Standing

Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 09.07.22

* Quick, is this a Simpson's gag or an American Tuesday?: Trump steals classified documents and inadvertently leaks another country's highly classified nuclear arms information. [Wa Po] * Do fetuses have standing? [Law and Crime] * Cowboys for Trump co-founder got hit with the 14th. Not to laugh at one's misfortunes, but teehee. [CitizensForEthics] * Apple just evaded a class action being bit from it. [Bloomberg Law] * Anti WOKE act accused of preventing teachers from doing their job because of how hard it restricts free speech. [Newsweek]

By Chris Williams
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 07.12.21

* Snitches get standing: New Texas law lets private citizens sue anyone aiding an abortion. [NY Times] * Burning is one thing, but a boot!? Woman charged with hate crime for smirking after stomping a Back the Blue flag. [Salt Lake Tribune] * Tesla panels storing solar energy and, err, mold? Civ Pro and Energy Law bros should love this. [Business Insider] * Is...uhh..Congress defunding their police? [CBS News] * Woman who ran over a protestor beats assault charge. [Insider]

By Chris Williams
Non-Sequiturs

Non Sequiturs: 01.06.19

* It's baaack: partisan gerrymandering returns to the Supreme Court -- and in the view of veteran SCOTUS watcher Amy Howe, it's unlikely that the justices will duck the merits this time around. [SCOTUSblog] * Article III standing and the Stored Communications Act: Orin Kerr argues that it should be viewed through the lens of property rather than privacy. [Volokh Conspiracy / Reason] * Carrie Severino calls out Senate Democrats for their persistent -- and in her view, unjustified -- questioning of judicial nominees about their religious views and affiliations. [Bench Memos / National Review] * Joel Cohen identifies an interesting issue: should a defendant prejudiced by government misconduct in a case receive a break at sentencing? [Law & Crime] * Here are some highlights from Chief Justice John Roberts's year-end report on the federal judiciary, courtesy of Howard Wasserman. [PrawfsBlawg] * The new year is a time of beginnings -- and endings. Concurring Opinions, you will be missed. [Concurring Opinions]

By David Lat
Non-Sequiturs

Non-Sequiturs: 05.14.15

* The NFLPA is appealing the 4-game suspension Tom Brady received in the wake of the Wells Report. It's more probable than not that he'll lose. [CNN] * Lawyer tackles his own client trying to flee the courtroom. Great, now litigators have to start worrying about the long-term effect of concussions. [Legal Cheek] * New rankings are out and Thomas M. Cooley Law School (or WMU or whatever) is NUMBER 1! Seriously. For real. Find out why... [Georgetown Law via TaxProf Blog] * The Wright Brothers: The Original Patent Trolls. [Concurring Opinions] * Are you into spy thrillers? What about lengthy treatises on standing? Well, then you're in luck. [Dorf on Law] * A Washington prosecutorial office rocked by misconduct allegations. Ho hum, prosecutors break the rules. But the source -- a whistleblowing veteran prosecutor -- is a new twist. [The Open File] * The jury is deliberating on Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's fate in the Boston bombing trial [Law and More] * The final two items both focus on agricultural regulations. First, a look back at the life of Roscoe Filburn, the wheat farmer at the center of Wickard v. Filburn. Now I'll never not see Homer Simpson when I think of that case. [Lawyers, Guns & Money] * Second, if you aren't following the raisins takings case, basically the government takes a share of the annual raisin crop for its own use... without compensating the growers. Put aside the constitutionality, that's startlingly inefficient when the government encourages farmers to shift away from a crop the government needs. Here's a video about the farmers at the center of the case. [YouTube] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFbzLPJtYPE

By Joe Patrice
American Bar Association / ABA

Morning Docket: 01.09.12

* Is the Roberts court really as pro-First Amendment as we’ve been led to believe? Lawyers aren’t really that good at math, but they’ve done studies, you know. And 34.5% of the time, it works every time. [New York Times] * The people at the ABA aren’t concerned that William Robinson’s remarks made him seem […]

By Staci Zaretsky
Bar Exams

Morning Docket: 01.04.12

* Ken Cuccinelli, Virginia’s Attorney General, wants Rick Perry’s election law suit to be dismissed, because really, what’s the point? Standing or not, Perry got completely hosed in Iowa. [Bloomberg] * What’s next for Stephen Glass? When all else fails, hire a high-profile appellate team to do your dirty work for you. He could write […]

By Staci Zaretsky