Justice Clarence Thomas Is Finally Recognized At Museum Of African American History
If reached for comment, Justice Thomas likely would have remained silent.
Morning Docket: 08.18.16
* A Brazilian judge ordered that Olympic swimmers Ryan Lochte and Jimmy Feigen surrender their passports and remain in Rio until investigators can determine whether they filed a false police report of being robbed at gunpoint. There's one problem: Lochte is back in America. Jeah! [USA Today] * As we mentioned yesterday, according to NALP, law school graduates in the class of 2015 landed fewer jobs in private practice than any other class in the past 20 years. There is a bright side, though: Biglaw firms are hiring in droves and the median starting salary for new lawyers has risen to $100,000, which is 5 percent higher than it was for the class of 2014. [DealBook / New York Times] * Graduates who sued Widener Law in 2012 over the school's allegedly deceptive employment statistics lost a federal appeal to overturn a denial of class certification. A three-judge panel of the Third Circuit -- one which included Donald Trump's sister, Judge Maryanne Trump Barry -- rejected a class-wide theory of damages. [Law.com] * Legal ethics professor Ronald Rotunda of Chapman Law wrote an op-ed striking out against the ABA's adoption of a new professional misconduct rule which seeks to combat discrimination and bias in the law. He refers to the new rule as a misguided "foray into political correctness," and thinks the ABA overstepped its bounds. [WSJ Law Blog] * "At best he was doing something profundity stupid with the hopes of meeting someone he will never get to meet in his lifetime." A lawyer for Stephen Rogata, the teen who scaled Trump Tower, says her client should receive psychiatric treatment instead of jail time. He's being held on $10,000 bail bond or $5,000 cash. [New York Daily News]
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