Redactions

There's a new way for redactions to be spoiled.

Oopsie!

Why does this keep happening?

Comic book characters have privacy rights too.

Learn from these lawyers' mistakes. Don't allow technology to get the best of you -- or your case.

* Apparently regulation is an effective way to limit greenhouse gas emissions… in case anyone cares about that sort of thing. [TaxProf Blog]

* Fun with redaction tape. [The Slot]

* I feel ya, Merrick. [The Onion]

* A Gorsuch filibuster debate. [Slate]

* When will you pay off your debt? When you die. [Law and More]

* Where are you putting your money? [Corporette]

* Rick Perry is kinda a dick. [Salon]

* More cases are working their way up to the Supreme Court to define a religiously affiliated employer’s obligations to its employees. [Rewire]

* Is there a particular formula for getting yourself a coveted Supreme Court clerkship? [Empirical SCOTUS]

* The conservative interpretation of the Second Amendment has been prelude to Donald Trump’s veiled assassination “joke.” [Slate]

* Is criminal sentencing about to go all precog in this country? [FiveThirtyEight]

* Yes, even liberals can commit sexual assault. [The Slot]

* Remember — these pages and pages of redactions were probably done by some poor contract attorney trying to make a living. [Gawker]

A novel approach to benchslapping overzealous attorneys.

A Biglaw firm accidentally released an unredacted version of documents it had previously spent lots of time and money intentionally trying to keep sealed. Oops!

Here at Above the Law, we regularly cover benchslaps: judges laying the smackdown on poorly performing attorneys. But what about when it's the judge who says, "I've made a tiny huge mistake"? On Friday, U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh made a significant technological blunder in a patent case between two of Silicon Valley's heaviest hitters. So, what did she do? Let's just say she couldn't keep a secret....

Lawyer and dentist Orly Taitz, popularly known as "Queen of the Birthers," needs to work on her redaction skills, according to a federal judge.