By: Caryn Tamber

Happy disgustingly hot Tuesday! Here are some law links to start your day:

• Pat Jessamy’s office is not doing all it can for rape victims, and now it’s jumping on the blame-the-police bandwagon, the always-controversial Page Croyder writes on her blog.
• Is Wall Street 2 a spinoff or a sequel to the original Wall Street movie? The answer could mean a lot of money to Michael Douglas’ ex-wife, Diandra, writes Jim Gross at The Maryland Divorce Legal Crier.
• Mary Keating at Maryland Employment Law Developments writes that the 4th Circuit has questioned the “equal opportunity jerk” defense, sending back a sexual harassment suit filed by a female doctor against her male boss, who made crude comments to men and women alike.
• Wow, following on the heels of the Mann Bracken implosion earlier this year, another debt-collection law firm has shut down.
• “The courts need to be there when the other branches let us down,” Dahlia Lithwick writes at Slate. “Nobody’s life story made that point better than Thurgood Marshall’s. And nobody reminded us of that fact more pointedly and more effectively at the Kagan hearings than Republicans on the Senate judiciary committee.”
• The Philly Phanatic has been sued. Again. Come on, how can you not love that face? (Seriously. I love the Phanatic. It’s weird.)