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  • Morning Docket: 09.08.21
    Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 09.08.21

    * Even Britney Spears’s dad thinks it’s time for the conservatorship to be up. Womanizer no more? [Reuters]

    * Texas snitch hotline bling’ed to a different platform because of meme lords. [The Guardian]

    * Increasingly, Trumpers are the ones saying “L’etat c’est moi.” You either die a swamp drainer or live to become the bog. [CBS News]

    * In today’s episode of good news elsewhere: Mexico’s Supreme Court rules criminalizing abortion is unconstitutional. I wonder if they invoked any penumbras‽ [CNN]

    * Finally, here’s the content your inner child has been craving. Cheers to being the person Steve knows you could be. [EW.com]

  • Morning Docket: 11.30.20
    Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 11.30.20

    * A new lawsuit alleges that a beer manufacturer falsely claimed its brew was made in Mexico instead of Holland. Would be amazing if free beer is part of any settlement… [Fox Business]

    * Carter Page has filed a lawsuit against the FBI and others for allegedly illicit surveillance during the Russia investigation. [USA Today]

    * The legal challenges facing the Attorney General of Texas may impede the state’s antitrust claims against Google. [Wall Street Journal]

    * A man sought in the slaying of an Illinois lawyer is on the FBI’s Most Wanted List. [Fox News]

    * Since Above the Law hasn’t had a “Lawyerly Lairs” feature in a while, wanted to share that a top Las Vegas attorney has placed his multimillion-dollar mansion on the market. [Review-Journal]

  • Morning Docket: 08.03.20
    Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 08.03.20

    * A lawyer who was featured in the Netflix documentary series Making a Murderer has been unable to shake his conviction for violating a restraining order. Maybe he should have had “dreamy” Dean Strang defend him… [ABA Journal]

    * A study has found that the number of lawyer jobs may have decreased by over 15% in the past six months. [Bloomberg Law]

    * A group of voters have filed a lawsuit seeking to prevent the Trump Administration from excluding undocumented immigrants from the census. [Jurist]

    * Michael Avenatti will receive a taxpayer-funded lawyer in one of his criminal cases after claiming he did not have the financial resources to pay his own counsel. [Fox News]

    * The Supreme Court has denied the request of environmentalists to stop the Trump Administration from building a southern border wall. The justices didn’t rule if Mexico needs to pay for it… [ABC News]

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  • Morning Docket: 06.21.19
    Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 06.21.19

    * “In my 22 years of doing visits with children in detention I have never heard of this level of inhumanity.” Children being detained at the border are in desperate need of legal assistance and humanitarian aid. [NBC News]

    * Disgraced former Alabama Supreme Court chief justice Roy Moore, a “polarizing [] Republican,” has decided to launch yet another Senate bid after losing during his first go round. This time, even President Trump warned him against trying again. [New York Times]

    * Puff, puff, pass this vote: New York may not have been able to legalize marijuana, but lawmakers are trying to do the next best thing by decriminalizing it. Fines for “violations” will be no higher than $200 and last convictions can be expunged upon request. [New York Law Journal]

    * In case you missed it, Slack had its IPO yesterday, opening at $38.50 a share. Goodwin Procter certainly didn’t miss it, because the firm is looking to earn $2.5 million for its work on the company’s stock market debut. [Big Law Business]

    * Shaakirrah Sanders, a black female professor at Idaho Law, has filed suit against the school the university, and a former dean, alleging race and gender discrimination and retaliation. She is the only professor of color and woman of color who has earned tenure at the school. [Idaho Statesman]

  • Morning Docket: 11.26.18
    Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 11.26.18

    * In an effort to bypass the decisions — and injunctions — of lower appellate courts, the Trump administration has taken the “highly unusual step” of asking the Supreme Court to issue a ruling on its transgender military ban. [USA Today]

    * In other news, the Trump administration has reportedly struck a deal with Mexico that will completely overhaul our asylum system so that seekers will have to Remain in Mexico (the plan’s eloquent name) while their cases move through our courts. [Washington Post]

    * Sorry, but you’re not “immune” to this one: A New York judge has asserted jurisdiction over Donald Trump in a lawsuit brought by AG Barbara Underwood against the Trump Foundation, the president, and three of his children. [NPR]

    * “We shouldn’t be in this position where the future of certain policies turn on whether this old woman is healthy or not.” The Supreme Court’s future is resting on Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s health, and people are starting to get nervous. [The Hill]

    * “Let’s have a hearing and invite everyone to see.” Former FBI director James Comey says he’ll fight a subpoena to testify privately before the House Judiciary Committee if for no other reason than because he wants the world to know what happened. [CNN]

    * In case you missed it amid this year’s bonus frenzy, senior associates at top-tier Biglaw firms taking in $465K are now making more in total compensation than partners from at least a dozen Am Law 200 firms. Ouch. [American Lawyer]

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