Bribery
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PodcastsEric Adams Must Really Hope Supreme Court Is Serious About Blowing Up Bribery Laws
The majority of the Supreme Court keeps diluting bribery laws and Eric Adams had best hope they aren't done yet. -
Law SchoolsEric Adams Indictment Not As Bad As That Time AOC Wore A Dress, Says Jonathan Turley
Just a masterclass in utter nonsense. 
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CourtsFive Defendants Charged After Failed Juror-Bribing Attempt
If the juror was a government official, they could have just waited until after the trial to give her $120k!
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CourtsIf You've Appreciated The Service You've Received, Consider Tipping Your Supreme Court Justices!
Supreme Court conservatives explain how -- hypothetically -- if one of them took a bunch of gifts under the table that's not really so bad, is it? -
CourtsTed Cruz Wants You To Believe That The 'Real' Racism Is Holding Powerful Multimillionaires Entrusted To Enforce And Obey The Law Accountable
If only people were as lenient toward people in need as they are to some of the most protected, powerful, and wealthy among us. -
CourtsAppearance Of Bribery: Political Megadonor Wants Us To Believe He Bought And Improved Justice's Mom's House Off The Record Because Of History Or Something
With the way Harlan Crow is funding efforts to immortalize Clarence Thomas, Justi Tom Tom is going to end up making cameos in Marvel films. -
CourtsThomas Responded To His Paper Trail Of Law Breaking With 'My Friends Said It Was Okay.' We Should Expect Better Of Our Judiciary.
We should expect 'Supreme' Jurists to have 'Supreme' Ethics. Is that really too much to ask? -
CourtsJudge That Received Millions In Unreported Gifts Over Two Decades Had The Gall To Sit On A Bribery Case
Maybe all those years of him not speaking on the court was just another form of him not reporting. 
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CrimeCar Accident? That'll be $100M. Don't Worry, We'll Bill You For It.
They made the insurance companies one too many offers they couldn't refuse. -
CrimeOhio House Speaker Arrested In Massive $61 Million Bribery Scheme
How the hell do you spend $61 million in Ohio? -
FinanceFormer Chicago Bank Charged With Bribing The Wrong Trump Transition Official For Job He Never Got
The S.D.N.Y. is basically alleging that Steve Calk is very bad at profiting form his crimes. -
CrimePublic Corruption Sting Leads To Arrest Of Two Lawyers
The bribery scheme allegedly went on for eight years.
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Morning DocketMorning Docket: 06.30.17
* Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams pleads guilty to accepting a bribe, ending his ongoing federal corruption trial and his tenure as DA — and sending him straight to jail, since Judge Paul Diamond denied bail. [ABA Journal]
* The Trump administration moves forward on implementing the travel ban (and has reversed its earlier determination that being engaged to marry an American doesn’t count as “a bona fide” connection to this country). [New York Times]
* Colorado baker Jack Phillips, petitioner in the Masterpiece Cakeshop case that the Supreme Court will hear next Term, explains his refusal to bake a cake for a same-sex wedding. [How Appealing]
* DLA Piper, hit by a major ransomware attack earlier this week, endures its third consecutive day without email. [Law360]
* And DLA isn’t the only Biglaw firm with big weaknesses in cybersecurity, as Ian Lopez reports. [Law.com]
* Lawyer turned television host Greta Van Susteren has been let go by MSNBC (after just six months). [Vanity Fair]
* The tragic case of Charlie Gard comes to an end: the European Court of Human Rights declines to review prior court rulings refusing to let the terminally ill 10-month-old boy travel to the U.S. for experimental treatment. [Washington Post]
* Drs. John Eastman and Sohan Dasgupta break down the Trinity Lutheran case. [Claremont Institute]
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Law SchoolsInfilaw Gave Indicted S.C. Legislator $35K That Was Totally Not A Bribe, Says Infilaw
A state legislator faces ethics charges, and a law school is prominently named in the indictment. -
Non-SequitursNon-Sequiturs: 07.13.16
* I don't support the effort to brand one of the slain Dallas police officers as a white supremacist. Even if he was, he wasn't shot because he was a white supremacist. And even had he been shot because he was a white supremacist, that doesn't mean he should have been put to death in the street without due process. (See how easy it is to reject victim blaming when you see it?) [Huffington Post] * Pokemon Go is going to lead to so many lawsuits they may as well offer "Augmented Reality Law" to 3Ls next semester. [Los Angeles Times] * In breaking news, all judges are partisan hacks. Even at the state level. [Election Law Blog] * Firing law professors is a good way to keep law professors from being dicks. [TaxProf Blog] * The line between criminal bribery and good sales is thin. But I think we can all agree that taking someone to Knicks games is neither a bribe nor a perk, it's punishment. [Bloomberg View] * The Family Violence Appellate Project is holding its Los Angeles "Battle of the Bands" tomorrow. In related news, my family becomes violent towards each other when somebody screws up the drum beat in Rock Band 4. [Family Violence Appellate Project] -
White-Collar CrimeBob McDonnell Is Responsible For A Lowered Crime Rate
The Supreme Court decides that at least one person gets to avoid prison. -
Crime, Free Speech, Politics
The Criminalization Of Politics: Is It Happening, And Is It A Problem?
Sure, politics is an icky business -- but should it be criminal? -
Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 10.30.15
* Even Jordan Weissmann of Slate, who is relatively pro-law school, accepts that there are some people who shouldn’t bother going. [Slate]
* Yet another prosecutor with a temper: sorry he whipped out a gun at the office, but “Assistant Prosecutor Chris White is really [really, really] afraid of spiders.” [Charleston Gazette-Mail]
* Moot Court: the movie! Unleash your inner gunner and check out this documentary next month. [DOC NYC]
* Roadkill: it’s what’s for dinner (and apparently there’s no law or regulation against this). [Grub Street / New York Magazine]
* Professor Michael Koehler on “The Uncomfortable Truths and Double Standards of Bribery Enforcement” (beyond the FCPA). [FCPA Professor]
* Nationwide Layoff Watch: sports bloggers. Grantland, RIP. [Bloomberg]
* ICYMI, here’s your chance to be a D.C. judge (Superior Court, not D.D.C. or D.C. Cir.). [D.C. Judicial Nomination Commission]
* Elsewhere in interesting employment opportunities, Practical Law / Thomson Reuters is looking for an experienced IP lawyer to join its Intellectual Property & Technology Service. [Glassdoor]
* We wish all our readers a happy (and safe) Halloween — and remind you to submit legally themed costumes in our annual competition. [Above the Law]
