Mississippi
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Courts
Mississippi Proves Civil Rights Lawyer’s Point With Sham Arrest And Trial
I look forward to the judge's resignation. -
Courts
Not Really Sure How Mississippi's Public Defender Program Has Worked The Last Two Decades
It's like the biggest rule breaker is the government or something. - Sponsored
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Courts
Judge Prevents Mississippi From Creating White-Elected Courts For Black Counties... For Now
Shouts out to Henry Wingate.
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Courts
I Did Not Have Mississippi Creating Whites-Only Courts On My Black History Month Bingo Card
'You don't understand — this isn't blatant racism and segregation, it's tradition and heritage.' -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 07.25.22
* Bleak views out the Overton window: Politicians are about 2 steps from being openly hostile toward non-Christians. [Business Insider]
* 1st Amendment; mum’s the word: more Nazis waving SS flags in support of Republicans as candidates talk about freedom. [Huff Po]
* Put your money where your politics are: Here’s an updated list of companies addressing abortion access. [NPR]
* Shoot, a copycat!: California passes the snitch on pregnant people and get 10k law, but for guns. [NYT]
* Remember that time about 200 Republicans voted against sus-ing out white supremacists in police departments? Maybe they were trying to protect Mississippi. [CNN]
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Courts
Courtroom Prayer For '[God's] Truth, Not Our Own' Precedes Abortion Ban Hearing, Which... Went As Poorly As You Might Expect
Supreme Court's coordinated attack on rights has led us right here. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 05.20.22
* Justice Thomas’s views on which companies are common carriers could be key to compelling hate speech. [Ars Technica]
* Mississippi just strengthened its animal rights laws. Gotta look out for our buddies. [Action News]
* NY’s Supreme Court rules cops can’t use chokeholds again. Not sure why it was brought back in vogue but alright. [CNN]
* Kamala Harris gives Oklahoma’s abortion law anything but the OK. [NY Post]
* Judge continues ban on a Kentucky law that would prohibit abortion. [NBC News]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 04.24.22
* Meaning what you say: Climate change activist self-immolated in front of the Supreme Court on Earth Day. [Independent]
* Are our founding principles stronger than historical revisionism? This 1st Amendment suit against banning history will let us know. [WCGU]
* Nixing the 77%: Mississippi now requires that women be paid the same amount as men for the same work. Fanfare aplenty. [ABC News]
* …And Mississippi is also banning vaccination mandates. Being newsworthy twice in a row counts for something, right? [Clarion Ledger]
* Three’s Company: Brandeis must be overjoyed about this relapse into old antitrust jurisprudence. [Bloomberg]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 04.13.22
* An Inconvenient Truth: That lady from the pedophile party wants people to just forget about that time the nation was attacked. [CNN]
* Use this IRS data leak as a reminder to do your taxes! Unless you’re super rich. They probably get money back or something. [ProPublica]
* Culver City is widening sidewalks to give homeless folks more room. I wish our approach was more Finland and less Cartman from South Park. [NBC]
* Gotta be quicker than that: Twitter shareholders sue Musk for delaying his Twitter stock buying. [Reuters]
* Mississippi mississips again by declaring April Confederate History Month. I don’t know, sounds like CRT to me. [Mississippi Free Press]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 02.03.22
* Teamwork makes the dream work! Small firms are merging together in New Jersey. [Law.com]
* Mississippi has legalized medical marijuana for debilitating conditions. Think it’s about time for it to be taken off the Schedule I list yet? [AP News]
* Requiem for a career: Controversy arises as a proponent of election fraud tries to rebrand as a crooner. [Bleeding Cool]
* Record keeping you down? Utah’s clean slate law might be a bit of help. Tell a friend! Who lives in Utah, of course. [At The U]
* You’ve hakuna’d your last matata! Californians look to legal solutions to deal with their feral hog problem. [Eater]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 08.23.21
* It’s beginning to feel a lot like last year: “Protesting” Fight Club LARPers and anti-fascists fight in Portland. Remember when being anti-fascist was super? [OPB]
* First they came for the judiciary. I did not speak out. Then they came for the school boards. [LGBTQNation]
* Miamians (is that a thing?) allowed to record police vices after this 1 small trick! [ABC News]
* Vaccines are optional but quarantining isn’t if you’re in Ole Miss. [Fox News]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 05.17.21
* A lawsuit has been filed over Floyd Mayweather’s fight against Logan Paul next month. Sounds like the claims might be a knock out… [Fox News]
* Allegations made in litigation suggest that a former Trump lawyer is raiding a nonprofit for her own personal use. [AP]
* The Mississippi Supreme Court has overturned a medical marijuana initiative in that state. Hopefully legalized marijuana there isn’t just a “pipe” dream… [Mississippi Today]
* A Louisiana lawyer has been charged with attempting to bring contraband into a local jail. [ABC News]
* A top lawyer is investigating the disappearance of Tiger King star Carole Baskin’s husband. Maybe he’ll make a music video about his theories… [TMZ]
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Sports
Mississippi, And All Other States, Should Approve Online Sports Gambling
To not do so would be like leaving money on the table.
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 12.03.20
The Ohio Supreme Court said a lawyer’s “pants are charred” by lies, and disbarred the attorney for allegedly practicing law while suspended and other misconduct. That’s quite a “burn”… [Columbus Dispatch]
* A new lawsuit alleges that a well-known Los Angeles attorney stole from clients to finance “a public image of obscene wealth” for himself and his wife, singer and “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” star Erika Jayne. [Los Angeles Times]
* Ivanka Trump was deposed on Tuesday in a lawsuit alleging misuse of funds designated for the Trump Inauguration. [CNN]
* A 37-year-old attorney has been confirmed as a federal judge in Mississippi. [Jackson Free Press]
* Joe Exotic’s lawyer claims that the former zookeeper is close to receiving a presidential pardon. Maybe President Trump wants another season of Tiger King… [Business Insider]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket 11.21.2019
* Since ATL hasn’t had a Lawyerly Lairs segment in a while, just wanted to point out that an attorney involved with the Madoff case just put his NYC apartment back on the market. [New York Post]
* An MSU sorority has settled a lawsuit involving the banishment of a therapy rabbit from a sorority house. Hopefully the rabbit doesn’t have to be hazed. [Detroit Free Press]
* A disbarred attorney has been charged with leaving threatening voicemails for a judge. Way to add insult to injury. [The Monitor]
* Google and other companies are implementing changes to adapt to a new California law involving data privacy. [Reuters]
* It looks like Elon Musk will face a trial next month over his “pedo guy” tweets after a judge denied his motion to dismiss the case. The good news is, in a few decades, Musk will be able to write the defamation laws on Mars. [NBC]
* A Mississippi district attorney has been accused of turning away black jurors over a 25-year period. [CNN]
* A Utah woman could be forced to register as a sex offender for being topless in her own home even though her topless husband was not charged. Can’t wait for the Supreme Court to weigh in on this. [Newsweek]
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Family Law
Guess This Week’s Craziest State In Assisted Reproductive Technology Law: Mississippi Or Arizona?
One of these states' new laws has a number of potential constitutional problems. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 03.21.18
* The President apparently got around? Former Playboy Playmate Karen McDougal has filed suit against American Media, Inc., owner of The National Enquirer, to get out of an agreement that’s preventing her from discussing her alleged affair with Donald Trump, which reportedly occurred around the same time as the Stormy Daniels affair. [CBS News]
* What’s going on at Latham & Watkins in the wake its former chairman Lathaming himself over inappropriate conduct involving “communications of a sexual nature”? According to a source at the firm, “[e]veryone is shocked” and no one has any idea who will replace Bill Voge as chair. [American Lawyer]
* “This is not what the impeachment power is for….” Pennsylvania GOP lawmakers are moving to impeach the Democratic state Supreme Court justices who ruled the state’s congressional map was unconstitutionally gerrymandered. [Huffington Post]
* Dechert has settled an age and sex discrimination case filed by female staff members. There are no details of the settlement available, but if you recall, the firm countered the ex-staffers’ claims by saying that technological advances had made their jobs redundant. [Legal Intelligencer]
* On Monday, Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant signed the most restrictive abortion bill in the country, banning abortion after 15 weeks of gestation. Less than 24 hours later, Judge Carlton Reeves granted a temporary restraining order in favor of the state’s lone abortion clinic. [Associated Press]
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Supreme Court
Supreme Court Refuses To Act In The Face Of Extreme Anti-LGBTQ Law
Sweeping anti-LGBT law is left in effect.