Morning Docket 08.13.09

* As we’ve noted before, practicing law in Russia can involve serious violence. It also involves crooked judges and police who help corporate raiders hijack businesses using the court system. [Washington Post]
* Three law student interns won the “legal lottery” this summer, submitting a murder case brief to SCOTUS. [Lancaster Eagle Gazette]
* Calling someone homosexual is no longer defamation per se in New York. [New York Law Journal]
* Confederate flag clothing (at school): not fashionable and not protected by the Constitution. [Associated Press]
* There are many questions in the U.S. attorney firings probe, but only one burning question. [Associated Press]
* Law firm bookkeeper sentenced to almost five years for stealing nearly $100,000 from her Kentucky firm. [WZTV]
* ‘Can I haz my ten million but plead the Fifth about how it got into my bank account?’ Texas billionaire and alleged fraudster, Allen Stanford, needs money for his defense, but to get it he would have to testify that his assets are untainted. [Bloomberg]

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