Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 02.10.11

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* At an ABA public hearing yesterday, the panel heard from court officials all across the country who have struggled while dealing with budget cutbacks. Begging for pens, going without health insurance, and sucking various appendages for crack were all discussed. The crackhead was quickly ushered out of the hearing by security. [ABA Journal]

* Malcolm X’s estate is still tied up in something called Surrogate’s Court, where it has remained for over a decade due to family bickering. Get your hand outta my docket! Eh? No? Okay. [New York Times]

* Lindsay Lohan offered to take a polygraph test in order to prove her innocence. She also offered to suck various appendages for crack and was quickly ushered out of the DA’s office by deputies. [TMZ]

* The proposed merger of Deutsche Börse AG and NYSE Euronext carries with it many serious antitrust concerns and one serious umlaut. Motörhead approves. [Fox Business]

* A former SAC Capital portfolio manager who has already pleaded guilty to insider trading told the court how he came to acquire his information. Man looks in the abyss, there’s nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man turns state’s evidence. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss. [Bloomberg Businessweek]

* Alan Dershowitz “blasted” the judge who presided over the trial of his client, Mazultov. Congrats? [New York Post]

* Los Angeles is attempting to pass a law that would require condom usage in pornographic movies filmed there. AltTransport will be around shortly to explain how this new law might impact the Bang Bus. [New York Times]

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