Eliza Gray
Posts by Eliza Gray
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Federal Judges, Guantanamo Bay, Morning Docket
Morning Docket 1.2.09
* London-based law firm Linklaters was the leading law firm in mergers and acquisitions this year, taking the number 1 title from Sullivan and Cromwell. [Bloomberg] * Former UK attorney general Lord Goldsmith says the UK should take in prisoners from the Guantanamo Bay prison camp if it will help the U.S. close the prison. […]
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9th Circuit, Federal Judges, Morning Docket
Morning Docket 12.31.08
* The chairwoman of a Chinese dairy company pleaded guilty to selling tainted milk. [Reuters] * A federal judge declined Tuesday to release two detainees from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, finding that the U.S. government had proved that they were enemy combatants. [The Washington Post] * Senate Democrats will not accept the […]
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6th Circuit, Federal Government, Federal Judges, Morning Docket, SCOTUS
Morning Docket 12.30.08
* SCOTUS may hear the case of a Texas woman who claims that an extreme religious group forced her to “exorcise her demons”, disturbing her so much that she later attempted suicide. [The Atlanta Journal-Constitution] * On Wednesday, the federal court in Manhattan will start considering information that will infect the investor’s in Madoff’s Ponzi […]
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Bankruptcy, Blogging, Morning Docket, Shopping
Morning Docket 12.29.08
* Anti-government demonstrators in Thailand swarmed around the Parliament building Monday, delaying the new legislature’s first meeting. [International Herald Tribune] * Bloggers beware! A Maryland court will decide whether authors who write critical comments on-line under pseudonyms will have to reveal their identity. (yikes!) [The Baltimore Sun] * New York chief court judge Judith Kaye […]
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9th Circuit, Bankruptcy, Insider Trading, Morning Docket
Morning Docket 12.19.08
* The White House has raised the prospect of “pushing the cars into a managed bankruptcy as a solution to save the companies from financial collapse.” [The International Herald Tribune] * The Iraqi journalist who threw the shoe at President George W. Bush will go on trial for insulting a foreign leader, which could get […]
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Drinking, Morning Docket, Pornography, Tax Law
Morning Docket 12.18.08
* A couple is suing United Airlines for “overserving” the husband by serving him red wine every 20 minutes on the flight. They say this is what caused him to beat his wife on the way to customs. [Chicago Tribune] * “Federal judges in some parts of the United States are delaying the swearing-in of […]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket 12.17.08
* Conversations about impeachment of Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich were postponed until today so that Blago’s lawyer Ed Gerson could be present, or so that prosecutors could make sure that the impeachment committee could interfere with his criminal case. [The New York Times] * Judges tighten their belts. Gov. Patterson of New York praised New […]
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D.C. Circuit, Morning Docket, Supreme Court
Morning Docket 12.16.08
* Poker chip thief sniped!!! (thank goodness) [Norwich Bulletin] * Budweiser (Bud) beer cannot corner the market on it’s name anymore. The EU high court took away Anheuser-Busch’s famous trademark–a big win for Czech beer company “Budvar”. [Associated Press] * The Supreme Court breathed life in to the lawsuit of former Gitmo detainees, British Muslims […]
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Antitrust, Litigators, Morning Docket
Morning Docket 12.15.08
* Investigators looking in to Bernard Madoff’s ponzi scheme “found evidence he ran an unregistered money-management business alongside his firm’s brokerage and investment-advisory subsidiaries.” [Bloomberg] * A little insight into how Marc Dreier cheated even the best businessmen. [New York Times] * Regardless of whether Gov. Rod Blagojevich resigns today, Democrats will have to decide […]
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JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, Morning Docket, O.J. Simpson, White & Case
Morning Docket 12.05.08
* Bad news for the big three: the New York Times says Congress “is suffering from acute bailout fatigue.” [NYT] * There were 13 law firm mergers in the third quarter this year (not unusual). The largest number of combinations (5) were in the southeast. [The Birmingham News] * O.J. Simpson is finally going to […]
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Barack Obama, Guantanamo Bay, Morning Docket, Politics, SCOTUS, Sexual Harassment, Sheppard Mullin
Morning Docket 12.03.08
* Barack Obama has promised to close Guantanamo Bay, but what is going to happen to the most dangerous inmates? Should they be released anyway? What legal basis can the U.S. use to keep them captive? [Bloomberg.com] * Roman Polanski — the Academy Award-winning director of Rosemary’s Baby, who admitted to having sex with a […]
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4th Circuit, 9th Circuit, Bankruptcy, Morning Docket, Pornography, Supreme Court, Trademarks
Morning Docket 12.02.08
* Thailand’s constitutional court decided to disband the country’s ruling party and ban the prime minister from politics for five years. [CNN.com] * A former federal courts chief is calling for the resignation or impeachment of an appellate judge in California for watching internet porn. In one month, there were 90,000 hits on 1,100 porn […]
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Goldman Sachs, Guns / Firearms, Morning Docket, Murder
Morning Docket 12.01.08
* Paris isn’t the only Hilton getting in trouble for sex. The former manager of a restaurant in the Hilton Minneapolis is suing the Hilton for “undirected” sexual harrassment because he walked in on upper management having an orgy. [Courthouse News Service] * GMAC LLC, the financing arm of General Motors, is not allowing holders […]
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4th Circuit, Guantanamo Bay, Heller Ehrman, Kids, Morning Docket, Sex, Thelen Reid & Priest
Morning Docket 11.21.08
* Mukasey is going to be okay. He’s telling jokes and talking to the President. A GW doctor said “”The attorney general is conscious, conversant and alert.” [CNN] * Do you feel sorry for sex offenders? The California 4th district court does. They ruled that Jessica’s law, a law that prohibits sex offenders from living […]
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Bail, Morning Docket, State Judges, Wall Street
Morning Docket 11.20.08
* California’s Supreme Court agreed to hear the case against Prop. 8. [Reuters] * For all the associates who go crazy working late into the night in dark conference rooms dreaming of embezzling money from the firm–let this be a lesson to you. Employee Angela Marie Dees was arrested for stealing 1.67 million dollars from […]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket 11.19.08
* Former Alaska Senator Ted Stevens, who lost his bid for re-election on Tuesday, says he will not seek pardon from President Bush. [CNN.com] * MJ says he is too sick to fly to testify at High Court in London in a breach of contract case. His opponent in the case, the son of the […]
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Antonin Scalia, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Books, Civil Rights, Google / Search Engines, Morning Docket, William Rehnquist
Morning Docket 11.18.08
* Change you can believe in? It looks like Obama has recruited a few “washington insiders”: 8 of the 10 top lawyers he has hired for his transition team are veterans of the Clinton administration. [Bloomberg.com] * After his hunt yesterday, Justice Antonin Scalia told a room full of big-time Texas lawyers that he disagreed […]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket 11.6.08
* A puppy named Afro was rescued from a burning law firm in South Africa, and his owner promptly “smothered him with kisses.” [Independent Online] * Google dumped its needy girlfriend Yahoo, forgoing their advertising partnership instead of going to court to fight an anti-trust law suit filed by the US justice department. Yahoo is […]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket 11.4.08
[Ed. Note: Check back throughout the day for election shenanigans updates.] * Vote. Even if your boss tells you that clocking a full fourteen-hour-day at your miserable law firm is more important, remember that this is a historic election no matter who wins. Check out this fun New York Times piece on election night. * […]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket 11.3.08
* Readers who plan to become ambulance chasers might want to read this. The Supreme Court hears arguments today in a case involving the FDA. “At issue is whether the federal government can limit lawsuits by consumers…who have been harmed by prescription medications.” [NPR] * UBS clients issued claims over “100 percent principal protected notes” […]