Morning Docket 06.09.09
* It’s a good time to be a lawyer with game. [AmLaw Daily]
* Judicial reform advocates are doing happy dances in response to the SCOTUS ruling in Caperton v. Massey. Elected judges must step aside when faced with cases involving people who donated generously to help put them on the bench. [Washington Post]
* Baker & Hostetler is on the rise thanks to Bernie Madoff, or rather the hiring of the trustee for Madoff’s investment firm. [Wall Street Journal]
* Tony La Russa’s attorney learns a valuable lesson: You don’t have a deal until you have a deal in writing. News reports of a settlement in the St. Louis Cardinals coach’s suit against Twitter over a made-up profile may have been a bit premature. [The Recorder]
* A stripper’s pole is not like a chair in a hair salon. When it comes to wage-and-hour laws, a stripper is more like a waitress or a pizza delivery man than a hair stylist. Minnesota strippers are suing to be recognized as employees rather than independent contractors. [National Law Journal]
* Cap’n Crunch with Crunchberries have crunch, but don’t have berries. A San Diego woman sued for fraud when she “discovered” this. California Judge Morrison England Jr. dismissed her suit letting her know that there is no such fruit as crunchberries “growing in the wild or occurring naturally in any part of the world.” [USA Today]
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In the future please don't direct us to Dealbreaker if we want to read comments. I gave it a shot and was sorely disappointed:
1) They had no englightening comments. Mosts posts on ATL have at least one, if only one.
2) They didn't get the Restatement 90 joke.
Apparently the business school kids aren't as smart as the law school kids.
OK - How in the world did the whacko even get on a docket with respect to "crunchberries"?
Did he fine her for being so fucking stupid? And hopefully ordered her tubes tied so she could not breed and further contaminate the gene pool.
OK - How in the world did the whacko even get on a docket with respect to "crunchberries"?
Did he fine her for being so fucking stupid? And hopefully ordered her tubes tied so she could not breed and further contaminate the gene pool.
I too was deeply disappointed with the level of commentary over on dealbreaker. Please do not curb our freedoms in the future.
I've got your crunchberries right here.
OK I have AdBlock Plus on my work computer because of that frakkin Dealbreaker ad. I tried turning AdBlock off at home and so far I haven't seen the stupid ad in days. So I try turning AdBlock off at work just now and the FIRST ad I see on ATL is that goddam Dealbreaker ad. WTFXUPWT? Grapeboy and grapegirl have GOT to go.
The Comcast lady is growing on me though.
Wow, Elie's writing is just as bad on True/Slant as it is here. Totally butchered the "pig f**cker" joke--that's the PUNCH LINE, you idiot.
Another gem: "I believe that we can call Marcus Epstein a racist on the strength of this one incident – just like we can call Michael Vick a dog murderer or Ahmadinejad an anti-semite."
Yes, because Michael Vick only killed one dog and Ahmadinejad only made one anti-semitic statement.
I agree with your points sometimes, Elie. But Jesus, couldn't you just pay somebody (who knows how to communicate in English) to make them for you?
In addition to Tony LaRussa's attorney learning a lesson, perhaps ATL should learn the lesson to DO SOME RESEARCH!
Plaintiff Crunchberry is a stooge. This is a transparent attempt to get class certification and extort legal fees from Pepsico. Jones Day should feed plaintiff's counsel Rule 9 and dingleberries. (containing real dingle)
What?
According to Tony La Russa's Twitter page, the lawsuit settled.
11 All the consumer protection statutes have legal fee provisions. Hence wacko suits by desperate plaintiff's lawyers. The only trick is finding a name plaintiff.
I'm cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs. Do I have a case?