Morning Docket 02.19.09

* U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder gets fierce during a speech for Black History month at the Department of Justice. “Nation of cowards” kind of rubs people the wrong way. [CNN]

* Want to be Facebook’s James Madison? After its defensive contract writing debacle, Facebook is asking users to help it write a Bill of Rights. [Washington Post]

* A whole article on bonus rollbacks but no mention of the half-Skadden. [New York Times]

* UBS cries uncle in its match with the DOJ. The Swiss bank will pay $780 million and reveal the names of a few hundred of its many tax-evading clients. [Bloomberg]

* Lawyers for Minnesota Senator-wannabe Norm Coleman are growing desperate. They accused the judges of creating a “legal quagmire.” “It’s kind of like criticizing the official … during the middle of a game,” said Guy-Uriel Charles, a constitutional law professor at Duke University. [The Star Tribune]

* Nationwide Law School Dean Hiring Watch: University of Iowa. [The University of Iowa News Services]

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