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Government
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 05.24.21
* Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, took the witness stand in a lawsuit filed by the maker of Fortnite. Wonder if he swore the oath on an iPad… [BBC]
* An Egyptian court has permitted the Suez Canal to keep holding the ship that caused a blockage in the waterway earlier this year. [Reuters]
* A lawsuit claims a worker aboard the Staten Island ferry was injured trying to stop a fight. [New York Post]
* A federal prosecutor was injured by a stray bullet while dining out in Brooklyn last week. [New York Daily News]
* Coinbase, the cryptocurrency exchange, is beefing up its legal team. After last week’s dip, hope they aren’t getting paid in Bitcoin… [Reuters]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 05.21.21
* Hershey has a new general counsel. Hope his compensation package is “sweet”… [Reuters]
* A celebrity lawyer, who represented the late DMX, has listed his New York City duplex for sale. [New York Post]
* A Texas judge has refused to move a lawsuit against Google from Texas to California. Should be fine, a lot of tech companies are moving to Texas these days anyways… [Reuters]
* A Brooklyn lawyer has pleaded guilty to running a $6 million real estate scam. [Patch]
* Bacardi has won a lawsuit against a former distributor. To celebrate, maybe they should sip Bacardi like it’s their birthday… [Spirits Business]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket 04.23.21
* The Florida Supreme Court won’t let voters legalize recreational marijuana in the Sunshine State. At least the Court didn’t break the bad news on 4/20… [Slate]
* A Brooklyn man’s murder conviction has been overturned because his lawyer was reportedly “atrocious” and committed inexcusable mistakes. [New York Daily News]
* A new lawsuit claims that Florida’s so-called anti-riot law is unconstitutional. [AP]
* Rob Bonta has been confirmed as California’s Attorney General. [Los Angeles Times]
* Apple must face a lawsuit over telling customers they can “buy” a movie even though access can later be revoked. [Hollywood Reporter]
* Tesla’s top lawyer has left the company for a self-driving startup. Wonder who will “take the wheel” of Tesla’s legal department after his departure… [Business Insider]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 03.29.21
* Florida’s Ron DeSantis threatened litigation unless the CDC greenlights cruises to resume by summer. Maybe he just wants to galivant around the Caribbean… [Yahoo News]
* Amazon is facing litigation over allegations that it failed to provide required meal breaks. [Verge]
* A Brooklyn judge has dismissed a case because a lawyer refused to wear a mask. [Daily News]
* A Minnesota lawyer has been sanctioned for allegedly filing election challenges without the plaintiffs’ knowledge. [Twin Cities Pioneer Press]
* A small Chicago bookseller is suing Amazon for allegedly using anticompetitive tactics. Sounds like this could be a sequel for You’ve Got Mail… [Oregonian]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 03.02.21
* 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]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 04.27.20
* Students at numerous universities have filed class-action lawsuits alleging their colleges have not properly refunded fees from COVID-19-related closures. Guess classes by Zoom are just not cutting it. [CNN]
* A New York lawyer alleges that conditions at a federal jail in Brooklyn are insufficient to prevent the spread of COVID-19. [New York Daily News]
* A lawsuit has been filed over a policy denying COVID-19 stimulus checks to American citizens who are married to immigrants. [Business Insider]
* An attorney for the physician accused of selling fake COVID-19 cures says his client was just following President Trump’s lead. [NBC News]
* Michael Flynn has attempted to undo his guilty plea on the grounds that his former lawyers gave him bad advice. Sounds like an awkward situation. [Politico]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 04.10.20
* Michael Cohen, President Trump’s incarcerated former lawyer, has been moved to a Special Housing Unit (“SHU”) after a confrontation with another prisoner. Fans of Orange is the New Black should know what that is. [Fox News]
* The Supreme Court is facing challenges about how to function during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. [New York Times]
* A Brooklyn judge allegedly balked at social distancing guidelines in his courtroom just two weeks before he died from COVID-19. [New York Daily News]
* Actors playing “Walking Dead” zombies at Universal Studios have sued the park claiming that Universal promotes an environment that encourages guests to fight and grope the actors. [Daily Beast]
* Doulingo, the popular language-learning company, has picked it’s new general counsel. Hope he knows that money is the universal language… [Corporate Counsel]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 03.06.20
* A Brooklyn court has been disinfected over coronavirus fears. While they’re at it, they should clean out the attorneys’ room at 360 Adams — that place has smelled bad for years… [New York Post]
* Actor Ed Norton skipped out of a deposition over a deadly fire that erupted at a location at which he was filming. [New York Post]
* Harvey Weinstein spent his first night at Riker’s Island yesterday, a far cry from the red carpet. [CNN]
* The New York Attorney General is cautioning televangelists not to peddle unproven coronavirus cures. [Washington Post]
* Check out a piece on the complicated legacy of Michael Bloomberg’s “stop and frisk” policy. [The Appeal]
* The Supreme Court has lifted a stay of execution for an Alabama man who has been sentenced to death even though he didn’t kill anyone. [NBC News]
* Two members of the band “Journey” have been kicked out of the group over a trademark lawsuit. Don’t stop beleivin’ that there will be a solution to this dispute. [Fox News]
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Courts
At Least One Judge In Brooklyn Knows How To Stop Police Brutality
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Crime
We Can Sue The NYPD For Lying
Brooklyn judge allows perjury lawsuit against the NYPD to go forward. -
Books, Federal Judges
Race To Judgment: An Interview With Judge Frederic Block
Judge Block's new novel is a great read -- and very much rooted in reality.
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Boutique Law Firms, Small Law Firms
Beyond Biglaw: 3 Lessons From Brooklyn's Streets
Columnist Gaston Kroub reflects on the borough he calls home and what lessons it has for lawyers. -
Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 05.02.16
* Lawyer remembers when young people were encouraged to fly instead of becoming the veal in the airlines’ effort to treat us all like cattle. [Travels With Darley]
* Starbucks iced drinks too icy? Sue. [CNN]
* Attention Class of 2016: you may be excited because you’re about to graduate and start your real life, but here is what you need to survive law firm life. [Law and More]
* Eastern District of New York Judge Brian M. Cogan is upping the pressure on the government to unseal documents being sought by the press in the case of Felix Sater that they believe may illuminate business dealings between Donald Trump and the mob-connected figure. [Wise Law]
* Know your Miranda rights before you get in a sticky situation and need them. [St. Louis Tribune]
* There are lots of stats that can be aggregated by looking at this Term’s oral arguments at the Supreme Court, like which justice spoke the most and what does that tell us about the Court’s liberal justices? [Empirical SCOTUS]
* The gentrification of Brooklyn can be summed up pretty easily. [Redline]
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Lawyerly Lairs: A $16 Million Brooklyn Brownstone
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Bar Exams, Biglaw, D.C. Circuit, Email Scandals, Law Firm Mergers, Law Schools, Morning Docket, Politics, SCOTUS, Stephen Breyer, Supreme Court
Morning Docket: 11.25.13
* In November, Supreme Court justices engaged in the “totally unnecessary” practice of releasing 41 pages of nondecision opinions. In all fairness, we can’t really blame them for enjoying hearing themselves speak. [National Law Journal]
* These D.C. Circuit judges of differing political viewpoints “disagreed less than 3 percent of the time” over the course of two decades. Please, keep arguing about the court’s “ideological balance.” You’re accomplishing lots. [New York Times]
* With more tie-ups than ever before and another record broken, 2013 is officially the year of full-blown law firm merger mania. Query how many more we’ll be able to add to the already huge list of 78 by the end of December. [Am Law Daily]
* Speaking of which, Baker Hostetler is merging with Woodcock Washburn, an intellectual property firm with a name that sounds like the aftercare instructions for a painful sex toy injury. [Philadelphia Inquirer]
* Of course a fired ADA’s scandalous emails landed on BuzzFeed. This is one more embarrassing chapter in the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year. [New York Times]
* It’s amazing how things can change in a year. In 2012, New York bar pass rates for in-state schools fell. In 2013, they’re up — except for one school, which is way down. Which one? [New York Law Journal]
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Lawyerly Lairs: Lawyer Lives In RV Down By the River
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