In other news:
- A high-school student is suing the State of South Carolina, trying to get it to accept stimulus funds and use them on education. Attorney General Henry McMasters says he’s fine with the case being heard but thinks the lawsuit has several procedural hurdles that it can’t overcome. [The State]
- Mom-slash-teacher takes four kids, one her own and three other students, to a gay dance club (Masque, for those of you in the Dayton area). Kids drink, allegedly from drinks given to them by older friends at the club. Teacher resigns. Hmmm. This sounds like she did something wrong, but assuming she just meant for the girls to be able to dance (especially since she was the mother of one), why is this an offense worthy of resignation? Is this a drinking thing, a bar thing, or a gay thing? [The Advocate]
- The Center for Progressive Reform soft pedals on the formal nomination of Cass Sunstein to head OIRA. CPR President Rena Steinzor said: “[W]ill Professor Sunstein put his years of study of the issue and his prodigious intellect to the all-important task of repairing the tattered framework of the nation’s regulations?” [CPRBlog]
- With all the focus on Judge Bybee these days, the LA Times backs up to look at the state of the Ninth Circuit more generally. [LA Times]
- Gavin Newsom is running for Governor of California:
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Chris Geidner is the award-winning senior political editor at D.C.'s Metro Weekly and has written for The Atlantic Online, The American Prospect, Advocate.com, Salon and other publications, as well as at his blog, Law Dork. In 2011, he received the Excellence in News Writing Award from the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association for his coverage of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" repeal. Prior to moving to D.C. in 2009, he served as an attorney on the senior staff at the Ohio Attorney General's Office and had earlier worked for a leading Columbus law firm. An extended biography can be found