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Weekly legal chatter.

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Friends toasting red wine at outdoor restaurant bar with open face mask – New normal lifestyle concept with happy people having fun together on warm filter – Focus on afroamerican guyYou made to another end of the week! Congratulations on the start of the weekend billing cycle. Not only a weekend billing cycle — a HOLIDAY weekend billing cycle.

Once again, we’re providing this Friday cavalcade of conversation starter topics to mull over with colleagues at the end of the week.

Legal Chatter

* Former Willkie Farr co-chair Gordon Caplan has his law license back after the court handed down a two year suspension retroactive to November 2019. If issuing a sentence this week that already expired in November confuses you… man, you’re not ready for the ACT. [ABA Journal]

* Want some early speculation on the new law school rankings? [TaxProf Blog]

* TransPerfect CEO Philip Shawe sent a cease-and-desist letter to SSRN over an upcoming Houston Law Review article discussing the In re: Shawe & Elting LLC, et al. case. So… instead of a law review no one was going to read, Shawe’s request made it news. Sometimes you slap the law and sometimes the law SLAPPs you. [Techdirt]

* Judge Ho tells Georgetown students that if they’re going to cancel people over branding unnamed, hypothetical SCOTUS nominees “lesser Black women,” they should go ahead and cancel him too. What did Tiny Toon Adventures say about Flushing, New York? [Reuters]

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* You could call this “Bowling for Barristers.” But that would be wrong, they’re solicitors, you ignoramus! [LegalCheek]

* The legal world lost Walter Dellinger this week. Over at Slate, Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern collected memories of the former Acting Solicitor General  [Slate]

Meme Time

I made a couple this week. For anyone who caught the story about the United Airlines vaccine mandate decision out of the 5th Circuit, you already saw my distilled version of the entire unpublished, unsigned majority opinion:
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In the annals of best compliments I’ve received, I’m adding a Twitter response to this meme from a lawyer telling me that this meme will find its way into their next opposition to preliminary injunction.

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But later in the evening, Judge Rudofsky decided that while the law surrounding the Voting Rights Act is relatively clear, his TRIAL COURT-LEVEL authority gave him all the insight and authority he needed to overrule decades of precedent on his own.

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Podcast Corner

* Former ATL editor Elie Mystal gets an opportunity to talk about sports on a national stage without having to acknowledge his own Mets fandom! Seriously though, Elie joins the LeBatard Show crew to talk about the Brian Flores suit, the Mike McDaniels hiring, and his upcoming book on the Constitution. I cohosted hundreds of podcasts with this guy and this may be his most energized performance yet. [The Dan LeBatard Show with Stugotz]

* Affirmative action looks like it might be disappearing in the near future. So for now, look back at the history of the policy and its role in higher education and how the upcoming Supreme Court cases might play out with Professor Rachel Moran. [Lawyer 2 Lawyer]

Fan Mail!

Let’s check out my favorite fan letter of the week, in response to Jonathan Turley’s most recent embarrassment.

But no, you are a small illiterate blind fool who refused to see that your country goes down the drain.  it is you are (using your words) an idiot. It is shame that you are not blocked from publishing for stupidity. Who are you compared to Turley?

It takes a special kind of genius to use “illiterate” in a sentence like that.

Have a great weekend, everybody!

HeadshotJoe Patrice is a senior editor at Above the Law and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer. Feel free to email any tips, questions, or comments. Follow him on Twitter if you’re interested in law, politics, and a healthy dose of college sports news. Joe also serves as a Managing Director at RPN Executive Search.

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