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Morning Docket: 01.26.10

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* Obama will propose a government spending freeze in tomorrow night’s State of the Union address. [Washington Post]
* The Justice Department gives the green light to the Ticketmaster / Live Nation merger (subject to conditions). [Main Justice]
* This Foreign Corrupt Practices Act case sounds like it might make a good movie. [WSJ Law Blog]
* A closer look at the disastrous Stuyvesant Town/Peter Cooper Village real estate deal, which just ended with Tishman Speyer handing over the keys to the complex (plus a defense of Tishman Speyer from Fried Frank’s Jonathan Mechanic). [Am Law Daily; New York Times]
* Judge Jack Weinstein (E.D.N.Y.) rails against Wall Street’s “culture of corruption.” [New York Law Journal]
* Is Justice Stevens singing his swan song? Adam Liptak wonders. [New York Times]
* Elie isn’t the only opponent of a new U. Mass law school. Former MA attorney general Thomas F. Reilly thinks it’s a bad idea too. [Boston Globe]
* University of Iowa College of Law gets a new dean. [University of Iowa]
* A successful defense of a Twitter defamation suit argues that almost half of tweets are just “pointless babble.” [National Law Journal]

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