California

Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 12.07.20

* Kroger is being sued for allegedly reneging on an $85 million contract to purchase hand sanitizer. Maybe they thought they were buying another kind of alcohol... [Enquirer] * Rudy Giuliani, personal attorney of President Trump, has reportedly tested positive for COVID-19. [New York Times] * A California lawyer has been accused of insurance fraud for allegedly submitting phony invoices for translation and interpretation services to insurance carriers. [Insurance Journal] * President-elect Biden has chosen Xavier Becerra, the California Attorney General, to be his Health and Human Services Secretary. [NBC News] * A New York man alleges in a new lawsuit that he was seriously hurt after a flight attendant gave him dry ice to help with an injury he sustained on a flight. Comparative negligence might be at play here... [New York Post]

By Jordan Rothman
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 11.20.20

* A California judge has approved some marijuana delivery services within the state. Guess Pineapple Express can now be expressly delivered, and you can get your weed and munchies delivered at the same time... [Los Angeles Times] * Joe Biden might be considering Deval Patrick, the former governor of Massachusetts, to be his Attorney General. [CBS Boston] * A new lawsuit alleges that employees at a Waterloo, Iowa, meatpacking plant (a facility hit hard by the pandemic) took bets about how many workers would contract COVID-19. Seems pretty morbid. [CNN] * A lawyer has been charged with multiple crimes for allegedly luring teenage girls to sleep with him in exchange for being their "sugar daddy." [New York Post] * A former Virginia attorney said that "I may have have made a mistake" after losing his law license for allegedly misappropriating millions from a client. Seems like an understatement... [CBS News]

By Jordan Rothman
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 10.28.20

* The U.S. government is demanding in a new lawsuit filed against a California museum that two relics allegedly stolen from Thailand be returned. This sounds like a good plot for an Indiana Jones sequel... [ABC News] * A New Jersey lawyer has been disbarred after pleading guilty to committing securities fraud. [New Jersey Law Journal] * A well-known St. Louis attorney fell to his death from his high-rise office building yesterday. Sending our condolences to the family of the deceased. [St. Louis Post-Dispatch] * A former police officer is running as a reformer to unseat the first black District Attorney of Los Angeles. [Mother Jones] * A Colorado public defender was found in contempt of court for refusing to show up for a trial amid heightened concerns over COVID-19. [Gazette] * A group of California restaurants has filed a lawsuit seeking to recover liquor, health, and tourism fees that are still being collected during the COVID-19 pandemic. Kind of seems like these restaurants are asking for "crumbs." [Eater LA]

By Jordan Rothman
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 10.12.20

* A California family is being sued by an animal rights group for allegedly mistreating their cows. Maybe the farmers were lactose intolerant... Bet they'll file a "moo"tion to dismiss...(I can go all day!). [My Valley News] * A veteran Oregon attorney has surrendered his law license amid allegations of theft and other illicit conduct. [Oregonian] * A woman has been charged with damaging the car of a lawyer representing a former cop allegedly involved in the death of George Floyd. [Minneapolis Star Tribune] * A federal judge has dismissed the Trump Campaign's lawsuit concerning election procedures in Pennsylvania. [AP] * An ethics board has approved of a New York lawyer withdrawing from a representation involving a court appearance out of fear of contracting COVID-19. [Bloomberg Law] * A woman was cited over the weekend for allegedly drunk driving at over four times the legal limit and crashing into a bridge causing a traffic nightmare. Maybe she'll get four times the normal punishment... [Fox News]

By Jordan Rothman
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 08.13.20

* A Cincinnati lawyer has pleaded guilty to buying a $3,000 tiger-skin rug in violation of the Endangered Species Act. Maybe he was just a huge fan of Joe Exotic? [Enquirer] * A South Florida lawyer says he has spent around $700,000 to recover $100,000 over the principle of it all. [Daily Business Review] * Parents are claiming in a new lawsuit that remote learning because of COVID-19 denies some children a basic education. [News Tribune] * The Florida lawyer who wore a grim reaper outfit to warn about the dangers of COVID-19 is now using a mobile billboard to protest Governor Ron DeSantis's response to the pandemic. [Florida Phoenix] * A California lawyer who called a female judge's opinion "succubustic" is suing over potential ethics consequences for the comment. If it weren't for South Park, I would have no idea what that meant... [ABA Journal]

By Jordan Rothman