Morning Docket, Samuel Kent

Morning Docket 06.04.09

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* The tales of the Not-So-Honorable Samuel Kent — the first federal judge to be charged with a sex crime — are now being told on the Hill. The House Judiciary Committee task force held his impeachment hearing yesterday. Kent and his lawyer were not in attendance though. They “refuse to be part of the circus.” [CNN]
* Dickinson Wright hit with a $33 million lawsuit for allegedly letting a lacrosse stick patent lapse. [National Law Journal]
* Does what’s underneath their robes matter? The debate over the effect of gender on being a judge is back on. [New York Times]
* SCOTUS nominee Sonia Sotomayor may be feisty during oral arguments, but will her opinions (continue to) be “thorough, long, and unimaginative” with a “slavish attention to precedent and to statutory interpretation”? [BLT]
* Sotomayor’s first job in the New York D.A.’s office shaped her. We hope that she’s kept her toughness, but given up her chain-smoking and Tab diet soda guzzling ways. [Washington Post]

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