Yale: $44 billion endowment. Zero courage. They deleted “improving the world,” “aspiring leaders worldwide,” and “free exchange of ideas in an ethical, interdependent, and diverse community” from their mission statement. The institutions best positioned to stand up keep choosing not to.

Fla Bar Rule amendment draws dissent from new Justice Tanenbaum. Says updating “psychological problems” with “mental health conditions” is outsourcing, the DSM-5 is a “living document”(scare quotes his), and Bar should stop spending money helping lawyers with addiction & illness.

They are showing really weird camera angles for the Texas - Purdue game and they need to cut it out.

The Eleventh Circuit held today that a sheriff’s deputy who drove drunk in his patrol car, caused a fatal crash, and fled the scene was entitled to qualified immunity. media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...

The Fla Attorney General just filed a really weird request for rehearing in his attempt to get the Fla Sup Ct to allow out of state lawyers to practice in Florida without taking the Bar exam or passing character and fitness. His logic applies to virtually all lawyers so let’s abolish the Bar Exam!

I forget what 8 was for.

Florida Supreme Court rules sperm donor uninvolved in child’s life may have parental rights. Majority includes tortured reading of Florida law including a lengthy discussion of “a” vs “the” Dissent discusses how Court has created a child with 3 parents. flcourts-media.flcourts.gov/content/down...

I asked the AI and it said making stuff up for a report about healthcare seemed like a problem but it was really fine. fortune.com/2025/11/25/d...

I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood. She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.

Another huge opinion from 11th Cir. Florida utility, its CEO and allegations “corporate malfeasance, bribery, off-the-books recordkeeping,surveilling journalists, creating ‘ghost’ candidates, corrupting independent media outlets, … “ media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...

Eleventh Circuit upholds sanctions order against Trump and Habba. Pryor authors opinion with Brasher and Kidd. media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...

We are honored to be partners with ACLU of Florida on this important fight.

We are honored to be partners with the ACLU of Florida in fighting for the free speech rights of government employees. “Through this lawsuit, we’re standing up for every public employee whose rights have been chilled by government retaliation.” www.aclufl.org/press-releas...

A normal society would react to this by introducing regulations to prop betting or rolling back accessibility to online betting Instead we'll just get a new TV spinoff, Law & Order: Sports Investigation

The video of the head of Conde Nast Human Resources refusing to speak with employees shows what looks a lot like protected concerted activity to me. 🤷👩‍⚖️⚖️

“We know - just as Donald Trump does - that when working people have ironclad rights, the bosses who seek to extort them become very small indeed.” NYC Union-Endorsed Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani

Major win for my firm in Johnson v. Nocco (M.D. Fla.). Court holds that arrest of passenger for refusal to provide ID violated the 4th Amendment. We’ll keep fighting to ensure law enforcement respect all of our constitutional rights. ecf.flmd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

If I opened a late night restaurant near a college that only sold pizza bagels would I make millions or billions?

I made an image of all the art posted by US DOL on X since approximately Labor Day

Just over an hour after 3 Supreme Court justices warned that Alabamian Anthony Boyd would suffer psychological torture, he was subjected to the longest nitrogen gas execution in US history, gasping for air more than 225 times. Read my eyewitness account: www.treadbylee.com/p/after-just...

“If you’re a law firm, … saying … we're going to represent who we want, and we're going to stand up for what we think is our core mission of upholding the law. And maybe we'll lose some business for that, but that's what we believe. That's what's needed.” Barack Obama WTF with Marc Maron 10/13/25

Florida Republican State Senator Erin Grall has filed a new parental rights bill to require people under 18 to get their guardians’ permission in order to be treated for sexually transmissible diseases or receive information on contraception.

Florida Polytechnic eliminated its general counsel claiming it’s a cost savings measure. I will bet dollars to donuts they hire an expensive and politically connected Republican law firm to now do their legal work. The grift never stops.

LISTEN IN: To MidPoint on WMNF Free Speech Roundtable on Wed. 9/24, 10 am on 88.5 fm wmnf.org. Join lawyers Ryan Barack of employeerights.com, James Shaw former Chair ACLU of FL Legal Panel and Tiffany Hilton, former V.P. ACLU of FL for a discussion of free speech rights and the 1st Amendment.

Here is Judge Merryday’s order striking Trump’s complaint. Merryday is a stickler for the rules and an order like this should have been expected. In some ways this helps Trump because it tells his lawyers to clean up their pleading without having to respond to a substantive motion to dismiss

The Florida Bar filed a comment on the petition of the Fla Attorney General and others to allow out of state attorneys to practice law in Florida without having to pass the Bar Exam. You can read it here. acis-api.flcourts.gov/courts/68f02...

Folks need to be reading 404 Media which continues to have the most important and interesting reporting on tech issues, like this story about how a very well known dashcam company was very easily hacked and is selling the videos you are recording to governments. www.404media.co/this-company...

State of Florida is painting over ALL street murals statewide. They cannot acknowledge any acceptance of gay, trans or black folks so anything that does needs to be silenced. If that requires destroying the artwork of children or parents so they can claim to be content neutral they are ok with that.

On Aug 1 the Ninth Circuit lifted a stay in AFGE v Trump, essentially allowing Trump to end labor rights for federal employees. The Executive Order holds that virtually all federal employees, except for the few unions politically aligned with Trump, primarily work in national security.

Trump’s new executive order on college sports isn’t about saving anything. It protects a system built on unpaid labor while billions flow to universities, coaches, and corporate partners. It discourages revenue sharing and tells the DOL and NLRB to keep calling athletes “not employees.”

In Fulton v. Fulton County Board of Commissioners, the 11th Cir holds that Fifth Amendment’s Takings Clause provides a direct cause of action against local governments—even without a statutory remedy like § 1983. Takings Clause is “self-executing,” entitling property owners to just compensation.

Who are the out-of-state developers financing the effort to create a Christian nationalist community in Tennessee - and why are they banking on a collapse of society as we know it?

NEW: Kilmar Abrego Garcia's lawyers ask Judge Crenshaw to bring DHS back in line after its tweets and comments calling the judge "LAWLESS" and Abrego an "MS-13 gang member" and "human trafficker." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Hugging the head of HR is a choice.

Since April 4, #SCOTUS has issued 15 rulings on 17 emergency applications filed by Trump (three birthright citizenship apps were consolidated). It has granted relief to Trump ... in all 15 rulings. It has written majority opinions in only 3. Today's order is the 7th with no explanation *at all.*

“.. a burst of activity from clients who were holding off on purchases until the bill was signed.” @cnbc.com www.cnbc.com/2025/07/14/t...

BREAKING: Judge rules that during its large-scale enforcement operation in LA, DHS/ICE has been arresting people without probable cause -- based on factors like accent and line of work. She orders the agencies to stop. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

New FREE Murderbot novella. reactormag.com/rapport-mart...

Florida law, which was already awful on non-competes just got even worse. www.employeerights.com/blog/2025/ju...

11th Circuit holds that public high school teacher who is transgender cannot use preferred personal title and pronouns in classroom. media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...

While the case was pending in front of him at the state appeals court Judge Artau was actively seeking a federal nomination. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

New SCOTUS decision in Stanley v. City of Sanford. Affirms 11th Circuit, holding ADA does not protect former employees. City policy giving better benefits to regular retirees than to disability retirees is not actionable under the ADA. Fractured majority. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Time to talk about the elephant in the room: The unified Florida Bar is becoming unworkable. The Florida Supreme Court has steadily limited what the Bar can do, making it harder for it to function as both regulator and member service provider. 🧵

The first person arrested by the Marines is an Army veteran who was on his way to work at the Veterans Administration. It appears he was arrested for crossing a yellow line which the Marines did not realize was not designed to exclude federal employees from reporting to work.

Florida Supreme Court orders Florida Bar to end affiliation with American Bar Association (ABA). Commanded via letter from Chief Justice, no formal order, no opportunity for public or Bar members to comment.

Too bad there is not some sort of organization to combat antisemitism www.timesofisrael.com/head-of-rfk-...

This bespoke exception for the Fed is one of the most brazenly made-up things I've ever seen the Supreme Court do (which is saying something). There is no principled basis to distinguish the Fed from other independent agencies. The conservative justices just don't want Trump to crash the market!

Florida AG acknowledges that Bar Exam is unnecessary! Wants out of state lawyers to be admitted to Florida Bar without having to take Bar Exam www.floridabar.org/the-florida-...

You hang a Dear Leader banner on a federal building and #LordLaser is gonna have something to say about it.