Joseph Crea

Non-Sequiturs

Non-Sequiturs: 05.18.15

* Uber is building a 70-lawyer in-house group. Constantly going to outside counsel got too spendy after partners instituted surge pricing on all billable hours over 80/week. [Law and More] * Justice Ginsburg presided over a same-sex wedding yesterday. Could she have tipped her hand on the upcoming marriage equality decisions by consistently emphasizing the word "Constitution"? The article begins: "The groom and groom strolled down the aisle to the mellow strains of 'Mr. Sandman.'" The first time I read that I thought it said, "Enter Sandman," which, admit it, would be a much cooler wedding song. [New York Times] * Professor Rick Hasen, for one, thinks that might be exactly what RBG just did, noting her history of offering sly hints about the outcomes of unannounced decisions. [Election Law Blog] * Is there a legal solution to save Charleston Law? That's interesting, but the bigger takeaway from this piece is that one of the board members actually left the stage during commencement after the invocation denounced greed. You cannot make this stuff up. [Post and Courier] * Those pesky nuns. [Lowering the Bar] * Stanford's student commencement speaker crowdsourced her speech. It was all going along fine until the 3 minutes segment where she just yelled, "Baba Booey" over and over again. [Forbes] * California releases its February bar exam results. The only thing in California lower than those passage rates are the reservoirs, amiright? [Bar Exam Stats] * Richard Hsu talks with Henry Bushkin, Johnny Carson's lawyer and the author of a new book about the late "King of Late Night." [Hsu Untied] * Happy birthday to Professor Joseph Crea of Brooklyn Law School who celebrates his 100th birthday today at the school. [SF Gate]

By Joe Patrice
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 04.29.15

* In case you haven't read the transcripts from yesterday's same-sex marriage arguments at the Supreme Court and you still want to have some talking points at the water cooler at the office, here are six of the more "provocative" questions that the justices asked. [WSJ Law Blog] * HBO is filming a TV movie called "Confirmation" about Justice Clarence Thomas's 1991 nomination hearings. Kerry Washington will play Anita Hill and Wendell Pierce will play our silent justice. No one puts a pube on Olivia Pope's Coke can and gets away with it! [Hollywood Reporter] * If you're not interested in the CliffsNotes version of the same-sex marriage arguments at SCOTUS, you should know the justices were split along their usual ideological lines, and Justice Kennedy seemed even more wishy-washy than normal. [New York Times] * You're my boy, Blue! Brooklyn Law School will honor 100-year-old Professor Joseph Crea this summer. He's been teaching at the school for more than five decades, and looks like a well-preserved academic artifact. Congratulations! [Brooklyn Daily Eagle] * Still high off its top passage rate for the February 2015 Florida bar exam and thanks to an anonymous $1 million gift, Ave Maria Law announced that it will be purchasing its campus... and launching a totally unrelated $3.2 million capital campaign. [News-Press] * If you're looking to take a year off before law school, then perhaps you ought to consider becoming a paralegal, a research analyst, or an investment banker. At least one of those jobs will make you reconsider your future. [Law Admissions Lowdown / U.S. News]

By Staci Zaretsky