Miranda rights

Non-Sequiturs

Non-Sequiturs: 05.02.16

* Lawyer remembers when young people were encouraged to fly instead of becoming the veal in the airlines' effort to treat us all like cattle. [Travels With Darley] * Starbucks iced drinks too icy? Sue. [CNN] * Attention Class of 2016: you may be excited because you're about to graduate and start your real life, but here is what you need to survive law firm life. [Law and More] * Eastern District of New York Judge Brian M. Cogan is upping the pressure on the government to unseal documents being sought by the press in the case of Felix Sater that they believe may illuminate business dealings between Donald Trump and the mob-connected figure. [Wise Law] * Know your Miranda rights before you get in a sticky situation and need them. [St. Louis Tribune] * There are lots of stats that can be aggregated by looking at this Term's oral arguments at the Supreme Court, like which justice spoke the most and what does that tell us about the Court's liberal justices? [Empirical SCOTUS] * The gentrification of Brooklyn can be summed up pretty easily. [Redline]

By Kathryn Rubino
Biglaw

Morning Docket: 04.26.13

* The Obama administration asked the Supreme Court to wade into the constitutional contretemps of recess appointments, but if the high court refuses to take up the case, it may be back to the drawing board for the NLRB. [National Law Journal] * The Am Law 100 law firm rankings are out, and it looks like there’s a new leader of the pack in terms of gross revenue. But which firm could it be? Not Skadden or Baker & McKenzie. We’ll likely have coverage on this later. [American Lawyer] * Apparently the FBI wanted to continue questioning Dzhokhar Tsarnaev under Miranda’s public-safety exception, but a judge read the accused bomber his rights anyway. [Wall Street Journal (sub. req.)] * “This case is over. Someone should put it out of its misery.” Be that as it may, New York’s attorney general is desperate to get AIG’s Maurice Greenberg on the stand at trial. [DealBook / New York Times] * “I have had it with these motherf**king snakes in my motherf**king files!” This spring, clerks in this old Mississippi courthouse are finding more and more snakes filed under “Ssssssss.” [Associated Press]

By Staci Zaretsky
Antitrust

Morning Docket: 04.22.13

* With the capture of Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, many legal questions are being asked, like if he’ll be Mirandized, where he’ll be tried, and if he’ll be considered an enemy combatant. [New York Times] * Thanks for kicking this keg, Mr. Baer: the Department of Justice and Anheuser-Busch InBev have settled their antitrust differences with respect to beer brewery’s planned acquisition of Grupo Modelo. [Legal Times] * Which firm has a “generous tuition reimbursement” program? And by “generous,” we mean 100% of law school tuition, which is awesome. We may have more on this later today. [Capital Business / Washington Post] * Stan Chesley, the “master of disaster,” is retiring — not because he wants to, but because he’s disbarred in Kentucky and surrendered his Ohio license before the state could take it from him. [WSJ Law Blog (sub. req.)] * California may soon follow in New York’s footsteps when it comes a pro bono mandate before bar admission, but the New Jersey Bar Association has an active hit out on the idea. [National Law Journal] * In an effort to avoid a trial that would’ve lasted longer than their sham marriage did in the first place, fauxlebrity Kim Kardashian and NBA player Kris Humphries settled their divorce last week. [Reuters] * Morris Kramer, an M&A pioneer and part of Skadden’s “Fab Four,” RIP. [DealBook / New York Times]

By Staci Zaretsky
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By Barbri
Baseball

Morning Docket: 03.25.11

* In the Barry Bonds trial, an expert on steroids described how the government injected a bunch of baboons with the drug Bonds is accused of using. I, for one, welcome our new baboon overlords. [ESPN] * Some Amish in Kentucky are fighting a regulation that requires reflective safety triangles on their buggies. Say they’d […]

By Juggalo Law
Cars

Another Lesson in How Not to Handle a Traffic Stop

Based on our earlier coverage of traffic stops, here are some dos and don’ts for the next time you get pulled over: Do remain cool and collected. Do say as little as possible. Do not mouth off to the police officer. Do not try to get out of the ticket by bragging about your job […]

By David Lat