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* Several states have passed laws that give robots the same rights as pedestrians on sidewalks. This is a slippery slope to Skynet… [Axios]

* A lawyer defending the leader of the NXIVM cult in a criminal case is withdrawing from the representation. [Times Union]

* An Andrew Cuomo accuser says talk of Cuomo being considered for Attorney General prompted her to come forward. [Boston Globe]

* A former Bachelorette contestant has filed a defamation lawsuit against outlets who he alleged falsely reported that he was at the January 6th Capitol riots. [KHOU.com]

* A lawyer is in hot water for using the imagery of a pit bull in advertising. Maybe they’ll throw him a bone… [Daily Business Review]

* The Massachusetts Attorney General is suing an orthodontist who allegedly filed false claims worth millions of dollars. Guess the attorney general thinks she’s taking a “bite” out of misconduct… [NBC News]

* Governor Andrew Cuomo has purportedly hired a criminal defense lawyer after recent sexual harassment allegations were made against him. [Fox News]

* A Brooklyn lawyer is facing grand larceny charges after allegedly stealing around $200,000 from a client. [Patch]

* Amazon has been hit with a lawsuit alleging racial and gender discrimination. [Fox News]

* WeWork and Softbank have settled a longstanding legal dispute. Maybe they should rename themselves WeSettle… [Real Deal]

* A California physician Zoomed into a traffic court hearing last week while seemingly performing surgery. Talk about multitasking… [Sacramento Bee]

* Governor Andrew Cuomo is asking that an independent counsel review sexual harassments allegations made against him. [CNN]

* Check out this article about how the NCAA seemingly turned one of its biggest legal defeats into a legal shield. [Juris Lab]

* A judge has approved a $650 million settlement in litigation filed against Facebook over a photo-tagging system. [Hill]

* The Los Angeles District Attorney is facing a recall effort less than three months into his term. Californians love a good recall… [Los Angeles Times]

* A lawyer is demanding to know whether the FBI has uncovered $400 million of gold from the Civil War. Sounds like a sequel to National Treasure… [New York Post]

* The New York Attorney General alleges that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo underreported nursing home deaths from COVID-19 in New York. [CNBC]

* PACER apparently crashed yesterday because so many people were looking at class-action filings against Robinhood involving GameStop stock. [Law & Crime]

* President Biden has started staffing a commission on Supreme Court reform. [Politico]

* Facebook is allegedly preparing an antitrust lawsuit against Apple. At least Google isn’t the target of antitrust action for a change… [Yahoo News]

* Dwight Howard is being sued after allegedly stiffing two women who took care of his snake collection. Guess they’re alleging he might be a “snake in the grass”… [New York Post]

* An El Paso attorney, who died of COVID-19, still won her election for a local judgeship. [KSAT]

* Simon Cowell is considering a lawsuit against an ebike manufacturer after purportedly suffering a crash. [Page Six]

* Andrew Cuomo, the current Governor of New York and a contender to be Joe Biden’s Attorney General, is facing sexual harassment allegations. [New York Times]

* A disbarred lawyer, who is charged with shooting seven police officers, is arguing about whether a receiver should be appointed to oversee his assets. [Rochester First]

* A lawyer is facing possible discipline for purportedly alleging that a female judge would be biased towards a wife in a divorce case. By this logic, wouldn’t a male judge supposedly be biased for the husband? [Daily Business Review]

* The Supreme Court may soon decide if New York’s Governor Andrew Cuomo had the power to issue many pandemic-related orders. At least the Supreme Court can’t take Cuomo’s Emmy away… [Wall Street Journal]

* The Trump Campaign is cutting ties with a lawyer who allegedly conveyed false conspiracy theories. [Forbes]

* Former Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland is reportedly on Joe Biden’s list of possible Attorney General picks. [NPR]

* A lawyer, who was disbarred in New Zealand, also had his law license revoked in the State of Oregon. [Bloomberg Law]

* Kentucky’s Attorney General has joined a lawsuit aimed at overturning in-person learning restrictions imposed by the Governor of Kentucky. This might be a little awkward… [CNN]

* A class action about Xbox controllers that allegedly “drift” has been beefed up. I used to blame controllers when I lost at GoldenEye as a kid… [Video Games Chronicle]

* Andrew Cuomo apparently has “no interest in going to Washington” to become Attorney General if Joe Biden is elected president. [Fox News]

* A Connecticut lawyer who served time in federal prison for fraud is seeking reinstatement to the Connecticut Bar. [CT Post]

* Law School Transparency is hosting an event on the future of the bar exam that you should all check out! [Law School Transparency]

* A black man who was allegedly led through Galveston, Texas, by a white police officer on horseback is suing the city for $1 million. [CNN]

* The Florida Bar says a lawyer acted so poorly, the judge had to “resort to a discipline strategy typically reserved to parents separating bickering siblings.” This sounds like so many depositions I’ve attended… [Daily Business Review]

* A lawsuit challenging New York’s quarantine has been dismissed partly because an Arizona woman did not suffer harm by not being able to help a New York friend move. The judge obviously doesn’t know how fun assembling Ikea furniture can be… [New York Daily News]

* Georgia’s governor has withdrawn a lawsuit challenging a mask mandate instituted by the Mayor of Atlanta. [CNN]

* Claims of sexual impropriety are roiling the Texas Supreme Court. [Texas Lawyer]

* An Ohio lawyer has been granted the green light to provide financial planning services along with legal representation in certain circumstances. [Bloomberg Law]

* Carole Baskin of Tiger King fame has been served with papers related to a lawsuit about her missing former husband. Baskin took a selfie with the process server, maybe “service selfies” will trend on insta one day… [CBS News]

* A strip club owner has sued New York Governor Andrew Cuomo over closures related to COVID-19. Cuomo should pay any settlement in dollar bills. [New York Post]

* The Georgia Attorney General has asked the Department of Justice to investigate the Ahmaud Arbery case. [CNN]

* The Federal Circuit wouldn’t give a lawyer a mulligan and affirmed a lower tribunal’s ruling that the attorney did not have the right to a golf patent. [Reuters]

* Almost 2,000 former employees of the Department of Justice have called on Attorney General Barr to resign. [Washington Post]

* A college that is accused of being a “sham” has recieved millions of dollars of relief related to COVID-19. Sounds like a bad sequel to the movie Accepted. [NPR]

* New York Sports Clubs has been hit with a class-action lawsuit for charging membership fees while its gyms are shuttered because of COVID-19. Seems like most people would just be happy to have an excuse not to go to the gym… [Gothamist]

* A Brooklyn lawyer is suing New York Governor Andrew Cuomo over orders meant to curtail the spread of COVID-19. [New York Post]

* DACA beneficiaries have sent a letter to the Supreme Court imploring the justices to consider how around 27,000 DACA beneficiaries are healthcare workers that are needed to fight the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. [CNN]

* The NRA has filed a lawsuit against the governor of California over gun store restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic. [Fox News]

* The lawyer at the center of an early cluster of COVID-19 cases in New York has been released from the hospital. [NBC News]

* The University of Arizona is facing a class-action lawsuit seeking refunds to students who have been forced into remote learning because of COVID-19. Guess if these students wanted to take online courses, they could have enrolled at the University of Phoenix… [Arizona Daily Star]

* Conviction sends Bitcoin boss from blockchain to chain gang. [Law360]

* Remember Popkin & Stern? Probably not since it collapsed in 1991. Its wild bankruptcy tale is finally coming to an end after art fights and marriage proposals. [Stltoday]

* Drug smugglers are now suing their lawyers for saying they knew Alex Acosta but failed to get an “Epstein deal.” This “Rule of Law” thing is not going well, folks. [Miami Herald]

* Effort to quash the House subpoena of Trump’s accountants heads to the DC Circuit today where new judge Neomi Rao will have an early opportunity to cook up some kooky ramblings to justify a purely political decision. [National Law Journal]

* Andrew Cuomo steps up to disenfranchise voters to shield his political stooges. [Sunnyside Post]

* Municipality hacks keep striking and it’s a real problem for everyone’s privacy. [Legaltech News]

* R. Kelly arrested on new charges. [Huffington Post]

* Michael Cohen is talking to John Dean because 2018 is the new 1973. [WTOP]

* Shocking no one, John Dowd doesn’t understand basic laws. [Washington Post]

* Andrew Cuomo signed a bill cracking down on bad prosecutors. He’s been in office for 7 years but he finally got around to this because Cynthia Nixon said something about criminal justice reform. [Law360]

* UNC students toppled a confederate statute because the school wasn’t doing anything about it. [Huffington Post]

* Will elite Biglaw firms suffer from mid-tier competition? Probably not, but maybe. [American Lawyer]

* Microsoft identifies more Russian hacking efforts because Microsoft is our default government now. [Courthouse News Service]

* Georgia is trying to kill kids. [AJC]

* FIFA fired its lawyer so if you want a job facilitating international graft on an epic scale, here’s your chance. [NY Times]

* Charges filed in the murder of Stephen Shapiro against the victim’s brother-in-law. [American Lawyer]

* Over in the Sixth Circuit, Judge Amul Thapar launched his latest bid to be the Federalist Society’s next favorite son by taking the Supreme Court’s intellectually bankrupt Epic opinion and saying, “what if it didn’t go far enough?”[National Law Journal]

* As sexual abuse allegations against the Catholic Church continue to mount, Andrew Cuomo asks the state to expand the deadline to bring claims to the age of 50. Like every other Cuomo move, I assume this comes because Cynthia Nixon wanted it moved to 49. [New York Law Journal]

* Lawsuits focus on want ads specifically targeted to young demographics on social media. That certainly sounds like age discrimination, but with this judiciary, I’m sure it’s a violation of the employers’ Free Speech rights to engage in fair hiring practices. [NPR]

* “According to the massive DOJ settlement, RBS didn’t just commit fraud—its employees also chatted about it via email and text.” Ladies and gentlemen, the people we entrust with our economic well-being! [Corporate Counsel]

* Evan Greebel tried to get out of his conviction. He failed. [Law360]

* Masterpiece Cakeshop is back, explaining why they shouldn’t have to serve trans people now. [Courthouse News Service]

* Oh, and obviously Trump is going to fight the Mueller subpoena because telling the truth is hard and creating a constitutional crisis is easy. [Washington Post]

* Bernie Madoff’s investment strategy may yield a billion dollar return… for the trustee. [American Lawyer]

* Lanny Davis is now representing Michael Cohen, which certainly doesn’t bode well for Trump. [Bloomberg]

* The fiance of Princess Mako of Japan is going to Fordham next year. [Japan Times]

* Federal judge rules that sanctuary city policies aren’t obstacles to immigration policy because standing aside is not the same as standing in the way. [NY Times]

* A disturbing look at the border crisis through the eyes of an immigration lawyer. [Mother Jones]

* Job opportunity: the Senate is looking for special counsel to grease the wheels on the effort to roll back decades of jurisprudence. [National Law Journal]

* Akin Gump is representing a woman separated from her children by the Trump administration. The representation comes as part of a public-private venture backed by the state of New York. The story is the latest testament to Governor Andrew Cuomo’s deeply held moral conviction that people shouldn’t vote for Cynthia Nixon. [Journal News]

* The head of Arizona Summit Law School thinks the school’s been treated unfairly. The nerve of these people. [KJZZ]