As the days get shorter and exams loom, let us now warm our brains at the hearth of recent legal news and miscellany:

• “Massive hack of 70 million prisoner phone calls indicates violations of attorney-client privilege” (The Intercept)
• The New York AG shut down FanDuel and DraftKings in the state (Deadspin)
• A man accused of planning the Lufthansa heist (you know, the one in Goodfellas) was acquitted (The Atlantic)
• A tribe of Santee Sioux in South Dakota burned its pot crop in fear of a federal raid (Al Jazeera)
• For all you Serial heads out there, Adnan’s case has been reopened (CNN)

A lot of things happened in the legal world last week. Here are some of them (plus some prison ramen):

• President Obama rejected construction of the Keystone pipeline (NY Times)
• A big week in marijuana: the Mexican Supreme Court decided that smoking pot is a basic human right, while Ohio voters rejected a bid to legalize the substance. Meanwhile, Bernie Sanders introduced a bill in the Senate to legalize across the country (Al Jazeera)
• Obamacare is heading back to the Supreme Court (WSJ Law Blog)
• The NCAA’s transfer rules for student athletes are under attack (ATL Redline)
• Ramen culture in prisons (NPR)

After being stranded in Austin on Monday, Detours and Frolics is back with your weekly selection of legal news and items of interest:

• The Librarian of Congress permitted some new exemptions to jailbreaking rules under the DMCA (Boing Boing)
• The EU took a step toward granting Edward Snowden asylum (Wired)
• China will allow couples to have two children instead of one (ATL Redline)
• A Chicago-based murder trial has a judge at his wit’s end after being postponed for the 18th time (WSJ Law Blog)
• “Chewbacca arrested in Ukraine” (Washington Post/Volokh)

Happy Hallow-week! This D&F is only spooky if you’re a fan of really strong IP rights, so don’t worry about nightmares from reading on:

• The Second Circuit decided a major fair use case in favor of Google Books (The Atlantic)
• In a follow up to a couple of weeks ago, Jay-Z scored a victory in a copyright case against him for a sample used in “Big Pimpin'” (NYT)
• The Ninth Circuit ruled that Amazon results pages don’t infringe trademarks when it displays marks of competitors of searched-for brands (ABA Journal)

• “Guy Sues Google And Bing For Returning Photos Of Him In Search Results” (techdirt)

• And for good measure, it is not illegal to drink coffee while driving (Lowering the Bar)

As fall falls and we hit the middle of the semester, take a break from your studies with some unintentionally California-centric legal news and miscellany:

• Under new sentencing guidelines, 6,000 federal prisoners will be released at the beginning of November (The Atlantic)
• California governor Jerry Brown signed right-to-die legislation (NPR)
• The 9th Circuit ruled that yoga poses cannot be copyrighted (WSJ Law Blog)
• Jay Z wants to delay trial in the case of the sample he used in “Big Pimpin'”, a case that is somehow still going on (Vulture)

The beginning of the week, you say? That means it’s time for some law news:

• The 9th Circuit issued a ruling that opens the door for paying college athletes – though it doesn’t go as far as the players would like (SCOTUSblog)
• Last Friday marked the anniversary of Thurgood Marshall’s swearing-in to the Supreme Court (Library of Congress)

• “Did PETA Name the Right Macaque in Its ‘Monkey Selfie’ Lawsuit?” (Motherboard)

• A Staten Island judge ruled that calling someone a “scam artist” on Yelp isn’t protected speech (Above the Law)
• Paul Walker’s daughter filed a wrongful death suit against Porsche (LA Times)

This week’s D&F covers some things that you’ve almost certainly heard about, and some things that you more than likely have not:

• For instance, you probably heard that VW is in a heap of trouble after cheating emissions tests (The Atlantic),
• and that the copyright on “Happy Birthday” has been held invalid (Al Jazeera).
• But did you hear that the Insane Clown Posse won an appeal against the FBI (Lowering the Bar),
• or that Kim Davis rejected a marriage application between a man and Jesus Christ (Above the Law),
• or that a paralegal in New York forged the signatures of 76 state judges (NY Post)?

What a world . . .

Well, the semester certainly is rolling along at this point. Here’s some legal news and items of interest for a little palate cleanser:

• It’s been 10 years since John Roberts became chief justice. Where does the time go? Here’s a retrospective of the Supreme Court in the last decade (Constitutional Accountability Center)
• Some reflections on Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg in light of a recently published book (NY Times)
• AB InBev is hoping to taking over SABMiller to create the uber-brewer, and Miller has decided it wants new representation in handling this deal (WSJ Law Blog)
• A baby dancing to Prince has given the Internet a legal win (Gizmodo)
• No more stripes or lacy collars if you’re a judge in Florida (ABA Journal)

This week we have an Atlantic-heavy edition of D&F for your reading pleasure:

• Is the Constitution flawed in its design?
• “Can DNA Evidence Solve a 30-Year-Old Crime?”
• Marcel Duchamp’s chess set, 3D printing, and droite d’auteur
• Caesar’s Palace fined $9.5 million for giving a tacit, potentially inadvertent, green light to money laundering
• One Texas college student decided to drive a Barbie Jeep after her DWI arrest (Lowering the Bar)

Some legal news and miscellany for your reading pleasure as you begin your week:

• Why does it cost $2,350 to renounce your citizenship? (WSJ Law Blog)
• There’s some new evidence that may lead to overturning Adnan Sayed’s murder conviction (Gawker)
• You’d probably sue an AC company for ruining your $300,000 wine collection too (Munchies)
• A chicken sandwich cannot be copyrighted, says 1st Circuit (ABA Journal)
• No lemonade proceeds for charity! Jerry Seinfeld’s lemonade stand was shut down by East Hampton police (AV Club)