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Morning Docket: 01.21.20
* Tyson Foods is paying $221.5 million to settle a poultry price-fixing lawsuit. Guess the chickens are coming home to roost… [Food Business News]
* The Supreme Court reportedly received a bomb threat while the inauguration of President Biden was underway yesterday. [Business Insider]
* The National Rifle Association says it is “not afraid” of a lawsuit filed by the New York Attorney General, and it will continue to fight the litigation. [Bloomberg Law]
* A lawyer for the “QAnon Shaman” says that granting his client a pardon “would have been the honorable thing to do.” [CBS News]
* Speaking of pardons, a lawyer for Lil’ Wayne conveyed that the rapper didn’t support President Trump just to get a pardon. Maybe the rapper was angling to get on another season of Celebrity Apprentice… [Complex]
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Morning Docket: 12.10.20
* Rapper Lil Wayne is due to make his first court appearance related to a weapons bust that took place on a private plane last year. Wonder if the judge will call him “Lil Wayne” in court… [All Hip Hop]
* Home Depot has settled a multimillion-dollar class-action related to a data breach. [National Law Review]
* Facebook has finally been hit with long-anticipated antitrust litigation. [NPR]
* Hunter Biden is allegedly under investigation for tax issues. [Guardian]
* Vermont Law School is considering a move to Burlington, Vermont. Would be a good decision, Burlington is a nice town. [VT Digger]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 12.23.15
* It’s the Miss Universe pageant lawsuit you’ve all been waiting for: attorneys at a Colombian law firm say they will be filing suit due to Miss Colombia’s crowning and de-crowning, noting “the crown is an acquired right that cannot be taken away from us.” [WGNO]
* The Federal Circuit handed down a major ruling yesterday, saying that the government can no longer bar the registration of offensive trademarks due to restrictions on free speech. This will likely be appealed to SCOTUS, but the Redskins must be pretty pumped. [Reuters]
* In an effort to avoid another Kim Davis fiasco (and to protect clerks’ religious beliefs), Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin has signed an executive order directing that his state prepare new marriage licenses without the names of county clerks. [Associated Press]
* Lil Wayne may be a “motherf**kin’ cash money millionaire,” but he reportedly can’t spare the cash to pay his attorneys’ fees. This marks the second time in recent months that he’s been sued for allegedly failing to pay his lawyers what they’re owed. [SPIN]
* Lakeisha Holloway, the woman accused of using her car to mow down and kill a pedestrian and injure many others on the Las Vegas Strip, has been charged with murder with a deadly weapon. She faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted. [NBC News]
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 04.09.15
* Police claim David Messerschmitt’s killer stole only $40. [Washington Post]
* Lil Wayne vs. Cash Money. Which is, apparently, not an in rem action. [FactMag]
* What is the difference between confidence and arrogance? Obviously, I know the answer, but let’s see if you can figure it out. [Corporette]
* One angle I missed from today’s news that a gunman attacked a courthouse in Milan is that this is life imitating art, eerily reminiscent of a plotline on The Good Wife. [Law and More]
* Immigration attorney is a no-show at her sentencing for 13 felony theft counts for accepting fees and botching her work. You’d think she skipped the country except we know she sucks at immigration law. [ABA Journal]
* Former president of the World Bank’s LGBT employee organization is under investigation. He thinks this seems pretty suspicious. [Buzzfeed]
* The Tsarnaev trial highlights the continuing stupidity of keeping cameras out of the courtroom. [Vanity Fair]
* Another installment of “Roberts at 10,” looking at his 10 years as chief. What’s his legacy on LGBT rights? Well, unsurprisingly, we’re not going to know for sure for a couple months. [Constitutional Accountability Center]
* A new study reveals that judges are less ideologically biased than law students. Again, it’s not that judges are less firm in their ideology, it’s that they’ve learned to pick their battles. [WSJ Law Blog]
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Morning Docket: 08.05.11
* A jury found Warren Jeffs guilty of sexual assault, confirming that just because there’s grass on the field, it doesn’t mean that you should play ball. [CNN] * John H. Ray III finally sued Ropes & Gray for treating him like the “token black associate.” That’s only funny on an episode of South Park. […]