Missouri

* Is “Woke” the new Race, Sex and Religion? [WSJ]
* Illegally obscuring a license plate is one thing, BUT FIXING IT? Nahhhhh [NYC.Streetsblog]

* This judge hit Georgia’s six-week abortion ban with the gavel [CNN]

* New York continues to be the battle ground of what gun restrictions will be in the United States. [Gothamist]

* You know, you think people would start caring about politicians breaking laws enough to not vote for them. [Missouri Independent]

* No more baseball rules for preteens in New Jersey — Progress! [New Jersey Monitor]

* In Missouri and plan on voting? Here’s a primer. [Missouri Independent]

* Michigan’s abortion laws may be subject to change. Take 3 to learn about Prop 3. [Axios]

* Supreme Court slated to hear Alabama’s voting rights case. Welp, democracy was nice while it lasted. [Reuters]

* The Onion makes it way to the Supreme Court. No, seriously. [NYT]

* If these magic words won’t get you your prescription, at least it should make the eventual lawsuit a little easier to win. [Twitter]

* Missouri is really good at criminalizing homelessness! [Business Insider]

* Dobbs is gonna make it harder to deal with the natural outcome of 10 to 15 percent of pregnancies. Thanks, SCOTUS! [NYT]

* Texas found a way to bypass that whole consent of the governed thing. Cool beans! [NPR]

* Word is bonded: Houston Senator is pushing for people to front part of their bail before they walk. [Click 2 Houston]

* The ties that bind: Giving birth in Indiana is making a change for the humane. [WTHR]

* Connecticut might be zoning in on affordable housing. Woop Woop! [CT Mirror]

* New Florida law makes it easier to regulate how people discuss race at work. HR HRs HR-rily. [USA Today]

* I know long-arm statutes are a thing, but Missouri’s attempt to ban abortions that happen in other states would make the court that wrote Wickard blush. [STL Today]

* Shall be infringed: The DOJ is suing Missouri over passing a law that just straight up ignores federal gun laws. [NPR]

* I never forget a face: Clearview thinks it will be able to recognize everyone once it hits 100 billion photos. It is gonna be hard to explain the 4th Amendment to children in the future. [WaPo]

* De-ttorney’d: Suge Knight’s former attorney loses law license for life as part of a plea deal on a conspiracy and perjury charges. Guess that’s the tradeoff for fewer CEOs dancing in your videos. [Yahoo!]

* If you build it, they will come back: Biglaw firms are announcing their comeback expectations for their employees. [Reuters]

* Now that it’s cool for soccer moms to get baked, Virginia is figuring out the equitable way to deal with prior weed-related criminal charges. [VPM]

* Umm. St. Louis might be bringing back trial by combat? Dead men tell no tales, I suppose. [STL Today]

* People are still couching casual racism as a 1st Amendment issue, despite the key examples occurring at private institutions that aren’t bound by it. [Reuters]

* The Judicial Big 4: Here are some key SCOTUS jurisprudence areas you should be paying attention to. May the retention of your rights be ever in your favor. [NLR]

* Breaking: Brilliant legal minds exist outside of HYS apparently. Might be something President Biden (and people looking over summer applicant resumes) ought keep in mind. [WaPo]

* No shot, no problem: Virginia universities drop vaccine requirements. [The Hill]

* SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED! Indiana is a step away from removing a common sense restriction on gun ownership. [Newsweek]

* Florida is looking to pass a 15-week abortion ban. See what you started, Texas? [Politico]

* Missouri police chiefs support a lawsuit that will take a shot at pinning down the meaning of an ambiguous gun law. [STL Today]

* Decisions have been made. Market is open. Giddy is up. Who wants the Broncos?! [Denver Post]

* A former officer sued the Seattle Police Department for firing him because he punched a woman handcuffed in the back of a police car. [Publicola]

* In Virus Other Than COVID™ news, research on a potential cure to HIV is underway. [Biospace]

* There’s general disillusionment with the legitimacy of SCOTUS and the rule of law or whatever, but no one is asking the hard-hitting questions. Will 1Ls still have to take Con Law 2? [Business Insider]

* Missourians going the “liberty or death” route are mad the federal government is trying to make them die less. [The Guardian]

* In a much needed move, California is passing legislation that makes stealthing illegal. Don’t commit assault, folks. [The New Yorker]

* Even more bright-eyed students are ignoring the sage wisdom of this song. If only they knew about issue-spotting before Torts.  [Reuters]

* Lawmakers are expected to unveil a proposal to add four justices to the Supreme Court. Hope they realize that 13 is an unlucky number… [NBC News]

* The Illinois Attorney General’s Office is investigating a hack of its computer network. [Chicago Tribune]

* A new lawsuit claims a California man was jailed recently because he resembled his brother. Thankfully, I don’t look much like my triplet brothers…to their misfortune…! [San Francisco Chronicle]

* A Missouri doctor was recently awarded $26 million in a wrongful termination lawsuit. [Bekcer’s Hospital Review]

* An Ohio lawyer has been reprimanded for conduct that required a judge to order the Bart Simpson-esque punishment of repeatedly writing that he would uphold ethical standards. Hope he didn’t tell the judge to eat his shorts… [ABA Journal]

* 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]