Detours and Frolics: Week of 8/15
Detours and Frolics: Week of 8/15
After a summer break, Detours and Frolics is back for the fall semester! Here's this week's collection of ruling-heavy legal news and miscellany:
- The ABA adopted a rule that makes it professional misconduct to harass or discriminate in practice (WSJ Law Blog)
- Rod Blagojevich did not get a reduced sentence (The Atlantic)
- A federal judge overturned the conviction of Making a Murderer's Brendan Dassey (NPR)
- A judge in Miami ruled that bitcoin is not money (Legal Solutions Blog)
- Israel's Supreme Court ruled that a number of Franz Kafka's letters and manuscripts should belong to the National Library of Israel (WSJ Law Blog)
Modified on December 20, 2024