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By Barbri
Non-Sequiturs

Non-Sequiturs: 08.11.16

* 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]

By Kathryn Rubino
Federal Judges

I Don’t Think ‘Redaction’ Means What You Think It Means

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....

By Christopher Danzig