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  • Morning Docket: 01.12.22
    Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 01.12.22

    * SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED! Indiana is a step away from removing a common sense restriction on gun ownership. [Newsweek]

    * Florida is looking to pass a 15-week abortion ban. See what you started, Texas? [Politico]

    * Missouri police chiefs support a lawsuit that will take a shot at pinning down the meaning of an ambiguous gun law. [STL Today]

    * Decisions have been made. Market is open. Giddy is up. Who wants the Broncos?! [Denver Post]

    * A former officer sued the Seattle Police Department for firing him because he punched a woman handcuffed in the back of a police car. [Publicola]

  • Morning Docket: 09.20.21
    Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 09.20.21

    * In Virus Other Than COVID™ news, research on a potential cure to HIV is underway. [Biospace]

    * There’s general disillusionment with the legitimacy of SCOTUS and the rule of law or whatever, but no one is asking the hard-hitting questions. Will 1Ls still have to take Con Law 2? [Business Insider]

    * Missourians going the “liberty or death” route are mad the federal government is trying to make them die less. [The Guardian]

    * In a much needed move, California is passing legislation that makes stealthing illegal. Don’t commit assault, folks. [The New Yorker]

    * Even more bright-eyed students are ignoring the sage wisdom of this song. If only they knew about issue-spotting before Torts.  [Reuters]

  • Morning Docket: 04.15.21
    Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 04.15.21

    * Lawmakers are expected to unveil a proposal to add four justices to the Supreme Court. Hope they realize that 13 is an unlucky number… [NBC News]

    * The Illinois Attorney General’s Office is investigating a hack of its computer network. [Chicago Tribune]

    * A new lawsuit claims a California man was jailed recently because he resembled his brother. Thankfully, I don’t look much like my triplet brothers…to their misfortune…! [San Francisco Chronicle]

    * A Missouri doctor was recently awarded $26 million in a wrongful termination lawsuit. [Bekcer’s Hospital Review]

    * An Ohio lawyer has been reprimanded for conduct that required a judge to order the Bart Simpson-esque punishment of repeatedly writing that he would uphold ethical standards. Hope he didn’t tell the judge to eat his shorts… [ABA Journal]

  • Morning Docket: 10.15.20
    Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 10.15.20

    * Britney Spears scored a small victory in her conservatorship battle with her father after a judge allowed her to hire her own counsel. Guess now “she is that innocent”… [Variety]

    * President Trump has refused to say whether he will keep Attorney General Barr if Trump wins reelection. [CNBC]

    * A medical device company will pay millions and submit to monitoring as a result of allegations that the company paid kickbacks to doctors. This would have been a boring ending to Love and Other Drugs… [Salt Lake Tribune]

    * Bernard Cohen, the lawyer who argued Loving v. Virginia at the Supreme Court, and was instrumental in eliminating interracial marriage bans, has passed away at the age of 86. [U.S. News & World Report]

    * A Texas attorney has been charged for allegedly using his smartphone to record a coworker in a bathroom. [New York Post]

    * The Missouri lawyer couple in hot water for allegedly pointing guns at protesters is purportedly handing out autographs. Soon, we may see them on Cameo… [Yahoo News]

  • Morning Docket: 04.22.20
    Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 04.22.20

    * A lawyer who got ejected from the Second Circuit last year is asking the Supreme Court to hear his case. Since the high court is conducting arguments by phone currently, maybe he’ll just get hung up on. [New York Law Journal]

    * A lawyer who stole $128,000 from a mentally ill client has been suspended from practice. [Bloomberg Law]

    * Missouri has become the first U.S. state to sue China over the COVID-19 pandemic. Not sure this is a distinction to be proud of. [U.S. News and World Report]

    * A Texas judge has been forced to take down a rainbow flag after an attorney filed a complaint and compared the symbol to a swastika and Confederate flag. [Hill]

    * Attorney General Barr has called stay-at-home orders “disturbingly close to house arrest” and the Justice Department might take actions against states that go too far. [NBC News]

    * Lawyers are having a difficult time determining if COVID-19 is an act of God. Maybe they should subpoena the Almighty to get more clarity… [Bloomberg Law]

  • Morning Docket: 02.23.18
    Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 02.23.18

    * According to White House counsel Don McGahn in comments made at CPAC, President Trump has picked judicial nominees “he can relate to.” Hmm, so maybe that’s why he chose people like leading legal luminaries Brett Talley, Jeff Mateer, and Judge John Bush. [National Law Journal]

    * Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his onetime aide, Rick Gates, face tax and bank fraud charges in a new 32-count indictment in special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russian election interference investigation. Do ya feel like taking a plea and cooperating now? [Bloomberg]

    * Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens was indicted by a grand jury on a Class D felony charge of invasion of privacy after allegedly tying up a woman he had an affair with, taking a nude picture of her, and threatening to release it. He doesn’t intend to resign and called the Circuit Attorney on the case a “reckless liberal prosecutor.” [USA Today]

    * Look out, Biglaw, because the Big Four are coming for you. Accounting firm PwC, which already has more than 1,000 legal contractors, is planning to expand its Flexible Legal Resources offering into global markets. [American Lawyer]

    * A Reed Smith partner’s widow has asked the Seventh Circuit to uphold a $3 million jury verdict against GlaxoSmithKline for its failure to warn about an alleged risk of suicidal behavior on Paxil’s labeling. Her late husband took his own life days after starting a generic version of the antidepressant drug. [Big Law Business]