Election 2012

Election 2012

Morning Docket: 11.05.12.

* Campaign Lawyers are ready to go to the mattresses. Actually, they're already there. [Bloomberg] * You can see why they're nervous. The race is close. Don't forget to vote. [FiveThirtyEight] * And don't let them suppress your vote. [Blog of the Legal Times] * Because you know if you are trying to vote in Florida and might be a Democrat, they're going to try to take your vote away. [Huffington Post] * When you step back and look at it, the legal landscape for gays and lesbians is shockingly different than it was 20 or even 10 years ago. Yeah, I know a bunch of you care about marginal tax rates on Americans making over $250,000 way more than basic civil rights, but still. [New Yorker] * Lawyers have really been working under difficult conditions in the aftermath of the storms. [National Law Journal] * Donor secrecy up for review. [Los Angeles Times]

By Elie Mystal
Election 2012

Morning Docket: 11.02.12.

* The media doesn’t have a liberal bias or a conservative bias, it has a sadness bias. If it’s negative, it’s on. [Talking Points Memo] * New York suspends the statute of limitations in the wake of the hurricane. [New York Personal Injury Law Blog] * I’m getting robocalls and I live on the upper […]

By Elie Mystal
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 10.31.12.

* Shashank Tripathi appears to be behind the fake tweets about the flooding of the New York Stock Exchange. Is that protected speech or (wait for it) DID HE JUST SAY “FIRE” IN A CROWDED THEATER??????? [Gigaom] * But to be clear, Romney is free to lie as much as he wants. Political speech, even […]

By Elie Mystal
Attorney Misconduct

Morning Docket: 10.30.12

* People realize that the next President will probably get to appoint a couple of SCOTUS justices, right? [Slate] * That's some costly attorney misconduct: a lawyer who got slapped with a $10,000 sanction for "egregious conduct" at a deposition now has to pay an additional $36,274 in legal fees. [New York Law Journal] * The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau better hope for Obama wins. [National Law Journal] * Fun legal times at the Village Voice. [Corporate Counsel] * When Sandy got real for people in Manhattan. [New Yorker]

By Elie Mystal & Staci Zaretsky
9th Circuit

Non-Sequiturs: 10.29.12

* A Hurricane Sandy survival guide. Key components? Food, water, booze, and prophylactics. Who’s ready for a hurricane Halloween party? [FindLaw] * California’s longest serving death-row inmate just got his sentence set aside by the Ninth Circuit. [WSJ Law Blog] * A few days before Thanksgiving, SCOTUS will decide whether to hear the Prop. 8 and DOMA cases. Happy holidays? [American Foundation for Equal Rights] * Sometimes the most effective self-defense weapon isn’t a gun, it’s a pot of soup. [Consumerist] * Harold Koh, former Yale Law School dean and current legal adviser to the State Department, sits down for a Legally Speaking interview at UC Hastings. [California Lawyer] * Additional thoughts, this time from Professor Eugene Volokh, on employers urging employees to vote a certain way. [Volokh Conspiracy]

By Christopher Danzig
Biglaw

Morning Docket: 10.29.12

* Hurricane Sandy is set to arrive today, so batten down the hatches, folks! Everything’s closing down for the storm, but please feel free to email us if your law school or law firm is encouraging you to work. [Washington Post] * Thanks to the SCOTUS decision in Citizens United, companies can now recommend how their employees should vote, which is “no different from telling your children: ‘Eat your spinach. It’s good for you.’” [New York Times] * Biglaw firms are re-negotiating their office space leases in an effort to save money. While some firms have already sealed their new real estate deals, others are still on the prowl — but which ones? [Am Law Daily] * The University of St. Thomas School of Law has a new dean, and it certainly seems like he’s willing to make some waves to help his students. The first step for Robert Vischer? Reducing tuition. [National Law Journal] * “I don’t think her popularity has improved since the [murder] verdict.” That’s probably why Casey Anthony’s lawyers are desperately trying to get a new venue for Zenaida Gonzalez’s defamation case. [Orlando Sentinel] * A man divorced his formerly fugly wife (she had $100K in plastic surgery to correct her looks), sued her for luring him into marriage her under false pretenses, and won. Don’t worry, girls, this happened in China. [FOX]

By Staci Zaretsky