Morning Docket: 10.07.09

* Can Congress ban a “Human Sacrifice Channel” on television? Justice Alito wants to know (and Fox probably does too). [New York Times; Washington Briefs]
* European Union regulators are working on a settlement in the Microsoft browser case. [AP]
* A jury concludes: mugging a 101-year-old woman on her way to church is not cool. [New York Daily News]
* Obama officially nominates Judge Denny Chin (pictured) and Judge Rogeriee Thompson to the Second and First Circuits, respectively. [How Appealing (linkwrap)]
* Former Liberal Party leader Raymond Harding pleads guilty in a corruption case. [New York Times]
* A sign that things are returning to normal? Lawyers are leaving law firms for Wall Street (or one is, at least — Lewis Steinberg, who left UBS for Linklaters, goes back to the Swiss bank). [ABA Journal]

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