ACLU

* The ACLU is fighting an Arizona law that prevents citizens from recording police officers within 8 feet of them. Personally, I hope they win. Harder to turn off iPhones then bodycams. [CNN]

* Zuckerberg is no longer party to a Meta antitrust suit. [Axios]

* Shortly after being released from prison, he was deported to Cambodia. You think they’d let you enjoy society for a bit after you paid your debt to it, yeah? [SF Chronicle]

* This drug pricing law could be a poison pill for cancer research. [Axios]

* Pay up!: Firm wants Ghislaine Maxwell to cover her $878k tab. [Denver Post]

* Tennessee has become the second state in the country to delay the administration of the summer bar exam. [Nashville Post]

* A New Jersey lawyer has been disbarred for converting $92,000 from his attorney trust account. [New Jersey Law Journal]

* A Manhattan judge (before whom I argued my first motion years ago!) has dismissed a conservative group’s defamation lawsuit against the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center. [New York Daily News]

* Joe Biden’s campaign is preparing an army of lawyers as part of voter protection efforts. [CNN]

* The ACLU has filed a lawsuit seeking to delay an execution because the inmate’s Buddhist priest is at risk of complications should he contract COVID-19. Have to give props to those lawyers for a creative argument. [Hill]

* Paul Manafort loses evidence motion. He should embrace that feeling of loss. [Courthouse News Service]

* CNBC criticizes the Cohen case Special Master, Judge Barbara Jones, for charging $330K for document review. This is, of course, an entirely reasonable fee for a case of this import but CNBC has clearly let their bias flag fly. [CNBC]

* While America focuses, fairly, on children suffering institutional child abuse, please take a second to remember that cops straight up killed a teenager running from a traffic stop. One could say, “why was he running?” but I’ve seen the video of Philando Castile’s death — staying peacefully in a car isn’t necessarily safe anymore. [CBS News]

* The new awareness of widespread sexual harassment in the workplace may have another positive side effect: women are advancing to partnership faster than before. [American Lawyer]

* Dumb people are up in arms that the ACLU might shift its resources away from random Nazis toward other projects that don’t have hordes of self-styled rebel lawyers and downright crypto-fascist attorneys ready to defend them pro bono. This video, however, is exactly why the ACLU is right to reorient itself to focus on more pressing challenges. [io9]

* Trump proposes merging the Education Department with the Department of Labor. Do you know how hard he had to work to make this not his dumbest idea of the week? We’re going to have to build the Starship Trump just so America doesn’t focus on this nonsense. [NPR]

* NY’s Mayor is doing more to protect unfairly targeted immigrants than almost anyone in America and his policy has a glaring, awful hole in its provision of legal aid. [NY Daily News]

* It’s Masterpiece Cakeshop day! Let’s all watch Justice Kennedy decide whether or not he wants to have a legacy! [SCOTUSBlog]

* Hard-core Trump supporters are donating to Flynn’s legal defense — after his guilty plea — because they have no idea what this plea deal means. [Newsweek]

* Dr. Phil’s son is developing a TV comedy about his experiences as a law student tasking with arguing real court cases. It sounds like How To Get Away With Murder… except not as funny. [Texas Lawyer]

* Solicitor General Francisco and Texas AG Ken “Facing Felony Charges This Month” Paxton are hoping to cover up their own docket management incompetence by asking for sanctions against the ACLU. Sidley Austin’s Carter Phillips, working with the ACLU is having none of it. [Dallas Morning News]

* More law school grads are going in-house with start-ups. This is a sign of their entrepreneurial nature and not at all evidence that America is pumping out more grads than there are firm opportunities. [Corporate Counsel]

* Mark Cohen takes a stab at attorney valuation. [Forbes]

* The “middle class” may be rapidly eroding among American families, but it’s alive and well among American companies, and some savvy law firms see catering to middle class companies as their key to success. [American Lawyer]

* The Supreme Court closed the courtroom doors to a citizen harmed by a corporation even amidst evidence that the company withheld evidence? What a shocker. [Law360]

* The ACLU is ready to fight a Louisiana school district after they told student athletes they must stand for the national anthem or they’ll get kicked off the team. [Huffington Post]

* New York landlords that harass rent stabilized tenants beware — AG Eric Schneiderman has his eye on you. [Cityland]

* The Supreme Court’s role in building Hugh Hefner’s naked empire. [Law and More]

* Starting a new Biglaw job? Tips to keep your finances in order. [Corporette]

* Will lowering California’s bar cut score do more harm than good? [Lawyerist]

* The party behind Brexit has a new logo that looks a little like they cribbed it from a law school. [LegalCheek]