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  • Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 12.21.10

    * The fight for the future begins: the FCC is going to deal with net neutrality today. Are we going to end up with a red pill versus blue pill scenario? [Media Decoder / New York Times] * Super-agent Jim Wiatt, former head of the William Morris talent agency, is suing Winston & Strawn and […]

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  • Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 12.20.10

    * Thanks Senate, but gay servicemembers now get to play another waiting game. How long will the certification process take? Don’t ask, because the administration isn’t going to tell. [New York Times; Wall Street Journal; Washington Post] * Filibusted: with the DREAM Act’s failure, undocumented college graduates can’t get jobs. As a member of the […]

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  • Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 12.17.10

    * This Illinois woman can officially tell people that by law her sh*t doesn’t stink. It actually smells like poinsettias. [Northwest Herald] * A lawsuit that started with a bang has fizzled out in small claims court. Such is life when delicious delicacies detonate on your plate. [San Jose Mercury News] * The Obama administration […]

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  • Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 12.16.10

    * One gusher of a lawsuit: BP could pay more than $5 billion because of the oil spill. A small price to pay for unleashing Cthulhu. [Wall Street Journal] * Prince Jefri owes his former lawyers more than $21 million. Time to cross another life-size sex statue off his Christmas list. Le sigh. [Washington Post] […]

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  • Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 12.15.10

    * With the way that David J. Stern is screwing Florida, it looks like he forgot to buy some integrity with his robo-bucks. [Daily Business Review] * If Phil Spector wins this lawsuit against Robert Shapiro, he could probably afford to get a new hairstyle. [Beverly Hills Courier] * Is Verrill Dana a haven for […]

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  • Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 12.14.10

    * A lawyer named Conn created a 3D commercial for potential clients. Too bad his target audience will be purchasing new hips before 3D televisions. [Florida Times-Union] * Normally, you’d end up in the doghouse if you didn’t attend a loved one’s funeral, but Bernie Madoff’s throwing his family a bone on this one. [DealBook […]

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  • Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 12.06.10

    * Is this supposed to be the “change” we can believe in? Obama pops his pardon power cherry with a felony coin mutilator. [Pittsburgh Post-Gazette] * A 1L at University of Tennessee Law might be bombing her finals right now because of her failed attempt at tossing a ball for tuition. I bet she threw […]

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  • Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 11.24.10

    * Congrats to Boies Schiller and Bingham, for their client Oracle’s record-setting, $1.3 billion verdict against SAP. It’s the largest 2010 jury award, the largest for copyright infringement ever, and the 23rd-largest of all time. [Am Law Daily; Bloomberg] * MC Hammer was wrong – the TSA can touch this. On the eve of Opt-Out […]

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  • Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 11.23.10

    * The New Jersey Senate passed an Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights. Is this just reactionary pandering? Cue Elie’s opinion on the nanny state in 3, 2, 1… [New Jersey Star-Ledger] * You’re doing it wrong! Chandra Levy’s murderer was convicted in D.C. without forensic evidence, a murder weapon, or eyewitnesses, because “there was a lot […]

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  • Law Schools, Morning Docket, Sarah Palin

    Morning Docket: 11.22.10

    * It would be much easier more entertaining if Eva Longoria and Tony Parker had to settle their dueling divorce filings with a jump ball. [New York Daily News] * Duquesne’s law student clothing drive was pathetic, but this just takes the cake. Would you pay an ASU law student’s tuition? [ABA Journal] * After […]

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  • Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 11.12.10

    * French parents have sued to spare their kids the embarrassment of sharing a name with a car. Hey, Zoe Renault, need an underbody lube? [New York Daily News] * Ladies, having your jaw fall off is just a small price to pay to fix your brittle bones. At least your husbands will be happy […]

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  • Football, Religion, Sports

    Is Tim Tebow in the Super Best Friends?

    Readers, please buckle your seatbelts and prepare to be astounded, because I am about to talk to you about football. Yes, I know — football and breasts don’t normally mix (hello, Ines Sainz) – but Elie, who would usually write about football and the law, is pulling me from the JV squad and letting me […]
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  • Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 11.11.10

    * Things just got real for Judge Judy wannabe DeAnn Salcido. With 39 counts of judicial misconduct, this über benchslap has got to sting. [San Diego Union Tribune] * The ABA Journal is asking readers to submit haikus about life in the law. My entry: Just graduated. My class is totally screwed. Waahh, soul-crushing debt. […]

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  • Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 11.10.10

    * The CIA may have destroyed interrogation tapes, but the DOJ isn’t pressing charges. Government bros before terrorist hoes. [Washington Post] * Nobody doesn’t like Sara Lee Bimbo Bakeries. Cleary Gottlieb, Morgan Lewis, and White & Case are helping to close this mega-bakery deal. [Am Law Daily] * DOMA made GLAD mad, so GLAD joined […]

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  • Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 11.09.10

    * The Canadian Supreme Court is debating whether a woman can give prior consent for unconscious anal sex. When it’s that cold, I guess you do really freaky things to stay warm. [Vancouver Sun] * Meanwhile, the U.S. Supreme Court is just plain being anal. Yesterday, the Court rejected the first of the Obamacare lawsuits, […]

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  • Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 11.08.10

    * Minorities get stopped and frisked more often in Philly, and not because they commit more crimes, but because the police are racist. So sayeth the ACLU. [Philadelphia Inquirer] * It’s the end of class action litigation as we know it — and the Supreme Court feels fine. [San Francisco Chronicle] * Joe Miller is […]

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  • Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 10.28.10

    * This potential closet case probably would have been more excited if Chris Armstrong had dropped his pants instead of his request for an order of protection. [Associated Press] * Comcast tried, but grandma still died. Grandpa is now suing the cable company for allegedly mishandling emergency calls, resulting in his wife bleeding to death […]

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  • Morning Docket, Sacha Baron Cohen

    Morning Docket: 10.27.10

    * Let’s just be honest… if your boobs have been on Girls Gone Wild, no one really cares about your good name — apparently not even you. [Washington Post] * The Supreme Court is more pro-business than it used to be. Did I just step out of a DeLorean? We knew this last January (or […]

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  • Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 10.26.10

    * We covered David J. Stern’s layoffs earlier, but now there have been more. As our Count von Count would say: “Three hundred! Three hundred layoffs! Ah! Ah! Ah!” [South Florida Business Journal] * All things considered, a first degree felony murder charge is just a little hiccup for Jennifer Mee. [CNN] * A shortage […]

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