• NY lawyer sanctioned $10K for behavior at deposition [Debra Cassens Weiss, ABA Journal]
• Obvious dangers and the W.V. frat-house rear-launched bottle rocket case [Popehat, earlier here, here]
• Review of Liberty’s Refuge, new book on freedom of assembly by Washington U. lawprof John Inazu [Anthony Deardurff, Liberty Law]
• If forfeiture and asset freeze can be deployed in a copyright enforcement case, where will they strike next? [Timothy Lee, Cato]
• Hard-hitting Kim Strassel column on Al “Crucify Them” Armendariz [WSJ, earlier] Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson: “If you want to live by the precautionary principle, then crawl up in a ball and live in a cave.” [Coyote] Washington Post on the case for the Keystone pipeline [Adler]
• Losing two looks like carelessness: second Durham County D.A. removed from office for misconduct [Volokh, KC Johnson]
• Why won’t the Eighth Circuit recognize fraudulent misjoinder? [Beck]

Filed under: discovery, Eighth Circuit, Exxon, forfeiture, prosecutorial abuse, sanctions