Emmet Flood

* “Karaoke, ax-throwing sites want to sell beer under Utah law.” Obviously one of those raises way more safety concerns for innocent bar patrons than the other — let the ax places sell beer. [Fox News]

* Overrated: This whole affair has hurt Bill Barr’s reputation. Underrated: This whole affair has hurt Emmet Flood’s reputation. [Politico]

* Ninth Circuit cuts off copyright claims that could have been brought as part of an earlier patent suit. Everyone should be a lot more troubled that copyright is bleeding into patent so much that this was even a discussion. [The Recorder]

* Facial recognition software has some well-documented problems and now regulation is coming. [Legaltech News]

* Diverse legal teams are happier. [Law360]

* DLA Piper leans into tech development. [American Lawyer]

* George Carlin’s impact on legal history. [Biography]

* Law schools in North and South Carolina have canceled classes for the foreseeable future so that students, faculty, and staff can evacuate the area and hunker down before Hurricane Florence arrives. Please be careful and stay safe, everyone. [Law.com]

* President Trump is eager to choose Emmet Flood to succeed Don McGahn as the next White House counsel. Ty Cobb, one of Trump’s former lawyers, is in Flood’s camp because he’s “battled investigations from the White House before—[and] that’s what will be coming.” [Wall Street Journal]

* Earlier this week, Bob Woodward said that former Trump attorney John Dowd told the president he couldn’t testify in the Russia investigation because he’s “disabled” and “can’t tell the truth.” That sounds just about right. [People]

* The University of California Berkeley School of Law may soon be doing away with almost all references to John Henry Boalt thanks to his racist views. Public comment on the issue will close on Halloween, and then Dean Erwin Chemerinsky may formally apply to dename Boalt Hall. Let’s see what happens with this one. [ABA Journal]

* “This is clear interference with an ongoing criminal investigation.” Representatives from the New York state tax department reportedly met with Michael Cohen’s attorney yesterday over the objections of Southern District of New York. [CNN]

* A family of conspiracy theorists: Donald Trump Jr. says he’s not worried about going to jail as a result of Robert Mueller’s Russia probe, but “[t]hat doesn’t mean they won’t try to create something” that could put him in jail. [USA Today]

Once again, Team Trump violates norms. Once again, all the impotent Left does is complain.

* Harvey Weinstein has turned himself in to the NYPD. [Vox]

* Happy GDPR Day! [Wall Street Journal]

* Emmet Flood attended the DOJ’s briefing for congressional leaders because defense attorneys are always allowed to attend internal conversations about law enforcement tactics in ongoing investigations. [Talking Points Memo]

* Elon Musk may want to put away the Twitter machine for a bit now that he’s stepped into possible labor law violations. [Engadget]

* The Samsung-Apple war continues with a jury awarding Apple $539 million for IP infringement. [Law360]

* Professor Steven Calabresi is arguing that Robert Mueller’s whole job is unconstitutional. We’ve really come a long way from conservatives hailing the appointment of a no-nonsense lifelong Republican, haven’t we? [The Hill]

* Also, Calabresi is completely wrong. [Legal Skills Prof Blog]

Trump's most reasonable lawyer is leaving the team. There is no way this ends well.

Some hiring news from the White House counsel’s office, via the WSJ Law Blog: Though many of these White House hires have been reported already elsewhere, its press office issued an official release — dateline “Rostock, Germany” — announcing nine lawyers White House Counsel Fred Fielding has added to his “great little law firm.” President […]