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Judge Easily Rejects Parler’s Demands To Have Amazon Reinstate Parler

Nicely done.

Play With Elon Musk’s Fire, Get Burned

Authorities not fooled by 'Not a Flamethrower.'

Morning Docket: 01.22.21

* Google is asking that an antitrust lawsuit filed against it be moved from Texas to California. Interesting, seems like Silicon Valley types keep moving from California to Texas… [Reuters]

* A group called Lawyers Defending American Democracy are calling for Rudy Giuliani to face professional discipline over his work for President Trump. [Hill]

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Biglaw Backing Away From Trump — See Also

Morgan Lewis Dumping Trump: They don’t want to be associated with him anymore.

Don’t Take Alcohol Away From Law School Students: But you don’t have to be a dick about it.

Speaking Of Dicks, Don’t Give (A Toy) One To A Colleague: I can’t believe I have to say that.

Republicans Change Course Now That They’re Not In Charge: What a bunch of dicks.

No Bail For You! Lawyer’s violent social media posts play prominent role in bail hearing.

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From Yale Law School To COVID-19 Response Team

The Biden administration is taking COVID very seriously.

Trump Lawyers Say They Can’t Be Sanctioned Because They Didn’t Sign Anything (P.S. They Totally Signed Things)

Let's face it, it's not the dumbest legal argument we've seen in the last few months.

No Bail For Lawyer Arrested In Capitol Insurrection As Judge Says: ‘He Probably Considers Me Scum Who Deserves A Headshot. So, No, I’m Not Gonna Release Him.’

Says the defendant's been 'seduced by dangerous and violent ideology.'

Republicans Rediscover ‘Norms’ As Biden Fires Labor Board General Counsel

Don't burn that bridge if you plan to walk across it.

Bloomberg Law Offers Free Research To Legal Services And Pro Bono Lawyers

'Between COVID and racial justice-related events in particular, we’ve seen a big surge in pro bono work and are thrilled to be able to provide access to high quality resources.'

In The Final Days Of Trump Administration, Agencies Clashed Over How To Regulate Medical AI

The agency published its first action plan last week for how it plans to regulate machine learning-based software as a medical device. To start, the FDA said it will issue guidance on how changes to algorithms should be regulated as they 'learn.'

So You’re Saying There’s A Company With Half Its Assets In British Hotels Whose Founder Is Facing A Criminal Tax Probe? Might You Have Any Of Its Bonds That I Might Borrow?

It's the kind of thing that might catch a short-seller’s attention.

How 2020 Upended Commercial Contracts And What May Lie Ahead

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Donald Trump’s Tax Lawyers Saying, ‘Trump Who?’ As IRS Changes Hands

Morgan Lewis is winding down its relationship with Trump's ventures.