Labor / Employment

Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 08.14.23

* It took a couple of days, but Donald Trump has blown off Judge Chutkan's warning that further public attacks on the proceedings would result in accelerating the existing January trial schedule. At the rate he's going, expect the trial next week! [Politico] * Meanwhile, in Georgia, prosecutors apparently have messages directly tying Trump's legal team to voting system breach. [CNN] * Florida Bar proposes allowing law school grads to engage in limited practice before passing the bar exam. One of many emergency measures required to make sure Donald Trump and his fellow indictees can secure local counsel. [Jax Daily Record] * Law.com lists lawyers on social media it considers attorney-influencers. [Law.com] * UPS reached an agreement with its workers, but it had strikebreaking plans all worked out. [Bloomberg Law News] * Judge charged with murdering wife. [Law360] * Sam Bankman-Fried off to Brooklyn MDC after judge finds witness tampering efforts in violation of bail, bringing renewed publicity to the facility's abhorrent conditions. [Reuters]

Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 06.02.23

* Science confirms that legal writing is terrible. [AAAS] * Maryland judge benchslapped for using Beowulf and Whistler's Mother to import racist stereotypes into an opinion. As racism goes, it's a very erudite version. Much more National Review than Daily Caller. [ABA Journal] * House Oversight Committee is probing FTC Chair for pursuing the policies she said she would pursue before getting the job. Really scrounging the bottom of the barrel these days... go back to Hunter Biden's laptop or something. At least it was interesting. [Reuters] * Speaking of Hunter Biden, he's setting himself up to be the next Second Amendment test case to erode laws barring felons from keeping arsenals. [NY Times] * Federal judge delivers tongue-lashing to Crowell attorneys suing over policies they allegedly advised the defendant on earlier. [Law360] * Dechert secures sanctions reversal in earplug trial. I SAID, DECHERT SECURES SANCTIONS REVERSAL IN EARPLUG TRIAL. Take those things out, will ya? [Law.com] * Starbucks is in Trenta trouble as labor law rulings come down. [Bloomberg Law News]