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The Court's Decision To Fill In The Facts On Employer's Behalf Will Further Weaken Unions And Strikes

[photo1]Our Supreme Court justices are on the side of big business. The takeaway from Sackett, besides Clarence Thomas being A-OK with child labor law rollbacks, is that the justices will prioritize p...

Jun 2023

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If You Aren't The One Writing Your Briefs In Texas, It Better Be Some Other Human!

How would they know? They'll never know.You know what's great about legal writing? I'll give you a moment. Had enough and went to ChatGPT to give you a skeleton outline for why legal writing is res ip...

May 2023

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Montana Won't Be Able To Hit The Finisher On TikTok Without Addressing The Constitution

[photo1]There's big money in TikTok -- it is set to make a whopping $13.2B this year in revenue. It is far more than just the dance app for kids. As the first place that many of our younger citizens g...

May 2023

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The Woman Who Called The Police On A Black Birdwatcher For... Breathing's Case Is Going About As Well As You'd Expect

Image via YouTube/ Christian CooperDon't you just love when judges give a little bit of pushback? It is interesting to get a record of in opinions like the spat between Justices Kagan and Sotomayor, b...

May 2023

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Few Things Stop Bad Lawyering Like The IRS

[photo1]If there is one thing to learn from the legacies of Al Capone and Frank Lucas, it is this: pay your damned taxes! Here's the fun part, you don't even have to be a big-time boss to benefit from...

May 2023

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Maybe There Is Such A Thing As Free Lunch?

This is the closest image we have to preparing food in a strip club.You know what the wildest thing about the YSL trial is? Besides the RICO charges, of course. The shenanigans! This case is not the f...

May 2023

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South Carolina's Racial Gerrymandering Is Headed To The Supreme Court

[photo1]Does anyone else find it interesting that our Court is trying to figure out if affirmative action is still needed as active racial gerrymandering is going on? Just me? Well, all right. Once SC...

May 2023

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The LSAT Will Probably Take The L Soon. What Now?

[photo1]Do you think fondly of your time studying for the LSAT? Me neither -- despite having an A average, a double major, and graduating with honors from undergrad, I had to compartmentalize mourning...

May 2023

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The Next Phase Of Bruen? SCOTUS Could Overturn Gun Safety Laws In All 50 States

[photo1]The tension between the right to life, liberty, and the right to bear arms is reaching its boiling point. We've long known that Bruen was a soothsaying verdict for this Court's (potentially no...

May 2023

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Who Says You Have To Graduate Law School Before You Make A Difference?

[photo1]The work you do as a law student is a huge stepping stone toward getting the job you want when you graduate. Yes, that includes your grades -- but they aren't the end all, be all. Where you su...

May 2023

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Pregnant? Don't Plan On Practicing Before Ohio's Supreme Court Any Time Soon

[photo1]Last week we covered a story where a Proskauer attorney tried to use his opposing counsel's wife's going in to labor as a leverage-gaining exercise. In her coverage, Kathryn Rubino did a great...

May 2023

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The Supreme Court Has Stayed The Execution Of Richard Glossip. Let's Use That Time To Think.

[photo1]The death penalty is one of the heaviest judgments our judicial system can mete out. As one of the highest punishments, there ought be very high expectations for the certainty of guilt and the...

May 2023

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The Federal Aviation Administration Just Greenlit Elon Musk's Rocket Habit Next To A Nature Preserve. Understandably, Not Everyone Is Cool With That.

[photo1]It's not every day that the Federal Aviation Administration makes ATL headlines. The strangeness of it is evened out by one of the parties involved: Elon Musk. He's graced our virtual pages se...

May 2023

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Chevron Is Heading Back To The Court. This Totally Isn't A Ploy To Strengthen The 6-3 Justice Skew.

[photo1]Remember learning about Chevron deference in law school and being a little confused on what it meant? That's cool -- that was kind of the point of it. Back in '84, the Supreme Court decided th...

May 2023

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#NotMyAI and other TC news

Snapchat Rolled out their generative AI chatbot, My AI to their 750 million monthly users so it feels like the right time to pause and ask whether we're ready for the real thing - and ready or not, wh...

Apr 2023

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In A Bold Trademark Case, Katy Perry Gets Hit With Infringement

Shocking, innit?I'll be honest. To this day, I still have no idea what it means to "feel like a plastic bag." That said, I'd imagine it it involves the possibility of the wind being knocked out of you...

Apr 2023

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Jurors Prohibited From Dancing To Ed Sheeran's Funky Music (Or Is It Marvin Gaye's)

[photo1]When it comes to music, the line between homage and copyright infringement can be blurred. Just ask Pharrell and Robin Thicke -- they lost a suit alleging that their hit single "Blurred Lines"...

Apr 2023

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Few Things Make You Appreciate A Team Like Going Solo

(Image via Getty)Thinking about hanging out your own shingle? Hold on. As impressive as it is to brag at family dinner about how you do it all by yourself, you should take the time to really think abo...

Apr 2023

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I Hope You're Ready For ATL's 4/20 Article

[photo1]Let's start off 4/20 the legal way -- with a breakdown of Young Stoner Life's (YSL) shenanigans. You may have also seen YSL in reference to Young Slime Life -- it's the same thing, just with a...

Apr 2023

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The Most Contemptible Thing About Being Held In Contempt? It Eats Up All Of Your PS5 Money

They're hard frying cash at this point.Lawyering costs money. There's the degree, the bar fees, the opportunity cost of not doing something more contributive to society like growing aphids -- you get ...

Apr 2023