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Few things are more 2022 America than legislating morality.

* Long Arms: California’s laws on protecting abortion info will likely have spillover effects across the us. [Axios]

* Indiana judge blocked a law requiring post-abortion cremation and burial of fetal tissue. [Indy Star]

* Teacher’s virulently racist comments that could make Amy Wax blush faces consequences. I wonder how long it’ll be until she’s on the Tucker Carlson show? [Imgur]

* Need damages for your damaged Cannondale? Here’s a primer. [Forbes]

* Brett Farve loses radio deal after allegedly stealing millions from the underserved. I can’t believe he’s being forced into silence after stealing from those in dire need. What’s next, jail time?! [Hollywood Reporter]

* Girls Who Code deemed too woke. Not even hiding the ball about controlling women and girls this time, huh. [The Guardian]

* Indiana’s near total abortion ban runs counter to this Church’s religious beliefs. I wonder how this suit will pan out. [FOX]

* If you’re a law student at University of Idaho and are considering getting health advice from school faculty, I’d be cautious. [Idaho Capital Sun]

* Reminder, when cops say they can find a reason to arrest you, BELIVE IT. Also, mums the word in NY elevators, apparently. [Live 959]

* Remember the whole “Return the question to the states” thing? Yeah that was a lie. [Talking Points Memo]

* Texans are still reckoning with fetal personhood. [Texas Tribune]

* Indiana’s abortion ban takes effect tomorrow. [NPR]

* Ever wondered how big healthcare law impacts the little people? Here’s a primer. [Reuters]

First they won't let a judge who is directly part of the reason that doctors will not treat women who've had miscarriages (for fear that they'd lose their licenses) eat a nice steak dinner, and now this?!

* Former Justice Breyer thinks the Rule of Law needs some saving. [Law360.com]

* Biglaw’s big bucks, while still big, are noticeably less so. [Law.com]

* Indiana just put a major abortion ban in place. What now? [NPR]

* A success of the #Metoo movement: DC law empowers young adults. [Wa Po]

* Thoreau in 2022: Some doctors are deciding Hippocrates may be more important than Dobbs. [The Intercept]

* Why not both? Bilingual firms come with search engine benefits! [Forbes]

* Indiana looks for disciplinary options for young kids that don’t involve them being behind bars. The kiddie orange jumpsuit market will never be the same. [Fox]

* Dechert’s Dublin office just picked up a new partner. Irish bread is on the rise! [Law.com]

* Senator Collins is still fighting for federal protections for abortion access. [WGME]

* 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]

* Word is bonded: Houston Senator is pushing for people to front part of their bail before they walk. [Click 2 Houston]

* The ties that bind: Giving birth in Indiana is making a change for the humane. [WTHR]

* Connecticut might be zoning in on affordable housing. Woop Woop! [CT Mirror]

* New Florida law makes it easier to regulate how people discuss race at work. HR HRs HR-rily. [USA Today]

* I know long-arm statutes are a thing, but Missouri’s attempt to ban abortions that happen in other states would make the court that wrote Wickard blush. [STL Today]

* Reminder: We’re in the disinformation phase where teachers may be legally required to teach “both sides” of being a Nazi in the bible belt. [WaPo]

* Man skills the old school version of an NFT: a $40,000 super rare Magic: The Gathering card. [ABC7]

* A bunch of Ivy Leagues and fancy-type schools could be facing conspiracy charges on price fixing. Unearth those antitrust outlines! [NBC News]

* Court decides it was permissible to fire police officers who ignored a robbery to play video games on their phone on the clock. [LA Times]

We would all protest if attorneys were forced to work like this.

* Officials in Flint, Michigan are in “hot water” after the Supreme Court denied their efforts to have a lawsuit against them dismissed. [The Hill]

* Rose McGowan has been sued for defamation for saying that her former law firm was bought off by Harvey Weinstein. [Chicago Sun Times]

* Aaron Hernandez’s lawyer has some tough words about the Netflix documentary concerning the late football player and convicted murderer. [Men’s Health]

* An Indiana lawyer has been suspended from practice for stealing money from disabled and special-needs clients after setting up trusts for these individuals. [Indiana Lawyer]

* A lawsuit filed by Apple is testing whether an employee can plan a rival company while still on the payroll. This sounds like a plot line from Silicon Valley. [New York Times]

* Three Indiana judges are in hot water after they partied until 3 a.m., headed to a strip club, and got shot at during a brawl outside of a White Castles. Apparently another judge who went inside the White Castle was unharmed and avoided discipline, which just shows you the power of the crave. [New York Times]

* The Florida Bar is seeking to suspend a Florida lawyer whose pants caught on fire during an arson trial. Maybe he was a “liar, liar”… [Miami Herald]

* A Manhattan judge ruled in favor of Marc Kasowitz’s client, but never disclosed that he received campaign donations from Kasowitz and an associate. [New York Daily News]

* A Texas lawyer has been accused of conspiring with a funeral home to illicitly solicit clients. I guess instead of being an “ambulance chaser” this attorney is accused of being a “hearse chaser.” [Texas Lawyer]

* Planned Parenthood has won a civil lawsuit against parties responsible for undercover videos of Planned Parenthood activities. [Independent]

* Two Arkansas chemistry professors have been charged with cooking meth. Hopefully, they did not use Breaking Bad as their inspiration. [Washington Post]

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* Hot on the heels of the news that Amazon would be purchasing Whole Foods, legal nerds wanted to know which firms would be handling the $13.7B transaction. SullCrom is representing Amazon and Wachtell is representing Whole Foods in Bezos’s bid to sell asparagus water on Prime. [Texas Lawyer]

* Governor Andrew Cuomo has nominated Appellate Division Justice Paul Feinman to replace the late Judge Sheila Abdus-Salaam on the New York Court of Appeals. If confirmed, Feinman will be first the first openly gay judge to be seated on the bench of New York’s highest court. Congrats! [Journal News]

* But her his emails! The state of Indiana will be paying “small-town firm” McNeely Stephenson $100K to handle a backlog of public records requests having to do with the contents of then Governor Mike Pence’s private AOL account from which he conducted state business over email. [Chicago Tribune]

* Shortly after a mistrial was declared in Bill Cosby’s sexual assault case, his spokesman had some sarcastic remarks to share with those who represented the comedians accusers: “For all those attorneys who conspired — like Gloria Allred — tell them to go back to law school and take another class.” [FOX News Insider]

* Legal documents related to the dissolution of annoying jingle firm Cellino & Barnes are currently under seal, but several media outlets are trying to convince a judge to unseal the records because the “litigation over the dissolution of [the firm] is an issue of local and national importance.” [New York Daily News]

* “They’ve been great at dodging this. But they know they’re not going to be able to dodge it for much longer.” New York City may finally do away with its nearly century-old ban on dancing in restaurants, bars, and clubs thanks to a proposed a bill seeking the repeal of the city’s 1926 “Cabaret Law.” [New York Post]