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Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 11.06.23

* Donald Trump set to testify in New York. Be there, will be wild. [Reuters] * Stroock files notice that it's laying off roughly 140 people in New York. [Bloomberg Law News] * The administration's antitrust push hasn't netted all the results one might've hoped, but Lina Khan's tenure at the FTC may have some knock on effects as law students embrace antitrust work. [Politico] * More firms are condemning senior associates to a holding pattern. [American Lawyer] * Defamation filings are on the rise and it's a real, shall we say, SLAPP in the face. [ABA Journal] * It's Pro Bono Week in the UK -- the sort of annual recognition of good works that frightens and confuses Americans. [LegalCheek] * NCAA faces billions in damages after feasting at the free labor trough for decades. [Law360]

Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 09.22.23

* Somehow they've managed to find even more undisclosed private air travel. This time taking Clarence Thomas to a Koch brothers event in a level of impropriety that a former W. Bush judge said, "takes my breath away, frankly." [ProPublica] * Clifford Chance opts for permanent hybrid work model while other firms choose alienation and extortion. [RollonFriday] * Second Circuit decides Sam Bankman-Fried can wait in jail. [Law360] * North Carolina Supreme Court justice Anita Earls spoke publicly about implicit bias in the legal system. After the judiciary commission ordered her to pre-clear future statements with them, she sued over the prior restraint and the federal judge chastised her for making the justice system look bad by talking about bias out loud. [Balls and Strikes] * Having toppled admissions, right-wingers take aim at scholarships that might possibly help non-white people go to school. [Reuters] * Judge upholds the right of private investors to put their money toward companies that match their environmental and social goals. [Bloomberg Law News] * Profiling the folks chronicling the opaque Google antitrust case. [Wired]

Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 09.12.23

* Trump moves to get Judge Chutkan kicked off his case because at a sentencing for a low-level January 6er, she said that the organizers of the riot had not been charged. But she never said Trump was the one who organized the riot. So... his lawyers are the ones making the connection that well obviously our client organized the riot. Galaxy brain work, gang! [CNN] * NY judge strikes down state's ethics commission, ruling that it violates separation of powers for former governor Andrew Cuomo to be subject to an independent ethical probe. By way of pure coincidence, this judge was a Trump nominee who failed to reach a Senate vote. [Law360] * Because, relatedly, the Supreme Court eyes another run at the CFPB arguing that it violates the separation of powers to have an agency that lawmakers can't unilaterally zero-fund at any moment. [Reuters] * The Google antitrust defense team learned its trade while working on the other side of the Microsoft antitrust case. Around, around the revolving door goes! [Bloomberg Law News] * Supreme Court needs binding ethics rules... but don't hold your breath. [Dorf on Law] * Tech and office space enjoy a complicated budgeting relationship. [American Lawyer] * Legendary DC attorney Bob Bennett has passed away. [NY Times]