Morning Docket: 09.22.10

onSeptember 22, 2010 at 8:56 AMSeptember 22, 2010 at 8:57 AM

* Misappropriating $800,000 does not make you rich, not in Bell, California. [CNN]

* Law firm Ogletree Deakins was paid $3.8 million in the last fiscal year to defend Sheriff Joe Arpaio, and now the firm may be fired by Maricopa County Supervisors. Mo’ Money, Mo’ Problems. [Arizona Republic]

* A lawyer plans to file a lawsuit against a Massachusetts school district for taking middle-school students on a field trip to a mosque. Oh, the poors and their public schools. [Boston Globe]

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* Italian police seized $30 million from the Vatican bank as part of a money laundering probe. Just enough to get a hovel in the 2-1-2. [Associated Press]

* In this interview, Justice Ginsburg talks about her family, her career, and how to make ends meet on $213,900 a year. [ABA Journal]

* That text Elie got from his bedbugs? Maybe they were just leaving to go to this bedbug conference outside Chicago. [Wall Street Journal]

* The gay rights movement is making more headway in federal courts. Yeah, well, yesterday Elie wrote this post about not being rich. So…yeah. [New York Times]