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Morning Docket: 12.27.12
* Justice Sonia Sotomayor just ruined Hobby Lobby’s new year by refusing to block the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptives mandate. All of the members of the company’s legal team will have to scrapbook...
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Morning Docket: 06.28.13
* Do you think Chief Justice Roberts is the Supreme Court’s “peacemaker”? To be fair, at least he does a better job of tempering all of his judicial rage than his colleagues. [Politico] * According to...
View ArticleNon-Sequiturs: 10.21.13
* Law firm Halloween party advice. I disagree with some of this — my “Sexy John Marshall” costume was always a hit. [Greedy Associates / FindLaw] * The Supreme Court is expected to review a 10th...
View ArticleNon-Sequiturs: 03.25.14
* Professor Ann Althouse’s analysis of today’s Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood arguments before SCOTUS. [Althouse] * Professor Nelson Tebbe’s take on the proceedings. [Balkinization] * Finally, a very...
View ArticleHobby Lobby And The True Gangsta Life Of Justice Alito
Hobby Lobby and the gangsta life of Justice Alito.
View ArticleAngry Mob Takes To Twitter To Scream At SCOTUSBlog For Hobby Lobby Decision
Whoever is in charge of the SCOTUSblog account responded with the second language that is innate to all lawyers: sarcasm.
View ArticleThe Notorious RBG’s Hobby Lobby Dissent… IN SONG!
If you're not retiring, maybe you should consider hiring this guy to draft your opinions for you.
View ArticleWho Do You Take Seriously In The Hobby Lobby Debate?
Conservative columnist Tamara Tabo offers her reflections on the Supreme Court's ruling in Hobby Lobby.
View ArticleIs Alito Trying To Unseat Scalia As King Of The Supreme Court’s Conservative...
It's Justice Alito's time in the sun, and winter is coming for Justice Scalia.
View ArticleNon-Sequiturs: 07.03.14
Ed. note: Above the Law will have a reduced publishing schedule on Friday, July 4, in observance of the day when Will Smith beat those aliens. * Two state supreme courts rejected the bids of guns...
View ArticleNon-Sequiturs: 07.08.14
* The criminal codes violated in Transformers: Age of Extinction. Violations of the code of good filmmaking not included. [The Legal Geeks] * Remember the guy who turned Justice Ginsburg’s Hobby Lobby...
View ArticleThere Are No HEROs: The Fight Between LGBT Rights And Religious Objectors...
Does the debate over LGBT rights and religious freedom suffer from a dearth of diverse perspectives?
View ArticleNon-Sequiturs: 07.14.14
* Man claims his former employer discriminated against him because he was an atheist. Yep, this Hobby Lobby thing isn’t going to have any repercussions at all. [Lewiston-Auburn Sun Journal] * Speaking...
View ArticleNotorious R.B.G. Loves Being Called Notorious R.B.G.
What did Justice Ginsburg say on the subject of her retirement?
View ArticleNon-Sequiturs: 09.18.14
* Judge Mark Fuller is back in the news, with Senator Richard Shelby leading a chorus of legislators calling for the judge to resign in light of his domestic violence arrest. [All In with Chris Hayes /...
View ArticleNon-Sequiturs: 10.21.14
* That didn’t take long. John Oliver’s Supreme Court dogs have already been used to recreate Hobby Lobby. The entire Hobby Lobby argument. [Above the Law] * Squire Patton Boggs is representing the...
View ArticlePeople Are Mad At Indiana For Discrimination Authorized By Hobby Lobby
Did people forget that the Court authorized this discrimination a year ago?
View ArticleNon-Sequiturs: 08.31.15
* Ugh, you throw one stinkin' party that infringes on the Pokemon copyright and the lawyers shut you down. Buzzkills. [Vice] * You know what Ryan Phillippe loves to do? Run around without his shirt on...
View ArticleReligious Freedom For Everyone (Except Prisoners)! A Tragic Tale Of...
Is religious freedom only important when it protects those on the outside or is something more fundamental at work here? The answer is a little of both depending on how you look at it.
View ArticleNon-Sequiturs: 10.13.16
* Workplace safety -- especially when it deals with beloved actor Harrison Ford -- is no laughing matter. And a Disney subsidiary is paying ~$2 million as a result. [io9] * A look at the oral argument...
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