No joke: Why did the lawyers cross the road? For the holiday in their honor. Or something like that. The NLJ’s Katelyn Polantz reports on the legal community’s growing pushback on poking fun at lawyers.

Execution blocked: The Supreme Court late Tuesday temporarily blocked a Missouri execution to allow an appeal to continue in the Eighth Circuit. BuzzFeed News reports here on the court’s action, and The Washington Post here.

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