Above the Law
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Morning DocketMorning Docket: 02.16.24
* Cleaning staff member fired for eating leftover conference room food. [Roll on Friday]
* Trump’s legal team is already making friends with the next judge. [Yahoo]
* Judge ‘pantomimed something similar to a lap dance.’ [ABA Journal]
* Fani Willis dominates conflict fight. [Reuters]
* Firing remote workers becomes quick way to end up in court. [Bloomberg Law News]
* Kirkland wants other firms to hand over employee data. [Law360]
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Health Care / MedicineDespite Price Transparency Laws, Americans Are Nowhere Near Able To Shop For Care. How Can This Change?
Most hospitals and payers have publicly posted their pricing information, but experts think that data will remain mostly useless for consumers for at least another five years. Now that the data is available, healthcare software companies must step in and build tools that are personalized and easy to use. That way, consumers can eventually use price transparency data to shop for care. -
Media and JournalismLawyers Have To Be Better Than Coleman Hughes
A brutal takedown of a prominent writer contains lessons for lawyers about humility. -
Morning DocketMorning Docket: 02.15.24
* NHL hit with antitrust suit. [Courthouse News Service]
* ABA looking to change the nomenclature for special masters. [ABA Journal]
* Delaware law can hurt CEO feelings. [Yahoo]
* Trump DOJ officials conflicted over coming back to engage in revenge prosecutions without worrying about rule of law. Note that they’re “conflicted” about this prospect. [Bloomberg Law News]
* The case against Merrick Garland. Honestly he hasn’t really run his office differently than past Democratic attorneys general but maybe that’s a systemic problem. [The Nation]
* Judges leaning into home security plan. [Reuters]
* Second Circuit agrees that banks can put employee retirement money in their own bad funds. [Law360]
* Law firms across the board are opening up their pockets. [American Lawyer]
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FashionThe Next Big Hair Accessory Trend Is Using Anything *But* A Hair Accessory
According to the New York runways, we'll be putting all sorts of unexpected objects in our hair next fall. -
Health Care / MedicineAI Biotech Exscientia Fires CEO Hopkins For Relationships With Two Employees
Exscientia’s termination of CEO Andrew Hopkins is for cause and effective immediately. Grounds for termination include misconduct or behavior that brings Hopkins or the company into disrepute, according to his employment agreement. 
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Morning DocketMorning Docket: 02.14.24
* Video game company settles case with choreographer over dance move animation. While we’re at it, video games owe me because the animation of characters writhing in pain after being riddled with bullets is suspiciously close to my signature move. [Bloomberg Law News]
* Jack Smith given a week to respond to Trump’s Supreme Court nonsense. Seems like they’re eager to get this over with too. [Yahoo]
* Reuters asks “is Elon Musk full of shit?” The answer will almost certainly not shock you. [Reuters]
* Another firm crosses into the billion dollar club. Money fight! [American Lawyer]
* Medical experts suggest diagnosis invented by law enforcement to justify shooting people might not be medically sound. [ABA Journal]
* Bob Menendez lawyers compare Senator’s corruption charges to Taylor Swift. Except it’s “no body, no crime” not “a crapload of gold bars, no crime.” [NorthJersey.com]
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Health Care / MedicineWhy One Google Cloud Exec Thinks HHS’ New Cybersecurity Guidelines Are A Step In The Right Direction
HHS recently published guidance outlining voluntary cybersecurity performance goals for the healthcare sector. Taylor Lehmann, a cybersecurity executive at Google Cloud, noted that ‘what is on HHS paper will most likely become what is in the actual final rulemaking or new regulatory requirements that become law.’ -
Health Care / MedicineWho Needs To File With OHCA Under California’s New Healthcare Transaction Regulations?
Who do the California Office of Healthcare Affordability's cost and market impact review regulations apply to? That depends on three questions, according to a recent webinar. -
Morning DocketMorning Docket: 02.13.24
* Trump’s appeals immunity ruling citing such unassailable precedent as… a dissent in another Trump case that does not itself cite relevant caselaw. Stellar work all around. [Bloomberg Law News]
* Latham shuts its Hong Kong lawyers off from the rest of the firm’s data. [Financial Times]
* Squishmallows launches suit against Build-a-Bear. [BBC]
* More firms trumpet robust 2023 profits implicitly dunking on the firms still laying people off. [American Lawyer]
* Harvard not liable for morgue manager selling spare parts. [Law360]
* Ohio law attempting to ban children from using social media without parental permission blocked based on pesky “basic Constitutional rights” thing. [Reuters]
* Pauline Newman loses another challenge as DC judge jettisons suit while shrugging at the idea that appellate judges have an unenumerated “pocket impeachment” power to terminate a lifetime appointment on their own. [ABA Journal]
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CourtsCourt Orders Netherlands To Stop Export Of F-35 Parts To Israel In 7 days Over Gaza Concerns
The move is largely symbolic, as Israel doesn't 'need the F-35 for the operations they are currently conducting over Gaza,' Patrick Bolder, a defense analyst at The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies think tank, told Breaking Defense. -
Health Care / MedicineWhy Experts Saw Cano Health’s Bankruptcy Coming From A Mile Away
Cano Health filed for bankruptcy last week — about three years after going public $4.4 billion SPAC merger. The industry reacted without surprise, with experts calling the bankruptcy a direct result of mismanagement, a quixotic growth strategy and poor market selection. -
Morning DocketMorning Docket: 02.12.24
* Aileen Cannon meets privately with Trump lawyers so they can tell her what to do. [Newsweek]
* Judge says he thought lawyer was flirting, so he responded by touching her “lower hamstring.” Not even sure that’s the acceptable next move if she HAD BEEN flirting. [ABA Journal]
* Winston & Strawn executive pushes third party presidential option. And, honestly, if you can’t trust lifelong Republican Biglaw attorneys for political advice then who can you trust. [Bloomberg Law News]
* Judge orders Elon Musk to testify because his testimony, which should force him to settle based on his past trips to the stand. [Reuters]
* Man who traded on Biglaw girlfriend’s insider information receives permanent injunction against violating securities laws. So everyone gets a freebie! [Law360]
* There is “concern” about A&O Shearman. No kidding. Maybe the mass defections it set off? [ALM International]
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Health Care / MedicineWhy Are Hospitals Fighting Site-Neutral Payments So Fervently?
Establishing site-neutral payments for outpatient services is a hot issue in Capitol Hill right now. Advocates say that such policy would lower healthcare costs, saving both patients and taxpayers money. Opponents say that it would put hospitals’ financial security at risk and jeopardize access to care. -
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 02.09.24
* Hawai’i Supreme Court considers actual historical record… upholds state gun laws and mocks U.S. Supreme Court’s vibe-based take. [Reuters]
* “Club dancer hired as solicitor’s ‘obedient little slave creature’ awarded £28k.” No further commentary needed. [Roll on Friday]
* Special Counsel in Biden document case opts for unorthodox prosecutorial strategy of admitting that there is no crime and then putting out 50 pages insulting the target of the investigation because the guy is MAD that he can’t find any crime. [ABA Journal]
* FCC bans AI-voiced robocalls. So much for those retirement plans! [Law360]
* Yale and Stanford move up interview season into June. Why not the first day of 1L? Or orientation? [Law.com]
* Seyfarth may still lag behind the market in compensation, but they reported another solid, profitable year and are looking to expand. [Bloomberg Law News]
* Kilpatrick sees 13 percent profit surge. Starting to doubt the handful of “we need layoffs because of economic headwinds.” [American Lawyer]
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