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Morning Docket 05.15.09

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* Ex-girlfriend Mia Farrow and wife Soon-Yi Previn will not be called to testify about Woody Allen’s scandalous personal life in the Allen v. American Apparel trial. Allen sued the clothing company for using his rabbi image from Annie Hall without permission. American Apparel CEO Dov Charney’s defense seems as likely to win as American Apparel clothes are likely to survive three wash cycles. [Reuters]
* Karl Rove will get cozy today with the prosecutors investigating the U.S. attorneys firings. [Washington Post]
* And now for your daily SCOTUS round-up. E.J. Dionne of the Washington Post analyzes White House speak and says the SCOTUS pick will be a non-Hispanic woman. Dionne says Kagan will get to head to One First Street. [PostPartisan/Washington Post via ABA Journal]
* But there’s another non-Hispanic woman in the running, Dionne. Eric Posner has analyzed the court opinion rating numbers and thinks Diane Wood is looking good. [National Law Journal]
* But Sonia Sotomayor saved baseball! [New York Times]

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