Morning Docket 12.24.09

* Next year, Santa will need to make sure his elves have health care. [Politico]
* Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor gets serious about bringing an end to judicial elections. [New York Times]
* Arnold Schwarzenegger wants cert for Christmas. [True/Slant]
* Los Angeles judge protects porn stars’ right to bareback. [Associated Press]
* Messy musical chairs: IP partner Yar Chaikovsky jumps from Sonnenschein to McDermott, Will & Emery. It was not a clean break. [Recorder via Chicago Tribune]
* Facebook is bad for monogamy and good for divorce attorneys. [Telegraph]
* Washington, D.C.’s Great Snowball Fight of 2009 was good clean fun until a police officer got smacked in the face with a snowball and a lawyer was wrongfully accused of throwing it. D.C. lawyer Daniel Schramm, who is being hauled away at the end of the video below, writes a rambling op-ed about snowballs, guns, and the rule of law. [Washington Post via ABA Journal]

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