Morning Docket 02.25.09
* Michael Jackson “beat it” without paying his legal bill. [The Daily Breeze]
* Former Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain testified for 2.5 hours yesterday in New York in Attorney General Andrew Cuomo’s office, but wouldn’t say which employees got some of the $3.6 billion bonus pie before the merger with B of A. How are we supposed to know which men to date when we get laid off? Kidding….[Bloomberg]
* More than 100 clients of a man who pretended to be an immigration lawyer got free advice from Lawyers at the New York City Bar Association. [The New York Times]
* SCOTUS had a big day yesterday, ruling on a Utah union case and a case involvingIndian reservations, and hearing arguments on environmental cleanups. Ruth Bader Ginsburg was the first to ask questions. [ABA Journal]
* In Houston, a Republican on the congressional judiciary has called for the impeachment of U.S. District Judge Samuel Kent, aka the groper we’ve been writing about, who is still hoping to get retirement funds from the state. [The Houston Chronicle]
* Show me the money. Lawyers, bankers, and accountants stand to make $1.2 billion in fees from GM’s bankruptcy. [Bloomberg.com]
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Worse than Elie. It's an Idaho union case, not Utah.
Here's the second sentence of the linked article, with the relevant words emphasized:
"Five labor unions and the IDAHO state AFL-CIO successfully argued in lower federal courts that a 2003 IDAHO law forcing cities, counties and school districts to eliminate a payroll deduction funding union political action committees violated the First Amendment."
where is douche patrol when you need him?
But Utah does border Idaho . . .
SCROTUS. Heh.
Wait, is that "SCOTUS"? My bad.
"Beat it"
That's funny. You made a funny.
Utah, Idaho. Mormons, Potatoes. What's the big difference? Both are white and starchy.
The Supreme Court screwed over Native Americans again...can we get a Native American back on the bench or do I have to have Holder talk to Ginsburg?
Ginsburg, not Ginsberg.
"[A] Republican on the congressional judiciary...."??? Do you mean Judiciary Committee? Or a Republican appointee on the federal judiciary? Whatever the case, the composition of this post wasn't worth DIDDLY POO. In my opinion that post sucked.
"In Houston, a Republican on the congressional judiciary has called for the impeachment of U.S. District Judge Samuel Kent, aka the groper we've been writing about, who is still hoping to get retirement funds from the state."
The congressman is James Sensenbrenner, who is neither from nor "in" Houston. And from which "state" would a federal judge receive retirement funds? And what exactly is the "congressional judiciary"?
have you called mom to get your romm ready yet?
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