Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 05.25.10

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* A forthcoming report from the inspector general’s office alleges inappropriate and illegal conduct by employees of the Minerals Management Service, the federal agency that regulates offshore oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. [New York Times]

* The White House has lent its support to a possible compromise worked out between legislators and the Defense Department aimed at repealing the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. [Washington Post]

* Is the design and application of custom tattoos protected under the First Amendment? A tattoo parlor owner is taking his case to the Ninth Circuit. [Los Angeles Times via WSJ Law Blog]

* The Coast Guard has suspended its search for a missing lawyer, Irell & Manella partner Thomas Kirschbaum, whose unmanned sailboat ran aground Sunday at Venice Beach. [ABA Journal]

* Vivia Chen asks: “Maybe [Elena] Kagan is married to her job. And maybe it’s a deliriously happy marriage. Anything wrong with that?” [The Careerist]

* Meet 54-year-old James Bain, who was recently released after spending 35 years in prison for crimes he did not commit. [CNN]

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