Morning Docket: 10.29.21

* Two Nazis handed a 9-year sentence for trying to pop off race war. Happy Friday! [Forbes] * Amazon faces discrimination lawsuit because it doesn't cater enough to white straight men. Somebody clue the beginning to this Eminem song I guess. [Law360] * Iowa's Pro Bono Society shows love to 56 students who empowered their communities. THANK YOU! [UIowa] * SCOTUS will be hearing oral argument on SB8's enforcement mechanism on November 1st. It has to have a chilling effect on something, at least. [KHN] * $13 Million marijuana conspiracy involving cops is the talk of Franklin County, Maine. I wonder if the business involved infused butter for lobsta rolls. [WGME]

* Two Nazis handed a 9-year sentence for trying to pop off race war. Happy Friday! [Forbes]

* Amazon faces discrimination lawsuit because it doesn’t cater enough to white straight men. Somebody clue the beginning to this Eminem song I guess. [Law360]

* Iowa’s Pro Bono Society shows love to 56 students who empowered their communities. THANK YOU! [UIowa]

* SCOTUS will be hearing oral argument on SB8’s enforcement mechanism on November 1st. It has to have a chilling effect on something, at least. [KHN]

* $13 Million marijuana conspiracy involving cops is the talk of Franklin County, Maine. I wonder if the business involved infused butter for lobsta rolls. [WGME]


Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord™ in the Facebook group Law School Memes for Edgy T14s. Before that, he wrote columns for an online magazine named The Muse Collaborative under the pen name Knehmo. He endured the great state of Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boatbuilder who cannot swim, a published author on critical race theory, philosophy, and humor, and has a love for cycling that occasionally annoys his peers. You can reach him by email at cwilliams@abovethelaw.com and by tweet at @WritesForRent.