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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 08.03.17
* NAACP issues travel advisory for Missouri. Having been in Missouri recently… yeah this makes total sense. [CNN]
* Trump uses signing statement to tell Putin he’s sorry the meanies in Congress want to sanction him. [NPR]
* DLA Piper paying some of its associates more money. [Law.com]
* Microsoft is moving its work to alternative fee arrangements. It’s like what Uber tried to do… but with a much, much, much more successful company. [Law360]
* Dr. Dolittle of Schiff Hardin. [Litigation Daily]
* Iowa is reforming its juvenile justice system. [Courier]
* The best footnotes of all time. [National Law Journal]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 08.02.17
* “We have a very crappy judicial system.” Judge Richard Posner of the Seventh Circuit says the Supreme Court has far too few justices, and is calling for 10 more to be added to the high court’s ranks, as he thinks the current arrangement on the bench is “[m]ediocre and highly politicized.” Tell ’em how you really feel, Your Honor. [Chicago Tribune]
* “This is deeply disturbing.” The Justice Department’s civil rights division is planning to sue colleges and universities that engage in “intentional race-based discrimination” in their affirmative action policies — that is, discrimination against white applicants. Hmm, wasn’t this recently before SCOTUS… twice? [New York Times]
* RIP, billables: Microsoft wants to completely eliminate the billable hour by entering into alternative fee arrangements with all of the firms it works with in the future. Twelve Biglaw firms and one intellectual property firm will spearhead this movement as the company’s strategic partners. [Big Law Business]
* The Department of Education has filed a motion for summary judgment in a suit brought by the ABA over public service loan forgiveness, claiming that its forgiveness eligibility determinations won’t be final until 10 years have passed and that any eligibility letters sent thus far are nonbinding and merely advisory. How comforting for law grads drowning in debt? [Law.com; ABA Journal]
* The Senate has confirmed King & Spalding partner Christopher Wray as the new director of the FBI. During his hearings, Wray said he’d resign if he were ever asked to do something immoral or illegal, as his “commitment is to the rule of law, to the Constitution, to follow the facts wherever they may lead.” [CNN]
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 06.22.17
* Senate Republicans take another step forward on repealing the Affordable Care Act aka Obamacare. [MedCity News]
* Shocker: President Donald Trump has no “tapes” of his conversations with James Comey. [Talking Points Memo]
* Our own Elie Mystal breaks down this morning’s Supreme Court decisions, in conversation with Brian Lehrer of WNYC. [WNYC]
* And if you want to read the SCOTUS rulings for yourself, Howard Bashman has links to all of them. [How Appealing]
* Professor Ilya Somin explains how zoning and other land use controls exacerbate the affordable housing crisis. [Volokh Conspiracy / Washington Post]
* Professor Richard Re argues that Bivens isn’t dead — at least not yet. [PrawfsBlawg]
* A great profile of a great rainmaker: Bill Carmody of Susman Godfrey. [Lawdragon]
* A Thomson Reuters tool that takes torture out of timekeeping. [LawSites]
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