- Karma in Carmichael: serial Sacramento-area filer of ADA suits Scott Johnson, often chronicled in this space, hit by sex-harass suit by four former female employees, with avert-your-eyes details [Sac Bee; News10, autoplays] One of Johnson’s suits, over a counter that was too high, recently helped close Ford’s Real Hamburgers, a 50-year-old establishment. [KTXL/The Blaze]
- Fifth Circuit reverses decision holding Feds liable for Katrina flood damages [Reuters]
- “Your right to resell your own stuff is in peril”: SCOTUS takes up first-sale doctrine in copyright law [Jennifer Waters, MarketWatch on Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons]
- Rubber room redux: “New York Teacher Live-Streams $75,000 Do-Nothing Job” [Lachlan Markay, Heritage] Teacher charged with hiring hitman to kill colleague should have been fired decade ago [Mike Riggs]
- “George Zimmerman sues NBC for editing 911 audio to make him sound racist” [Jim Treacher, Daily Caller]
- Prof. Mark J. Perry has moved his indispensable Carpe Diem economics/policy blog in-house to AEI;
- New York will require newly licensed lawyers to do pro bono [WSJ, Scott Greenfield, Legal Ethics Forum]
Filed under: ADA filing mills, copyright, Fifth Circuit, Katrina, Martin-Zimmerman case, New York, on other blogs, pro bono, teacher tenure
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Tenting fingers:
New NY lawyers are required to do pro bono, but nobody said what KIND of pro bono. Why not conservative and libertarian causes? The Federalist Society has a pro bono project, for instance.
That would REALLY mess with their heads. I dare them to reject a pro bono case on grounds that it advances the “wrong” agenda: reverse discrimination, property taking, the free speech rights of right-wingers, etc.
Given the state of unemployment and underemployment among graduating law students, and the massive debt most of them have, compulsory provision of free legal services is adding insult to injury.
Unless I am mistaken, the NY requirement is for lawyers to perform pro bono service in order to receive a license. Doesn’t that mean that they are being required to practice law without a license, which is a crime?