Now that you’ve dug yourself a path out of your home and back to campus, take a breather and learn what’s been going on in the world:
- The “Friendship Nine,” a group of civil rights protesters who were arrested while staging a sit-in at a South Carolina lunch counter, had their convictions vacated (Reuters)
- On the unsealed complaint against three men accused of spying for the Russian government (WSJ Law Blog)
- Suge Knight was charged with murder after running over two people near a movie set in Compton (LA Times)
- A fourth grader in Texas was suspended for “threatening” a classmate with the “one ring.” You know, the one from The Hobbit (Washington Post/Volokh Conspiracy)
- “If Facebook is down, don’t call 911,” which five people recently did (Boing Boing)