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On this day in 1967, Thurgood Marshall became the first African American to serve as a justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

In a speech in Hawaii in 1987, commemorating the bicentennial celebration of the US Constitution, Justice Marshall spoke of his rejection of the view espoused by his more conservative colleagues that the Constitution should be interpreted according to the founders' original understanding and intent:

Lawyers drafting online terms of use/service and privacy policies are well-advised to establish a record that allows the client to demonstrate the existence of such terms and the date they were in effect. Such a record will prove quite handy in future litigation. See, eg, Kinney v. YouTube, LLC (Cal. Ct. App. 2018) (YouTube forced to rely on sworn testimony of engineer responsible for posting YouTube terms of service to prove that plaintiff click-accepted a version of the YouTube terms that included a synthetic one-year statute of limitations).

The word "shark" entered the English language in the 1560s, well after professional lawyers emerged in the thirteenth century. The term "shark lawyer" has been used to describe lawyers for centuries and has multiple origins:

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