Golf
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Law Schools
This Lawsuit Over Golf Tournament Prize Is Your Next 1L Contracts Final
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Sports
LIV Golf Antitrust Case Continues To Be An Absolute Clown Show
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Sports
LIV Golf Players Such As Phil Mickelson Sue The PGA Tour In 106-Page Complaint
Do the professional golfers, represented by high-powered law firms, have a strong case for damages and, in particular, injunctive relief?
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Tax Law
Ivana Trump Is Not Buried At A Golf Course For Tax-Avoidance Reasons
There is more to being a cemetery company than just operating land dedicated to the deceased. -
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 04.26.22
* Unholy inequality: PA school faces discrimination lawsuit for not allowing Satanists to set up an after-school club. What would Jesus do? [Global News]
* A Whole New World: Texas judge invites Disney to relocate. [WFLA]
* Question: Will SCOTUS be as deferential to Biden on immigration as they’ve been to Trump? Magic 8-Ball says not likely. [NPR]
* A swing and a miss: Golf course hit with $5M verdict after hitting the same house over 600 times! I thought four was the limit. [NBC News]
* New hope for a Texas death row inmate accused of killing her daughter. [PBS]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 06.30.21
* Donald Trump is suing the State of New York over a golf course. Bet he hopes the litigation doesn’t end up in the rough… [Washington Post]
* A grand jury may soon be investigating the recent building collapse in Surfside, Florida. [Insider]
* The Second Circuit has ordered an alleged “copyright troll” to file a sanctions opinion against him in all cases in which he is involved and to mail the decision to clients. Almost seems like a scarlet letter… [ABA Journal]
* Apparently, Attorney General Garland will personally scoop ice cream at a Department of Justice event this week. Wonder who got the “scoop” on that story. [Fox News]
* A former top lawyer at the Air Force and Space Force is now working as the general counsel of Voyager Space Holdings. Starfleet may be next… [Corporate Counsel]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 04.21.21
* The PGA Tour is requesting that a lawsuit filed by a golfer alleging the Tour interfered with media contracts be dismissed. Remains to be seen if their motion ends up in the rough… [Golf Channel]
* Derek Chauvin allegedly wrote his lawyer’s phone number on his hand before his guilty verdict was announced yesterday. [New York Daily News]
* A judge has rejected former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen’s request to end his sentence early. [Yahoo News]
* Lisa Monaco has been confirmed by the Senate as the Deputy Attorney General. [Wall Street Journal]
* The Daily Mail has sued Google alleging anticompetitive tactics that might have impacted the Royal Family’s coverage recently. Sounds like the suit could be a “royal” pain for Google… [New York Post]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 08.25.20
* A Pennsylvania golf course has defaulted in a lawsuit alleging illicit discrimination. Maybe they knew it would be a “fore”gone conclusion they’d lose… [Patriot News]
* The New York Attorney General has sued the Trump Organization over financial investigations into the company. [Forbes]
* Apparently, the ongoing pandemic is making it difficult to tell Scott Peterson his death penalty sentence has been overturned. [Fox News]
* The Attorney General of the Virgin Islands has subpoenaed billionaire Leon Black and his business in a probe related to Jeffrey Epstein. [CNN]
* The social media app TikTok has sued the U.S. Government over a ban recently announced by the Trump Administration. Did they serve process by video? [CNBC]
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Finance
Donald Trump Blows As Much Taxpayer Money On Golf As Richest Pro Golfer Tiger Woods Earns Golfing
There should be some kind of official oversight regarding how much taxpayer money a president can spend on something as frivolous as weekly golf trips. -
Crime
Golf Digest Just Overturned A Murder Conviction Which Should Embarrass The Justice System
We'll let this one pass, but when Cat Fancy clears Leonard Peltier we need to have a serious talk. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 06.14.18
* The New York American Inn of Court presents, “Fast Times at Ruth Bader Ginsburg High.” You’ll never think of Phoebe Cates the same way again. [New York Law Journal]
* In the wake of decades of sexual abuse, Michigan State turned to former Republican governor John Engler to serve as interim president and steer the school back from this tragedy. His response is to smear the victims. The only shocking thing about this is that anyone expected a different result. [Detroit Free Press]
* Apple is making it harder for law enforcement to crack into your phone. If they can follow this up with a longer lasting battery, we might forgive them for removing the headphone jack. [CNN]
* A reminder that the next shoe in the Supreme Court’s attempt to resuscitate Lochner is about to drop. [Vox]
* United Lex and LeClairRyan’s new deal has the legal technology community buzzing. But banking on law firms to embrace change hasn’t always panned out. [American Lawyer]
* When the revolution comes, they’ll point to our highly developed law of golf balls as proof of our decadence. [Law.com]
* Due process suit brought by journalists on the infamous United States kill list will go forward. [Courthouse News Service]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 01.11.18
* Michael Cohen is suing Buzzfeed over publishing the Trump intelligence dossier. He says the Russia collusion allegations are “not legitimate” but to paraphrase Judge Judy, “don’t pee on my leg and tell me it’s a Russian prostitute.” [Bloomberg]
* Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz is embroiled in boring, plodding lawsuit which actually sums up his offense pretty well. [Deadspin]
* The IRS is getting into the Bitcoin game. Maybe they can explain blockchain in terms that don’t involve magic. [Forbes]
* Justice Sotomayor bluntly confronted Noel Francisco over the administration’s 180 on voting rights. Francisco didn’t have a clear, straightforward answer ready which is weird because “we managed to slip in the back door of the White House so we’re basically the Allstate Mayhem guy but for the Constitution” would’ve been a perfectly acceptable and honest answer. [National Law Journal]
* Meanwhile, a federal judge threw out a challenge to Alabama’s strict voter ID law finding the state had an important regulatory interest in combatting the voter fraud crisis that they can’t string together any evidence of. Jeez, maybe Brett Talley would have actually improved the Alabama federal bench. [NPR]
* For your daily reminder that Texas is a jerkweed backwater, the woman accused of drunkenly destroying hundreds of thousands of dollars in art faces a possible life sentence because Texas couldn’t figure out how to put the death penalty on it. [Texas Lawyer]
* Kirsten Gillibrand will use her blue slip to block the nomination of Greenberg Traurig’s Geoffrey Berman for the SDNY U.S. Attorney post. Or, more accurately these days, Kristin Gillibrand will use her blue slip to do absolutely nothing to slow down the nomination of Geoffrey Berman for the SDNY U.S. Attorney post. [New York Law Journal]
* Skadden avoids sanctions in Vijay Singh suit. Remember when the PGA was accusing people of doping… in golf? [Law360]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 04.10.15
* Moonlighting for Biglaw partners: golf caddy? This Alston & Bird partner spent the week caddying for Gunn Yang at the 2015 Masters Tournament. Oh, to watch a partner be subservient and lug someone else’s junk around all day. [Am Law Daily]
* Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson of the Wisconsin Supreme Court is suing each of her judicial colleagues over a constitutional amendment that could get her demoted from her seat of power. Maybe this judicial diva is a “total bitch” after all. [New York Times]
* If you plan to run for president of this country and hope to discuss reform of the criminal justice system while you’re shaking hands and kissing babies on the campaign trail, you better be prepared to answer each and every one of these questions. [Washington Post]
* “I want to see in an application that … Law School is a default option for you.” At least one elite law school “actively preference[s]” work experience after college. Get a job. It’ll probably be easier now than after you graduate from law school. [Harvard Crimson]
* Aside from absurd tuition rates and deceptive employment statistics, here’s one more absolutely vital thing that members of the legal profession should consider tossing out during their spring cleaning sessions: the third year of law school. [Washington Post]
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Biglaw, Midsize Firms / Regional Firms, Sexual Harassment
A Sexual Harassment Suit Against A Prominent Law Firm
Plaintiff Elina Chechelnitsky claims that the firm discriminated against women associates, by giving out work unfairly and holding an all-male golf outing. -
Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 04.06.15
* The law prof who sent anal-bead porn to her students is making headlines beyond the legal media. [Inside Higher Ed; Total Frat Move]
* You’ve been served — via Facebook. How do you “Like” them apples? [New York Daily News]
* Making a federal — or at least state — case out of teaching yoga to schoolchildren. [ATL Redline]
* Bad idea: taking someone’s identity and accepting money on their behalf. (Or: the dangers of launching a startup without legal advice.) [Associate’s Mind]
* Also a bad idea (if the allegations are true, that is): a men-only golf retreat at a large law firm. [ABA Journal]
* “Sperm Donor Scandal Lawsuit: How One Man with Schizophrenia Allegedly Fathered 36 Children.” [People]
* Getting revenge on a revenge-porn magnate: an 18-year sentence for Kevin Christopher Bollaert. [Los Angeles Times]
* How can healthcare startups protect their intellectual property? [MedCity News]
* Debt-saddled law students love free stuff — so how about free membership in the ABA? [American Bar Association]
* In addition to our April 23 reception, I’ll also be doing an event on April 25 for Supreme Ambitions (affiliate link), to which you are all most cordially invited. [Seminary Co-Op Bookstore; Facebook]
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Technology
Tiger Woods Fails Parody, Streisands 'Offending' Content As A Result
An obviously satirical piece gets Tiger Woods up in arms. -
Biglaw, Golf, Insider Trading, Partner Issues, Securities and Exchange Commission, White-Collar Crime
Biglaw Partner Charged With Insider Trading On The Golf Course
Caddyshack meets Wall Street as golfing buddies -- including a pair of lawyers -- are accused of insider trading.