Racial Profiling

Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 05.11.22

* Democratic Senators are trying to enshrine and expand Roe in light of the Alito leak. [AP News] * Might need faith bigger than a mustard seed for this one: the Supreme Court's approval rating is tanking. [Yahoo!] * Prep begins for a civil rights lawsuit after police appear to racially profile a lacrosse team. [USA Today] * Biden may issue an executive order that increases abortion access. [Reuters] * Weed being legal in NY means that employers have less leeway penalizing their employees for what they do in their free time. Oh noes. [Newsday]

By Chris Williams
Non-Sequiturs

Non-Sequiturs: 05.13.16

* The unnamed alleged Bridgegate co-conspirators will stay unnamed a little longer -- District Judge Susan Wigenton has postponed the release of the names after Jenny R. Kramer of Chadbourne & Parke filed a motion alleging her client would be caused "immediate and irreparable reputational harm" if his name were released. [Gawker] * Above the Law all-star Magistrate Judge Paul Grewal is leaving the judiciary for Facebook. [Recode] * The story of how faulty jury instructions led to a second chance for almost 150 Maryland prisoners sentenced to life in prison. [Highline] * District Judge Murray Snow found that Maricopa County, Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, along with three aides, violated a federal order designed to stop racial profiling. [Talking Points Memo] * Manufacturing jobs are important, but the real key is union benefits for American workers. [Lawyers, Guns and Money] * Catholic church be damned, Italy has legalized same-sex unions. [Slate]

By Kathryn Rubino
Non-Sequiturs

Non-Sequiturs: 07.27.15

* Conan O’Brien faces a new lawsuit alleging that he stole jokes from a Twitter user’s feed. Meanwhile, Conan mulls suit against Tinder for ripping off Pimpbot 5000 character. [The Hollywood Reporter] * Snoop blames racial profiling for his arrest on suspicion of marijuana possession in Sweden. Others say it’s “celebrity profiling,” suggesting that racial […]

By Joe Patrice
Associate Advice

Morning Docket: 08.29.13

* Is Justice Ginsburg, our favorite judicial diva, foiling her own jurisprudential legacy by refusing to retire from the Supreme Court before another president takes office? [Daily Beast] * Year-over-year, there’s been a double-digit drop in demand for legal services, so now is a great time to start speculating about which firm will be the next to conduct layoffs. [Am Law Daily] * Don’t despair, the results of the Am Law Midlevel Survey are out, and associates are more satisfied than ever — except for the women. They’re “leaning out,” so to speak. [Am Law Daily] * New York City (d/b/a Mayor Michael Bloomberg) wants Judge Shira Scheindlin to stay her stop-and-frisk rulings pending appeal, because racial profiling is an effective crime fighting tool. [New York Law Journal] * If you want to know why law school is three years long instead of two, it’s because back in the day, the T14s of the world were convinced it’d “stop the proles from sullying the image of the bar.” [The Economist] * In an effort to keep law school deans’ listserv drama and email scandals to a minimum, the American Bar Association just doled out some rules to keep their ivory tower talk in check. [WSJ Law Blog (sub. req.)] * “[I]f I die because of this, my life will have been worthwhile.” The HSBC whistleblower is willing to face death to talk about big banks’ alleged money laundering — and to see Marni Halasa. [Huffington Post]

By Staci Zaretsky
Bar Exams

Morning Docket: 05.03.13

* “It’s a fine line society walks in trying to be fair.” Justice Sonia Sotomayor spoke earlier this week on the perils of racial profiling with respect to the Chechen suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings. Were we fair here? [Associated Press] * What keeps in-house counsel awake at night — aside from the tremendous piles of money they’re rolling around in? Apparently they’re expecting an “onslaught” of food labeling and data breach class actions. [WSJ Law Blog (sub. req.)] * Susan Westerberg Prager, known for being the longest-serving dean ever at UCLA School of Law, will take up the deanship at another illustrious institution, Southwestern Law School. [National Law Journal] * The February results for the New York bar exam are out, and with the highest number of test-takers ever, the pass rate was brutal. We may have more on this later. [Thomson Reuters News & Insight] * Rhode Island just got a little more fabulous. The Ocean State legalized gay marriage yesterday, making it the tenth state to do so, and uniting New England in marriage equality for all. [Bloomberg] * Back in December, we told you about an alleged “well-dressed” groper — an unemployed lawyer, as it were. Well, now there’s nothing alleged about it, because that guy just pleaded guilty. [New York Post]

By Staci Zaretsky
Law Schools

Non-Sequiturs: 01.24.13

* Twitter ordered to out anti-Semitic users by a French court. France wants to know the names of the anti-Semites so they can surrender to them. [Thomson Reuters News & Insights] * How are you feeling, Vermont Law School? Right now, you don’t look so good. [Constitutional Daily] * Now you too can see why AIG decided to not sue the government that bailed them out. [Dealbreaker] * Seems like these Catholic hospitals aren’t so strident about when life begins when there’s a malpractice lawsuit on the line. [Raw Story] * Though, according to some Republicans, fetuses might still be evidence — evidence that rape victims should not be allowed to “tamper” with (what a wonderful little party the GOP has going there). [Gawker] * Orly Taitz: Still Bats**t crazy. [Huffington Post] * The Maryland State Police have to turn over racial profiling complaints to the NAACP. Man, wouldn’t that have made a good season of The Wire? “The Staties.” Carcetti would be Governor. McNulty would be getting away from it all by tending bar in the D.C. area, only to get sucked back in when he passes a state trooper arresting Bubs for driving while black through Takoma Park. [Baltimore Sun]

By Elie Mystal