Morning Docket: 07.16.10

* The Gulf gets a temporary respite from the oil flow. [New York Times]

* Dancing with the Lawyers: Erin Andrews sues the hotels that booked her stalker in an adjoining room. [CNN]

* University of Wisconsin Law School professor Victoria Nourse gets the Obama nod for the Seventh Circuit. [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; State Bar of Wisconsin]

* Will the Treasury Department make an offering to plaintiff lawyers? [The Hill]

* Lynne Stewart, who helped her suspected terrorist client smuggle messages out of prison, is sentenced to 10 years. [Reuters]

* Judge says that the Dole banana worker sterility lawsuit and its $2.3 million award are rotten and throws them out. [Bloomberg Businessweek]

* Judge Richard Posner and Chief Judge Frank Easterbrook clash on Blago jury anonymity. [Chicago Tribune]

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* Louisiana law firm’s ‘crack’ decision was the right one. [National Law Journal]

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