The library wants to help make things at least a little easier for you during exams. With that in mind, we’ll be providing snacks at the following times (there until they’re gone):

• Thursday, December 1 (8 a.m.)
• Monday, December 5 (2 p.m.)
• Tuesday, December 6 (2 p.m.)
• Wednesday, December 7 (8 a.m.)

We’ll have donuts or cookies every time and bananas on Monday and Tuesday. Coffee all four! Come on by the 6th floor to fuel up.

Need a distraction? Catch up on some of last week’s legal news and miscellany:

• Only parliament (not the prime minister) can trigger the Brexit (The Guardian)
• An impending SCOTUS ruling will likely have a large impact on the fashion industry (NY Times)
• What is going on with the Library of Congress and the register of copyrights? (Volokh Conspiracy)
• The woman who played judge has been disbarred and will not be allowed to take the bench (AP)
• “Drake Dressed as a Biglaw Partner for Halloween” (Above the Law)

This edition of D&F is not particularly frightening, as I’m sure you’ll get plenty of scares over the rest of the day:

• Judge Posner thinks the Supreme Court is not doing so hot (Above the Law)
• SCOTUSblog brings you election issues for law students
• “Who’s Behind the Deal Between AT&T and Time Warner” (NY Times)
• Teaching the UCC during game 1 of the World Series is a real drag, take it from our own Prof. Lousin (Above the Law)
• Apparently JT will not be investigated for his illegal voting selfie (Reuters)

Illness won’t stop me from posting this week’s collection of legal news and miscellany (though it will delay me):

• South Africa wants out of the ICC (Al Jazeera)
• A former Congolese VP was found guilty of bribing witnesses (Jurist)
• Spain’s constitutional court overturned Catalonia’s ban on bullfighting (NPR)
• October 14 marked the 950th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings. Here’s little article about the battle and the Bayeux Tapestry (Law Library of Congress)

Here’s this week’s collection of legal news and miscellany to distract you for a minute:

• Is the Supreme Court hypocritical? (NY Times)
• The NLRB issued a memo stating that certain restrictions on student athlete expression are invalid (Above the Law)
• You can be served via Twitter (US News)
• “Are Recordings Made by Police Body Cameras Public or Private?” (Legal Solutions Blog)
• A bunch of C-suite bankers in Iceland were found guilty of market manipulation (Boing Boing)

Where does the time go?! We’re halfway through the semester, so before you hunker down with your outlines, enjoy some legal news and miscellany from last week:

• The Supreme Court is back in session (Reuters)
• Colombia rejected a peace agreement with FARC (NPR)
• The federal appeals brief word limit has been reduced by 1,000 (ABA Journal)
• A government contractor was charged with stealing top secret documents in August (Jurist)
• I’d recommend not selling unauthorized Hamilton merch (The Hollywood Reporter)

A collection of legal news and miscellany to start your week:

• The Illinois Supreme Court struck down a law reducing civil trial juries from 12 to 6 people (ABA Journal)
• The ICC sentenced an Islamist militant to 9 years in prison for his destruction of historic Timbuktu (The Atlantic)
• No, New Hampshire, you can’t stop people from taking selfies in the voting booth (Jurist)
• California enacted a law that requires websites like IMDB to scrub actors’ ages at their request (NPR)
• The man who leaked The Revenant and The Peanuts Movie has been ordered to pay $1.12 million fine (AV Club)

If you’re not out enjoying this A+ weather, perhaps you’ll enjoy catching up on this collection of legal news and miscellany from last week:

• Gov. Pat McCrory dropped the “bathroom bill” suit against the federal government (NPR)
• A federal judge ruled that Bitcoin is indeed money (Reuters)
• What did the Supreme Court do all summer? (SCOTUS Blog)
• A law librarian whose mission is increasing access to government legal information (ABA Journal)
• 324 years ago last Thursday saw the grisly end of the Salem witch trials (Boston Magazine)
• Police across the country are dealing with creepy clowns (NPR)

And now, this week’s collection of last week’s legal news and miscellany:

• The Supreme Court won’t let people register to vote and cast an early vote at the same time (Buzzfeed)
• The Fourth Circuit decided against an attorney that refused to give his social security number (WSJ Law Blog)
• The trial of Ammon Bundy and his followers for taking over a government wildlife refuge started (NY Times)
• The Ninth Circuit decided that Yelp is not liable for one-star reviews (WSJ Law Blog)
• A woman stuck by a needle in a Target parking lot was awarded $4.6 million after the store declined to pay her medical bills (Boing Boing)

Already the 4th week of classes!? If you need a distraction from that alarming fact, spend some time with this collection of last week’s legal news and miscellany:

• Justices Kagan and Sotomayor offered their thoughts on the homogeneity of the Supreme Court (ABA Journal)
• The government has temporarily barred construction of an oil pipeline in North Dakota (NY Times)
• Merrick Garland may not be able to get a Senate hearing, but how has he impacted the Supreme Court already? (Empirical SCOTUS)
• Warner Bros. asked Google to remove its own websites from search results for violating copyright (BBC)
• An Indian attorney has claimed that Pokémon Go eggs are blasphemous (Kotaku)