Massachusetts
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Courts
And It Says Right Here You Can't Try To Kill Your Former Husband With An Axe And Expect Money From Him
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Massachusetts Rules That Being Told Of Infidelity No Longer (Partially) Excuses Being A Murderer
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Can You Zealously Defend Someone You Virulently Hate? This Massachusetts Court Has To Provide An Answer
It's like Gideon v. Wainwright, but if appointed council hated people who remarried. And wrote 20 Facebook statuses about it. During the trial.
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Biglaw
Boston, We Have A Problem: The Data On Mental Health And Practicing Is In
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 11.17.22
* Looking for direction outside of US News? Here’s what Yale thinks. [Yahoo!]
* Cops don’t want a law that prevents them from being in terrorist groups. Interesting. [Minnesota Reformer]
* Now this is an interesting overlap of Federal law and adoption policy. [Inquirer]
* Massachusetts’ new license law is worth familiarizing yourself with. [Axios]
* Where do we go from here? Penn (Carey) Law has some ideas. [The DP]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 09.20.22
* Too big to talk? Goofy litigation over corporate free speech rights is likely heading straight to the Supreme Court. [Wa Po]
* Arizona judge soon to decide if abortion laws go back to 1901. [CNN]
* Pork is on hold in Mass. pending litigation. L&T sandwiches just don’t taste the same. [WWLP]
* Hey 1Ls, if you wanted a quick primer on statutory hermeneutics, look no further than abortion laws! [The Atlantic]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 06.10.22
* There may be some turbulence for JetBlue — an antitrust suit was just given the green light. [Reuters]
* Massachusetts just made it easier for immigrants to drive to work. [AP]
* Planning on getting that JD to find Mx. Right? Women share stories of what it’s like dating as a lawyer. At least they try to. There are a lot of men in the comments. [Reddit]
* A congressional candidate from South Carolina is calling for treason executions and imprisoning the parents of LGBTQ children. Gotta love our lax hate speech jurisprudence! [LGBTQ Nation]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 05.02.22
* Florida is working on a “constitutional” carry thing. We need to stop the trend of just putting “bat” or “constitutional” in front of words like that to make a new product. [Tallahassee Democrat]
* Ever wonder about prosecutorial discretion? Here’s a primer. [WSJ]
* When worlds collide: Looks like the IP buffs are duking it out with the antitrust advocates again. [NEXT TV]
* Flexible or vague? A Virginian law about shorelines has homeowners swimming in uncertainty. [Bay Journal]
* Looks like Massachusetts lawmakers are hiding the ball when it comes to gambling. [Mass Live]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 04.28.22
* Georgetown Law courts publicity again by inviting an alleged anti-Semite to speak on campus. Did they get a David Duke endowment recently or something? [Mosaic]
* Disney not sure what to do after getting Florida-ed. No way it’s more confusing than figuring out the licensing for the Kingdom Hearts franchise. [Star Advertiser]
* International Lawsuit: Musk’s attention-grabbing purchase isn’t rubbing the EU the right way. [Business Insider]
* “What’s all that movement back there?”: Suit filed against Massachusetts police for acting in secrecy. [Boston Herald]
* Good Apples: Two officers sue, claiming they were suspended because they reported a colleague’s racial profiling. [NJ.com]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 02.08.22
* Scaredy cats in Cali decide to not use the mountain lion excuse for not wanting poor people living next to them. [Fox]
* Legislators! Mount up: Pennsylvania is figuring out how to regulate legal weed. [WFMZ]
* All Dogs Go to Hospital: Massachusetts law now lets K-9s in need of medical aid ride in an ambulance. [Boston]
* Kansas City is cracking down on human trafficking. Good on them. [Fox 4 KC]
* We all know its LSAT über alles, but have you wondered where the GRE will fit in? [Law.com]
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Family Law
Massachusetts Issues First 3-Parent Birth Certificate
Although this first birth certificate is a strong step forward, Massachusetts is overdue for an update to its parentage laws. -
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 02.24.21
* A Texas electricity utility is being sued over alleged price gouging. Guess it’s not normal to get an electric bill for nearly $10,000… [Houston Chronicle]
* Immigration lawyers in Massachusetts are asking to be eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. [Boston.com]
* Check out this article about the best options for term limits at the Supreme Court. [Bloomberg Law]
* Mitch McConnell is backing Merrick Garland’s nomination to be Attorney General. [CBS News]
* A Pennsylvania lawyer pleaded guilty to stealing thousands of dollars from his former wife and mother-in-law to purchase porn, strip club visits, and other items. [Philadelphia Inquirer]
* A series of lawsuits have been filed against manufacturers of baby food in recent months. And this litigation is not child’s play… [National Law Review]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 01.13.20
* A-Rod is facing allegations of racketeering and embezzlement in a new lawsuit filed by his former brother-in-law. If true, maybe he just doesn’t like playing by the rules… [New York Post]
* A Massachusetts lawyer is suing Google for returning search results whenever a user searches his name. [Boston.com]
* A lawyer for PBS has resigned after he was secretly recorded as part of a Project Veritas sting. [ABC News]
* A well-known lawyer in Pensacola, Florida, has died of COVID-19 at age 83. [Pensacola News Journal]
* The lawyer for a man allegedly seen carrying a lectern around the Capitol during the riot last week replied “I’m not a magician” when asked about how he would defend his client. Guess he has no plans to make any charges disappear… [Fox News]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 12.01.20
* A Long Island lawyer has filed nearly 100 lawsuits alleging that companies are falsely claiming their products contain vanilla. He should go after restaurants unfairly advertising they sell New York-style pizza and bagels… [Inside Edition]
* A Florida lawyer, who dressed as the Grim Reaper on beaches to promote social distancing, is facing legal setbacks in his lawsuit against Florida’s Governor Ron DeSantis over COVID-19-related measures. [News Service of Florida]
* A number of court proceedings in Durham County, North Carolina, have been canceled because a substantial amount of local prosecutors are quarantining after being exposed to COVID-19. [WRAL.com]
* A Michigan funeral home recently settled a lawsuit that led to a major LGBT ruling at the Supreme Court. [Star Tribune]
* Massachusetts is paving the way for marijuana delivery, which may prompt legal action from retailers. Guess Mr. Nice Guy might soon be legal in the Commonwealth… [Mass Live]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 11.20.20
* A California judge has approved some marijuana delivery services within the state. Guess Pineapple Express can now be expressly delivered, and you can get your weed and munchies delivered at the same time… [Los Angeles Times]
* Joe Biden might be considering Deval Patrick, the former governor of Massachusetts, to be his Attorney General. [CBS Boston]
* A new lawsuit alleges that employees at a Waterloo, Iowa, meatpacking plant (a facility hit hard by the pandemic) took bets about how many workers would contract COVID-19. Seems pretty morbid. [CNN]
* A lawyer has been charged with multiple crimes for allegedly luring teenage girls to sleep with him in exchange for being their “sugar daddy.” [New York Post]
* A former Virginia attorney said that “I may have have made a mistake” after losing his law license for allegedly misappropriating millions from a client. Seems like an understatement… [CBS News]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 10.21.20
* The Department of Justice has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google. Don’t get it, people still use Ask Jeeves, AOL Keywords, and Prodigy, right…? (I’m really dating myself here!) [Wall Street Journal]
* Lawyers at Jones Day have purportedly donated far more money to Joe Biden than President Trump, even though the firm is working on President Trump’s re-election campaign. [Reuters]
* The Los Angeles District Attorney and her husband are being sued over an incident earlier this year in which the husband of LA’s district attorney allegedly pointed a gun at protesters. [Fox News]
* President Trump has requested that Attorney General Barr investigate Hunter Biden for alleged improprieties. [Bloomberg Law]
* New Hampshire is suing Massachusetts in the Supreme Court of the United States for taxing New Hampshire residents even though they are working remotely. This is going to be a “wicked” interesting case. [Fox News]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 09.30.20
* A lawyer has been suspended from practice for being arrested for allegedly driving while nude. The bar examiners can rest assured that this attorney had nothing to hide… [ABA Journal]
* A lawyer for Michael Flynn admitted yesterday that she briefed President Trump about Flynn’s case. [Politico]
* A new lawsuit is claiming that one of Texas’s largest counties is approving voter registrations for noncitizens. [Fox News]
* The son of a federal judge that was fatally shot in an attack over two months ago has finally been laid to rest. [New York Post]
* A Massachusetts lawyer has pleaded guilty to defrauding the U.S. government by applying for federal funds to rehabilitate apartments and then never completing the work. This sounds like a scheme depicted in The Sopranos. [Mass Live]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 09.29.20
* Looks like Netflix will be picking up the upcoming Lincoln Lawyer series. Not too newsworthy, but very excited about this! [What’s on Netflix]
* A federal judge may soon rule if Apple’s App Store runs afoul of antitrust rules. [Wall Street Journal]
* A Georgia court is allowing a couple to sue a sperm bank for allegedly misrepresenting the background of a sperm donor. [ABC News]
* A Massachusetts law firm is being sued for allegedly accepting money from a pharmacy in exchange for referring personal injury clients to the business. [Insurance Journal]
* A lawyer for President Trump’s campaign previously worked for Al Gore. Maybe this attorney can double as a climate change advisor… [NPR]
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Legal Ethics
Court Rules 'BOOM SHAKALAKA' Is Not An Argument
Please note, 'BOOM SHAKALAKA' is not compelling.