U.S. News Law School Rankings Preview Is Here: Major Shakeup Or Much Ado About Nothing?
Quite often, much fanfare signals nothing. This is one of those times.
Antitrust Suit Sets Stage To See If Yale, Columbia, And Others Are Institutes Of Higher Learning Or Higher Income
The first red flag was the frequent mentioning of their parent's deep pockets in their diversity statement.
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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]
Are Top Tier Law Schools Pulling Away From US News Because Of Concerned Action Or Concerted Action?
Sure would be cool if we all just independently did the same thing as each other within a very short period of time such that it would be as if we all decided to do the same thing together...
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: 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]
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Morning Docket: 11.10.22
* You know you have to be doing something wrong as a state when a law school sues you. [NYU News] * Things appear to be looking up for the Indian Child Welfare Act. [West Hawaii Today] * Success doesn't always make you safe in layoff season. [Law.com] * The infighting among judges soft banning aspiring Yale clerks continues. [Daily Princetonian]
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: 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: 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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Legal Scholar Just Guaranteed The Coolest Glow Up Story At 40th High School Reunion
Its like Smitty Werbenjägermanjensen, if his life was interesting and legal!
Don’t Believe The Hype: The Left Wish They Ran Cancel Culture Like This
No blue-haired them/they comes close to snowflaking as hard as a middle-aged white man who reads Breitbart.
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: 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]
Yale Law Shows Commitment To Diversity With Boilerplate Apology To Minorities
If the 2L was a Meek Mill fan, they would have known to just call it a House Party and avoid all the drama.