Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 06.22.11

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* Robbing one dollar from a bank just so you can go to jail and receive cheap medical treatment is… well, I can’t decide if this is brilliant or depressing. Is this what our country is coming to? [Los Angeles Times]

* A transgender man clerking for the Oregon Court of Appeals is suing the state to cover the costs of his hysterectomy. Yes, thanks to modern science, men can now have hysterectomies. [Statesman Journal]

* Law school loans may have ruined many people’s credit scores, but for most, drunken college antics have definitely ruined their social media consumer reports. [Consumerist]

* Preeta Bansal, general counsel for the OMB, will be leaving to join a think tank. Fear not, because her replacement has rolled around in Ivy and is bedazzled in Biglaw credentials. [Blog of Legal Times]

* If you’re looking to get out of going to trial, why not claim agoraphobia? Sure, you’ll have to sit in your house for a few years to be credible, but it’d be worth it to have a judge abandon your case. [Daily Mail]

* Escándalo in Escondido! Ladies, just when we thought it might be safer to tan indoors, some lawyer has to go and ruin it for all of us. [NBC San Diego]

* Above the Law wishes a very happy 80th birthday to Martin Lipton, creator of the “poison pill” and name partner at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz! [Wall Street Journal]

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