Abortion
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Courts
Joe Biden Stares Down Supreme Court As He Quotes Dobbs Back At Them
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Health Care / Medicine
Report: Few Large Employers Have Changed Abortion Coverage Following Dobbs v. Jackson
Only 8% of large employers have reduced or expanded their coverage for abortion after the Dobbs v. Jackson decision, a new report from KFF found. - Sponsored
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Courts
Alabama Declares Frozen Embryos Are Children, Creating Nightmare Rule Against Perpetuities Hypo
The Alabama bar exam is about to get lit. -
Crime
Lawyer's Light Sentence Tells The Truth About Texas Abortion Laws
He admitted to spiking his wife's drink with abortion-inducing drugs without her knowledge. -
Government
Abortion, Dobbs, And The Republican Field
Conservatives argued for 50 years that the issue belongs in the hands of the states ... and all of a sudden that the issue does not belong in the hands of the states. -
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Courts
MAGA Judge Says It's A First Amendment Right To Hawk Anti-Abortion Snake Oil
The Catholic clinic can continue the unproven practice of offering a ‘reversal’ of the abortion pill. - Sponsored
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Courts
MAGA Judge James Ho Unveils New Injury Based On Conservative Tears
If you thought the Dobbs decision was the low point for reproductive freedom in this country, James Ho is here to show you how much worse it can get. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 08.17.23
* Fifth Circuit judges anoint themselves pharmaceutical scientists to determine that the FDA probably didn’t understand mifepristone when its scientists exercised their statutory and regulatory authority. So now judges are historians, neurologists, and drug scientists. Yale and Harvard JDs really prepare you to be jackasses of all trades! [Reuters]
* Speaking of judges acting as neurologists, the Federal Circuit backtracked to avoid that charge and cited Judge Pauline Newman’s reticence to hand over medical records of a cardiac event as the key justification to ban her from the court. Which fails their own twisted rationale since a risk of heart attack has no bearing on a judge’s faculties. But in any event, they’re cardiologists now, too. [Law360]
* It took a matter of hours for Trump supporters to publicly circulate the names and addresses of Georgia grand jurors. [NBC]
* By nixing student loan forgiveness, the Supreme Court likely also jacked the market by robbing it of 401(k) investment. [Bloomberg Law News]
* Law firms are generally uninterested in a fully remote workforce — which is understandable in some practice areas. But somehow this is going to get conflated with hybrid work models and some dumb firm is going to think it has cover to fully end working from home — to the delight of the firms looking to poach. [American Lawyer]
* Fox News needs a new CLO after the last one presided over the company accumulating upwards of a billion in liability. Who would want this job? [Corporate Counsel]
* Freshfields managing partner races in FIA bronze level events in his spare time. [LegalCheek]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 08.01.23
* Donald Trump’ efforts to get out of legal hot water in Georgia fails. The state judge is having exactly none of this BS. [Politico]
* A Mar-A-Lago employee switches up his legal strategy… once he got rid of his Trump-PAC funded attorney. [Salon]
* Cravath is growing in D.C. [Law.com]
* And Clark Hill is getting bigger in Los Angeles. [Reuters]
* In Ohio, doctors are on the front line of the legal battle for reproductive freedom. [Pro Publica]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 07.12.23
* In bothsideism push, conservatives are hyping that Sotomayor’s book tour makes hosts purchase copies. Putting aside that this is how book tours work everywhere, the complaint underscores that Alito and Thomas defenders think the problem is “justices making money” as opposed to “justices getting paid by parties trying to influence the judges.” [AP]
* Lawsuit brought against Idaho’s abortion travel ban. [Law.com]
* It’s not just law firms forcing people back to in-person work just because old partners feel lonely. Judges are willing to let the wheels of justice grind if it gives them some playmates throughout the day. [New York Law Journal]
* “Judges Confused by Supreme Court’s Historical Test for Gun Laws.” It can be confusing if you get tripped up on the “historical” part. But it’s really easy once you ignore all the actual history and only use the gun manufacturer fan fiction account in Bruen. [Bloomberg Law News]
* Mainstream media asking snide questions about antitrust law after Microsoft ruling. [NY Times]
* Judge Newman’s battle with the rest of the Federal Circuit now has a mediator. [Law360]
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Government, Health Care / Medicine
Small, Rural Communities Have Become Abortion Access Battlegrounds
The quest to enact local bans has become particularly acute in small towns, like West Wendover, Nevada, and Hobbs, New Mexico, which are situated by borders between states that have restricted abortion and states where laws preserve access.
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 05.18.23
* Fifth Circuit judge scolds attorney for “personal attack” because she accurately described the district court opinion as unprecedented. As Inigo Montoya would put it, “I don’t think that word means what Judge Elrod thinks it means. [Slate]
* After watching Disney’s experience beating up on Florida lawyers, Penguin Random House is starting to sue Florida school districts for banning books. [AP]
* Montana has banned TikTok in a reminder that “free speech” is now limited to punishing students for carrying mean signs during FedSoc events. [Wall Street Journal]
* Deutsche Bank paying $75 million to settle claims that the bank facilitated Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operations. Another win for Boies Schiller Flexner and Edwards Pottinger representing Epstein’s victims. [Reuters]
* Massachusetts US Attorney accused of abuse of power “to achieve a political goal epitomiz[ing] the type of ‘political justice’ that Congress intended to prohibit.” Too bad she wasn’t a judge taking free vacations from parties before the court… she’d be home free by now.[Law360]
* WilmerHale earned 5 percent of its total revenue from Meta, the company you remember as Facebook before they completely retooled to chase a creepy VR chat room that they’ve since killed after costing the company about $13 billion. Which is all to say that Wilmer may want to diversify its revenue streams at this rate. [Bloomberg Law News]
* A discussion of Shadow Docket by Steve Vladeck (affiliate link). [ABA Journal]
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Courts
Samuel Alito Is Big Mad Supreme Court Grants Stay In Abortion Pill Case
Why don't you tell us how you really feel, Sammy? -
Courts
Judge Who Denied Teen An Abortion Over Her Grades On Shortlist For Florida Supreme Court
This is exactly the kind of guy Ron DeSantis wants on the court. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 04.14.23
* Somehow the Clarence Thomas ethical morass got worse. [ProPublica]
* Biglaw firms consider recapturing the magic of lockdown profits by severely curtailing travel for in-person meetings. Yeah, that’s what the clients want in 2023… firms to Zoom them to save $5K. [American Lawyer]
* Liberals claim calls for Dianne Feinstein to resign are “sexist.” Which is exactly what the same liberals said about calls for Ruth Bader Ginsburg to resign and how did that work out for you? [Bloomberg Law News]
* SCOTUS refuses to halt student debt settlement involving schools that the government characterized as functional diploma mills. Don’t worry, they’re still on track to strike down the student debt settlement that could help the most people. [Reuters]
* Former client is “batshit crazy” says attorney. I don’t know about this specific client, but there’s a generalizable ring of truth to this. [Law360]
* DeSantis signs 6-week abortion law which, as political mistakes go, is right up there with “pissing off Disney.” [AP]
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Courts
CEOs Of Pharmaceutical Companies Really Aren't The Defenders Of Rights We Want. But We May Need Them Right Now.
Can we have a good two weeks where we don't have to rely on the benevolence of people trying to maximize profits for once?