Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 02.05.10

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* Unemployment falls to a five-month low of 9.7 percent. [Reuters]
* Ten Americans have been charged with child abduction and criminal conspiracy after trying to take 33 Haitian kids out of Haiti without government permission. [New York Times]
* The legal battle over a John Edwards sex tape, which allegedly shows the disgraced politician and trial lawyer having sex with a pregnant Rielle Hunter (ick), arrives in a North Carolina courtroom today. [CNN]


* Bank of America reaches a new proposed settlement with the SEC — subject to the approval of the sometimes testy Judge Rakoff, of course — but now faces a civil suit filed by New York AG Andrew Cuomo. [Am Law Daily]
* The Justice Department has issues with the latest version of the Google Books settlement. [New York Times]
* Congressional Democrats grill executives about the proposed Comcast / NBC deal. [Washington Post]
* Aggressive lobbying efforts by lenders could scuttle the attempted overhaul of the student loan industry. [New York Times]
* The Illinois Supreme Court strikes down the damages caps in the state’s medical malpractice law, on separation of powers grounds. [Chicago Tribune]
* Class action lawsuits against Toyota pick up speed; the automaker’s chief expresses regrets. [Bloomberg and New York Times]

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