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Morning Docket 10.20.08

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[Ed. Note: Eliza Gray is a new writer for Above the Law. She graduated from Harvard and after a six month stint in Brussels covering European Union politics at the European Voice, she moved back to New York to pursue a journalism career. She and Kash will be alternating Morning Docket responsibilities.]

* Hit my car baby, one more time. Today, jurors will continue to deliberate Britney Spears’ driver’s license case, which began last year after she hit a car and ran. If convicted, Spears could start singing behind bars.[Associated Press]

*Scary thought: Obama and McCain are “forming squadrons of lawyers who are filing challenges and preparing in case Election Day doesn’t settle the contest for the White House.” Legal battles have already begun in Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin, and Michigan.[Bloomberg.com]

* In addition to Friday’s bombing in Georgia, a lawyer in St. Louis was injured when a briefcase bomb went off in a parking garage. Police do not yet know if the attorney was an intended or unintended target of the blast. [St. Louis Post-Dispatch]

*Alaska’s Supreme Court will weigh in on the ‘Troopergate’ case this week. The court will decide whether or not to release the results of the investigation spurred by allegations that Sarah Palin abused her powers as Governor to get her brother-in-law fired.[KansasCity.com]

*US attorney Michael J. Garcia and New York attorney general Andrew M. Cuomo are working together to investigate trading in credit-default swaps.[The New York Times]

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