Marriage Equality

Non-Sequiturs

Non-Sequiturs: 07.06.15

* Is Apple Music an antitrust violation, a second-rate streaming music provider, or both. Probably both. [Dorf on Law] * Former Goldman employee Sergey Aleynikov acquitted... again. Who would have thought Cyrus Vance's trumped up show trial would fail so thoroughly? [Dealbreaker] * Landmark cases reimagined as movie posters. [Res Ipsa Law Poster] * If you missed it, here's the New York Times Editorial about the "Activist Roberts Court" that everyone was talking about over the weekend. [New York Times] * In her defense, Sarah Palin may not be the dumbest person from Wasilla. [Legal Juice] * In the wake of Obergefell, will some holdout religious schools lose their tax-exempt status? [Tax Prof Blog] * Susman Godfrey's Steve Susman chats with Richard Hsu about distance cycling. [Hsu Untied]

By Joe Patrice
Non-Sequiturs

Non-Sequiturs: 07.02.15

Ed. note: Above the Law will have a reduced publishing schedule today and we're off on Friday, July 3, in observance of whipping those English wankers a couple centuries ago. * After the German robot ran amok and killed a worker in a VW plant, prosecutors are struggling to figure out whom to charge in this violation of Asimov's First Law. [Josh Blackman's Blog] * Dean Erwin Chemerinsky thinks Ted Cruz is right about the Supreme Court. [The New Republic] * In the wake of Obergefell, Bloomberg chats with Margaret H. Marshall, the former chief justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, who wrote the opinion making that state the first to legalize same-sex marriage. [Big Law Business / Bloomberg BNA] * California February bar exam results. A couple of schools got a 100 percent passage rate. Stanford was not one of them. [Bar Exam Stats] * Love wins. The Chamber of Commerce wins more. [Constitutional Accountability Center] * A not-entirely-partisan argument that Justice Scalia should retire. He may be slipping into William O. Douglas circa 1975 territory. [Dorf on Law] * Did you know that David Lat was supposed to play Quentin Tarantino's role in Pulp Fiction? I didn't either until I saw this video (at 0:48). [ClickHole]

By Joe Patrice
Non-Sequiturs

Non-Sequiturs: 07.01.15

* “Sixty-year-old lawyers are out of touch with technology and today’s legal market.” ::nod:: [Chicago Lawyer Magazine] * Lawyer suspended with no possibility of reinstatement for at least 120 days after skipping the country during a client's trial. And lying about it. She's actually ended up in our pages before. [Legal Profession Blog] * Today, President Obama started smacking around for-profit schools, a group of people that, on a scale of 1 to ISIS rank about a 9. [Politico] * The economics of a solo practice are collapsing. Maybe lawyers should just change their mindset. Shhhh. That would really fuss with ATL's editorial plan. [Lawyers, Guns & Money] * Everyone's talking about what was done to reach the marriage equality decision. What about what wasn't done to get here? [Slate] * More exposition of the famous 12 Rules of Client Service, and a chance to give credit where credit is due. Today, "Rule 4: Deliver work that changes the way clients think about lawyers." Or convincing them that you may be a human parasite, but you're their human parasite. [What About Clients?]

By Joe Patrice
Non-Sequiturs

Non-Sequiturs: 06.30.15

* Justice Kennedy's writing style... maybe it's a little over the top. [PrawfsBlawg] * If you're looking for representation at the Supreme Court, go small. [Law360 (sub. req.)] * Marriage equality is only one more step for activists. Next up, fair housing and overall equality. Perhaps on the housing case, we'll get to hear Justice Thomas make some tone-deaf claim about how there's no need for protection from housing discrimination because gays are overrepresented on Bravo. [RH Reality Check] * Don't like the Supreme Court's ruling in Obergefell? Why propose a constitutional amendment when you can propose a new constitutional convention? Runaway Con-Con! [Ab Initio] * A linguistic analysis of jiggery-pokery and the prose of Antonin Scalia. [The Chronicle of Higher Education] * A jury cleared the University of Iowa College of Law of "political discrimination" when it passed over conservative Teresa Manning's application to join the faculty.[Associated Press via ABC News] * Everyone in New York received an Amber Alert over their phones earlier today. Did anyone crash their cars when their phone started screeching with sounds it had never blared before? [New York Personal Injury Law Blog]

By Joe Patrice
Non-Sequiturs

Non-Sequiturs: 06.26.15

* Oh, the Onion... what would I do without you? Their take on gay marriage is masterful, as always. [Onion] * Conservatives, troubled with the Supreme Court's decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, vow to move to Canada. There's only one teeny, tiny problem with their plan... about a decade in the making. [BuzzFeed] * Of all the arrogant, jiggery-pokery, pure applesauce, Putsch! Find out exactly how Justice Scalia would mock you in this fun insult generator. [Slate] * Some Alabama counties have come up with a crackerjack way to avoid marrying same sex couples. [Vox] * The only way to get to today's historical gay marriage case was to defeat the nomination of Judge Robert Bork, and Reagan aides always suspected this would happen. [Roll Call] * For marriage equality fans with a sweet tooth. [Ben & Jerry's] * Surely you jest! Justice Scalia? Intellectually inconsistent to fit a political agenda? Pshaw. [BloombergView] * A handy guide to today's landmark SCOTUS decision. [Legal IO] * News you can use: what is the legal status of cursing at cops? [The Marshall Project]

By Kathryn Rubino