* Sam Bankman-Fried allowed to carry flip phone. Cue the Eighth Amendment. Just give him a rotary phone and be done with it. [Reuters]
* Former inspector general revisits the Supreme Court's "oops, I mean, we talked to the justices 'about' the investigation but I cannot say that they were part 'of' the investigation" effort, and ruminates on how unbelievably inept this is. [The Atlantic]
* George Conway is getting a divorce from Kellyanne confirming that marriage requires more than one person with a foot in reality. [CNN]
* Starbucks' labor troubles have gone from venti to cento. [Bloomberg Law News]
* Law360 continues to be laser-focused on the former NY Chief Judge Janet DiFiore beat, uncovering seemingly misleading testimony used to justify her multimillion-dollar publicly funded security detail. [Law360]
* A collection of crazy law firm merchandise. [LegalCheek]
* Good Morning! School shootings are so routine that our schools will have panic buttons in them now. Like bank tellers on the job, we kind of just factor in our kids encountering guns as a business expense. [CBS News]
* The Cost of Caffeine: NLRA claims Starbucks is illegally trying to stop unionizing. I heard if you order a Venti Justice with two pumps of Equity the company will leave you alone. [CBS News]
* Insurance company gets dropped by Allstate and Progressive after pulling some light Juneteenth ignance. Told you it was coming. [NPR]
* Marjorie Taylor Greene pulls a South Park caricature after a UK journalist asks her about gun crime. [Huff Post]
* We are still in a political climate where a not Forbes 400 rich, but still rich guy can treat charges for inciting a riot like making a traffic ticket disappear. Woo. [Reuters]
* Working at a law firm in Philly? You may not need to change out of those sweatpants for a little longer. [Law.com]
* Federal judges gave most of the failed coup'ers lighter sentences than prosecutors recommended. I didn't expect them to get life in jail for stealing 9 bucks or anything, but come on. [The Crime Report]
* The United States imposes visa restrictions on Cuban officials as a punishment to their connection to arresting citizens for peaceful protests. I hope other countries don't return the favor. [Jurist]
* OSHA! COVID test for OSHA! Starbucks mandates vaccines or weekly COVID tests for its employees to keep in line with OSHA. [Legal Reader]
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* A lawsuit filed on behalf of thousands of New York City fitness studios argues that exercise facilities should be allowed to operate despite COVID-19. Guess people soon might not have an excuse to stay away from the gym... [Pix 11]
* The Supreme Court has declined to get involved in the defamation lawsuit Stormy Daniels filed against Donald Trump. [Forbes]
* Two New York City lawyers, who allegedly torched an NYPD car last year, have purportedly been offered a plea deal. [New York Post]
* Check out this article on the cases Vice President Harris handled as the former California Attorney General. [Juris Lab]
* A lawyer is aiming to create the "Starbucks of pet grooming." Wonder what a caramel macchiato is with dogs... [Newsday]
* Starbucks is being sued for allegedly failing to have real vanilla in its chilled Frappuccinos. Hope the plaintiff doesn't settle like Kramer... [National Law Review]
* A California lawyer was arrested earlier this week for allegedly defrauding investors of nearly $5 million on a bogus real estate opportunity. [KTLA]
* A Texas lawyer is claiming that receiving stimulus money can lead to a higher divorce rate. [CBS News]
* A lawyer has been sentenced to a prison term for charging a client for immigration work and never doing the promised tasks. [Go Erie]
* One of Donald Trump's impeachment lawyers apparently sued Trump last year. Must be water under the bridge... [Vanity Fair]
* Mike Lindell, the CEO of MyPillow, is filing a defamation lawsuit against a tabloid that said he was having an affair. Guess people should stop circulating "pillow" talk... [E! Online]
* An attorney has been sentenced to two years in prison for failing to file tax returns and pay taxes. [Chicago Tribune]
* A Texas lawyer and client were ordered to pay $150,000 for "outright lies" in court. [Texas Lawyer]
* A Chicago attorney is racking up wins on the game show Jeopardy! [Chicago Tribune]
* A lawyer is giving $20 Starbucks gift cards to teachers as a way to express his gratitude for educators. Guess it's more useful than apples...[Fox News]
* President Trump included a signing statement when approving the funding legislation that will keep the government running through the end of September. In it, he questioned the limits of his spending power and suggested he'd ignore advance notice requirements for Congress when taking foreign policy and military actions, amid other troubling stances on legal matters. [Bloomberg Politics]
* In other news, sometime this week -- possibly even later today -- President Trump is expected to announce some of his picks for the more than 120 vacancies in the lower federal courts, all of whom are known for their "scholarly credentials and 'intellectual boldness.'" As luck would have it, we already scooped predicted the names of many of the nominees. [New York Times]
* #NoFilter necessary for this case: The End, a Brooklyn coffee shop, has filed suit against Starbucks, claiming the coffee giant copied its Unicorn Latte with its highly Instagrammable Unicorn Frappuccino. The End registered the name of its whimsical drink with the Patent and Trademark Office in January, and seeks all profits Starbucks made from its sale of its mythical sugar bomb. [Newsweek]
* Even if you're a passenger in a car, you'll have no reprieve from police searches in this state. The Utah Supreme Court has ruled that police may ask for passengers' identification and run background checks on them -- without any suspicion of wrongdoing -- during traffic stops, and that doing so will not stand as a violation of their Fourth Amendment rights. [FOX 13 Salt Lake City]
* Think you've found the perfect person to write you a law school rec letter? Think again. "Like in the world of dating, it helps if your partner/prospective partner is supportive of your plans." Here are some red flags to look out for that may indicate your reference isn't going to meet your deadlines, isn't going to remember who you are, and isn't going to write you a glowing letter. [U.S. News]
* Celebrity trial attorney Mark Geragos has filed a $100 million class-action lawsuit against rapper Ja Rule and entrepreneur Billy McFarland, the organizers of the ill-fated Fyre Festival, an event marked by "incompetence on an almost inconceivable scale." In an interview with Variety, Geragos referred to the disastrous event as a "Petri dish of fraud, incompetence and hubris." [Variety]
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* Ivanka Trump has responded to a lawsuit filed by fashion house Aquazurra, which accused her of infringing upon the luxury brand's shoe designs. Trump repeatedly denied copying the shoe designs in question, and asked that the suit be tossed out like a pair of last season's pumps. Will this keep on kicking until after the election? [Huffington Post]
* A federal judge tossed a rather absurd suit that was filed against Starbucks, which alleged the company put a deceptive amount of ice in its cold drinks, writing, "If children have figured out that including ice in a cold beverage decreases the amount of liquid they will receive, the Court has no difficulty concluding that a reasonable consumer would not be deceived." [WSJ Law Blog]
* Bad Boies, bad Boies, whatcha gonna do? Whatcha gonna do when they finance you? The Boies/Schiller Film Group, a small film finance company started by law firm founder David Boies and Zack Schiller (son of law firm co-founder Jonathan Schiller), is fronting the cash needed for comedy movie based on reality show "COPS." [Law.com]
* Turing Pharmaceuticals, the drug company once led by disgraced pharma bro Martin Shkreli, has been accused of retaliation following the alleged sexual assault of its chief commercial officer at the hands of its interim chief financial officer. For his part in this mess, Shkreli is accused of sexist and vulgar behavior. [DealBook / New York Times]
* "The allegations of the suit are ridiculous. We are confident that the suit will be dismissed in short order." Cassidy Recruiting is suing Holland & Knight partner Dean Schaner over a failed law firm placement, and it's seeking between $200K and $1M in damages, all because Schaner used another recruiter to join the firm. [Big Law Business]
* Lawyer remembers when young people were encouraged to fly instead of becoming the veal in the airlines' effort to treat us all like cattle. [Travels With Darley]
* Starbucks iced drinks too icy? Sue. [CNN]
* Attention Class of 2016: you may be excited because you're about to graduate and start your real life, but here is what you need to survive law firm life. [Law and More]
* Eastern District of New York Judge Brian M. Cogan is upping the pressure on the government to unseal documents being sought by the press in the case of Felix Sater that they believe may illuminate business dealings between Donald Trump and the mob-connected figure. [Wise Law]
* Know your Miranda rights before you get in a sticky situation and need them. [St. Louis Tribune]
* There are lots of stats that can be aggregated by looking at this Term's oral arguments at the Supreme Court, like which justice spoke the most and what does that tell us about the Court's liberal justices? [Empirical SCOTUS]
* The gentrification of Brooklyn can be summed up pretty easily. [Redline]
