State Bars Foreign Student From Bar Exam — Next Stop, State Supreme Court
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Non-Sequiturs: 09.27.16
* Game theory and the battle over the Supreme Court. [Harvard Business Review] * No punishment for Professor Reynolds from the University of Tennessee Law School over questionable Tweets. [Knoxville News Sentinel] * The blame game over Donald Trump's bad debate performance. [Law and More] * Check out this event with Gillian Thomas, attorney at ACLU Women’s Rights Project and author of Because of Sex: One Law, Ten Cases, and Fifty Years That Changed American Women's Lives at Work. [Rewire] * A look at close cases at the Supreme Court. [Empirical SCOTUS] * This is horrifying. [Slate]
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Non-Sequiturs: 05.15.13
* New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg commissioned a report on SDNY Judge Shira Scheindlin in advance of her ruling on the NYPD’s controversial “hey, you’re black, come get a pat down” “stop-and-frisk” policy. According to the report, Judge Scheindlin is biased because she ruled against the NYPD in search and seizure cases 60% of the time. An alternative read is that the NYPD is really bad at following the Constitution. Occam’s Razor strikes again. [New York Daily News] * STRIKE!: Legal Services NYC walked off the job this morning after rejecting new contract offers. [New York Law Journal] * Pentagon Papers lawyer James C. Goodale thinks President Obama, whose administration seized phone records of journos, is worse than President Nixon, who tried to charge the New York Times for conspiracy to commit espionage. Because hyperbole is the awesomest thing in the world! [New York Observer] * A surplus of lawyers over law jobs exists in every state, and for most states the surplus has grown. I’m sure third-party litigation financing will solve all of this though. [Am Law Daily] * Tennessee law grad and judicial affairs director fired amid allegations she hooked up with Tennessee basketball player Trae Golden. [MStars News] * After revelations earlier that Arkansas wasn’t “buying American” and instead getting its death penalty drugs from the UK, the pharmaceutical company announced it would cut off the supply, joining a number of drug companies that are practically slowing executions around the country by limiting supply. [YubaNet] * After the post, check out the Biglaw firm using 4square way too much…
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Law Students Tangle Over Prestige, Machine Guns, and Books; Hilarity Ensues
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The Lost Class Does Not Even Warrant A Spellcheck?
A University of Tennessee College of Law student sent along this photo: The class composite is hanging in the entrance to the law school library. Maybe the extra “s” stands for screwed?