* GrubHub may be facing a class-action lawsuit for adding restaurants to the service without permission. Sounds like GrubHub was "hungry" for more listings... [Fox News]
* A disgraced and disbarred lawyer is set to enter a guilty plea for stealing from 9/11 victims. [New York Daily News]
* A pastor is facing a $2 million lawsuit for allegedly peeing on a fellow passenger during a flight. [Fox News]
* A Colorado attorney, who was formerly affiliated with Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP, has pleaded guilty to sending obscene and harassing texts. [Aspen Daily News]
* The former U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Texas, who resigned from that office earlier this month, will be joining Quinn Emanuel. Seems like he landed on his feet... [Texas Lawyer]
* 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]
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* Michael Cohen has until 2 p.m. this afternoon to produce the names of his clients with proof of their relationship, lest his attorneys' temporary restraining order over the alleged privilege of the "thousands, if not millions of documents" that were taken in the FBI raid upon his office get tossed. [New York Law Journal]
* In other news, President Trump wants to review all of the material that was seized by the FBI from his lawyer Michael Cohen before federal investigators are able to take a look at it -- after all, as the president says, attorney-client privilege "is dead." [Washington Post]
* Many partners at Allen & Overy are "dead against" the firm's reportedly proposed merger with O'Melveny & Myers, which is probably just fine, considering the fact that O'Melveny "[has] no plans to merge [with A&O] and never [has]." [Legal Week]
* Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is supposed to make his debut at the Supreme Court later this month on April 23 to argue a case regarding sentencing guildelines on behalf of the United States government. We'll see how things go if he's already been fired by President Trump by the time oral arguments roll around. [CNN]
* According to Senate Republican Cory Gardner of Colorado, now that he's struck a deal with President Trump that will undercut Attorney General Jeff Sessions's recission of the Cole memo, he'll be happy to puff-puff-pass votes on all of the Department of Justice nominees he's been holding up. [Washington Post]
* "[T]op tier firms [must] take a more ‘people-centric’ approach, and break the tyranny of the billable unit as the overriding priority." This managing partner says that work/life balance and mental health for lawyers will never improve unless the legal profession addresses "onerous billable hour targets." [Lawyers Weekly]
* Matthew Riehl, the gunman in the Colorado shooting this weekend who killed a deputy sheriff and wounded four police officers and two civilians, was a former lawyer in Wyoming whose alma mater, Wyoming Law, warned students about his "suspicious behavior" in early November. [Denver Post; Laramie Live]
* In his 2017 State of the Judiciary Report, Chief Justice John Roberts focused on court emergency preparedness, but included an addendum about sexual harassment within the judiciary, announcing that proper procedures must be in place to "ensure an exemplary workplace for every judge and every court employee." No mention of the recently retired Judge Alex Kozinski was made. [Washington Post]
* Joel Sanders, the former CFO of failed firm Dewey & LeBoeuf who was convicted on securities fraud and conspiracy charges, has reached a settlement with the SEC, but the agency will move forward with proceedings against Stephen DiCarmine, the firm's ex-executive director. [New York Law Journal]
* As usual, the new year brings with it a slew of new laws. In some states, voter ID laws will go into effect, while in others, police won't be able to arrest people for immigration enforcement purposes. Plus, pets will be treated more like children after divorces in at least one state. [CNN]
* Speaking of new laws, marijuana is now fully legal in California, and if you're 21 or older, you can now purchase and possess up to an ounce for recreational use. This a "monumental moment" for the Golden State, but don't forget that the Feds still consider the drug to be an illegal Schedule I narcotic. [Los Angeles Times]
