Loving v. Virginia

* Teaching is fundamental: how teachers handle the return to in-person classes and the implementation of anti-CRT legislation is gonna be groundbreaking. [AP]

* A civil rights lawyer from the Loving case thinks the case is still relevant to… a death penalty case? See if you follow the logic. [Bloomberg Law]

* A change of scenery: Texan abortion providers want the district court to hear challenges to SB8 rather than the appeals court. I hope it goes well. [The Texas Tribune]

* NY mayor has some hesitation about letting non-citizens vote in elections. This is probably gonna go to court. [City and State]

* What is beyond a reasonable doubt, exactly? Legal ambiguity may have put a man on death row. Again. [NYT]

* Britney Spears scored a small victory in her conservatorship battle with her father after a judge allowed her to hire her own counsel. Guess now “she is that innocent”… [Variety]

* President Trump has refused to say whether he will keep Attorney General Barr if Trump wins reelection. [CNBC]

* A medical device company will pay millions and submit to monitoring as a result of allegations that the company paid kickbacks to doctors. This would have been a boring ending to Love and Other Drugs… [Salt Lake Tribune]

* Bernard Cohen, the lawyer who argued Loving v. Virginia at the Supreme Court, and was instrumental in eliminating interracial marriage bans, has passed away at the age of 86. [U.S. News & World Report]

* A Texas attorney has been charged for allegedly using his smartphone to record a coworker in a bathroom. [New York Post]

* The Missouri lawyer couple in hot water for allegedly pointing guns at protesters is purportedly handing out autographs. Soon, we may see them on Cameo… [Yahoo News]

* What you can learn from Tiger Woods’s DUI arrest. [Versus Texas]

* Are we in the new age of monopolies? [Salon]

* This is reading an awful lot into unanimous Supreme Court decisions. [Washington Post]

* New York isn’t the liberal utopia you might think it is. [Jezebel]

* The election law gap between red states and blue states. [Election Law Blog]

* In NYC? Then join WNYC’s All Things Considered host Jami Floyd for a conversation about Loving v. Virginia on June 12th. [The Greene Space]

* Call off the lawyers. [Law and More]

* What’s the opposite of banning something? [Huffington Post]

* Theorizing over Jared Kushner’s motivation. [Slate]

* Handicapping the race for the Supreme Court vacancy. [Bloomberg BNA]

* Can redecorating courthouses make a difference to justice? [Katz Justice]

* An illuminating interview with the lawyer behind Loving v. Virginia. [Coverage Opinions]

* States’ rights are all well and good when talking about the emission of pollutants, but not when it comes to marijuana. Wait — what? [Slate]

* Was the end of Gawker inevitable? [Law and More]

* Will gun owners in Ohio have more rights than LGBT people? [The Trace]

* 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]

* 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]

* 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]

* Freshly exonerated, the Dersh is going after his accusers in court. [The Telegraph]

* A lawyer prays… [Mormon Cartoonist]

* This gal got married 10 times. Simultaneously. To different dudes. That’s mighty big of her. [New York Times]

* Speaking of marriage, here’s a profile of Doug Hallward-Driemeier of Ropes & Gray, half of the dynamic duo arguing for marriage equality this month. [BuzzFeed]

* Today is also the anniversary of the argument in Loving v. Virginia. [Louisville Courier-Journal]

* Judge gives pedophile a break claiming the girl — who was THREE by the way — caused her own rape. [Addicting Info]

* Going to Coachella? Planning to get arrested? This is your website. [Arrested at Coachella]

* Oakland is sad. We’re talking about the baseball team specifically, but that sentence works generally. [The Legal Blitz]

* Sad news: Foley & Lardner partner Marc Marotta, a basketball star who turned down the NBA to go to Harvard Law, has passed away at age 52. [Breitbart]