Morning Docket: 08.15.08

* “Cinderella, Snow White, Tinkerbell and other fictional fixtures of modern-day childhood were handcuffed, frisked and loaded into police vans Thursday.” [CNN]
* More on lawyers’ roles in the Edwards scandal. [New York Times]
* Apple’s former general counsel, Nancy Heinen, will pay pay $2.2 million to settle SEC stock-option suit. Steve Jobs owes her big-time. [New York Times]
* FAA plans to fine American Airlines $7.1 million for a laundry list of safety violations. [BBC News]
* More details on former Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg’s spy service. His main duty: “encourage and foment resistance.” [Washington Post]
* Second Circuit reverses decision in John Steinbeck publishing rights case; copyright law misapplied. Congrats to Jenner & Block, counsel to the estate of Elaine Steinbeck. [Associated Press]
* “The ABA plots a judicial coup.” [Wall Street Journal]
* … and the ABA’s side of the story. [American Bar Association (video)]

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