Morning Docket 12.24.08

* Our old friend Marc Dann is back in the news. The Inspector General report on Dann say he turned the Ohio AG’s office into a “house of scandal.” The many outrageous happenings in the Dannimal House included his hiring of a bunch of young ladies that he called the “Dannettes” whose conduct and dress were so inappropriate that they had to be sent to etiquette classes. [Columbus Dispatch]

* The D.C. Circuit has reversed its ruling on coal-fired power plant emissions. It says it’s better to have the flawed Clean Air Interstate Rule temporarily in place than no rule at all. [New York Times]

* If you search for “above the law naked pictures”, it’ll stay on your “personally identifiable search data” record for nine months with Google and considerably longer with Microsoft. Privacy advocates cheer Yahoo’s decision to reduce its holding time from 13 months to 90 days. [New York Times]

* Weil, Gotshal & Manges may have given half-Skadden bonuses to its associates, but it’s paying out the big bucks to Fordham Law School. Weil wrote Fordham a $1 million check, and now has a classroom named in its honor. [Business Wire Press Release]

* A California appeals court refuses to acknowledge some dude’s civil right to a Mother’s Day freebie tote bag from the Los Angeles Angels. The gender discrimination charge didn’t fly because the giveaway was based on motherhood, not on gender. [Courthouse News Service]

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