Morning Docket: 06.08.10

* The lawyer who helped bring us Smurfs is broke and charged with a Gargamel-ish blackmail plot. [New York Daily News]

* This may make it harder to challenge your next speeding ticket. [Columbus Dispatch via Yale Law Tech]

* It may be time to revise Google’s motto: Do no evil… and if you do, say it was a “mistake.” Attorneys general urge Google to come clean about its WiFi snooping. [Boston Globe]

* Joran van der Sloot may be claiming ‘reputation self-defense’ in his alleged murder of a Peruvian woman. If she was Googling him, the Natalee Holloway results were probably popping up high. [ABC News]

* Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II really wants to take health care reform to court. [Washington Post]

* The Rod Blagojevich trial gets it on today. The former Illinois governor has at least one fervent supporter. [Chicago News Scoop]

* Prosecutors want to deprive Ponzi lawyer Scott Rothstein of the Florida sun for 40 years. [Associated Press]

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