agreed unanimously in 66 percent of this term’s cases, and the last time that happened was in 1940. [New York Times]
* A partner has left the luxuries of earning up to $4.8 million per year at Wachtell Lipton to start his own executive compensation boutique, which we understand is basically like seeing a unicorn. [Am Law Daily]
* The post-merger world at Squire Patton Boggs is similar to the pre-merger world in that partners are still being churned in and out of the firm every other day. Check out the latest ins and outs. [WSJ Law Blog]
* The Fourth of July is coming up, and you know you want to light up some fireworks. Sure, it’s illegal to sell them in your state, but here’s where you can travel to go to buy some to celebrate freedom. [Yahoo!]
Ed. note: In honor of the July 4th holiday, we do not expect to publish tomorrow. We will be back on Friday, July 5th, although on a reduced publication schedule.
* These are the five cases likely to come up after Fourth of July weekend. The “boating accidents” case reminds me of a poor teen clerk telling Homer Simpson that he couldn’t operate a boat while drunk and he responded, “Sounds like a wager to me!” [The Expert Institute]
* This lawyer is also a professional at shooting off fireworks. In this job market, it’s good to have a career to fall back on. [Indiana Lawyer]
* This is the holiday to go take in a baseball game. If you’re in Michigan, you can watch the Lansing Lugnuts vs. the Lake County Captains at Cooley Law School Stadium. Wait, Cooley has a stadium? [Battle Creek Enquirer]
* The Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association is planning a series of readings of the Declaration of Independence. You know, in case you have absolutely nothing to do in Texas tomorrow. [KLTV]
* On a similar note, in Massachusetts, there was an annual reading of Frederick Douglass’s famed take on the Fourth of July from the perspective of abolitionists. [Cape Cod Daily]
* In non-holiday news, the George Zimmerman trial ground to a halt today when Skype testimony was bombarded by pranksters constantly pinging the witness's account. Video after the jump... [The Smoking Gun]
* What kind of a Dewey pun will be used later today when we discuss this global “clawback” deal for former D&L partners? I dunno, but “Dewey know how f**ked we are?” seems rather appropriate at this point. [Wall Street Journal (sub. req.)]
* Judge Lucy Koh recused herself from a Facebook privacy lawsuit without providing a reason for doing so. Given that a petition to impeach her popped up online, she probably doesn’t want to piss off any other tech companies right now. [Reuters]
* Mississippi: a state where legislators want to protect women from unscrupulous abortion practitioners their own choices about their bodies. A judge has extended a temporary order to allow the state’s only abortion clinic to remain open. [CNN]
* Good news, everyone! Median starting salaries for recent law school graduates are no longer in the six-figure range due to an “erosion in Biglaw jobs.” Still think you’re going to make big bucks? [ABA Journal]]
* A San Diego, California fireworks fiasco that lasted all of 15 seconds yielded not only a bunch of fabulously entertaining YouTube videos, but also great lawsuit fodder for environmental groups. [National Law Journal]
* Note to unemployed law school graduates in New Jersey: selling black-market kidneys isn’t a half-bad career choice, because if you get caught, you’ll likely only be sentenced to 30 months in prison. [Bloomberg]
