Morning Docket, SCOTUS

Morning Docket 06.23.09

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* Florida lawyer Frederick Schaffer smells money in his lawsuit against cold medicine Zicam. Or doesn’t smell it rather, claiming that the medicine made him lose that sense. [Boston Herald]
* Nevada Supreme Court Justice Kris Pickering keeps order in the court, but causes chaos in a UPS parking lot. [Las Vegas Review-Journal]
* It’s a buyer’s market for laterals. [National Law Journal via ABA Journal]
* A guilty plea from Chris Brown. There will be no Rihanna-Brown duets in the near future. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Patricia Schnegg issued a “two-way” stay-away order. [Associated Press]
* …Courthouse groupies are a testament to the power of music. [Popsquire]
* In a New Yorker profile in May, Jeffrey Toobin argued that John Roberts would politicize SCOTUS. Does last week’s decision regarding no right to DNA evidence for criminals support that argument? [True/Slant]
* Good parting gift for a fashionable Con Law prof? [Highsnobette]

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