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* The Law is the Law! But will it be enforced? More Constitutional Sheriffing! [NYT]

* Going to Times Square? Might want to leave the glock at home. [ABC]

* Moore v. Harper is upon us. Here are the stakes. [Atlantic]

* The religious argument in favor of abortion hits Kentucky. [Wa Po]

* High fashion meets just practices in New York. [Guardian]

For anyone looking to come to this guy's aid, having a killer rack is not a valid excuse for prosecutorial misconduct.

* Considering that performers get bottles thrown at their heads, I can see why they wouldn’t want to perform somewhere with guns. [NBC DFW]

* Whistleblowing has diminishing returns in Colorado [9 News]

* Kentucky wants to keep sex offenders from getting badges. [WRDB]

* NY law requires museums to acknowledge if the art was stolen by Nazis. It’s like that Killmonger scene, but different. [Gothamist]

* After the Alito leak, NJ is marketing itself as the new Delaware. [NPR]

* A SCOTUS decision could be the difference between 20k more guns in New York. [CBS News]

* As much of a win Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation was, there’s more work to be done. [Bloomberg Law]

* Kentucky is suing over their blocked abortion law. [Lex18]

* Landed the Biglaw gig and still feel like you aren’t measuring up? Some great advice on this thread. [Reddit]

* Justice Thomas’s views on which companies are common carriers could be key to compelling hate speech. [Ars Technica]

* Mississippi just strengthened its animal rights laws. Gotta look out for our buddies. [Action News]

* NY’s Supreme Court rules cops can’t use chokeholds again. Not sure why it was brought back in vogue but alright. [CNN]

* Kamala Harris gives Oklahoma’s abortion law anything but the OK. [NY Post]

* Judge continues ban on a Kentucky law that would prohibit abortion. [NBC News]

Shut up, Foucault, we get it — everything is a prison.

>* The DOJ helping to keep lower-wage conspiracies at bay? Yeah, that sounds good. [NYT]

* Kentucky just attacked Roe in a big way. [Reuters]

* Colorado makes cycling a little safer by allowing bikers to make rolling stops. They were probably doing that before the law but progress is progress. [9 News]

* Remember the suit about Elon not announcing his acquisition of Twitter shares earlier? Well, he wants it all now. [BBC]

* Looks like not everyone is the biggest fan of Scalia’s writing style. [Reddit]

* Hard to Barrett times: Supreme Court justice goes back to alma mater to speak on the tensions between precedent and equity. [NDSMC Observer]

* Virginia just passed a law that will ban open air burning before 4 p.m. to help stave off forest fires.  If a mnemonic helps, say no to Sean Paul till 4! [WDBJ 7]

* The ABA makes it a requirement for law schools to require anti-bias training. Yes, I will be keeping eyes on Twitter for the people outraged over this. Something about enabling equity really gets under people’s skin. [Reuters]

*  Well-behaved women seldom got hired: American Freight Management Company settles hiring discrimination lawsuit for $5M. Does this mean now is a good time to apply or that you wouldn’t want to work here anyway? Let us know! [HR Drive]

* About two thirds of Kentuckians are okay with legal sports betting. May the odds be ever in their favor. [WSN]

The petitioners are arguing that their case is the poster child for a grossly excessive punishment.

* A lawsuit about the Alienstock festival, which was supposed to take place near the famous Area 51 site, has been settled. Hope the settlement amount wasn’t out of this world… [Review Journal]

* A Kentucky judge is taking action to purge cases filed by a lawyer who was allegedly involved in social security fraud. [Hill]

* Newsmax has settled a case filed against it by Dominion Voting Systems over allegedly false statements made by the media company about election fraud. [Forbes]

* Blue Cross Blue Shield has settled a class action alleging the company used anti-competitive tactics that harmed consumers. [Duluth News Tribune]

* A Michigan law firm is accepting cryptocurrency, including Dogecoin, as payment. Elon Musk was right, Dogecoin is useful for something… [Click On Detroit]

What happened here is not just absurd, but incredibly cruel.

* The prosecutor who resigned over a sentencing memo in the Roger Stone case has joined the DC Attorney General’s Office. Seems like he landed on his feet. [Hill]

* A New Jersey lawyer cannot be readmitted to practice unless he shows that his wife has no access to his accounts, checkbooks, and other financial records. There must be a good story behind this… [ABA Journal]

* A federal judge has dismissed a malicious prosecution claim filed by Jussie Smollett stemming from the attack he allegedly staged to increase his profile. [USA Today]

* A Kentucky lawyer has been charged with making terroristic threats after allegedly threatening Kentucky’s governor. This attorney should brush up on his constitutional law. [Hill]

* Dozens of in-house lawyers are agreeing to pay cuts in order to help their companies deal with issues created by COVID-19. [Bloomberg Law]

* A knife-wielding lawyer allegedly forced a journalist to delete footage of this attorney at a shelter-at-home protest. Guess this lawyer took the law into his own hands… [New York Post]

Contradictory directions by the mayor of Louisville and an overdramatic partisan federal judge have ignited dangerous tensions. 

* Michael Cohen’s lawyers have argued that President Trump’s former personal lawyer should leave prison early because of COVID-19. A lot of lawyers seem to be making hay of the COVID-19 pandemic. [Yahoo News]

* A San Antonio attorney has been arrested for firing a gun outside of his ex-girlfriend’s workplace and stealing from her car. [San Antonio Current]

* Apparently, attorneys in Kentucky can threaten to kill each other without fear of facing bar consequences. [Courier Journal]

* A Texas inmate’s execution has been delayed because his attorney argued that holding the execution might help spread COVID-19. [CBS News]

* New York has suspended debt collection efforts due to issues surrounding COVID-19. Don’t go crazy on your credit cards, the suspension is only scheduled to last 30 days. [Hill]

* An 80-year-old atheist has won a lawsuit allowing him to have “IM GOD” on his license plates. Only Morgan Freeman should have those tags. [The Hill]

* Harvey Weinstein’s lawyer is being accused of improperly influencing the jury after publishing an op-ed piece about the case. [New York Daily News]

* The Oregon Bar has denied admission to an ex-cop who used his badge to exploit vulnerable women for sex. [The Oregonian]

* The Idaho parents of two missing children have moved to Hawaii as officials have faced difficulties bringing charges against the couple. [Knewz]

* An Ohio lawyer has been suspended from practice for having sex with a client. [Bloomberg Law]

* There is a pretty amazing 97-year-old attorney who is trying what could be his 100th murder trial in my stomping ground. [NorthJersey.com]

* A lawyer removed from Second Circuit oral arguments last month has petitioned for an en banc review of the matter he was arguing. If at first you don’t succeed… [New York Law Journal]

* An attorney argued that a Manhattan building was safe months before debris fell from a facade killing a woman on the sidewalk below. [Wall Street Journal]

* Adult film actresses have won a multi-million dollar verdict against a website that allegedly deceived them into being filmed. [Washington Times]

* Over 200 members of Congress have asked the Supreme Court to reconsider its landmark Roe v. Wade ruling. That’s not how the system works. [CNN]

* The Kentucky Attorney General has asked the FBI to investigate the ex-governor’s pardons after he went on a pardoning spree before leaving office. [USA Today]

* A woman is suing Marriott for allegedly forcing her to sign a “no party policy” because of her race. Apparently, there ain’t no party like a Marriott party. [Fox News]

* An attorney who put price tags for cheaper items on more expensive products at Walmart has just received a one-year stayed suspension from practice. [Bloomberg Law]

* A plaintiffs lawyer involved in litigation against Monsanto has been charged with extortion for offering to cease legal action against a large company in exchange for a $200 million consulting fee. Hasn’t Michael Avenatti taught this lawyer anything? [CBS News]

* Boeing has been hit with another lawsuit involving its 737 Max jets. [CNN]

* The first African-American Attorney General in the history of Kentucky was sworn in this week. [NBC News]

* An attorney has been suspended for among other things submitting fake expense receipts for an ABA conference. [Bloomberg Law].

* It’s been a while since Above the Law published a “Lawyerly Lairs” segment, but check out famed “Making a Murderer” attorney Kathleen Zellner’s pad, which just hit the market. [Chicago Tribune]

* Roger Stone left early from his trial yesterday because he complained of food poisoning. At least this is better than R. Kelly’s infected toenail excuse… [CNN]

* An attorney alleged to have smuggled a hit list out of jail has been denied the reinstatement of her law license. [East Bay Times]

* Attorneys for Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes have filed a motion to withdraw from the case, stating that they haven’t been paid for more than a year. Holmes has come a long way from paying numerous attorneys hefty fees to go after Theranos whistleblowers. [CNBC]

* The Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda has asked that Harvard Law make reparations to that country for the impact Antiguan slave labor had on the creation of Harvard Law School. [Toronto Star]

* A celebrated cellist has won $11M in a slip and fall lawsuit against an upscale food market. That’s a lot of cheddar. [New York Post]

* Kentucky elected its first African American attorney general last night. [The Hill]

* The Supreme Court yesterday seemed to frown upon North Carolina’s use of copyrighted images of a pirate ship that sunk off its shores. If you want to see good images of a pirate ship, there’s a ride you should check out… [USA Today]

* Republicans’ control over the Senate grew after the midterm elections, but Democrats managed to take the House. Here are six interesting reasons why that means President Donald Trump could be in “huge legal trouble” now. [Law & Crime]

* Florida voters approved an amendment to their state constitution to restore felons’ voting rights, which will now be automatically restored after prison time is completed and restitution paid. That’s at least 1.4 million more voters! [Orlando Sentinel]

* Remember Kim Davis, the Kentucky county clerk who was jailed after she refused to sign marriage licenses for same-sex couples? Last night, she lost her reelection campaign to Elwood Caudill Jr., a Democratic challenger. [Lexington Herald Leader]

* In case you missed it, President Donald Trump chose former White House counsel and current O’Melveny of counsel A.B. Culvahouse to go Down Under to put another shrimp on the barbie serve as U.S. ambassador to Australia. [National Law Journal]

* A California appellate court has paved the way for former Winston & Strawn partner Constance Ramos to get out of an “unconscionable” arbitration agreement with the firm. This may be the first Biglaw gender bias case to make it to trial. [The Recorder]

* Sorry, but you can’t deduct the cost of your law degree on your taxes because it qualified you for a new trade or business. The U.S. Tax Court says that even with a shiny new J.D. in your possession, you’ve only enhanced your current skills. [Law360]

* Grab ’em by the public interest: Per a new Gallup survey, pre-law students don’t care about Biglaw money; no, they say the top reason to go to law school is to “pursue a career in politics, government, or other public service.” [Idaho Business Review]

* A group of crypto investors has filed suit against rapper T.I., alleging that they could not have whatever they like because he tricked them into backing FLiK Token. The Rubberband Man’s lawyer says, “Tip is truly disheartened by the lawsuit.” [Complex]

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