Tag: Human Rights

* Just because you showed up drunk for jury duty, it doesn’t mean you should have to go to jail for it — at least according to the Florida Supreme Court. [Daily Business Review]

* George Will on why Republicans may wind up wishing they’d confirmed Chief Judge Merrick Garland when they had the chance. [Washington Post]

* Amal Clooney, speaking at a government communications summit in the United Arab Emirates, urges governments to be vocal, consistent, principled, expedient, and transparent when dealing with human rights issues. [Yahoo News]

* High academic achievement now linked to… failure in the workplace? Well, that’s simultaneously depressing and comforting. [Law and More]

* A former U.S. State Department employee faces up to 8 years in jail for a massive phishing scheme aimed at getting young women to share nude photos. [CS Monitor]

* Check out The Merrick Garland Project by NYU Law Review. It’s a curation of select opinions written by Chief Judge Garland, organized by topic. [The Merrick Garland Project]

* The obstructed Supreme Court nomination process gets a children’s book treatment. [Slate]

* Fear eroding free speech rights is as dangerous as you might imagine. [Huffington Post]

* Remembering the space strike — this day in history. [Lawyers, Guns and Money]

* Lawyers are smart, but not smart enough to avoid being scammed. [American Lawyer]

* On the societal import of lawyers. [Guile is Good!]

* Remembering the humor Joe Jamail left us with. [Coverage Opinions]

* Social media is changing the nature of evidence at trial. [Global Legal Post]

* Well, this is one way to deal with the Free the Nipple campaign: ban sideboob and underboob. And while you’re at it, legalize public boners because consistency is hard. Heh. [Vice]

* The Pope’s homelessness chops are on point. [What About Paris?]

* This is the absolute best way to troll prestige whores. [Daily Lawyer Tips]

* Is this the best recommendation letter ever? [Lawyers, Guns & Money]

* This is how bigamy cases go down in the world of Facebook. [Legal Juice]

* Using forensic evidence to document human rights abuses. [Pacific Standard]

* What’s going on with Janet Yellen? [Dealbreaker]

* Interesting to legal nerds (and maybe others). The Justice Department’s very influential Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) — the division that produced the torture memos, among other things — cranks out a lot of law professors. [Yale Journal on Regulation]

* 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]