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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 05.07.19
* Can the outrage of strip searching a 4-year-old get the Supreme Court to rethink qualified immunity? Well, killing and torturing people hasn’t done it so it’s not clear why this would. [National Law Journal]
* Clifford Chance is the latest firm to deliver a bodyblow to the billable hour. [Law.com]
* Dahlia Lithwick lays out a case that Democrats can focus on impeaching Trump and winning in 2020 too that elides any attention to the ways that the former would likely significantly undermine the latter.
[Slate]* Pepe’s Revenge: The artist behind the cartoon that’s become the emblem of white supremacy is headed to trial to assert his rights over the image — specifically the rights of racist groups to sell the image on their own posters. [Courthouse News Service]
* A look back at Ted Bundy’s trial skills. [Esquire]
* Jurors asked if schools can be “willfully ignorant” of recruiting violations. It’s probably fair to point out that most are “willfully aware.” [Law360]
* Deloitte joins fellow accounting firms in dipping its toe into the U.S. legal industry. [American Lawyer]
* In-house attorney loses age discrimination suit. [Corporate Counsel]
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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]
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