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Non-Sequiturs

Non-Sequiturs: 06.25.15

* Some people are very, very happy with today's Obamacare ruling. [Constitutional Accountability Center] * And some people aren't. Ah, Sesame Street conservatism: single words must be sounded out in complete isolation. Forget all those sentences and what not. [Breitbart] * But this is the best quip at Justice Scalia's newly dubbed "SCOTUSCare." [The Faculty Lounge] * Law student cleared of hit man murder of ex-boyfriend. [Legal Cheek] * What the hell is going on in Massachusetts? Bar exam passage rates are in from February: 56.6 percent overall, and only 66.7 percent for first-time takers. That's pretty bad when you consider that last year, those numbers were 80 percent and 87 percent, respectively. [Massachusetts Court System] * It's been a while since we checked in on the weird and wild "Judge Bill Pryor and Gay Porn" kerfuffle. Now there's speculation on the man who brought the pictures to the fore. [Legal Schnauzer] * It's hot out there, man. [What About Clients?]

By Joe Patrice
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 01.07.15

* Alan Dershowitz vowed to sue the lawyers who alleged he took part in a sex scandal for defamation, but it looks like he was too slow -- they sued him for defamation first. The Dersh, however, seemed pleased as punch by the news: "This makes my day.” [WSJ Law Blog] * Illinois passed some of the toughest anti-revenge-porn legislation the country has seen to date. With possible jail time and huge fines, maybe people will be inspired to be decent human beings... but we doubt it. [International Business Times] * Welcome to 2015: In what's being called the "running of the laterals," many Biglaw partners and associates are making their moves and taking their practices to different firms and businesses. We hope everyone collected their bonuses! [Am Law Daily] * You may be “troubled by a program where people at the bottom pay for the people at the top,” but it's happening at law schools across the country. Students with low LSAT scores are subsidizing their classmates' education. [National Law Journal] * Meanwhile, getting into law school with lower LSAT scores is easier than it's ever been before. From 2010 to 2013, nearly all of the nation's Top 20 law schools admitted students with lower test scores. Thank them for paying your tuition. [Businessweek]

By Staci Zaretsky
Non-Sequiturs

Non-Sequiturs: 01.02.15

* Nice try. Woman tries to add insurance coverage from the ambulance after the crash. [Legal Juice] * Charles Pierce is a great writer. Not that keen at sports prognostication, though. I'll let Urban Meyer respond to Pierce's prediction of a "whopping win" by Florida State. [Lawyers, Guns & Money] * You've seen our 10 most read stories of the year. Check out the top 10 from our friends across the pond. [Legal Cheek] * "Conservatism and porn." OK, Professor Nita Farahany. You know how to get the attention of Above the Law. [The Volokh Conspiracy / Washington Post] * "NEW YORK POLICE SHOOTING ATTORNEYS." Perhaps not the most lucid headline. [Sullivan Papain] * Writing a blog post about a judge's on-the-record comments is not defamation. Unfortunately we actually needed a ruling on that one. [New York Law Journal] * Are you at AALS? Here's a Happy Hour for you! [Concurring Opinions]

By Joe Patrice
DUI / DWI

Non-Sequiturs: 10.27.14

* After being temporarily suspended as part of “Porngate” for trafficking in “highly demeaning portrayals of members of various segments of the population, including women, elderly persons, and uniformed school girls,” Seamus McCaffrey retires from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. [Philadelphia Daily News] * A group of women lawyers in Miami has called for NBC to cancel Bad Judge because it “depicts a female judge as unethical, lazy, crude, hyper-sexualized, and unfit to hold such an esteemed position of power.” Indeed there’s no place for depicting women judges that way on TV. Especially when Miami is perfectly capable of depicting them that way in real life. [Crushable] * Epic trademark infringement. [Legal Cheek] * Crazy pro se guy slapped down in Canada. [Lowering the Bar] * While almost everyone else is seeing lower applications, USC Law saw a 5 percent bump. [USC Gould School of Law] * Stanford and Dartmouth in hot water over election law charges in Montana. Apparently piercing the imaginary veil of non-partisanship in judicial elections is the problem and not the whole idea of judicial elections in the first place. [Montana Standard]

By Joe Patrice