Veep

Non-Sequiturs

Non-Sequiturs: 04.11.17

* Jeff Sessions is prepping to go after illegal border crossings. [Huffington Post] * Veep inched closer and closer to being a documentary. [Slate] * Reminder -- we need your Law Revue submissions by April 18th! [Above the Law] * A catch on the promise of free college in New York State -- though to be fair, it doesn't seem that bad. [New York Post] * What a lawyer thinks about the movie Logan. [Law and the Multiverse] * Are we on the brink of war? [Law and More] * Want a primer on the mess Trump has already made of the law? Plus: CLE credit!  [Bar Association o

Non-Sequiturs

Non-Sequiturs: 04.28.16

* If Bush v. Gore didn't teach you that election laws are a mess, then this season of Veep will hammer the lesson home. [Strook] * D.C. Circuit Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh knows the value of saying no -- especially to a sitting president. [United States Law Week] * Oh, this is fun, well, at least if you are an avowed Trekkie. There's an amicus brief written entirely about the Klingon language. When arguing that Paramount cannot claim a copyright over the Klingon language, what better to spice up your prose than some quotes actually written in Klingon? [Popehat] * A look at the most cited law reviews in Supreme Court opinions from the 2013 Term to the present. [Empirical SCOTUS] * Wait -- what did this Oklahoma court say? That forcing an unconscious woman to perform oral sex isn't sexual assault? What. The. Hell. [Slate] * Pauli Murray, lawyer, scholar and activist, just had a residential college named after her at Yale. [New York Magazine]

Non-Sequiturs

Non-Sequiturs: 07.15.15

* Doesn't the increasingly bloated Republican presidential primary field seem like a plot from Veep rather than real life? Well, take a break from the world's insanity and break down the election law quandary from the season finale of the hit show. [Law.com] * Spoiler alert: the performance art defense doesn't work. [Dealbreaker] * Good news for New York Bar Exam takers -- don't stress about grabbing lunch on the day of the exam. [Custom Gourmet] * This... is not going to end well. China arrested more than 100 human rights lawyers for inciting trouble. [Christian Science Monitor] * I think it's entirely possible Harper Lee never intended to publish "Go Set A Watchman" and that makes me hesitant to read the novel, but Harvard Law School professor Randall Kennedy's call to "abandon the immature sentimentality ingrained by middle school lessons about the nobility of the white savior" has me itching to buy the book. [New York Times] * Speaking of the incredibly sketchy circumstances under which Harper Lee's novel was published, maybe it's time to blame the lawyer? [New Republic] * Remember that viral video about cat-calling on NYC streets from last year? Yeah, the woman featured is suing the makers of the video (along with Google, YouTube, and TGI Fridays). Only problem? She got nothing in writing. [Slate] * I sure hope no attorneys were sucked into this M&A fraud. [Forbes] * OIL AND HEAVY WATER FOR EVERYBODY -- a take on the Iran deal. [Breaking Energy]

Non-Sequiturs

Non-Sequiturs: 06.16.15

* The season finale of Veep offered a fun lesson in constitutional law. [PrawfsBlawg] * When the Supreme Court hands down Obergefell, will it punt the case by acknowledging a new layer of scrutiny? [Slate] * Kash Hill on Hulk Hogan's suit against Gawker. Is a sex tape newsworthy if the guy's bragging about his sex life on Howard Stern? [Fusion] * Florida and Florida State football players routinely circumvent the criminal justice system. Which... everyone kind of knew already. [ESPN] * Why "free IDs" are anything but. [Election Law Blog] * Did it hurt? When you fell from heaven? [Legal Juice] * Take this survey to put the time-worn law firm mantra of "collegial and collaborative" to the test. [Adam Smith, Esq.] * Bruce MacEwen of the aforementioned Adam Smith, Esq. breaks down the Am Law 200. [Big Law Business / Bloomberg BNA] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDI7okOMlYs