Tamir Rice

Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 02.11.16

* The 5 questions employers shouldn't ask in job interviews. "Does this look infected?" inexplicably fails to make the list. [Law360] * Cleveland is suing Tamir Rice's family for not paying for the ambulance that picked him up after he got gunned down by police. In the contest for "Worst Place In America," Cleveland just keeps racking up points. [Slate] * Mark Cuban continues harassing the SEC with amicus filings over their haphazard enforcement antics. Being rich and a little bit obnoxious finally serves a public purpose. [Litigation Daily] * Ikea has lost the trademark in its own name in Indonesia. This seems as good an opportunity as any to link to this video. [Coconuts Jakarta] * Department of Justice sues Ferguson for years of pervasive racial discrimination. This comes after the city rejected a negotiated deal, because whenever the federal government has you dead to rights you should absolutely piss all over the deal they offer. [Huffington Post] * NASA employees barred from writing "Jesus" in newsletter. Some are calling this a religious freedom issue, but that's ridiculous -- this is a scientific credibility issue. You're NASA! You've been up there and know he's not hanging around on a cloud. [Corporate Counsel] * Sanctioned former Mintz Levin associate brings defamation claims against newspapers. [The Am Law Daily]

By Joe Patrice
Non-Sequiturs

Non-Sequiturs: 12.30.15

* In the aftermath of the Tamir Rice shooting, two Yale Law students, Marvin Brown and Olevia Boykin, have created a powerful visual project asking #isitreasonable. [Mic] * What is Amal Clooney's billing rate? Normal people may be shocked by it, but it seems well in line with Biglaw. [The Sun] * Looks like Stanford Law student Paulina Slagter has "nabbed her man" -- God, what a terrible phrase. Anyway, she reportedly got engaged to Ryan Phillippe over Christmas. [ET Online] * Hope is in short supply in the legal profession. [Law and More] * Which films were included as selections to be included in the National Film Registry? [Lawyers, Guns and Money]

By Kathryn Rubino
Non-Sequiturs

Non-Sequiturs: 12.29.15

* The legalese in user agreements is no joke. Fortunately there's a cartoon -- yup, you heard right, a cartoon -- to make sense of the iTunes agreement. [Slate] * Science says we should let go of our workplace grudges. I guess "science" never spent Christmas Eve redacting Excel spreadsheets so a production could be made by midnight. [Quartz] * The Tennessee judge who characterized the Supreme Court as wielding an "iron fist and limp wrist" over Obergefell... yeah, he got reprimanded. [Legal Profession Blog] * What the hell is going on at University of Louisville Law School. [Tax Prof Blog] * The bureaucratic bulls**t behind Obama's inability to close the doors on Gitmo. [Huffington Post] * The best (worst?) of the right-wing blogosphere. Be sure to take your blood pressure medication before you click. [Village Voice] * The crime of being young, black and free. [The Root] * Congrats to Texas's Tweeter Laureate, Justice Don Willett, on this latest positive press! [San Antonio Express-News]

By Kathryn Rubino
Non-Sequiturs

Non-Sequiturs: 12.16.14

* Law firm suffers Viagra hack. If it persists for more than four hours... [Legal Cheek] * An in-depth and frightening look at "Witness 40" in the Ferguson Grand Jury proceedings: a bipolar woman with a long history of making racist comments who lived nowhere near Ferguson and testified only after Officer Wilson's story was revealed -- which she parroted back. Bob McCulloch thought this was a stellar witness. Bob McCulloch is also bad at his job. [The Smoking Gun] * Charleston local government wants InfiLaw out of town. Is there anyone left who wants InfiLaw to take over Charleston? [TaxProf Blog] * Congratulations to U.S. Attorney Sarah Saldaña on her confirmation as head of ICE. [International Business Times] * Pet piercing will soon be illegal in New York, so get that dope nose ring for your dog today! [Lowering the Bar] * Canadian "band" Skinny Puppy demands $660,000 from the U.S. government for using their music as torture material without permission. As a compromise can we just pledge to strap Dick Cheney down and force him to listen to 15 consecutive hours of Skinny Puppy and call it a day? [Gawker] * Cleveland WR Andrew Hawkins pens a thorough, even-handed takedown of butthurt police union leaders demanding he apologize for taking the stance that police should try not to kill unarmed 12-year-olds. So apparently this is what the Browns are good at. [Talking Points Memo] * David chats about the backstory behind Supreme Ambitions (affiliate link).

By Joe Patrice