Civil Rights
Block on Trump's Asylum Ban Upheld by Supreme Court
This is fun: Above the Law just ran a caption contest on a photo of some dude's (or very hairy lady's) leg, which is now adorned with a tattoo of a law review citation: 11 Ohio St. J. Crim. L. 827 (2014).
We (read: I) have nothing better to do with our lives, so we dug up the article, the author, and then wondered what other terrible law-related things people could get tatted on their bodies. Because, you know, nothing says "legal professional" like a citation, or a scale, or Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's portrait in the form of a tramp stamp.
We did a little sleuthing and started typing the citation into Google. Apparently we weren't the first -- Google immediately auto-filled the cite, which, according to the Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law's website, matches "Slaying the Synthetic Hydra: Drafting a Controlled Substances Act that Effectively Captures Synthetic Drugs," an article by Hari K. Sathappan, the Editor-in-Chief of OSJCL.
We can't imagine anyone else getting Sathappan's citation tatted on their leg -- this has to be his tat, right? Also, congrats to Mr. Sathappan -- he just wrote the most read law review article in the history of Moritz College of Law (we're guessing).
We've done this before. Last year, when I stumbled upon a trend of getting employers' tattoos on one's body, we came up with a ton of terrible ideas, including honoring your alma mater with a law school logo tattoo or having your BigLaw affiliation branded on your back. (Might want to wait until you make partner -- it'll be awkward if you make a lateral move.)
Would I ever get "FindLaw" tatted on my butt cheek? No way in hell. But I might consider my law school's badass trident logo, if only I weren't so bitter about a mountain of student loan debt that I'll never pay off. (This goes for you too, UC Davis -- Gunrock won't make an appearance on my guns until my debt is retired.)
Last year, I pledged that were I to ever get a Supreme Court clerkship, I would get that justice's face tatted on my chest. Here is this year's variant: If any of The Nine accepts the Ice Bucket Challenge within the next 30 days, I'll do the same -- his or her face, branded on my bosom. (Pectoral. Whatever.) And I'll dump a bucket of ice on my head.
The gauntlet is thrown down. Bring it SCOTUS.
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