Morning Docket: 05.17.10

onMay 17, 2010 at 9:01 AMMay 17, 2010 at 9:07 AM

* An unnamed lawyer with a grudge helps Warner Brothers bring a suit against Superman’s lawyer, Marc Toberoff. [THR, Esq.; New York Times; WSJ Law Blog]

* Will throwing a bunch of lawsuits at the oil spill help plug that leak? [UPI]

* More than 70 plaintiffs’ lawyers wanted leadership positions in the federal lawsuits against Toyota over its sudden-acceleration problems. Twenty one were chosen. [Tennessean]

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From Pilot and Above The Law

* “Only 10 of 875 active federal judges are Asian-American” — One of the many reasons Goodwin Liu’s confirmation process is getting so much attention. [Associated Press]

* Lawyers at Cleary Gottlieb, Davis Polk, and Wachtell representing Bank of America are scared of Judge Jed Rakoff. [Wall Street Journal]

* The civil fraud case against Goldman Sachs will be presided over by Judge Barbara Jones, a Robert Morgenthau disciple who sports a red Santa hat at office holiday parties and who set a tough white-collar crime precedent with a 25-year sentence for WorldCom’s former chief, Bernard Ebbers. [Associated Press]

* Citizen journalists lead the media coverage of the murder of D.C. lawyer Robert Wone. [Washington Post]