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Courts
Judge Offers Defendant A Side Of Service With Her Prison Time
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Courts
Things Are Heating Up Between Chipotle And Its Competing Chicken Hawker
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 09.21.22
* Trump may soon be in court for rape charges. Unrelated, I doubt this will damage his reputation among his cult following. [NYT]
* Aspiring JD concerned about the environment? Check out Vermont Law! [VT Digger]
* Chipotle to shell out $8 million tied to child labor law violations. Whoever tipped them off probably didn’t get a good serving size. [NJ Monitor]
* Adobe and Antitrust go together in more ways than just alliteration. [Axios]
* Bit of legal humor to start the day off? Here’s a thread of some “allegedly” good legal jokes. [Reddit]
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Fast Food
Chipotle's Labor Law Violations Will Cost Them A Lot More Than Extra Guac
I'll take the barbacoa and some transparency, please. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 08.10.22
* Who needs Fish and Chips when you can have Chips and Science?! [CBS News]
* Will that cost an arm and a leg? Who knows…and that’s illegal. [KDVR]
* As much as I’d like Alex Jones to pay out ~$50M for trolling Sandy Hook parents, the actual outcome is gonna look a lot more in his favor. [Click2Houston]
* $20M?! Now that’s an expensive burrito bowl! [AlJazeera]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 08.24.20
* A new lawsuit claims that Chipotle restaurants are not providing customers with appropriate change when they pay for meals in cash. Maybe they are charging more for guac now? [Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]
* Utah is allowing individuals without law licenses to offer legal services under certain circumstances. [Desert News]
* A federal judge has halted a lawsuit aimed at challenging Pennsylvania’s mail-in-voting plans for the upcoming election. [Hill]
* A lawyer accidentally offered $10,000 to settle a case instead of the intended $100,000 and this lower number was accepted. This attorney should review the law surrounding scrivener’s error… [Daily Business Review]
* Check out this profile of a patent lawyer who became a professional poker player. [Card Player]
* A lawyer in Texas will appear at a jury trial virtually while his adversary attends the trial in person. The virtual attendee should consider hiring a surrogate to appear in person in his place. [Texas Lawyer]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 03.13.17
* South Texas College of Law will not change its name to “Houston.” If they’re still looking at new names, here are some thoughts. [Houston Chronicle]
* Legal sector losing jobs in latest labor report. And this wasn’t even counting Preet! [Law360]
* Chipotle gets big win in shareholder food poisoning case. [Litigation Daily]
* DLA Piper saw revenue fall due to currency fluctuations. Don’t worry, they still turned a profit by firing people. [Am Law Daily]
* What’s the ideal pay gap between your most and least compensated partners? [Law.com]
* Lawyer’s wife took welfare while he worked at Mayer Brown. [NBC Washington]
* The “pants on fire” attorney tells his side of the story. [Associated Press via WPXI]
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 11.21.16
* Some big reasons why Trump will probably stick to well-worn tradition and select a federal appellate judge to fill Justice Scalia’s seat. [Empirical SCOTUS]
* Class action against Chipotle over burritos containing over 300 calories. [Slate]
* Should lawyers learn how to code? Maybe not. Hell, I’d just be happy if someone showed me how Minecraft works. [Lawyerist]
* Police are spending millions spying on protesters because the Bill of Rights is merely advisory these days. [Washington Post]
* A look at “ageism in the digital era.” I’m sure no one will read it because it’s not properly Snapchatted. [Digiday]
* Law professors weigh in on Mike Pence’s night at the theater. Honestly, has anyone considered that they may have just been chanting, “Boourns“? [TaxProf Blog]
* The Pawnee Nation has filed suit against the federal government over oil-and-gas operations on tribal lands. If the last 400 years are any indication, they may be out of luck. [Pawnee Nation]
* University of Chicago 3L Joshua B. Pickar is a Rhodes Scholar. Congrats. [Rhodes Trust]
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Biglaw
Chipotle Has Some Special Biglaw Burritos For Bill Ackman
The burrito chain puts Wall Street in formation, tells Ackman it’s got hot sauce in its bag. -
Cocaine / Crack, Drugs
E.Coli Burritos ‘Might Have Driven’ Chipotle Exec To Drugs: Bloomberg
For some people, cocaine is a celebratory drug to be snorted on joyous occasions. For others, it’s a daily occurrence. -
Cellphones, Food
Uh-Oh! Lawyer Has Same Number As Chipotle 'Free Burrito' Text Line
Sorry, but this lawyer doesn't have any free food for you. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 01.07.16
* The statute of limitations giveth, and the statute of limitations taketh away. Los Angeles prosecutors have declined to charge Bill Cosby in a case where a woman claimed that the comedian raped her in 1965 when she was 17 years old. [L.A. Now / Los Angeles Times]
* Apparently sick and tired of people continuing to just waive in, the D.C. Court of Appeals is considering allowing third-year law students to take the D.C. bar up to 190 days before they even graduate, making it the most permissive early bar program in the country. [Blog of Legal Times]
* This is apparently the new way for law firms of all sizes to survive and thrive: Per Altman Weil, 2015 was yet another record year for law firm mergers and acquisitions, with 91 announced over the course of the year. [Big Law Business / Bloomberg BNA]
* Congratulations to Elizabeth “Betty” Temple, the first woman to serve as chair and CEO of Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice. She joins about two handfuls of other women who are leading some of the country’s largest law firms. You go, girl! [WSJ Law Blog]
* “The food-borne illness costs extra. Is that okay?” Thanks to numerous food scares and an outbreak of norovirus, Chipotle now finds itself at the center of a federal criminal investigation being conducted by the Central District of California and the FDA. [AP]
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Contracts, English Grammar and Usage, Fast Food, Food, In-House Counsel
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Alex Kozinski, Bar Exams, Fast Food, McKool Smith, Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 07.29.10
* Hans Bader of CEI is fine with the bar exam — congrats to everyone who just finished, by the way — but wants to ditch the requirement of graduating from law school. After all, “[e]ven students who seldom studied, and reputedly were on drugs, managed to graduate from my alma mater, Harvard Law School.” […]