Morning Docket: 09.19.17
* Baker Botts files SCOTUS brief reminding them what wedding cakes look like. Someday we'll look back on a case designed to create second class citizens and think, "oh right, that's the one where the Supreme Court decided with the help of a picture book." [National Law Journal] * Pepe the Frog's creator is going nuclear with his intellectual property challenges against the Nazi scum who've turned his character into a mascot. [Engadget] * Trader seeks to withdraw guilty plea after government shows him evidence that he probably didn't commit a crime. The more you ponder that sentence, the more troubling it is. [Law 360] * There are more female equity partners than ever, which means still not very many. [Am Law Daily] * BuzzFeed hires Roy Black in the defamation case over the Trump dossier. Specifically, this case is about the allegations in the dossier that Aleksej Gubarev hacked the Democrats, but that's no fun, so let's remember the dossier also talked about Russian pee parties. [Law.com] * A review of the federal government's merits and amicus arguments this Term and it's an aggressive invitation to legislate from the bench. So much for railing against "activist judges"! [Empirical SCOTUS] * Harvard University is hoping Trump's NLRB changes labor law so they can crush unionization efforts on campus. Damn liberal, socialist colleges. [Labor Notes] * Here's one to make some of you feel very old: Toys R Us files for bankruptcy. [Huffington Post]
* Baker Botts files SCOTUS brief reminding them what wedding cakes look like. Someday we’ll look back on a case designed to create second class citizens and think, “oh right, that’s the one where the Supreme Court decided with the help of a picture book.” [National Law Journal]
* Pepe the Frog’s creator is going nuclear with his intellectual property challenges against the Nazi scum who’ve turned his character into a mascot. [Engadget]
* Trader seeks to withdraw guilty plea after government shows him evidence that he probably didn’t commit a crime. The more you ponder that sentence, the more troubling it is. [Law 360]
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* There are more female equity partners than ever, which means still not very many. [Am Law Daily]
* BuzzFeed hires Roy Black in the defamation case over the Trump dossier. Specifically, this case is about the allegations in the dossier that Aleksej Gubarev hacked the Democrats, but that’s no fun, so let’s remember the dossier also talked about Russian pee parties. [Law.com]
* A review of the federal government’s merits and amicus arguments this Term and it’s an aggressive invitation to legislate from the bench. So much for railing against “activist judges”! [Empirical SCOTUS]
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* Harvard University is hoping Trump’s NLRB changes labor law so they can crush unionization efforts on campus. Damn liberal, socialist colleges. [Labor Notes]
* Here’s one to make some of you feel very old: Toys R Us files for bankruptcy. [Huffington Post]
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