Morning Docket 06.04.09

Thursday, June 4, 2009 9:01 AM - By Kashmir Hill

Judge Kent.jpg * 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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1 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, June 4, 2009 9:01 AM

firsrttt

2 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, June 4, 2009 9:01 AM

firsrttt

3 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, June 4, 2009 9:03 AM

Can we just raimrod the Kent impeachment through? He pleaded guilty. And this isn't a case where you wonder if it was a false plea.

4 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, June 4, 2009 9:13 AM

First to give Mystal's moobs a protein necklace.

5 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, June 4, 2009 9:34 AM

If you saw a xanax crazed gorilla named Chompers chewing Dave Gordon's face off, would you do anything to stop it? I would probably just grab some popcorn and enjoy the show.

For those of you who don't know, Dave Gordon is a Syracuse Law Alum and Chief Layoffist at Latham NY.

6 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, June 4, 2009 9:40 AM

I would eat some of your popcorn, #5, and watch the show as well.

CHOMPERS fan.

7 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, June 4, 2009 9:43 AM

Sotomayor is a racist asslobster.

8 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, June 4, 2009 9:43 AM

The phrase ‘sex crime’ is redundant since all sex is rape and rape is a crime.
The only allowable sex involves no penetration of any bodily orifice by anything resembling a phallus.

9 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, June 4, 2009 9:43 AM

Tab is a soda. Tab is not a diet pill.

10 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, June 4, 2009 9:44 AM

Dick Fuld got punched in the face by a former employee when Lehman went under. Has anyone done that to Dave Gordon? I don't advocate violence against this short, pathetic little man, I just wonder why Fuld gets punched and Gordon does not. Maybe it's because it'd be embarrassing to punch someone so weak and defenseless.

11 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, June 4, 2009 9:44 AM

Tab is a soda, not a pill.

12 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, June 4, 2009 9:46 AM

Say it to my face!... Look at me! ... Stop looking me directly in the eyes and saying it to my face and just say it to my face!"

Mystal talking to his doughnut before he eats it

13 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, June 4, 2009 9:48 AM

The only sex crime I know of is a secretary unwilling to get pounded in her ass.

14 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, June 4, 2009 10:09 AM

http://news.aol.com/article/engaged-couple-on-air-france-flight/512988?icid=main|aim|dl1|link2|http%3A%2F%2Fnews.aol.com%2Farticle%2Fengaged-couple-on-air-france-flight%2F512988
this is so so sad

15 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, June 4, 2009 10:17 AM

13:

Dave Gordon is that you?