Georgia
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Courts
Court Gives Reporters A Peek At GA Grand Jury Report On 2020 Election Interference. But Just A Peek.
If prosecutors are happy, then we're not going to get to see much. -
Courts
The ABA Decides That Courtrooms Shouldn't Still Have Confederate Flags In Them. Also, There Are Courtrooms With Confederate Flags Still In Them.
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 11.16.22
* Is “Woke” the new Race, Sex and Religion? [WSJ]
* Illegally obscuring a license plate is one thing, BUT FIXING IT? Nahhhhh [NYC.Streetsblog]* This judge hit Georgia’s six-week abortion ban with the gavel [CNN]
* New York continues to be the battle ground of what gun restrictions will be in the United States. [Gothamist]
* You know, you think people would start caring about politicians breaking laws enough to not vote for them. [Missouri Independent]
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Courts
Justice Thomas Does Lindsey Graham A Solid And Pushes Off Date With Georgia Grand Jury Investigating Electoral Interference
Let's see if Justice Kavanaugh likes beer enough to bail out the guy who threw a tantrum and got him confirmed. -
Government
Very Former Georgia Deputy Gets Caught Doing A Slavery
Of course this was based in Florida. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 09.12.22
* Georgia Deputy Police Chief gets caught up in a sex trafficking ring. You’d think there would be better background checks for the people whose literal only job is to prevent crap like this. [NY Post]
* Looks like Florida’s child safety laws should be concerned with more than keeping books out of children’s hands. [NBC]
* Keep speech alive! Judge prevents Arizona from punishing citizens for recording the police. [AP]
* Guess whose back? Back again? Polio. Thanks to everyone whose been adamantly fighting vaccine mandates! [The Guardian]
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Trump Decides To Face The Music With A Rapper's Former Council At His Side
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Tax Law
What Do Taxes Have To Do With The 'Batgirl' Movie, Electric Vehicles, And An Unborn Fetus?
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 08.05.22
* Monkeypox is officially a public health emergency. Let’s mind our manners so this doesn’t go apeshit, capiche? [NBC News]
* DeSantis isn’t having any of that Constitutional Sheriff mess when it doesn’t fit his policy choices. What happened to discretion? [Wesh]
* Officers face disciplinary action for letting a white privilege card slide. This isn’t hyperbole. Even I can admit this is funny. [AP]
* I know you know law school is expensive, but most people just think that means tuition. The textbooks ain’t cheap neither. [Reddit]
* California’s Governor pulls a “Come to Death Row Records” to spite Georgia. [CBS 46]
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Government
We Don't Need Symbolic Tax Breaks, We Need Bodily Autonomy
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 08.03.22
* Affirmative action as a 1st Amendment issue? Let’s see how this goes over. [Wa Po]
* Yale Law decides to be #1 when it comes to helping students that could use some financial aid. [ABC News]
* Wait, are they actually considering fetuses people for tax purposes? Gotta give it to Georgia! [Huff Po]
* Georgia’s heartbeat law also has some new implications for wrongful death suits. [11 Alive]
* An Oklahoma school gets docked after a teacher reported it for having their colleagues sit through staff training on implicit bias. I expected the childishness to come from the kids. [Ed Week]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 05.04.22
* Oklahoma signed SB8-like bill into law quickly after the Alito leak. [NPR]
* What’s the limit? Are IUDs next on the chopping block? [The Guardian]
* Get it off your chest: Georgia removes “free speech zone” restrictions on college campuses. [Inside Higher Ed]
* UVA Law’s Innocence Project has gotten over $6M in compensation for wrongly incarcerated folks. Talk about a valuable education! [Law.Virginia]
* Spirit declines to take JetBlue’s takeover offer. I can already hear the DOJ’s antitrust division stirring. [CH-Aviation]
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Crime
GA Cops Pay $1M For A Single Ounce Of Weed After Charging 64 People With Possessing It
Excellent use of taxpayer dollars. Well done, fellas. -
Government
Lawyer Accused In January 6th Riots Is STILL Representing Clients
Pay no attention to the ankle monitor on the defense attorney! -
Courts
15 of The 16 Potential Jurors In The Ahmaud Arbery Trial Are White. Problem?
No way this is gonna be an issue on appeal. -
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 06.24.21
* NBA Star Tristian Thompson has won a $52,000 default judgment against a paternity accuser. Seems like his lawyers were playing hard in the paint… [People]
* Exxon must face a lawsuit alleging that the company misstated its role in climate change. [Reuters]
* Georgia election officials, who were involved in Donald Trump’s failed election litigation, have had their legal fees paid. [Salon]
* A Texas attorney has been sentenced to prison after defrauding elderly clients. [News-Press]
* A lawyer at Tesla has left to join an autonomous-driving start-up company. Hope she is on the “fast track” at her new shop… [NBC News]
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Sports
Major League Baseball Sued For Shifting All-Star Game Out Of Georgia
The defendants will undoubtedly assert that they are private entities that can do as they wish, including moving an All-Star Game. -
Courts
Lin Wood Fails To Boot Judge In His Suit Against The Georgia Bar
He's just trying to prove how extremely not crazy he really is.