Morning Docket 02.08.10

* Feminist lawyer Gloria Allred was not a fan of the Focus on the Family anti-abortion Super Bowl ad. [Orlando Sentinel]
* ABA President Carolyn Lamm is making big efforts to improve loan assistance for law students — and is making no effort to follow sports. “I don’t even know who’s playing,” she said on Saturday of the Super Bowl. Who dat? [ABA Journal]
* Oops, did we just say “Super Bowl”? We meant to say “Big Game.” [New York Times]
* California law to release inmates early to ease prison overcrowding causes mayhem (among lawmakers). [Associated Press]
* Federal Judge Vaughn Walker, who will decide the constitutionality of Proposition 8, has been officially outed, though his sexuality has never been under wraps. [San Francisco Chronicle]
* Race and gender matter. [ABA Journal]

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