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Morning Docket: 11.27.17
* According to recently released tax records, a mystery donor gave more than $28 million to the Wellspring Committee to keep Justice Antonin Scalia's Supreme Court seat in Republican hands and help get Neil Gorsuch confirmed. How awesome would it be if that mystery donor were the president himself? [Law Newz]
* The DOJ says Trump can appoint the interim director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau under the Federal Vacancies Act, but the Dodd-Frank Act says the deputy director will head the agency in the absence of a permanent director. Now we have two dueling CFPB directors, AND there's a lawsuit. Yay! [The Hill; CNN]
* FCC commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel is so against Chairman Ajit Pai's "lousy plan" to do away with net neutrality that she wrote an op-ed to plead for help: "I'm on the FCC. Please stop us from killing net neutrality." She encourages us to "make a ruckus" about this -- and we really, really should. [Los Angeles Times]
* The layoffs are coming! The layoffs are coming! Along with Sedgwick's announcement that the faltering firm intends to close its doors in early 2018 comes the news that it will shutter its back office operations center. Up to 75 people are expected to lose their jobs. It'll be a not-so happy New Year. [American Lawyer]
* Start placing your bets: The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments in New Jersey's sports betting case next week, and is expected to issue a ruling in June. What's the over/under on the high court overturning the federal ban on sports betting? Come on, SCOTUS, make Atlantic City great again! [NJ.com]
* Representative John Conyers Jr. will be stepping down from his platoon as the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee during an investigation into allegations that he sexually harassed his former aides. Even though a settlement was made in 2015, Conyers continues to deny the allegations. [New York Times]
* The InfiLaw System has been lowering the bar for minority law students for years and years and dooming them to hundreds of thousands of dollars of nondischargeable loan debt, and the man who started it all seems relatively disappointed with what's happened and the awful outcomes students have seen. [Wall Street Journal]
* "I think when it’s all said and done, what you’re gonna see is there was nothing racial that motivated this." The lawyer representing the white University of Hartford student who smeared period blood all over her black roommate's things to get her to move out doesn't think his client should be charged with a hate crime. [Hartford Courant]