Charles Koch
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Morning DocketMorning Docket: 03.08.17
* What rights do you have to strike on International Women’s Day? [NY Mag]
* Amazon drops its objections to the Echo warrant, meaning if you own an Echo (or any of its ilk), you now have a wiretap in your house. Congratulations. [Corporate Counsel]
* Blank Rome boosts profit 22 percent. Associates looking at their below market paychecks must feel super psyched about that. [Legal Intelligencer]
* Judge Posner is just comparing everything to cats now and that’s perfectly fine. [Law.com]
* Looks like the NCAA and power conferences are going to shell out millions in settlement cash to former athletes in financial aid collusion case, which they’ll make back several times over by the end of the month. [Courthouse News Service]
* Penn accepts big gift from Charles Koch to work on criminal justice research, presumably an extension of his support for indigent legal services, but we can’t rule out a plan to make convicts fight to the death for sport. [Law.com]
* Just your standard slave labor case in 2017. [Law360]
* Lynne Stewart has passed away at 77. [New York Times]
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Bad Ideas, Law Schools, Screw-Ups#ASSLaw At George Mason Attempts Re-Brand, Will Fail
This is the name of your law school now, George Mason. 
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Antonin Scalia, Law Schools, SCOTUS, Supreme CourtGeorge Mason Law Changing Name To Antonin Scalia School Of Law
If George Mason just wanted to appeal to conservative students, they could have called themselves the Chick-Fil-A School of Lawsauce.
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Education / Schools, Minority Issues, Money, Politics, Public Interest
A High-Dollar Koch Habit: Should Defense Lawyers Accept Money From The Koch Brothers?
Why can't more organizations place the needs of the people they serve over partisan stubbornness?
