Tax Evasion

* An analysis of Judge Garland’s rulings on the D.C. Circuit — what type of judge he is, who has he been historically, and what he might be like as a Supreme Court justice. [Empirical SCOTUS]

* Ex-Skadden lawyer Charles Bennett, who pled guilty to running a Ponzi scheme, got sentenced to 5 years in prison. [Law360]

* Some of the most damning evidence in the lawsuit against Rolling Stone over its (since retracted) UVA rape story may be a law firm’s involvement. [Gawker]

* Super. One of Donald Trump’s delegates was just indicted on child porn and weapons charges. I’m fascinated to know how that will lead to a bump in Trump’s polling numbers. [Law Newz]

* This criminal defense attorney actually enjoys his job. I thought a lawyer that was fulfilled by their job existed only on TV. Nicely done, sir. [Katz on Justice]

* Securities lawyer is getting two years in jail for tax evasion. You should really know better, dude. [Daily Business Review]

* An attorney faced disciplinary action for letting her deadbeat boyfriend do illegal s**t in her basement. [Legal Profession Blog]

* A cool opportunity in legal journalism: full-time editor of SCOTUSblog. [SCOTUSblog]

* 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]

* It’s not just media groups that are urging the Supreme Court to allow live coverage of the announcement of the ACA decision. Senators Patrick Leahy and Chuck Grassley of the Senate Judiciary Committee have joined the club. [Blog of Legal Times]

* Dewey know whether this failed firm’s former partners will be settling their claims any time soon? Team Togut hopes to reach a deal in the next six weeks, and claims that cooperation will absolve D&L’s deserters of all future liability. [Am Law Daily (sub. req.)]

* From Biglaw to the big house: former Sullivan & Cromwell partner John O’Brien, who is serving time for tax evasion charges, has been suspended from practicing law in New York. [Thomson Reuters News & Insight]

* A Stradling Yocca partner and his wife, a Boalt Hall graduate, stand accused of planting drugs on a school volunteer who supervised their son. Looks like the only thing they’re straddling now is jail time. [OC Register]

* Dharun Ravi was released early from jail yesterday after completing a little more than half of his 30-day sentence. Funny how bad behavior got him into the slammer, but good behavior got him out of it. [CNN]

* “Why would somebody so smart do something so stupid?” Kenneth Kratz, the sexting DA from Wisconsin, claims that the answer to that question is an addiction to sex and prescription drugs. [Herald Times Reporter]

* Jay-Z’s got 99 problems and this bitch is one. He’s been accused by Patrick White of plagiarizing parts of his own best-selling memoir, “Decoded,” and slapped with a copyright infringement suit. [New York Daily News]