Morning Docket: 07.23.10

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* What can we learn from the Shirley Sherrod ridiculousness? [Associated Press]

* Charlie Rangel will face a public trial on various tax and ethics violations. [CNN]

* Immediate fallout from financial reform. [Law.com]

* New York State wants some money from Merrill Lynch and BoA. [Courthouse News Service]

* Indian law schools are on the cutting edge of transgendered self-identification. [ABA Journal]

* Americans are getting dumber relative to the rest of the world. [New York Times]

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* Darth Vader has been reduced to common thievery. [NY Daily News]

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