Morning Docket: 10.30.12

* People realize that the next President will probably get to appoint a couple of SCOTUS justices, right? [Slate] * That's some costly attorney misconduct: a lawyer who got slapped with a $10,000 sanction for "egregious conduct" at a deposition now has to pay an additional $36,274 in legal fees. [New York Law Journal] * The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau better hope for Obama wins. [National Law Journal] * Fun legal times at the Village Voice. [Corporate Counsel] * When Sandy got real for people in Manhattan. [New Yorker]

* “We have all the resources and infrastructure we need for any potential dispute or recount.” Because elections aren’t just for Election Day anymore. [Thomson Reuters News & Insight]

* UC Hastings College of the Law has set up a symposium fund to honor fallen alumnus J. Christopher Stevens, the U.S. Ambassador to Libya. [NBC Bay Area]

* People realize that the next President will probably get to appoint a couple of SCOTUS justices, right? [Slate]

* That’s some costly attorney misconduct: a lawyer who got slapped with a $10,000 sanction for “egregious conduct” at a deposition now has to pay an additional $36,274 in legal fees. [New York Law Journal]

* The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau better hope Obama wins. [National Law Journal]

* Fun legal times at the Village Voice. [Corporate Counsel]

* When Sandy got real for people in Manhattan. [New Yorker]

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