Lawyers for Alcoa said in court filings Friday that lawsuit involves a foreign dispute beyond the scope of the civil racketeering law. They point to the Supreme Court's 2010 decision in Morrison v. National Australia Bank, which held that if a "statute gives no clear indication of an extraterritorial application, it has none." A federal appeals court has revived a three-year old lawsuit involving a former Eastern Michigan University student that addresses whether counselors who refuse to work with gays and lesbians on religious grounds are in breach of professional ethics. There’s a new battle brewing in America’s classrooms, and while it doesn’t have the religious implications of the evolution vs. creationism debate, it has prompted several state legislatures and local school boards to get involved. We tend to think of prisons as places teeming with angry young (and tattooed) men, ripped from hours of pushing iron in the yard. Do email disclaimers serve a legal purpose? Or are they just bluster? In granting the government's request to throw out a tax evasion case, a federal judge in Pennsylvania turned to country music legend Kenny Rogers for inspiration. Law Blog rounds up the morning's news. The ongoing wave of layoffs and staff reductions already engulfing civil legal aid programs will likely worsen, according to the Legal Services Corp. Legal aid groups surveyed in December and January said they anticipated laying off 393 employees in 2012, including 163 attorneys. Abolish it, break it up -- the Ninth Circuit appeals court has become a political pinata in the GOP presidential race. We asked Ninth Circuit judges what they thought of the candidates' proposals. We did a cursory search on Twitter for mouthy jurors (h/t Erin Geiger Smith), and we found plenty of them. Few of the tweets are, um, substantive, but we'd never let that get in the way of a bit of fun. Speaking at the New York State Bar Association’s annual meeting yesterday, American Bar Association President William T. Robinson III said New York’s struggle to keep courts functioning wasn’t unique. Do you have to be fluent in English to hold elected office? It's a live issue in the bilingual border city of San Luis, Ariz., that has divided its 25,000 residents. Law Blog rounds up the morning's news. Employees in states with right-to-work laws can’t be forced to join a union or pay union dues in order to retain their jobs. Indiana will be the 23rd state to pass such a law, and one of the first to do so in an industrialized area that traditionally had a large, unionized workforce. Listen up, Cravaths and Lathams of the world: Big news. Yes, you can advertise your services on Groupon, alongside Ethiopian food tours, spa treatments and laser tag. Supreme Court advocate Tom Goldstein, co-founder of SCOTUSBlog, is out to correct what he sees as a widespread misreading of Supreme Court's decision in U.S. v. Jones, where the court held that the police placing a GPS bug on a suspect's car constituted a Fourth Amendment search. You know the old knee-slapper: Last night, I went to the fights and a hockey game broke out! (Cue rim shot).
Well, yesterday this reporter went to a meeting of impeccably well-dressed fashion A-listers, and a 2nd Circuit argument broke out! The New Jersey Senate Judiciary Committee advanced a bill yesterday along party lines that would allow same-sex marriage, The Star-Ledger reported. Meanwhile, Gov. Chris Christie said he would veto a gay-marriage bill, and suggested instead that the issue be put to voters as a referendum. A New York man has been charged with running an alleged investment scam that revolved around a purported service to return lost pets to their owners. And of course, federal prosecutors in Manhattan said he was doing so while on supervised release after pleading guilty more than a decade ago in a $34 million investment fraud scheme in Nevada. We in the legal news business left President Obama's State of the Union Address feeling hungry. But not starved. Here are a few excerpts that may be of interest to LB nation. 
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