Brooklyn Beats Crime By Cleaning Records Tied To Dirty Cops
All of this could have been prevented if they just made the cops pinky swear not to plant evidence.
Morning Docket: 09.09.22
* How hard is it to not commit human rights violations? For folks running New York's prisons, pretty hard apparently. [ Gothamist] * Hope you enjoyed your voting rights before Court is back in session. [Esquire] * Don't say Games Done Quick: Popular game speedrunning event cancelled in part due to Florida's "Don't Say Gay" law. [Wa Po] * Move over I'm biking here!: Portland case claims crowded sidewalks violate the ADA. [Bike Portland] * ACB set to take part in case involving folks that have paid her repeatedly. The Supreme in Supreme Court refers to them being above accountability. [Raw Story]
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Solitary Confinement, The Cruelest Form Of Punishment
In decades of practicing criminal law, solitary confinement has been the go-to, knee-jerk response to inmate misbehavior.
Non-Sequiturs: 03.03.16
* Let’s just call this flattery and be done with it -- a UK brand of lingerie has launched a new design named after Amal Clooney. [Legal Cheek] * A law professor dives into the most popular forms of tax evasion. [Huffington Post] * A new, fast, and cheap way to sequence DNA has sparked a legal battle, because of course it did. [Science Magazine] * What’s going to happen when solitary confinement is abolished? [Pacific Standard] * Ah-mahzing. An intrepid New Yorker made their own license plate, but no, it is not legal. [Slate] * Everything you ever wanted to know about the philosophical underpinnings of House of Cards. [Wisecrack]
The Yale Law Journal And Solitary Confinement
With all the focus on the death penalty, another evil of the prison system is getting glossed over.
Morning Docket: 12.17.15
* Donald Trump has been having a rollicking good time on the campaign trail as the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination, but he may have to take a break to testify in a trademark dispute over "Trump Your Competition." [WSJ Law Blog] * It seems that Venable has been dragged into a huge Facebook stock scam, and thanks to a former partner's alleged conduct, the Biglaw firm is now being accused of assisting a con man in a $11.3 million fraud related to the social media giant's initial public offering. [New York Post] * The Obama administration has finally made a move in the SCOTUS case filed by Oklahoma and Nebraska seeking to overturn legal weed in Colorado. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli thinks the justices would have to be high to even entertain it. [Reuters] * Trinity Western Law grads were previously banned from practicing law in British Columbia, Canada, due to the Christian school forcing students to sign abstinence pledges, but because of this recent ruling, the tides have turned. [NewBostonPost] * “This will not be the end of the road for solitary confinement reform, but we really think it’s a watershed moment.” Thanks to a $62M settlement, New York will be changing the way it deals with solitary confinement in state prisons. [New York Times] * After finding out that Justice Scalia was rejected from two of his top-choice schools, the ABA Journal wants you to reflect on your own rejections and acceptances. Where did you apply to law school, and where did you decide to go? Let us know. [ABA Journal]
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Morning Docket: 09.16.15
* Justices Kennedy and Breyer seemed to be champing at the bit for a prolonged solitary confinement case last Term, and now they may have the opportunity to weigh in on one. Let's see if the Supreme Court decides to let Justice Kennedy swing his vote around. [New York Times] * We all know that Mark Cuban isn't that big of a fan of the Securities and Exchange Commission, but now he's trying to inject himself into the debate over the agency's use of in-house administrative law judges by way of filing a brief in support. [WSJ Law Blog] * Winston & Strawn elected Jeffrey Kessler to serve as its co-chair. He's got experience running firms with others -- he once served as a member of Dewey's four-partner Office of the Chairman before the firm completely imploded. [Big Law Business / Bloomberg BNA] * IU Maurer Law is teaming up with Chapman and Cutler, an Am Law 200 firm, to create a two-year rotational program in finance and law. There's just one catch: this is only for recent college graduates, not law school graduates. Oops! [Indiana Daily Student] * Lucrative niche alert: They're calling this the green rush, but we don't need to remind attorneys that green is also the color of money. By 2020, the market for legal recreational marijuana is going to be booming, with billions of dollars in business. [Fortune]
Morning Docket: 06.22.15
* Everyone's a winner at Nixon Peabody, especially the millennials! The firm is doing away with the corner-office model in favor of office space reminiscent of that of tech companies, where everyone's offices -- from paralegals to partners -- are the same size. [Washington Post] * A former North Dakota Law student is suing the school, as well as several administrators and professors, because he alleges they dismissed him via email in May due to problems with his application. Man, that's almost as harsh as a break-up text. [WDAZ] * Justice Kennedy knows a lot of people who are gay, but that doesn't mean he'll recognize a constitutional right to same-sex marriage just because of his circle of friends and colleagues. He'll likely do it because he knows "how meaningful this is." [New York Times] * The Supreme Court is currently considering an emergency appeal out of Texas after the Fifth Circuit refused to stay a decision that would all but close the vast majority of abortion facilities in the state. Give this law the good old coat hanger, SCOTUS. [Associated Press] * Last week, Justice Kennedy basically invited litigants to challenge the constitutionality of solitary confinement because it "exacts a terrible price." Step right up and become one of the first to test the power of the SCOTUS swing vote on this issue. [Los Angeles Times] * "Having a woman leader is no longer exceptional." The number of women law school deans is on the rise. They make up 40 percent of incoming law school leadership, and currently comprise 30 percent of all law deans. Nice work! [National Law Journal] * After pleading guilty to a felony count of vehicular manslaughter back in March, California lawyer Hasti Fakhrai-Bayrooti was recently sentenced to four years in prison for killing a cyclist while driving high on prescription drugs Xanax and Suboxone. [Daily Mail]