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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 06.26.19
* After being subpoenaed, former special counsel Robert Mueller has agreed to testify in open hearings before the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees on July 17. How rare that someone would actually comply with a Congressional subpoena these days! [Washington Post]
* “What are they hiding? Tell Joe Biden. Trump released his list. Why won’t you?” In case you missed it, a conservative legal advocacy group plans to spend big money on national ads demanding that 2020 Democratic presidential candidates release a shortlist of their potential Supreme Court nominees. [POLITICO]
* Harvard Law’s Pipeline Parity Project, a group that’s working to end mandatory arbitration among Biglaw firms, is going national. Now known as the People’s Parity Project, the group has expanded its mission and hopes to form chapters at least six other law school campuses. [Law.com]
* “It is time to do away with the stigmatization of women who challenge discrimination and harassment in their workplaces.” Three of the four women who were previously proceeding anonymously in their gender bias case against Jones Day have come forward to reveal their names. [Big Law Business]
* The latest high-dollar addition to the Yankees is Mike Mellis, formerly the top lawyer at Major League Baseball, who will slide into home as the Bronx Bombers’ executive vice president and chief counsel. [New York Law Journal]
* Timothy Thornton, CEO of 150-lawyer Greensfelder Hemker & Gale, RIP. [American Lawyer]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 07.12.18
* Brett Kavanaugh built up around $200K in debt buying Washington Nationals tickets. This may be the Federalist Society’s biggest vetting failure ever because all real conservative jurists would say they went $200K in debt buying Montreal Expos tickets. [Deadspin]
* Ohio pulls obscure law out of a hat to harass Stormy Daniels for daring to point out that Donald Trump is a scumbag. [NY Times]
* “Jesus never broke immigration law” says Evangelical Trumper whose religion is entirely based on a guy admitting he was an outlaw and getting the death penalty for it. [Vox]
* Just when you were getting used to WestlawNext, WestlawEdge is here to radically change the game. [LegaltechNews]
* Texas professors who don’t want to die will take their case to the Fifth Circuit. [CBS News]
* Lawyer says Shady orchestrated the assault on his ex. [Denver Post]
* Trump pardoned the thugs who put the lives of firefighters in danger and then inspired an armed standoff with federal officers and then Mike Pence’s buddy gave them a private jet home. [Oregon Live]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 03.20.18
* Supreme Court won’t wade into Arizona’s death penalty law so they can really concentrate on the important work of union busting. [NY Times]
* Speaking of the Supreme Court, Mississippi has set up a date to discuss its new abortion ban whenever the Court totally changes its membership. [NPR]
* Trump hired Joseph Digenova, a kooky conspiracy theorist who goes on cable news to claim that the FBI framed Trump. I really want to test a theory — if CNN is willing to have me on to explain my belief that Robert Mueller is just George Soros in a mask, how many days would it take before I got added to the defense team. [CNN]
* The average age of a baseball fan is 53 years old. Now Congress wants to make sure the future of the sport are paid like it’s 1965. [Washington Post]
* The Tex McIver trial continues with some unsettling testimony. [CBS News]
* Trump’s reliance on NDAs has hit a wall — fired White House officials can’t be silenced. [Reuters]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 03.02.18
* This weekend, Sheppard Mullin — and Lankler Siffert & Wohl for that matter — will be pulling for Abacus: Small Enough To Jail, the stellar documentary about the only bank prosecuted for the housing crisis that starred the lawyers who represented Abacus and its family owners. [New York Law Journal]
* In the first year of its merger, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer earned 1 percent over its legacy firm totals. Firm chairman Richard Alexander describes the firm as “generally… pleased.” But not pleased enough to keep Kaye Scholer on its branding. [National Law Journal]
* Robert Schulman is hoping the Second Circuit can get him out of his drunken insider trading conviction. [Law360]
* Texas Wesleyan is looking for a new baseball coach after firing the last one for rejecting a Colorado recruit and telling the kid the school wouldn’t recruit from states with legal weed. [VICE News]
* Now we have sovereign cryptocurrency which kind of defeats the whole point, but whatever. [Bitcoinist]
* Your daily reminder that white supremacists are bad people. [ABA Journal]
* Speaking of white supremacists, FSU Law students have started to notice that their main academic building is a tribute to a segregationist and that maybe that’s a bad thing. [Tallahassee Democrat]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 09.06.17
* Let the DACA lawsuits begin! [New York Law Journal]
* But don’t forget about the transgender ban — we’ve got a new lawsuit over that too, courtesy of Latham & Watkins. [The Recorder]
* New York AG Office secures up to 7-year sentence in Operation Vandelay Industries, which was exactly what you’d think it is. [Law360]
* Richard Spencer is trying to speak at the University of Florida now as part of the ongoing real assault on campus free speech — the deliberate efforts by Spencer and others to whip up enough protest so they can then agitate for schools to install roadblocks against organized dissent. And lawyers remain the easiest marks in the world for this con. [Corporate Counsel]
* Former CIA Director John Brennan is joining Fordham Law School’s Center on National Security. [Seattle Times]
* A profile of Edward Hanover, FIFA’s first-ever compliance officer. So all that stuff about countries buying votes and using slave labor is a thing of the past! Or, will be by 2022 anyway. [Law.com]
* The Boston Red Sox have filmed a powerful ad for the Apple iWatch. [NY Times]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 09.01.17
* Supreme Court overrules presidential election! Unfortunately we’re talking about Kenya. [Huffington Post]
* Are partners employees? Asking for a couple Am Law 100 firms embroiled in a sexual discrimination suit. [Reuters]
* Baseball continues to enjoy the most arbitrary legal exemption ever. [Law360]
* Rumors swirl that Trump will announce the end of DACA today. Well, it is a Friday and we know how important that is for ratings. [GQ]
* Fox Rothschild partner scores primo U.S. Open tickets. [Am Law Daily]
* Jury finds that Manatt paid the wrong recruiter when it brought on a pair of lateral partners. [Law.com]
* As we slide toward bonus season, this is a good time to remind your bosses that performance reviews are stupid. [The Careerist]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 08.25.17
* On Tuesday, a Major League Baseball game had fewer than 6,000 in attendance. At the same time, the Second Circuit has to grapple with the fact that we still give this sport an antitrust exemption. [Law360]
* Justice William O’Neill of the Ohio Supreme Court took to Facebook to blast Cleveland Browns players for staging a silent, reverential protest of racial violence in America. With that, O’Neill successfully completes the first step in running for governor. [ABA Journal]
* “How do you go from the sixth-largest media market to the 40th and call it a win?” Antitrust attorney James Quinn on the NFL’s decision to move the Raiders to Las Vegas. [New York Law Journal]
* The battle between the St. Louis Cardinals and an animal welfare organization has stepped up a notch. I promise there’s non-sports legal news after the jump. [Deadspin]
* Hilarity ensues when Jeff Flake holds a hearing on splitting the Ninth Circuit and the hard-core Trump people use it to troll him. [The Recorder]
* Children conceived from frozen sperm can’t get survivor benefits. Well, this is a wacky one. [Law.com]
* Department of Education outlines the options available to Charlotte Law students. [Inside Higher Ed]
* Ministry objects to SPLC “hate group” label issued over a history of staunch anti-LGBT activism. [Sun-Sentinel]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 07.18.17
* R. Kelly’s lawyer responds to allegations that a bunch of women are trapped in the proverbial closet. [Entertainment Tonight]
* The big news of the night was the slow, painful, uncovered death of the GOP tax cut. McConnell now says he’ll push for a clean repeal of Obamacare and leave the “replace” part for later, which would theoretically take it out of the reconciliation process. And that means 60 votes or some drastic changes. This is either a bluff or a lot of people are about to learn more than they ever wanted to know about parliamentary rules. [ABC News]
* Need judicial approval to tour the country? Sing it with me now… “Jed Gon’ Give It To Ya.”[Law360]
* Justice Kagan with an amusing anecdote about being vetted by the Obama administration. [National Law Journal]
* Plaintiffs’ attorneys in the Trump University case say efforts to undo the settlement over notice concerns, “effectively ask this court to declare Rule 23 unconstitutional.” Dude, I hate to break this to you, but that’s what the Supreme Court’s been saying for at least 10 years.
* Disney is locked in an IP litigation over the technology they use to map actors’ expressions onto CGI characters in movies like in Avengers: Age of Ultron, where they made a merciless robot fixated on world domination appear to have a soul. Sorry, did I say Avengers? I meant “a Bob Iger presentation at a Disney shareholder meeting.” [Law.com]
* Because all other problems in the country are settled, Congress is looking into overturning Washington D.C.’s assisted suicide law. [USA Today]
* Charlie Hustle is suing Trump lawyer John Dowd formerly of Akin Gump for defamation. [Philadelphia Inquirer]
* Google successfully staves off Labor Department request for compensation information in ongoing discrimination probe. God, Assistant can’t give you any useful information. [Corporate Counsel]
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 06.12.17
* Maybe Comey already has a job lined up. [Chronicle of Higher Ed]
* A deeper dive into Gorsuch’s first opinion and how it stacks up with those of the other justices. [Empirical SCOTUS]
* Newt Gingrich sets land speed record on flip-flopping with his latest Bob Mueller tweet. [Salon]
* I already said it this morning, but it bears repeating. [Lawfare]
* Is it discriminatory to broadcast Cleveland Indians games? Canadian tribunal allows this argument to move forward. [Turtle Talk]
* What’s the official state exercise of Illinois? [Lowering the Bar]
* Interesting legal battle going on within the Catholic Church. [Canon Law Blog]
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 11.03.16
* After all the legal trouble he’s gotten into, has Maricopa County’s Sheriff Joe Arpaio finally reached the end of his reign? [Salon]
* If we all got Election Day off, would more people vote? [Slate]
* Are copyright law and cease and desist letters being used in the service of some questionable ends? [Jezebel]
* Be messy — it could be the key to your success. [Law and More]
* No, the GOP cannot send extra poll watchers to Philadelphia rules Eastern District of Pennsylvania Judge Gerald Pappert. [Huffington Post]
* American Apparel is ignoring its own bankruptcy reorganization plan. [The Fashion Law]
* Epic interview by a very drunk Theo Epstein (San Diego Law alum) after being the GM that finally brought a World Series championship to the Cubs after the 108 year drought. [Twitter]
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 09.06.16
* Britney Spears’s lawyers are really quick to threaten lawsuits. Allegedly. [TMZ]
* The only Harry Potter analogy to tax proposals you’ll ever need. [TaxProf Blog]
* The legal case to take down an alleged Hollywood Peeping Tom. [Perez Hilton]
* EpiPen’s maker, Mylan Pharmaceuticals, is in more hot water. This time it is of the New York Attorney General/antitrust variety. [Gizmodo]
* Copyright troll caught in its own petard. [BBC]
* An update on the minor-league baseball wage litigation. [Fangraphs]
* Rating the sketch factor of Donald Trump’s donation to Florida’s Attorney General, Pam Bondi. [Slate]
* The work of a jury consultant, Dr. Bull, will be coming to a TV near you. [Law360]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 07.20.16
* The “Federal Criminal Discovery Blue Book” — which is exactly what it sounds like, a trial manual by federal prosecutors for federal prosecutors — is protected from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act as attorney work product. [Wall Street Journal]
* Donald Trump Jr. seems to have “borrowed” lines from his convention speech from his own speech writer. And the defense of Melania Trump’s plagiarism at Monday night’s RNC keeps getting more and more outlandish. Now it involves My Little Pony. [CNN]
* Former Cardinals director of baseball development Christopher Correa is going to jail for hacking into emails of the Houston Astros, and now Major League Baseball is looking into the scandal. [Law360]
* The Department of Justice really, really wants the Supreme Court to rehear the immigration case of U.S. v. Texas, which ended in an unsatisfying tie — preferably once they get, you know, the traditional nine justices. [National Law Journal]
* And you thought your job was stressful — imagine if you were running your global firm’s Turkey office. [American Lawyer]
* Potential merger in the air: CMS Cameron McKenna is eyeing Olswang. [The Lawyer]