Congratulations to the 2026 Mary Ellen Krug Award recipients! Owen Leupold and Tori Everson, two outstanding labor & employment law students from @seattleulaw.bsky.social and @uwlaw.bsky.social, were honored at the 2026 Pacific Coast L&E Law Conference. Their futures look bright!

A thoughtful and thought-provoking piece from @claudiarowe.bsky.social From Despair to Hope: An Alternative to WA's Broken Youth Prison Experiment www.seattletimes.com/opinion/from...

The bear has ignored the sound of a barking dog and evaded an actual bear trap, so the next step is to send in a process server...

The Mysterious Death of a Teen Worker at a Hog Farm www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...

Love this story: Four dogs live at this school and help ease student stress wapo.st/4pO4wAT

The NCAA bans 6 college hoops players in latest sports betting scandal. Allegedly, players texted about a plot to "throw the game" (not exactly code words🕵️) + told teammates to not score. Athletes in betting plots risk not only NCAA bans but the feds could take a look. More on @sportico.bsky.social:

Man thrifts all year to create free Halloween costumes for kids and dogs www.seattletimes.com/nation-world...

This is Lucky. He assures you there's nothing to see here. And also nothing missing from the laundry basket. 13/10 (IG: luckythegoldenboy)

If you have a Little Free Library that’s ignored, it’s a good time to make it a Little Free Food Pantry. A few dollars each week can stock it, and community members often donate. I started mine in 2020 and now local churches even drop off items. I’m seeing a lot more people coming by for food.

Great to see "worker influencers" providing more exposure for careers in the trades wapo.st/3UrwViI

This is Sausage. His humans got him his very own swimming pool and he's obsessed with it. We asked them if he swims every day and they said, ”Every single day. He follows us around the house until we take him outside AND sit and watch him. If we’re not there he won’t swim." 14/10 good for him

Congratulations to the 2025 Mary Ellen Krug Award recipients! Calum Bryant, Teresa Dennerlein & Ates Serifsoy, three outstanding labor & employment law students from the U. of Washington Law School and Seattle U. Law School, were honored at the 2025 Pacific Coast L&E Law Conference #employmentlaw

This is Ripley. He was nervous about taking the stairs. May have panicked a bit. 12/10

One of the most common and glaring mistakes I see in commentaries about NIL, the NCAA and sports law is the belief that the U.S. Supreme Court made NIL possible through the Alston case. It's wrong on multiple levels. My weekly @sportico.bsky.social sports law column: www.sportico.com/law/analysis...

By a 5–4 vote, the Supreme Court holds that states may NOT immunize state officials from certain federal civil rights lawsuits alleging unlawful delays in an administrative process (like the provision of welfare benefits). Kavanaugh and Roberts join the liberals. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

“A medical examiner’s report detailed how just 23 pounds of one employee was recovered after he was caught in a machine.” Devastating @washingtonpost.com report bt Todd Frankel on OSHA failures www.washingtonpost.com/business/int...

Brands are courting a new type of celebrity athlete: high-school kids

US Figure Skating has seen tragedy before: All about the 1961 world team plane crash. Feb 15 near Brussels. Entire team lost their lives in the crash en route to the world championships in Prague, Czechoslovakia. All 72 people, 11 crew members and 61 passengers all killed.💔