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Another week, another collection of legal news and miscellany for your reading pleasure:

• Illinois enacted the Youth Mental Health Protection Act, a ban on gay conversion therapy for minors (Time)
• The NLRB denied Northwestern football players’ bid to unionize (Al Jazeera)
• A judge fined himself $25 when his phone rang in court (Above the Law)
• What should you do with your father-in-law’s school bus full of guns when he dies? (Adequate Man)
• Thieves broke into a shop and stole the bottle caps off of 1,200 bottles of beer (Legal Juice)

Classes have started for the fall semester, so of course it’s time to take a break and check out some legal news and items of interest from the past week:

• Governor Rauner signed a pretty major piece of police reform legislation (Jurist)
• Harvard law professor Larry Lessig may enter the democratic primary solely to tackle the issue of election reform (NPR)
• Marvin Gaye’s son is now suing Lee Daniels and Fox for stealing Empire (AV Club)
• Michael Jordan stopped across the street to testify on the value of his image (WSJ Law Blog)
• A federal judge gave HP a taste of its own medicine in issuing a heavily redacted order (techdirt)

Happy orientation! Here’s some legal news and miscellany to distract you from the impending beginning of the semester:

• Some big decisions came down from the 5th (voting rights) and 4th (obtaining cell phone records) Circuits (ABA Journal, Volokh/WaPo)
• The Seventh Circuit lost track of a case on remand from the Supreme Court for five years (WSJ Law Blog)
• The attorney who went undercover to expose corrupt Chicago judges 35 years ago has written a fascinating sounding book (Fox 32)
• George W. Bush was summoned for jury duty but ultimately wasn’t chosen (ABC)
• A drone dropped a package of drugs into a prison yard in Cleveland. The results were unsurprising (ATL Redline)

News this week is of the more trifling variety, which I’ll call fitting for the beginning of the end of the summer:

• Chicago is considering rules that would regulate drone use, including registration and insurance requirements (ABA Journal)
• It turns out that “Happy Birthday to You” may be in the public domain, a fact discovered all thanks to a dedicated law librarian (Above the Law)
• Here’s a nice breakdown of the legal questions involved in Deflategate (Stradley Law)
• A judge has dismissed the request of a conspiracy theorist to release photos of Kurt Cobain’s death scene (Seattle Times)
• And finally, the TSA has a new enemy: Morrissey (Lowering the Bar)

Detours and Frolics is back after a summer respite! Here’s your legal news and miscellany for the week:

• A Cook County judge ruled the 2014 Chicago pension overhaul unconstitutional. This is clearly not the end of this story (Al Jazeera)
• Seven people have been arrested for their alleged involvement in the escape of El Chapo (Jurist)
• Chief Keef’s hologram was kicked off stage by the police at a concert in Hammond, IN (Tribune)
• The Justice Department has dropped its case against Barry Bonds for obstruction of justice (ATL Redline)
• The state of Georgia has sued Carl Malamud, freer of legal information, for publishing its annotated code online for free (ABA Journal)

The last Detours and Frolics before a summer break (not to worry, we’ll be back the week of July 27) is here, so catch your legal news and miscellany now:

• You may have heard that last week was a big one at the Supreme Court, what with opinions being released on gay marriage, Obamacare, and the Fair Housing Act. (SCOTUSblog)

To offset the weightiness of the above bullet, the rest of the stories will lean toward the weird and silly:

• The Supreme Court kicked out a CNN intern with a GoPro camera (Above the Law)
• Diddy was arrested for swinging a kettlebell at one of his son’s football coaches (Deadspin)
• The story of a family that purchased their dream home only to find that a lunatic has decided to terrify them (ATL Redline)
• Two juries have now cleared the Kansas City Royals mascot for hitting a fan in the eye with a hot dog (Lowering the Bar)

Monday means a new collection of legal news and items of interest. Here you go:

• Even though marijuana use is legal in Colorado, employers can still fire employees for off-duty use (Huffington Post)
• The FCC will fine AT&T $100 million for throttling data (Washington Post)
• The St. Louis Cardinals hacked Astros’ data and are in some serious hot water (ATL Redline)
• The Beastie Boys may have beat Monster for unauthorized use of their tunes, but they won’t be getting the $2.4 million for fees that they wanted (Rolling Stone)
• Being drunk on your porch doesn’t constitute public intoxication, at least in Iowa (ABA Journal)

Here it is, your weekly batch of legal news and items of interest:

• The Supreme Court tiptoed around the Israel-Palestine conflict in issuing an opinion regarding the nationality of US citizens born in Jerusalem for passport purposes (SCOTUSblog)
• The US military banned sexual orientation discrimination (ABA Journal)
• Yikes. Nebraska purchased illegal execution drugs from India, and the seller alleges that other states have purchased from his company (Buzzfeed)
• Snoop Dogg is suing Pabst, says it owes him a pretty penny (AV Club)
• A man in China is suing an actress for staring at him through his TV (AP)