9th Circuit
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 11.23.22
* It takes a village worth of billables: this Texas firm has Thanksgiving covered. [12 News Now]
* You know these STOP WOKE laws will probably impact Republicans at some point, right? [The Atlantic]
* Bad news for Bitcoin Bros: Looks like the normies with 9-5s were right. [CNBC]
* Time to pay up Big Boy! [NYT]
* The constitutionality of an Idaho law banning transgender athletes hits the 9th Circuit. Again. [Boise State Public Radio]
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Courts
Ninth Circuit Judge Has Had It With Trump Judge's Insulting Dissents
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 11.09.21
* The 9th Circuit may be determining if Twitter can be sued for sex trafficking soon. [Bloomberg Law]
* North Carolina’s Supreme Court is positioned to determine if nurses can be sued for medical malpractice. [Carolina Journal]
* Must be something in the water: legal standard for water in LA could still be dangerous. [ABC 7]
* is helping cancer patients figure out their legal and financial troubles. Shouts out to Virginia! [WTVR]
* Ohio governor makes it easier to let out those Dionysian urges on a few key holidays. THE EXPLOSIONS WILL BE GLORIOUS! [WHIO]
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Courts
9th Circuit Judge Tries To Be Funny, Fails
But, I mean, he's right about the Star Wars movies. -
Family Law
When Will The Government Stop Discriminating Against The Children Of Gay Couples?
While most of us would like to think the government would change its constitutionally questionable policy, that is probably not its next move. -
Courts
Former Judge Alex Kozinski Faces Lawsuit Over All That Stuff That Made Him Resign
The man who first shed light on Kozinski's porn files is back in court. -
Government
That DOJ Lawyer Who Argued That Kids Didn't Need Sleep Or Toothbrushes? Yeah, She Lost
Frankly, this opinion is a model of restraint. -
Government
DOJ Lawyer Says Words Taken Out Of Context... In Hour-Long Videotaped Hearing We All Watched
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Government
DOJ Lawyer Earns 15 Minutes Of Infamy Arguing In Front Of Exactly The Wrong Panel
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 01.03.19
* R. Kelly threatens to sue Lifetime, a lawsuit that will be totally worth it if the judge has to say “don’t pee on my leg and say it’s raining.” [TMZ]
* Alex Van Der Zwaan’s attorney, Laura Grossfield Birger, tapped to run the SDNY Criminal Division. That’s some… curious optics right now. [Courthouse News Service]
* The billionaire client that Boies Schiller is suing over unpaid fees has now alleged malpractice, which is a bold move considering BSF got him through multiple litigation scrapes. But this goes with the territory. I once had a holdout client claim malpractice when we’d gotten him acquitted of racketeering, so this move isn’t entirely unexpected. [New York Law Journal]
* It’s not surprising that the Ninth Circuit has some serious concerns over the possibility that the government systematically lied to the courts, it’s surprising that this isn’t a universal concern of the federal judiciary. [The Recorder]
* This round-up of the top in-house hires of December including Tesla’s decision to turn off autopilot and hire a white-collar attorney to serve as general counsel. [Law360]
* Cardinal says compensation for abuse victims is less important than avoiding “breaking” the Church. Dude, it’s going public that abuse victims aren’t as important as the Church that’s doing all the “breaking” right now. [NBC News]
* Key legal questions surrounding blockchain. [Coindesk]
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Law Schools
Law School Students Just Saw A Radical Shift In The Pathway To Success
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Courts
Dear Federalist Society, Here's A Thought On This Ryan Bounds Thing
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 04.24.18
* The long, drawn out saga of the “Monkey Selfie” case has crossed another milestone with the Ninth Circuit ruling that the monkey can’t sue for copyright violations. Reached for comment, the monkey’s attorney expressed disappointment in the decision and hurled feces. [Courthouse News Service]
* Jones Day loses more partners to the lateral market. We assume they saw the Above the Law Law Firm Rankings and decided they had to get out. [American Lawyer]
* Colorado passes “secret prisons” reform bill… in secret. Hurray irony! [9News]
* Kimberly Yuracko named the new dean of Northwestern Law. [Northwestern University NewsCenter]
* Good news for DLA Piper: the Second Circuit upholds their malpractice victory. [Law360]
* K&L Gates adds firepower in Asia. That should serve them well until Trump hears a scary Pokemon Go story on Fox and cuts off all trade to Japan. [International]
* Checking in on the finale of the Global Legal Hackathon. So if you got a suspicious request for money from your practice management software the other day, it was probably hacked. [Legaltech News]
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Courts, Government
Judicial Nominees And Their College Writings: Enough Is Enough
We need a statute of limitations when it comes to the scribblings of one's youth. -
Courts
Judge Stephen Reinhardt, Liberal Lion Of The Ninth Circuit, Has Passed Away
Love or hate his jurisprudence, Judge Reinhardt's importance and influence cannot be denied. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 03.22.18
* The First Law Student is single. People reports Tiffany Trump broke up with her longtime boyfriend as part of her law school transition. [People]
* Jeffrey Toobin and Alan Dershowitz clash on television when Toobin points out that Dershowitz’s cable appearances these days are less legal analysis than auditions for Sarah Huckabee Sanders’s job. [Daily Beast]
* Charles Cooper says Jeff Sessions is not currently under investigation for false statements or perjury. Update your scorecards accordingly. [USA Today]
* Ninth Circuit rules in favor of the Gaye family in the Blurred Lines lawsuit. Wait, that’s still going on? [Courthouse News Service]
* Former Florida State deputy general counsel arrested in child sex sting. [Tallahassee Democrat]
* In-house counsel are very concerned about GDPR. [Big Law Business]
* Some people have some entirely understandable problems with Lindsay’s new ad. [Ad Age]
* CSM believes the Austin bomber case shows off law enforcement’s deep surveillance powers. Yeah, they were so deep they pretty much did nothing for weeks. [Christian Science Monitor]
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Courts
President Trump's Eleventh Wave Of Judicial Nominees
Look for more confirmations in the very near future. -
Government
Case Closed: Judge Kozinski's Retirement Stops Inquiry Into His Behavior
We may never know the full extent of what went on in the judge's chambers. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 01.30.18
* Just in time for the State of the Union, the Ninth Circuit ruled that immigrant children can be railroaded out of the country without access to a lawyer. Maybe they’ll avoid Trump’s ire tonight. [The Hill]
* Have you read about the Presidents Club dinner? If not, then you can read here, but it’s basically Tailhook for rich people. Now read about the law firm partners who may or may not have shown up including a Fried Frank partner who “did not attend the dinner and left shortly after arriving” which is an Escher painting of a statement. [Legal Cheek]
* New study from ALM Intelligence and Harvard Law School suggests part of the reason women are underrepresented at the partnership level is a propensity to selecting lower risk paths earlier in their career, locking them out of greater opportunities. Of course, this fails to answer what happens in the law that tends to encourage women to step off the path, but it’s valuable for diagnosing the problem. [American Lawyer]
* Money laundering with the Russians… yeah, lawyers aren’t supposed to do that. [Daily Business Review]
* Texas judge blocks law requiring respect for unborn children, provoking a fierce outcry from politicians worried about the sanctity of life. Texas has the highest maternal mortality rate in the developed world, but who really cares about that? I mean, once they get past negative 8-and-a-half months they stop being cute. [Dallas Morning News]
* Sad news, the former shadow attorney general of the UK, media lawyer Arthur Davidson, has passed at 91. [The Guardian]
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Courts
The Latest And Greatest In President Trump's Judicial Nominations (Part 2)
President Trump just announced his tenth wave of judicial nominees -- who are they?