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Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 12.1.22

* While transparency laws are a step in the right direction, the journey is far from over. [Forbes] * Did you wake up wondering what federal judges thought about diversity in the field? Here's your primer. [Wa Po] * Judge's scare tactic toward Yale is already crumbling. Learn to commit, people! [Bloomberg Law] * California's DOJ made an oopsie. [KTVU] * Prepare for layoffs. Maybe prepare less if you're in Employment law or Bankruptcy — they're kind of always in business. [Law.com]

Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 11.18.22

* Here's a snippet of what Yale Law thinks about race conscious admissions. [Yale Daily News] * Will Cornell opt out a la Yale and Harvard? Your guess is as good as mine. [Cornell Sun] * No need to be curious about UC Berkeley though. [WSJ] * Brittney Griner has been transferred out of Moscow to begin her sentence. [NYT] * Been looking for a way to study contracts without being bored to sleep? Consider this...religious angle. [Tampa Bay]

Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 11.17.22

* Looking for direction outside of US News? Here's what Yale thinks. [Yahoo!] * Cops don't want a law that prevents them from being in terrorist groups. Interesting. [Minnesota Reformer] * Now this is an interesting overlap of Federal law and adoption policy. [Inquirer] * Massachusetts' new license law is worth familiarizing yourself with. [Axios] * Where do we go from here? Penn (Carey) Law has some ideas. [The DP]

Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 11.08.22

* I wonder if Elon factored in International Law when he bought his "free speech" platform? He definitely didn't factor in parody. [QZ] * Yale Law keeps its enemies closer. [Yale Daily News] * Need a legal bird's eye view? Got you covered. [Law.com] * Few things are worse than a power tripping judge and strict textualism. [Reddit]

Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 10.17.22

* Yale Law responds to the attempt to cancel its students.  This is all just an elaborate ploy to convince people that it exists if you ask me. [Washington Examiner] * Fewer folks are applying to be law students in 2023. This is not entirely bad. We do need more welders. [Reuters] * Live in Nebraska and want to go to law school in order to help people? Check out their public interest scholars program! Also — consider leaving Nebraska. [News.UNL.edu] * Harvard Law's student body is also getting involved in political activism. If judges keep blacklisting prestigious schools for allowing their students to have opinions, we might have a Supreme Court justice from Rutgers some day! [The Nation]

Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 08.03.22

* Affirmative action as a 1st Amendment issue? Let's see how this goes over. [Wa Po] * Yale Law decides to be #1 when it comes to helping students that could use some financial aid. [ABC News] * Wait, are they actually considering fetuses people for tax purposes? Gotta give it to Georgia! [Huff Po] * Georgia's heartbeat law also has some new implications for wrongful death suits. [11 Alive] * An Oklahoma school gets docked after a teacher reported it for having their colleagues sit through staff training on implicit bias. I expected the childishness to come from the kids. [Ed Week]

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Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 03.23.22

> * People are salty that Ketanji Brown Jackson thinks Roe v. Wade is settled law. In other news, Marshall v. Madison is back on the chopping block. [The Guardian] * Go, cousin! Black folks have been overwhelmingly supportive of KBJ — go figure. [The Cut] * Some of you may die: Tennessee reins in the effectiveness of federal vaccine mandates. [JD Supra] * Doesn’t work in theory: The folks trying their damndest to make something stick may ask KBJ her thoughts on the Yale “Free Speech” debacle. I wonder if she’ll pull an ACB and refuse to speak on hypotheticals? [New York Post] * “In bird culture, this is considered a dick move”: a member of Teddy Cruz’s cohort gives him a little shame for how he went about yesterday’s confirmation hearing. [SF Gate]

Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 12.02.21

* The first action under Tennessee's anti-CRT law is accusing MLK of being un-American. Who would have dreamed of this? [Insider] * A clean conscience: Law that protects donors from civil and criminal liability finds it easier to donate female sanitary products. [AP News] * Yale student who claims they were blackballed ends up getting the prestigious scholarship anyway. [Yale Daily News] * For a lot of people, the current push against abortion rights doesn't make sense. Here's a look for how forcing birth will impact Mississippians trying to make cents. [NYT] * A thinner blue line: A new North Carolina law makes it so that police have to report their co-workers within 3 days if they see them using excessive force. Sounds like this should have been a duh rule, but I'm glad it's a law now. [WITN]