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Morning Docket: 06.03.20

* Carole Baskin has been awarded the zoo once owned by Joe Exotic to satisfy a judgment from long-standing litigation between the two. Baskin should go after Exotic's country music songs next. [BBC] * A government lawyer says that the number of prisoners with COVID-19 at a federal lockup is likely seven times higher than previously reported. [ABC News] * A Florida man has been convicted of fraud for claiming he represented The Village People and fleecing a casino out of $12,000. "It's fun to stay at the 'J.A.I.L.'" [Fox News] * Google faces a $5 billion class action for tracking the internet usage of users even though browsers are set in "private" mode. [Reuters] * Attorney General Barr is purported to have personally ordered protesters removed so President Trump could visit a church near the White House earlier this week. [CNN] * A company has been ordered to pay $3.6 million in attorneys' fees for their adversary on top of a $600,000 judgment and paying their own lawyers $5 million. Bet they wish they just settled the case earlier. [Chicago Law Bulletin]

By Jordan Rothman
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 01.13.20

* A top lawyer for Google's parent company is resigning amid allegations of inappropriate relationships. [Washington Post] * The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has appointed an Obama administration lawyer to oversee the implementation of reforms. [Fox News] * President Trump's former attorney Michael Cohen claims he deserves early release from prison. [Guardian] * A Nebraska lawyer has been accused of accepting cocaine in lieu of fees. This guy better accept Bitcoin too... [NBC News] * The federal jail where Jeffrey Epstein died is getting a new warden and a new lawyer. [New York Daily News] * Prosecutors have expressed a desire to pursue federal death penalty charges against an individual accused of murdering a prominent attorney. [U.S. News & World Report]

By Jordan Rothman
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 09.05.19

* A look back at 40 years of Biglaw financials. Spoiler alert: they made a lot of money. [American Lawyer] * Greg Craig was acquitted! Good news for all the lobbyists and foreign agents out there who (wink wink) aren't lobbyists and foreign agents. [WSJ] * Department of Labor official resigns after anti-Semitic social media posts surface. Frankly, one would've expected him to stay to own the libs. [Bloomberg Law] * CVS and Aetna get their clearance to merge because despite all Judge Leon's rage at DOJ he's still just a rat in a cage that happens to keep people from caring about antitrust enforcement. [Law360] * Simple way to fix harassment in Silicon Valley. [The Atlantic] * It's a day that ends in "y" so Dentons just got bigger. [Dentons] * Does Chambers have a blindspot for women? [Careerist] * For those of you following the Alphabet/Google CLO shenanigans, the GC just married an employee this weekend, but not the employee who says he neglected their baby after he had an affair with her while married to yet another person. [CNBC]

By Joe Patrice
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 05.02.19

* After what could only be described as a rough day, Attorney General Bill Barr has opted to skip the House Judiciary Committee hearing he's supposed to attend and force us to remember that Congressional subpoenas are basically worthless. [National Law Journal] * Speaking of Barr, yesterday spawned a bunch of somber takes like this article with lines like "A few months ago, William Barr was a well-respected former top federal law enforcement official." No he wasn't. He was the cover-up artist who helped the first Bush administration stifle Iran-Contra. [The Bulwark] * Walmart has hired a new general counsel for health and wellness. One might have thought "paying your workers enough money to eat" would be a better way of promoting wellness, but Walmart decided to go with a lawyer. [Corporate Counsel] * Julian Assange doesn't want to be extradited to the United States which is an absolute shocker. [ABC News] * The administration argued that it should be able to keep the emails from private accounts sent as part of its joke voter fraud commission under wraps because irony is dead. Judge Hellerstein disagreed. [Courthouse News Service] * Google's CLO made over $47 million last year even though almost every decision he made last year was questionable. [Law360]

By Joe Patrice
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 04.16.19

* Varsity Blues students receive target letters, which are basically acceptance letters to the criminal justice system. [NY Times] * Greg Craig looking at an August trial date. That may sound soon, but this matter is all about the rushin'. [National Law Journal] * The Department of the Interior has opened an ethics investigation into its new head. He was confirmed a mere four days ago. [Courthouse News Service] * Circuit splits are on the rise and many are blaming the Supreme Court for not taking up the important cases for judicial efficiency. Who'd have thought morphing the body into an ideology factory would have a downside? [Law360] * Google has a database of every physical location you've visited that they willingly share with law enforcement. Enjoy! [How To Geek] * Legal operations are entering the law school curriculum in the event your legal dream is to be an efficiency expert for Biglaw. [American Lawyer] * The sitting president compared interest in his finances as an elected official to FBI harassment of civil rights leaders. This is a thing that really happened. [Daily Beast]

By Joe Patrice
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 11.09.18

* Matt Whitaker thinks Marbury v. Madison should be overturned. We truly live in the dumbest timeline. [National Law Journal] * Heightened security as Kavanaugh formally joins the Court. That's a good idea, he seems like a dangerous man. [NPR] * Amazon really excited about its new role as a leader in wrongly convicting people. [The Verge] * Baker Donelson is just a big Skinner Box for tech adoption now. More firms should follow suit. [American Lawyer] * Google is ending its practice of forcing sexual harassment claims into arbitration in another advancement spurred by the #MeToo movement. [Law360] * Bryan Cave unveils new tech service to help clients evaluate the value of pursuing litigation. [Corporate Counsel] * The Justice Department put out a new rule limiting asylum claims in violation of international law because that's how this country rolls now. [Reuters] * Voter suppression tactics don't work as well after the votes are cast. [The Hill]

By Joe Patrice
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 10.25.18

* Justice Department launches its bid to reverse LGBTQ rights. I'll bet several liked beers that the timing isn't a coincidence. [National Law Journal] * Speaking of the Supreme Court, anthropomorphic hemorrhoid Charles Harder is asking the Court to get rid of Section 230 so every website can be sued into oblivion for defamation they don't even commit. [The Verge] * With Baker McKenzie chair Paul Rawlinson stepping down from exhaustion, other Biglaw managing partners line up to describe how hard they have it. [American Lawyer] * Latham & Watkins partner takes Lording his position over everybody literally. [Legal Cheek] * "Hey Google, what are sanctions?" [Law360] * The DOJ may have won the stay it wanted, but it's still staring down a trial over the census. [New York Law Journal] * Judge set to resolve one of the many shady election law problems plaguing Georgia. [Courthouse News Service]

By Joe Patrice