Appeals Court: Employees Don’t Have a Right to Wear Dreadlocks

Georgia Says It Mistakenly Failed 90 Bar-Exam Takers
Georgia’s Board of Bar Examiners says 90 bar exam applicants were mistakenly told they had failed the February-administered test.

Court: Mentally Ill Doctor Accused of Murder Can Be Forcibly Medicated
A mentally ill doctor charged with murder can be forcibly medicated with antipsychotic drugs that could restore him to competency to stand trial, Connecticut’s highest court ruled.

K&L Gates Chairman Peter Kalis to Step Down
K&L Gates LLP chairman Peter Kalis is stepping down after nearly 20 years at the helm of one of the country’s largest law firms.

Top Homeland Security Official Joins Goodwin Procter’s Cyber Practice
Karen Neuman, the former chief privacy officer at the Department of Homeland Security, has returned to the private sector as a partner at Goodwin Procter LLP.

AM Roundup: Phyllis Schlafly Dead at 92
Law Blog rounds up the morning’s legal news.

Morgan Lewis Poaches Dentons’ Legacy Shanghai Office
About a year and a half after Dentons joined up with 4,000-lawyer Dacheng, a team of lawyers who had served as Dentons’s legacy Shanghai office are calling it quits.

Top Executive-Compensation Lawyer Decamps Cadwalader for McDermott Will
Steven Eckhaus, who’s made a career of moving top bankers around Wall Street, is making a move of his own.

California Bar Seeks Bailout from State High Court
Amid a showdown with state lawmakers, the embattled State Bar of California is making an emergency request to the California Supreme Court for temporary authority to collect dues from the association’s more than 187,000 active members.

AM Roundup: Bank Groups Weigh Legal Challenge to Fed Stress Tests
Law Blog rounds up the morning’s legal news.

Court Tosses Lindsay Lohan’s Lawsuit Against ‘Grand Theft Auto V’ Makers
A New York appeals court has thrown out a lawsuit by Lindsay Lohan that accused the makers of “Grand Theft Auto V” of exploiting the actress’s likeness in the hit video game.

Artist Sues California for Banning Painting Showing Confederate Flag from County Fair
A California artist is suing the state of California for refusing to let him display a Civil War painting at a state-run fair because it shows a Southern soldier holding a Confederate flag.

A Small but Puzzling Improvement in Bar Exam Scores
Law schools got some surprising news this week: Average scores on the standardized portion of the bar exam administered in July showed a slight improvement over a year ago.

AM Roundup: Justices Block Stricter Voting Rules in North Carolina
Law Blog rounds up the morning’s legal news.

‘Blurred Lines’ Verdict a ‘Dangerous’ Threat to Creativity, Musicians Warn Appeals Court
A group of more than 200 prominent musicians are urging a federal appeals court to throw out the copyright infringement verdict against “Blurred Lines,” warning that the future of artistic creativity is at stake.

Judge Commands Lawyers to Quit Using Footnotes
Lawyers in the case were repeatedly filing motions smothered with footnotes — in one case 17 of them in four pages — and Judge James Bredar needed that to stop.

Chadbourne & Parke Latest Firm Hit With Gender Discrimination Suit
Chadbourne & Parke LLP is the latest law firm to be sued over gender discrimination.

Texas Sues County for Banning Guns from Courthouse
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing a Houston-area county for barring licensed gun owners from entering its main courthouse carrying a firearm.

AM Roundup: New York Court Redefines Parenthood
Law Blog rounds up the morning’s legal news.

SEC Issues $22M Whistleblower Award
The SEC on Tuesday said it issued a $22 million award to a whistleblower who helped the agency to stop a “well-hidden fraud” at the tipster’s company.

AM Roundup: Apple Hit With $14.5 Billion Tax Bill
Law Blog rounds up the morning’s legal news.

After Apple Ruling, Amazon and McDonald’s Are EU’s Next Targets
Apple isn’t the only American company in Europe’s crosshairs.

Arkansas Lawyers Go to Court to Stop Fee and Damages Caps in Medical Injury Suits
A November ballot proposal in Arkansas would impose new limits on attorneys’ fees and pain-and-suffering damages in medical-malpractice claims. Lawyers in the state are fighting the initiative by relying on an essential tool of the trade: they’re suing.

Do High Schools Have the Right to Ban the American Flag at Football Games?
A South Carolina high school faced a social media uproar after banning the American flag from a recent home football game.

Appeals Court Weakens Employer Liability Shield in Discrimination Cases
A ruling by a federal appeals court in New York could make it easier for employers to face liability in discrimination cases where the firing was caused by company negligence.

California District Attorney Creates Unit to Combat Plague of Perjury
“We are so plagued with lying in the courtroom that it seems to have become just accepted,” says Don A. Anderson, the district attorney of Lake County in California.

AM Roundup: Business-Drone Rules to Take Effect
Law Blog rounds up the morning’s legal news.

Trader Joe’s vs. Pirate Joe’s: Appeals Court Revives Cross-Border Trademark Fight
Aaaarrrrgggghhhh! For Pirate Joe’s, that could sum up a ruling handed down Friday by a federal appeals court in California.

Appeals Court Rules Against NYC Cabbie Challenging GPS Tracking of Drivers
A New York City taxi driver challenging the constitutionality of mandated GPS-tracking of cabs has gotten a red light from a federal appeals court.

AM Roundup: French Burkini Ban Struck Down
Law Blog rounds up the morning’s legal news.

Ranking Law Professors by Judicial Impact
Chief Justice John Roberts may not think much of legal scholarship coming out of the academy these days, but judges do read law reviews.

AM Roundup: Protesters Target ‘Campus Carry’ Law
Law Blog rounds up the morning’s legal news.

‘The Brain’ and ‘The Monster’: The Many Personas of Judge Richard Posner
Highlights from the first full-length biography of Judge Richard Posner.

Law Firms Keep Battling Weak Demand by Charging More
Law firm revenue is up in the first six months of the year, but not because of much increase in demand.

Court Knocks Down Curbs on Judicial Campaigning in Kentucky
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AM Roundup: Graduate Student Unions Get Go-Ahead
Law Blog rounds up the morning’s legal news.

Attempt to Shield Air Travelers from Controversial Ads Unconstitutional, Appeals Court Rules
A federal appeals court struck down a ban on non-commercial advertising at Philadelphia International Airport.

In A Blow to Fannie and Freddie Shareholders, Court Tosses Out Another Lawsuit
Federal court rules that shareholder rights were transferred to the FHFA.

Incredulous Judge Tosses Lawsuit Accusing Starbucks of Putting Too Much Ice in Cold Drinks
A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit accusing Starbucks Corp. of misleading customers about the ice-to-product ratio of its cold beverages.

‘Law and Order’ Actor Steven Hill Dies
The veteran of television and film was 94 years old.

AM Roundup: California Teacher Tenure Laws Upheld
Law Blog rounds up the morning’s legal news.

Professors Challenging Texas ‘Campus Carry’ Law Suffer Legal Setback
A legal challenge brought by three University of Texas-Austin professors against the state’s new “campus carry” law suffered a setback after a federal judge denied them a preliminary injunction.

Will Landlords Have to Answer for Awful Neighbors?
The Obama administration is close to issuing a rule that could give tenants grounds to sue their landlords for discriminatory conduct by their neighbors.

Lawyer Mistaken for Ryan Lochte’s Attorney: You’ve Got the Wrong Jeffrey Ostrow
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett partner Jeffrey E. Ostrow has a message to journalists: He doesn’t represent U.S. swimmer Ryan Lochte.

Unpacking the Transgender Bathroom Rights Ruling
A federal judge in Texas effectively put a freeze on the Obama administration’s push to allow transgender students to use bathrooms of their choice.

Baker & McKenzie Rebounds After Down Year
Law firm Baker & McKenzie’s revenue rose 8% to $2.62 billion in their latest fiscal year.

AM Roundup: International Criminal Court Secures Guilty Plea
Law Blog rounds up the morning’s legal news.

These Stocks Were Wrongly Convicted
Private prison stocks plunged on a federal announcement that the government would discontinue arrangements with them. The plunges were exaggerated though and the stocks bounced sharply.

Court: Religious Rights Trump Transgender Discrimination Claim Against Employer
A federal court ruling out of Michigan has become the flash point in the debate over transgender rights.

AM Roundup: Judge Rejects Uber Driver Settlement
Law Blog rounds up the morning’s legal news.

DNC’s Anti-Trump Mascot ‘Donald Ducks’ May Run Afoul of Trademark Protections
Is DNC’s “Donald Ducks” waddling on intellectual property rights?

Illinois Judge Accused of Letting Clerk Dress in Judicial Robe and Hear Cases
A Cook County judge has been suspended from the bench after she was accused of allowing one of her clerks to preside over at least two cases.

AM Roundup: CFPB Goes Undercover
Law Blog rounds up the morning’s legal news.

Law School Graduates Finding Fewer Private Practice Jobs
The number of law school graduates entering private practice after getting their degrees has shrunk to the lowest level in nearly two decades, according to a new survey.

Laurence Tribe Tweet About Trump Sparks Controversy
A legal ethics controversy has erupted involving one of the country’s most prominent constitutional scholars and a tweet he wrote about GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump.

Appeals Court: Michigan Must Allow Straight-Ticket Voting in November
A federal appeals court rejected efforts by Michigan officials to preserve a ban on straight-party voting through the coming elections. The Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declined on Wednesday to stand in the way of a July ruling by a federal trial judge, who pronounced the Republican-backed ban, passed in 2015, an unconstitutional burden on […]

Law Professor: ABA Discrimination Code Tramples on Lawyer Speech
Backers of the new professional misconduct code adopted by the American Bar Association say they’re an overdue step to combat discrimination and bias in the legal profession. But controversy around the ethics rules persists.

AM Roundup: Kane Resigns
Law Blog rounds up the morning’s legal news.

Class Action Alleging Law School Fraud Shot Down by Appeals Court
A federal appeals court has dealt the latest blow to a lawsuit alleging law school students were defrauded with misleading employment statistics.

Appeals Court: Maker of Web Spy Tool Can Be Sued for Alleged Wiretap Violations
A federal appeals court in Ohio revived a lawsuit against a company accused of helping a husband spy on his wife and her online friend in violation of state and federal wiretap laws.

Law Professor to Students: Stop Calling Me by My First Name
A University of Utah law professor says she troubled by the “growing casual nature of law teaching.”

AM Roundup: Trump Proposes Ideological Test for Visas
Law Blog rounds up the morning’s legal news.