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Courts, Sponsored Content
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 11.17.23
* Mistrial in the Breonna Taylor case. [CNN]
* DEI consulting is booming after the Supreme Court rollback of affirmative action. [Bloomberg Law]
* Progress on an alternative to the bar exam in California. [Reuters]
* Judge in Google search case keeping a very open mind. [Law360]
* Alex Murdaugh one step closer to a new trial. [Law & Crime]
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Courts, Finance
The Google Monopoly Trial Now Underway Could Remake The Anticompetitive Internet Ecosystem
As the legal woes of Donald Trump and Sam Bankman-Fried are eating up most of the bandwidth, Google's own trial seems to be slipping to the second page of search results.
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 09.22.23
* Somehow they’ve managed to find even more undisclosed private air travel. This time taking Clarence Thomas to a Koch brothers event in a level of impropriety that a former W. Bush judge said, “takes my breath away, frankly.” [ProPublica]
* Clifford Chance opts for permanent hybrid work model while other firms choose alienation and extortion. [RollonFriday]
* Second Circuit decides Sam Bankman-Fried can wait in jail. [Law360]
* North Carolina Supreme Court justice Anita Earls spoke publicly about implicit bias in the legal system. After the judiciary commission ordered her to pre-clear future statements with them, she sued over the prior restraint and the federal judge chastised her for making the justice system look bad by talking about bias out loud. [Balls and Strikes]
* Having toppled admissions, right-wingers take aim at scholarships that might possibly help non-white people go to school. [Reuters]
* Judge upholds the right of private investors to put their money toward companies that match their environmental and social goals. [Bloomberg Law News]
* Profiling the folks chronicling the opaque Google antitrust case. [Wired]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 06.23.23
* Downed sub had passengers sign waivers but those aren’t necessarily holding up in court. [Reuters]
* Speaking of the sub, the passenger who missed the tragic dive is a lawyer. [MarketWatch]
* Canada makes Facebook & Google pay media outlets for links. You know what that means, Canadian friends? Time to start posting more humorous and insightful stories from Above the Law! [Wall Street Journal]
* Facebook says it will retaliate by ending news access in Canada entirely. Good luck with that… because people definitely scroll Facebook for the cat pictures. [CNN]
* And George Santos got bail help from… his family. Just like he said. WOW. He said something and then it turned out to be true! [Courthouse News Service]
* Law360 releases its “176 Under 40” list. Real rigorous vetting process there… blowing by the right number for an “under 40” list by a cool 136. [Law360]
* Prosecutor fired by DeSantis for refusing to enforce abortion crimes can’t get his job back because he took six months before filing. Do they have a 6-week limit on this too? [Bloomberg Law News]
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Intellectual Property
Damages Danger Zone
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Intellectual Property
3 Takeaways From The Sonos Verdict Against Google
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Intellectual Property
3 Takeaways From A Patent Pretrial Order In Google v. Sonos Case
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 02.24.23
* Everyone fears that young, lockdown lawyers aren’t well-trained. And they probably aren’t… but instead of addressing that, firms will just complain about hybrid offices some more. [Law.com]
* Congratulations to Sidney Powell, who dodged an ethics complaint when a Greg Abbott-appointed judge tossed the case. Aileen Cannon is an inspiration to so many out there… [Reuters]
* DOJ seeks sanctions against Google for deleting employee chats. Why delete them? Just leave them on the Google chat platform and literally no one will ever be able to find them again. [Law360]
* The legal luminary who convinced Mike Pence not to participate in a coup hopes to convince the former Veep to do the right thing again. [NY Times]
* Trump has MORE classified documents now? [CNN]
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Courts
This Challenge To Section 230 Could Greatly Increase The Liability Of Content-Hosting Websites
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Biglaw
Which Biglaw Firm Will Be Defending Google Against The Meanies At The DOJ?
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Courts
The Justice Department Wants To Chop Google Down To Size
I can't prove that the DOJ recruited from former Ask Jeeves employees, but it would explain the passion. I miss that site. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 01.25.23
* Google doesn’t think much of the government’s antitrust action. It might want to try a quick Bing search on antitrust law. [Reuters]
* Asking ChatGPT to write a poem about being a law student. [LegalCheek]
* Insiders may find it a little sketchy, but Goodwin coupling layoffs with a big lateral hire may be the norm in a market where the “recession” is only hitting specific groups. [Law.com]
* A deep dive into Sullivan & Cromwell’s cryptoexchange adventure. [Financial Times]
* Elon Musk testifies that publicly stating that he had “funding secured” when he had not, so much, “secured” any “funding” was “the right thing to do.” Juries appreciate a complete lack of remorse! [Law360]
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Courts
2023 Could Be The Year The Supreme Court Finally Tells Us What The Guidelines On Online Content Moderation Are
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Small Law Firms
Why Your Law Firm Isn’t Ranking On Google (And How To Fix It!)
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Small Law Firms
How To Get A Google Review Removed
When fake reviews are posted on your Google Business Profile, you have the option to get them removed.