Morning Docket: 09.13.07

onSeptember 13, 2007 at 9:30 AM

* DOJ decides against filing hate crime charges in torture prosecution. [MSNBC]
* Another day, another perjury. [Newsweek]
* Fred Thompson’s legal work at Arent Fox scrutinized. [MSNBC]
* Criminal trial begins for leader of polygamist FLDS sect. [CNN]
* Harvard nursing mother sues med boards over exam breaks. [New York Times]

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Morning Docket: 04.19.24

* The Trump jury is picked. The search for more alternates continues today. No rest for the very, very sleepy! [Washington Post]

* This story about the Dominion case and Clare Locke losing a lot of its talent to MWPP is… wild. [NY Times]

* Advice for Biglaw firms: when you tell a client “to avoid disclosure” and “try to do so in a way that looks legitimate,” you’re gonna have a bad time. [Roll on Friday]

* Ron DeSantis continues to throw taxpayer money on a heaping bonfire of avoidable litigation. This time it’s a law to allow public school chaplains. [USA Today]

* Another assessment of Judge Ho’s recent forum shopping speech concludes that his bombastic response only ended up making the case for reform that he set out to debunk. [Balls and Strikes]

* Democrats propose inspector general role for the judiciary. But we already have ProPublica, don’t we? [Law360]

* Gun manufacturers beg Supreme Court to bail them out on the bedrock principle that no one should be allowed to question them. [Reuters]

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