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  • Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 12.09.10

    * The House passed the DREAM Act last night. My DREAM Act? It involves Jesus, giant eagle’s wings, and Skynyrd. And I’m in the front row, hammered drunk. [Bloomberg] * Some Oklahomans hate Muneer Awad because he’s “a foreigner” trying to change Oklahoma’s laws. I hate him because he’s a recent law school grad with […]

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  • Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 12.08.10

    * Lawrence Taylor’s lawyers accuse cops of false start in their arrest of Taylor for statutory rape. [New York Daily News] * Listen, we know Julian Assange did something illegal. We just need to do a helluva lot of research to figure out what it is! And your constant, y’know, questions and stuff aren’t going […]

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  • Morning Docket, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Wal-Mart

    Morning Docket: 12.07.10

    * Julian Assange was arrested at a London police station last night. What a dumb place for Julian Assange to be hanging out. What a stupid, stupid place. [CNN] * I can’t tell whether this story is real or not, but the Supreme Court heard the case yesterday of a deceased Korean War veteran diagnosed […]

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  • Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 12.03.10

    * Irving H. Picard, captain of the USS Sue JP Morgan. [New York Times Dealbook] * For some, the DREAM is a college education and citizenship. For others, the DREAM is that Home Depot doesn’t start enforcing an anti-loitering policy. [CNN International] * The U.S. government has continually broken legal limits while spying on citizens. […]

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  • Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 12.02.10

    * Milkshakes off the Atlantic coast and in the eastern Gulf of Mexico will remain undrunk through 2017. [Washington Post] * The Illinois Senate approved legislation that recognizes gay and lesbian civil unions yesterday. A separate institution enforcing many of the same rights as marriage. Separate but equal. Morally unimpeachable. [Chicago Sun-Times] * The Senate […]

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  • Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 11.30.10

    * A Spanish woman has claimed ownership of the sun. Similarly, my father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. [Daily Mail] * Yesterday, Eric Holder said that the Justice Department was conducting a “very serious” investigation into insider trading on Wall Street. Rachael Ray’s going […]

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  • Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 11.29.10

    * John Paul Stevens penned an essay explaining why he now believes that the death penalty is unconstitutional. Chief among the reasons is surely that, at 90, death is scary as all hell. [New York Times] * Tomorrow, the Supreme Court will hear arguments on whether California’s prisons are unconstitutionally overcrowded. Personally, I think any […]

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  • Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 11.19.10

    * There will be a candlelight vigil and a possible lawsuit over the mistaken euthanasia of Target, the “Afghan Hero Dog.” That entire sentence made no sense to me. [New York Times] * The bad news for Steven Rattner is that he’s being publicly slapped around by Andrew Cuomo. The good news, if there is […]

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  • Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 11.18.10

    * Ahmed Ghailani is facing up to life in prison. The terrorists have won. [Associated Press] * A Christian student group at UC Hastings Law refused to allow gay members and lost their school funding. Then they lost their court case. Might I suggest losing their religion? That’s me in the corner… [San Francisco Chronicle] […]

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  • Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 11.17.10

    * The FDA has made sure no one gets lok’d again. Thanks a ton, Buzz Killington. [New York Times] * The incoming New York AG is looking for the “best legal talent in the nation.” NBTG: nothing but Touro grads. [DealBook / New York Times] * If you’re going to file a lawsuit claiming some […]

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  • Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 11.16.10

    * In Russia, TV watches jury. Did I do that right? [New York Times] * Charlie don’t surf, but Charlie does walk. Looks like the House needs a Rangel wrangler. [Washington Post] * A California woman was charged with conspiring to aid Somali terrorists. I just listened to that Katy Perry song, looking for a […]

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  • Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 11.15.10

    * College presidents have no problem putting food on their families. [Bloomberg] * Legal aid in Florida in need of financial aid. This blurb has aids. [Palm Beach Post] * Lawsuits are the new synthetic collateralized debt obligations. Amirite? [New York Times] * A dead son, an unusual sentence, and the most riveting thing you’ll […]

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  • Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 11.05.10

    * David J. Stern continues being awesome. [Reuters] * What the legal landscape looks like for the Rutgers Two. [NPR] * Statistics suggest that the economic downturn has led to less diversity in law firms. Because looking carefully over your shoulder before you tell a racist joke at lunch is a luxury that few firms […]

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  • Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 11.04.10

    * The Republicans’ strategy to roll back Obamacare will resemble “death by a thousand cuts.” Sounds painful, but it’s much gentler than the other strategy they considered, “death by uninsured syphilis.” [BusinessWeek] * An assistant general counsel at the CIA asserts in a new law review article that U.S. law does not forbid rendition. I […]

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  • Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 11.03.10

    * Proposition 19 lost in California. Your revolution is over, Mr. Lebowski. Condolences. The bums lost. [Associated Press] * Would law school warning labels make any difference? Let me go snag another pack of delicious Parliament Lights and get back to you on that one. [The National Law Journal] * Why is David Boies such […]

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  • Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 11.02.10

    * The Iranian lawyer defending the American hikers accused of espionage practices. Call it Bignutslaw. [Los Angeles Times] * Charlie Sheen has filed for divorce from his wife, Brooke Mueller, and seeks joint custody of their twin sons. Any divorce lawyers want to chime in on this one? [People Magazine] * Google is suing the […]

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  • Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 11.01.10

    * The Washington Post has a hot scoop on how law school might not be the brightest choice for people interested in money. [Washington Post] * Of course, if you’re the fat kid from Stand by Me, does it really matter what the brightest choice is? [New York Post] * The Supreme Court will hear […]

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  • Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 10.22.10

    * Robert Gates has now issued a memo saying only the heads of the Army, Navy, and Air Force may approve discharges under “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” Gates’ predecessor was right. Democracy is messy. [CNN] * Ginni Thomas did not intend to call Obamacare unconstitutional. But if the health care law would like to apologize, […]

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  • Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 10.21.10

    * A three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit spells justice, P-S-Y-C-H-E. [New York Times] * The Arizona Supreme Court refused to order the state to disclose where they got the lethal mixture that will put Jeffrey Landrigan to death, even though it likely came from a foreign source. While Landrigan […]

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