Non-Sequiturs: 08.15.14
* Suit filed questioning the parentage of Blue Ivy Carter. Plaintiff claims to be the real… mother? Hm. You’d think that would be pretty easy for everyone to remember. [International Business Times] *...
View ArticleHow To Turn A Law-Abiding Citizen Into A Rioter
Non-violence is the right choice, but it's not the obvious one.
View ArticleWhere You At, You Hypocritical Second Amendment Advocates?
The Second Amendment groups have been strangely silent.
View ArticleThe Road To Injustice Is Paved With Facts, Evidence, And Witnesses
Untrustworthy cops are why we can't have nice things.
View ArticleCan We Picture A White Police Officer Murdering a Black Teenager Without Race...
How could we distinguish a set of facts where a white police officer improperly kills a black teenager without racial bias from one where a white officer improperly kills a black teenager because of...
View ArticleMorning Docket: 08.22.14
* First things first, she’s the realest: In light of the ongoing situation in Ferguson, Missouri, of course Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg acknowledged that we have a “real racial problem” in America....
View ArticleMorning Docket: 08.27.14
* Judge Posner dished out a whole lot of benchslaps at yesterday’s Seventh Circuit arguments over Indiana and Wisconsin’s bans on same-sex marriage. [BuzzFeed] * Major U.S. and Canadian law firms chow...
View ArticleCan Lawyers Cover Events Better than Mass Media?
Let's consider two scenarios, highlighted by developments in the last couple weeks.
View ArticleNon-Sequiturs: 10.01.14
* We welcome Howard Bashman to his new homepage! [How Appealing / Above the Law] * An ode to Brian Leiter to the tune of the Beach Boys’ “I Get Around.” [Philosophy Metablog] * “Lawyers have a powerful...
View ArticleNon-Sequiturs: 10.28.14
* He stuck all that cocaine, where? [Legal Juice] * We saw the list of the Most Impressive, but what can you really tell about a law school from its building? [PrawfsBlawg] * A musical about Thomas...
View Article4 Ways Black Youths Can Help Bring Charges Against Whoever Just Killed Them
It's too much to ask that black people don't get shot to death. But after the shooting, how do we make charges stick?
View ArticleMorning Docket: 11.25.14
* "Have a taste of this. It will do you good in so many ways." Louisa Moritz, one of Bill Cosby's alleged victims, is interested in filing a class-action lawsuit against the comedian. [Fox News Latino]...
View ArticleEyewitness Testimony Sucks, Says Ferguson Prosecutor
Eyewitnesses in the Michael Brown case told too many different stories for a true bill.
View ArticleA Mock Cross-Examination Of Darren Wilson’s Testimony
Somebody needed to cross-examine Darren Wilson's testimony. I do what I can.
View ArticleNon-Sequiturs: 11.25.14
* Grand juries rarely let someone go without an indictment unless it's a cop. Apparently pigs do not make for ham sandwiches. Instead of wishing for another rubber stamp indictment, this may be a good...
View ArticleThe View From Up North: Tragedy In Ferguson, Missouri
On a day-to-day basis the American racial divide is still a canyon, broad and deep. How can we fix it?
View ArticleNon-Sequiturs: 11.26.14
Ed. note: Above the Law will be dark on Thanksgiving and on a reduced publishing schedule on Friday, November 28, while we recover from turkey-induced comas. * Holy backfire Batman! Florida desperately...
View ArticleMorning Docket: 12.01.14
* Some think SCOTUS should be the biggest issue of Election 2016. Why? Because most of the justices are old as hell, and they'll only be older, more decrepit -- and potentially more likely to retire --...
View ArticleLaw School Dean Suggests Black People Lack ‘Reason’ And Other Delightful...
And just for good measure, an NYU law student composes a "parody" of the situation and it goes about as well as you'd expect.
View ArticleMorning Docket: 12.03.14
* Everyone's "BFF" Anthony Elonis, of the Elonis v. U.S. case that's currently before the Supreme Court, is facing additional scrutiny over a snarky note he sent to an ADA last year about burning a...
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