Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 07.18.17

* R. Kelly's lawyer responds to allegations that a bunch of women are trapped in the proverbial closet. [Entertainment Tonight] * The big news of the night was the slow, painful, uncovered death of the GOP tax cut. McConnell now says he'll push for a clean repeal of Obamacare and leave the "replace" part for later, which would theoretically take it out of the reconciliation process. And that means 60 votes or some drastic changes. This is either a bluff or a lot of people are about to learn more than they ever wanted to know about parliamentary rules. [ABC News] * Need judicial approval to tour the country? Sing it with me now... "Jed Gon' Give It To Ya."[Law360] * Justice Kagan with an amusing anecdote about being vetted by the Obama administration. [National Law Journal] * Plaintiffs' attorneys in the Trump University case say efforts to undo the settlement over notice concerns, "effectively ask this court to declare Rule 23 unconstitutional." Dude, I hate to break this to you, but that's what the Supreme Court's been saying for at least 10 years. * Disney is locked in an IP litigation over the technology they use to map actors' expressions onto CGI characters in movies like in Avengers: Age of Ultron, where they made a merciless robot fixated on world domination appear to have a soul. Sorry, did I say Avengers? I meant "a Bob Iger presentation at a Disney shareholder meeting." [Law.com] * Because all other problems in the country are settled, Congress is looking into overturning Washington D.C.'s assisted suicide law. [USA Today] * Charlie Hustle is suing Trump lawyer John Dowd formerly of Akin Gump for defamation. [Philadelphia Inquirer] * Google successfully staves off Labor Department request for compensation information in ongoing discrimination probe. God, Assistant can't give you any useful information. [Corporate Counsel]

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* R. Kelly’s lawyer responds to allegations that a bunch of women are trapped in the proverbial closet. [Entertainment Tonight]

* The big news of the night was the slow, painful, uncovered death of the GOP tax cut. McConnell now says he’ll push for a clean repeal of Obamacare and leave the “replace” part for later, which would theoretically take it out of the reconciliation process. And that means 60 votes or some drastic changes. This is either a bluff or a lot of people are about to learn more than they ever wanted to know about parliamentary rules. [ABC News]

* Need judicial approval to tour the country? Sing it with me now… “Jed Gon’ Give It To Ya.”[Law360]

* Justice Kagan with an amusing anecdote about being vetted by the Obama administration. [National Law Journal]

* Plaintiffs’ attorneys in the Trump University case say efforts to undo the settlement over notice concerns, “effectively ask this court to declare Rule 23 unconstitutional.” Dude, I hate to break this to you, but that’s what the Supreme Court’s been saying for at least 10 years.

* Disney is locked in an IP litigation over the technology they use to map actors’ expressions onto CGI characters in movies like in Avengers: Age of Ultron, where they made a merciless robot fixated on world domination appear to have a soul. Sorry, did I say Avengers? I meant “a Bob Iger presentation at a Disney shareholder meeting.” [Law.com]

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* Because all other problems in the country are settled, Congress is looking into overturning Washington D.C.’s assisted suicide law. [USA Today]

* Charlie Hustle is suing Trump lawyer John Dowd formerly of Akin Gump for defamation. [Philadelphia Inquirer]

* Google successfully staves off Labor Department request for compensation information in ongoing discrimination probe. God, Assistant can’t give you any useful information. [Corporate Counsel]

This post was updated to note that John Dowd has retired from Akin Gump

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