License Plates

Non-Sequiturs

Non-Sequiturs: 03.03.16

* Let’s just call this flattery and be done with it -- a UK brand of lingerie has launched a new design named after Amal Clooney. [Legal Cheek] * A law professor dives into the most popular forms of tax evasion. [Huffington Post] * A new, fast, and cheap way to sequence DNA has sparked a legal battle, because of course it did. [Science Magazine] * What’s going to happen when solitary confinement is abolished? [Pacific Standard] * Ah-mahzing. An intrepid New Yorker made their own license plate, but no, it is not legal. [Slate] * Everything you ever wanted to know about the philosophical underpinnings of House of Cards. [Wisecrack]

By Kathryn Rubino
Legal Ethics

Morning Docket: 08.27.12

* Unhappy with eleventy billion dollars in damages due to Apple, Samsung will begin its appeals, perhaps even to the Supreme Court (because you know that SCOTUS wants a bite at the proverbial literal patent apple). [Wall Street Journal] * And speaking of that jury award, jury foreman Velvin Hogan had this to say about it: “We wanted to make sure it was sufficiently high to be painful, but not unreasonable.” Yeah, because a billion dollars in damages isn’t unreasonable at all. [Reuters] * Do judges with lawyerly license plates avoid traffic infractions instead of getting tickets? The New York Commission on Judicial Conduct is investigating this issue of epic importance. [New York Law Journal] * If bill collectors are threatening to sue you over your credit-card debts, you better pray that your case lands on Judge Noach Dear’s docket, because in his courtroom, “it’s dismiss, dismiss, dismiss.” [New York Post] * Hippies can file lawsuits, too: Burning Man starts today, but the event’s organizers claim that its Nevada venue is pursuing a new theme in view of a “drastic increase in fees” — burning money. [All Things Digital] * Protestors should be allowed to act however they want when carrying prohibited machetes in Republican National Convention event zones. This was the first, and definitely the coolest, RNC arrest made. [ABC News]

By Staci Zaretsky
California

Non-Sequiturs: 06.21.12

* Jerry Sandusky’s lawyer, Joe Amendola, has a very lawyerly license plate — and expired tags, too? [Deadspin] * In other sports law news, Darren Heitner says at least one football helmet manufacturer should be afraid, be very afraid, of concussion litigation. [Forbes] * A pop culture blogger, Jenni Maier, is rudely awakened to the boring, sexless, receding-hairline-filled real world of jury duty. [Crushable] * A pair of former Lawyers of the Day, Michael Tein and Guy Lewis, are in trouble again — this time for allegedly acting “recklessly and unprofessionally” towards the judge in a wrongful death case they were handling. [Miami Herald] * The Minnesota Supreme Court rules that a Mortuary Science student was legally flunked for making fun (on Facebook) of the cadaver she had to dissect. Chalk up another point to the Facebook Fun Police. [City Pages] * Senior U.S. District Judge Robert J. Kelleher, the oldest serving federal judge, died at 99 in California. [Associated Press]

By Christopher Danzig
California

Law License Plates: Welcome to the Dating Game

Today, we are writing about lawyers who have announced their dating qualifications on their license plates. Maybe these folks are fans of our Courtship Connection series, but they're too afraid to go on blind dates. Let's help these people out, because they seem to be single and looking in California and New York. Let's check out our Dating Game contestants....

By Staci Zaretsky
Cars

Law License Plates: Say It Loud, We’re Lawyers and We’re Proud

In this edition of the Law License Plates series, we are writing about legal professionals who are so proud of what they do that they've slapped their titles on their license plates. If this isn't an invitation to get rear-ended, then I don't know what is. These submissions come to us from New York, Ohio, and Tennessee, proving that stupid lawyer tricks know no bounds across state lines....

By Staci Zaretsky
Cars

Law License Plates: Defenders Unite

In our last edition of the Law License Plates series, we wrote about Massholes. In this version, we're writing about a different kind of a-hole: criminal and DUI defense attorneys. It seems like defense attorneys are making straight cash, homey....

By Staci Zaretsky