Charles Cooper
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 03.22.18
* The First Law Student is single. People reports Tiffany Trump broke up with her longtime boyfriend as part of her law school transition. [People]
* Jeffrey Toobin and Alan Dershowitz clash on television when Toobin points out that Dershowitz’s cable appearances these days are less legal analysis than auditions for Sarah Huckabee Sanders’s job. [Daily Beast]
* Charles Cooper says Jeff Sessions is not currently under investigation for false statements or perjury. Update your scorecards accordingly. [USA Today]
* Ninth Circuit rules in favor of the Gaye family in the Blurred Lines lawsuit. Wait, that’s still going on? [Courthouse News Service]
* Former Florida State deputy general counsel arrested in child sex sting. [Tallahassee Democrat]
* In-house counsel are very concerned about GDPR. [Big Law Business]
* Some people have some entirely understandable problems with Lindsay’s new ad. [Ad Age]
* CSM believes the Austin bomber case shows off law enforcement’s deep surveillance powers. Yeah, they were so deep they pretty much did nothing for weeks. [Christian Science Monitor]
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Department of Justice, Federal Government, Supreme Court
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The Case For Chuck Cooper As Solicitor General
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