Anthony Weiner Pleads Guilty, Will Have To Register As A Sex Offender
Anthony Weiner is gross, but he's not special.
Non-Sequiturs: 05.01.17
* Airbnb will allow the government to audit hosts in order to test for racial discrimination. [The Guardian] * Texas cop shoots and kills an unarmed black 15-year-old. [The Root] * There's no video, but Popehat has a nice little tale about an airline and airport police completely failing. [Popehat] * If this had happened to Ann Coulter, conservatives would be concerned. But since it only happened to left-leaning women in Kentucky... crickets. [ABC] * The Supreme Court doesn't want to touch California's ban on gay conversion therapy. Banning gay conversion therapy is, of course, the only reason to be happy Donald Trump hasn't been repealed and replaced by Mike Pence. [ABA Journal] * In case you missed it, on Friday night I debated Jenner Block's Lindsay Harrison about the Constitution, and Seema Iyer about sex offenders. Check out the webcast here. [WNYC Studios] * Richard Posner and Jed Rakoff face off over the death penalty. [Slate]
Elie Mystal is an editor of Above the Law and the Legal Editor for More Perfect. He can be reached @ElieNYC on Twitter, or at [email protected]. He will resist.
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Lawyers And Depression: An Interesting Issue
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Non-Sequiturs: 05.15.15
* "What Law Firms Can Learn From the Business Decisions of 'Mad Men.'" I'm hoping the answer is "more drinking on the job." [Legal Times] * Hillary Clinton pledges to nominate SCOTUS justices who will overturn Citizens United. And if you agree with her, she'll gladly accept your unlimited donations to her *wink* unaffiliated SuperPAC. [Jezebel] * Seema Iyer talks about one of our favorite recent cases, Driskell v. Homosexuals. [MSNBC] * Sometimes getting fired can be a positive. As they say the Chinese word for crisis contains the word "opportunity." Crisitunity. [Wisconsin Lawyer] * A great detailed piece on California's recent decision to grant a law license to Hong Yen Chang, the Columbia Law grad denied his license over 100 years ago on the grounds of his "Mongolian nativity." [Bloomberg BNA / Big Law Business] * Bad: Being wrongfully convicted. Worse: The system strong-arming the wronged into signing away their right to compensation. [LFC 360] * Should graduate students and adjuncts unionize? Depends. Do they want to be exploited by an unappreciative institution until their souls are sucked dry? Yes? Then no. [New York Times] * Sen. Toomey wants Judge L. Felipe Restrepo on the Third Circuit. Maybe he should start talking to his obstructionist colleagues instead of whining to the paper. [Constitutional Accountability Center] * PacerPro to automatically retrieve documents referenced in notices of electronic filing from PACER. That can help cut down on some mistakes... eh, Sidley Austin? [Law Sites] * Thomson Reuters has a new social network for small law firms. For every post, users can push a little "thumbs up" icon to express, "I [and my successors, assigns, and heirs of my body, indicate my generally warm feelings, reserving all rights to reverse or withdraw this endorsement at any time for any reason whatsoever notwithstanding any prior representations] This!" [Legal Research & Writing Pro] * The 2015 World Championship BBQ Cooking Contest in Memphis is this weekend. How does that relate to ATL? Bob Cornish, a D.C.-based attorney at Phillips Lytle LLP and a trained and certified expert in BBQ is a judge. [Memphis In May]