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Whether your family has access to capital (or, more often, credit) is a lousy way to assess indigence.

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Be safe, everyone!

Are we gonna make college athletes stand at attention for all four verses?

This proposed law in New Jersey - to allow those who have been convicted and finished their sentence of incarceration to serve - has the potential to broaden the jury pool. That would be +!!

never happens if they didn’t get rid of the hunting section

Baton Rouge has asked a federal judge to leave in place 'stop and strip'--Baton Rouge Police's formal policy of sexually humiliating strip searches of non-arrestees--FOR THE GOOD OF NON-ARRESTEES (lest a baggie of fentanyl concealed is a detainee’s anus rip open and kill that person).🤯🙄😠

This is such a big week for PLS! In addition to our event at Yale Law School organized by The LPE Project, this week is also the first ever symposium on PLS organized by Virginia Law Review!

A brief 🧵about all of the incredible speakers!

You can register here:
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Thanks, Orin Kerr! Excited to share this with the world. Among other things, we find that fired cops are nearly as likely to land in private security as to find another policing job, ie, to become “wandering officers.”

A day in the life of a community bail fund, edition 1: Catch-22

We have a client who has been in jail for over a month because of a clerical error on his paperwork. After running everything down today, I found the issue, it's a doozy.

1/11

To be clear, the The First 72+ STILL sells delicious supper plates and will continue to do so. Go get some on Friday!

(But the cool $1M grant is an amazing accomplishment and will allow them to do lots more of the incredible work that they do.)

Taking a break from regular posting about legal scholarship to share something personal…

The Legislature is planning a package of new laws that's going to cost $17 million to prosecute the rats.

New: The Western District of Penn. Federal Public Defender's Office is hiring an appellate attorney! That's a great job in an outstanding office in a city with a million bridges and TWO funiculars!
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#AppellateTwitter
#AppellateJobs
#PublicDefenderJobs

🚨BREAKING: 3,100 professors at Harvard University are forming a union as Harvard Academic Workers - UAW (HAW-UAW)
and seeking to join UAW.

This is the largest union filing of the years so far.

My latest paper -- Social Insurgency and Law Reform -- about the last decade of racial justice protest, abolitionist organizing, and spontaneous mass action; and the wide range of reforms it produced.

Now up at SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Proud teacher moment: For 2 wks student tries to reach prison staffer by phone to set up a call w/ client. No response. Figures out the basic format of the facility’s email (FirstInitialLastName@). Knows last name. Facility refuses to give first name. Sends 26 separate emails.

This tweet seems to have aged pretty well. 👇

Emotional moment in LA Senate Judiciary B Committee as Sullivan Walters cries after testifying that he spent 36 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. Innocence Project helped free him. He testified against HB4, which would limit post-conviction appeals #lalege #lagov