Fox News
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Biglaw
Biglaw Associate Slams Fox News Host For Taking An Inappropriate Swipe At Her Grandpa
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Government
Fox News Sued By Reporter Fired For Not Hating Democrats Enough
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Government
Former Fox News Lawyer Blaming Everyone But Himself For Botching Dominion Suit To The Tune Of $787M
Let's systematically debunk every nonsense excuse Viet Dinh offers for the Fox News-Dominion settlement.
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Technology
Push To Strip Fox’s Broadcast License Over Election Lies Gains New Momentum
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 08.17.23
* Fifth Circuit judges anoint themselves pharmaceutical scientists to determine that the FDA probably didn’t understand mifepristone when its scientists exercised their statutory and regulatory authority. So now judges are historians, neurologists, and drug scientists. Yale and Harvard JDs really prepare you to be jackasses of all trades! [Reuters]
* Speaking of judges acting as neurologists, the Federal Circuit backtracked to avoid that charge and cited Judge Pauline Newman’s reticence to hand over medical records of a cardiac event as the key justification to ban her from the court. Which fails their own twisted rationale since a risk of heart attack has no bearing on a judge’s faculties. But in any event, they’re cardiologists now, too. [Law360]
* It took a matter of hours for Trump supporters to publicly circulate the names and addresses of Georgia grand jurors. [NBC]
* By nixing student loan forgiveness, the Supreme Court likely also jacked the market by robbing it of 401(k) investment. [Bloomberg Law News]
* Law firms are generally uninterested in a fully remote workforce — which is understandable in some practice areas. But somehow this is going to get conflated with hybrid work models and some dumb firm is going to think it has cover to fully end working from home — to the delight of the firms looking to poach. [American Lawyer]
* Fox News needs a new CLO after the last one presided over the company accumulating upwards of a billion in liability. Who would want this job? [Corporate Counsel]
* Freshfields managing partner races in FIA bronze level events in his spare time. [LegalCheek]
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In-House Counsel
Fox News Parts Ways With Lawyer After Coughing Up $787 Million And Counting
Honestly, what took so long? -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 08.04.23
* Elena Kagan has entered the chat: Justice Kagan sounds off in response to Samuel Alito’s self-serving thoughts on the ability to check the Supreme Court’s power. [Politico]
* Thanks to the ban on cameras in federal court, all we get is a sketch of Donald Trump’s not-guilty plea. [Huffington Post]
* The legal battle to end Wisconsin’s egregious gerrymander heats up. [Vox]
* The defamation case between Fox News and Smartmatic is getting spicy. [Law.com]
* A look at Donald Trump’s latest defense attorney. [Law360]
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Government
Fox Could Have Settled With Tucker's Producer Before She Put All His Ish On Main. They Chose To Do It After.
But unlike with Dominion, they tapped out before engaging in a year of discovery. So ... golf clap? - Sponsored
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Tax Law
Fox News' Settlement Payment To Dominion Will Be Tax Deductible
Hopefully some of the tax savings can be used to hire a full-time fact checker. -
Courts
Fox Gets Yet Another Defamation Suit In Delaware State Court
Please, oh, please let there be discovery! -
In-House Counsel
Tucker Carlson And The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Texts
Tuck, it turns out, was not everlasting. -
Morning Docket: 04.27.23
* Judge Luttig joined the chorus calling for stricter Supreme Court ethics — a chorus that features pretty much everyone not on the Supreme Court. [Reuters]
* Trump loses effort to block Pence testimony. Again. [Politico]
* Biglaw firms game their partnership size to look more profitable, but there’s a stat to look for to check if a firm is truly healthy. [Bloomberg Law News]
* Biglaw capital market groups living in suspended animation as the whole economy continues to pretend there’s a recession until the Federal Reserve gives up trying to create one. [American Lawyer]
* Fox handing Smartmatic the Murdoch depositions because how much more damage can be done? Reputationally, we mean. Financially, it’s about $2 billion more. [Law360]
* Copyright claim against Ed Sheeran lodged by Marvin Gaye’s co-writer. Look, I get that Blurred Lines was — in addition to a bizarrely rapey song for the 21st century — pretty much Got to Give It Up, but you don’t get to own every chord progression in the universe. [ABA Journal]
* Ivanka hires Jeffrey Epstein lawyer after separating counsel from her brothers. [Daily Beast]
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Courts
3 Final Thoughts On Dominion V. Fox
Did Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity learn their lesson from the Dominion lawsuit? It depends what lesson you have in mind. -
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 04.19.23
* Dominion may have settled, but does anyone remember Smartmatic? Because they’re still out there and the price of admission for settlement just got set. [Washington Post]
* Fani Willis moves to jettison the attorney representing a bunch of fake electors on the grounds that she presents an “impracticable and ethical mess.” That’s a shocker. [Axios]
* Interesting question: are juries influenced by the billboards and other lawyer advertisements they see? [New Jersey Law Journal]
* Jim Jordan continues his possibly criminal, definitely unconstitutional harassment of the Manhattan DA. [Reuters]
* Bob Menendez has to establish yet another legal defense fund. [Roll Call]
* Iowa places slide into Lochner era into high gear. [Insider]
* Vivia Chen interviews Faith Gay, who says women need “real power” in Biglaw. [Bloomberg Law News]
* New York has a Chief Judge again, which it could’ve had months ago but for the governor’s subpar political instincts. [Law360]
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Courts
'Actual Malice' Standard Didn't Stop Dominion From Suing Fox News Because Sometimes Networks Leave Whole Paper Trails Of Malice
The high-stakes defamation case against a TV network... no, the other one. -
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Government
Fox News Put Simpsons Clips On Exhibit List In Case You Were Wondering How Little They Expected To Go To Trial
'Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals.... Except the weasel.' -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 04.17.23
* Dominion’s defamation trial against Fox delayed at the last moment, raising speculation that Fox may be trying to settle approximately a two years too late. [CNN]
* US News delays release of law school rankings following freak out from schools worried about what their own stupid boycott caused. [Reuters]
* Clarence Thomas is amending his old financial disclosures to include the shady revelations of the past few weeks. He claims this is all unnecessary because he lost money on these deals despite the statute being very clear that profit and loss are irrelevant to disclosure. But who really believes in holding people to the explicit text of a statute, huh? [Huffington Post]
* Federal Circuit is investigating the fitness of one of its 95-year-old judges. Not that there’s really much they can do about it. [Bloomberg Law News]
* Is it bad when your lawyer is recusing himself because he had to testify to the grand jury about you? That seems bad. [Washington Post]
* Ron Klain heads back to O’Melveny. [Axios]