Loving

  • Morning Docket: 11.25.16
    Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 11.25.16

    Ed. note: As mentioned on Wednesday, we will be publishing today, but at a reduced level. We’ll be back in full force on Monday. Hope you had a great Thanksgiving!

    * President-elect Donald Trump will likely pick a lawyer as his nominee for Secretary of State: Rudy Giuliani (NYU Law ’68) or Mitt Romney (Harvard Law ’75). [New York Times]

    * Where do broken hearts go? Some precedents for Chief Judge Merrick Garland to follow from unsuccessful Supreme Court nominees. [Associated Press via How Appealing]

    * A pre-Thanksgiving ruling from the Florida Supreme Court that gave one prisoner something to be grateful for could signal more upheaval to come in the nation’s second largest death row. [BuzzFeed]

    * Three more judges participated in Pennsylvania’s “Porngate” email exchanges — but it seems that Bruce Beemer, the state’s new attorney general, won’t be naming names. [ABA Journal]

    * What does the future hold for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and its chief, Chicago Law grad and former SCOTUS clerk Richard Cordray? [New York Times]

    * It’s not just a plot line from Suits: Reginald Taylor, accused of posing as a lawyer by stealing an attorney’s bar number, apparently delivered decent results for his clients. [The Daily Beast]

    * Don’t mess with (federal judges from) Texas, Mr. President; Judge Amos Mazzant, who blocked President Obama’s proposed extension of overtime pay, isn’t the first Lone Star jurist to cause problems for the Obama Administration. [New York Times via How Appealing]

    * Thinking of hitting the movies over the long weekend? Tony Mauro shares our own Harry Graff’s enthusiasm for Loving. [National Law Journal]

  • Non-Sequiturs: 11.10.16
    Non-Sequiturs

    Non-Sequiturs: 11.10.16

    * The ACLU prepares to take on Trump in court. [KETV]

    * Loving looks like it will be a great movie. Which is particularly relevant as these folks gain power. [Vulture]

    * Trend alert? Prosecutors campaigning on less jail time. [Vice]

    * Is there a way forward for bail reform? [Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle]

    * Trump was probably lying about locking up Hillary Clinton. [Huffington Post]

    * Redefining the role of immigration attorneys in Donald Trump’s America. [Law and More]

  • Morning Docket: 11.03.16
    Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 11.03.16

    * Why would liberal states “remain [] member[s] of this union when the president is a raving narcissist that some describe as a sociopath?” Some law professors are having a difficult time imagining Donald Trump as president, and have said that things like secessions or coups could become real possibilities under Trump’s leadership if he should win the election. [WSJ Law Blog]

    * Biglaw firms in the U.S. have made great strides when it comes to parental leave, but across the pond in the U.K., they don’t seem to be doing as well; in fact, these firms seem to be “hemorrhaging female talent,” and it’s “crippling” law firm diversity and career progression for lawyers with children and families. [The Lawyer (sub. req.)]

    * Speaking of the U.K., its High Court has ruled that Prime Minister Theresa May must seek parliamentary approval before attempting to leave the European Union, writing “the Crown — i.e. the government of the day — cannot by exercise of prerogative powers override legislation enacted by Parliament.” Sorry, Brexit bros. [New York Times]

    * “[A] well-intentioned majority acting in the name of tolerance and liberalism, can, if unchecked, impose its views on the minority in a manner that is in fact intolerant and illiberal.” Trinity Western University has won the right to operate a Christian law school, despite the fact that it intends to discriminate against LGBTQ students. [Globe and Mail]

    * “They changed the legislative nature of the judicial system, they changed the American constitution, they paved the way for a lot of people’s lives.” Loving, the film that tells the tale of Richard and Mildred Loving’s landmark Supreme Court victory that struck down legislation prohibiting interracial marriage, is out in theaters this Friday. [Reuters]

    * Glamour has named Emily Doe, the college student who survived Stanford swimmer Brock Turner’s sexual assault and helped to change a California law that once allowed for lighter sentences in sexual assault cases where victims were unconscious or intoxicated, as one of the magazine’s Women of the Year for 2016. Congratulations. [Glamour]

  • Non-Sequiturs: 05.16.16
    Non-Sequiturs

    Non-Sequiturs: 05.16.16

    * Nurkhan Zhumabekov, a lawyer in Kazakhstan, is suing the Russian-Kazakh television channel First Channel-Eurasia for allegedly “insulting Kazakhs.” Nobody tell this guy about Borat, OK? [Radio Free Europe]

    * The too perfect name of the litigants in Loving v. Virginia is finally getting its due. Loving, a new film about the case that legalized interracial marriage, looks primed to garner some Oscar buzz. [Hollywood Reporter]

    * Illinois Law graduates were a no-show at graduation; Jane Genova wonders why. [Law and More]

    * Poorly written laws and regulations are part of why the Supreme Court has to get involved in the immigration case of U.S. v. Texas, as Laura Murray-Tjan explains. [Huffington Post]

    * Is there a way to save access to personal email accounts at work without compromising a law firm’s security? [Authentic8]

    * Laverne Cox has been cast in CBS’s new legal drama, Doubt, along with Katherine Heigl and Steven Pasquale. [Jezebel]

    * Radiohead isn’t being a “Paranoid Android,” they may be getting sued. [Radio.com]

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