Morning Docket: 09.08.10

* Those big phonies on the parole board denied Mark David Chapman again. [New York Post]

* Mayor Bloomberg does not believe consistency with regard to the First Amendment is the hobgoblin of little men minds. [Wall Street Journal]

* BP magnanimously shares blame for oil spill. Apparently, greed is not always good. [Business Week]

* HP sues former CEO to protect trade secrets. Secrets like how to expense a mistress.[Washington Post]

* Judge Royce Lamberth (D.D.C.) rejected the government’s argument that a “parade of horribles” would result from his preliminary injunction against some funding of stem cell research. He refused to address the possibility of a “chorus line of fuglies.” [Associated Press]

* Chicago “Mayor for Life” and noted bar exam failure, Richard M. Daley, will not run for re-election. [New York Times]

* Jewish fanny pack enthusiast who arrested Mel Gibson sues the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. [Los Angeles Times]

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