Morning Docket
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 11.23.22
* It takes a village worth of billables: this Texas firm has Thanksgiving covered. [12 News Now]
* You know these STOP WOKE laws will probably impact Republicans at some point, right? [The Atlantic]
* Bad news for Bitcoin Bros: Looks like the normies with 9-5s were right. [CNBC]
* Time to pay up Big Boy! [NYT]
* The constitutionality of an Idaho law banning transgender athletes hits the 9th Circuit. Again. [Boise State Public Radio]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 11.22.22
* Comedy clearly isn’t alive on Twitter. But is it alive with the glory of Trademarking? [SCOTUSblog]
* Memento Mori US News Law School Rankings? [NYT]
* Could getting rid of standardized tests get rid of diversity? Quick, let’s figure it out before the Court overturns affirmative action! [Bloomberg Law]
* Whodathunk the quick succession of middle fingers toward US News could carry Antitrust implications? [The Reg Review]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 11.21.22
* And then there were 6: More big names are opting out of U.S. News. [Inside Higher Ed]
* Stop Woke keeps getting stopped. Funny outcome, that. [The Guardian]
* A law adopted decades ago is still impacting Black adoptions. [Slate]
* AirBnB keeps getting the wind taken from its wings. [Axios]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 11.18.22
* Here’s a snippet of what Yale Law thinks about race conscious admissions. [Yale Daily News]
* Will Cornell opt out a la Yale and Harvard? Your guess is as good as mine. [Cornell Sun]
* No need to be curious about UC Berkeley though. [WSJ]
* Brittney Griner has been transferred out of Moscow to begin her sentence. [NYT]
* Been looking for a way to study contracts without being bored to sleep? Consider this…religious angle. [Tampa Bay]
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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: 11.16.22
* Is “Woke” the new Race, Sex and Religion? [WSJ]
* Illegally obscuring a license plate is one thing, BUT FIXING IT? Nahhhhh [NYC.Streetsblog]* This judge hit Georgia’s six-week abortion ban with the gavel [CNN]
* New York continues to be the battle ground of what gun restrictions will be in the United States. [Gothamist]
* You know, you think people would start caring about politicians breaking laws enough to not vote for them. [Missouri Independent]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 11.15.22
* Want to get a JD and really care about koalas? This school has you covered. [Washingtonian]
* Things get real legally when you know it is a drought. [SLTrib]
* The “It’s my money and I need it now!” energy is strong with this one. [WSJ]
* Sometimes your adversaries are attendees. Tough luck. [Bloomberg]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 11.14.22
* Juris Doctor and Doctor Doctor join forces to fight COVID misinformation. [Mercury News]
* The practice of law is an art, no surprise it has produced artists too. [Daily UW]
* Landlords usually win in court cases against their renters. Things might change with renters having a fairer chance. [Today.Uconn]
* Lost oodles on Bitcoin? You should be interested in these JDs. [Business Insider]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 11.11.22
* California’s drilling laws are getting burned by fossil fuel companies. [Desert Sun]
* The FTC turns its eye to Twitter after the mass evacuation. [Law.com]
* Studying with the Kardashians: This was an interesting example of using hypos. [Daily Research Plot]
* The increase in law school applications may signal a lack of direction. [Yale Daily News]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 11.10.22
* You know you have to be doing something wrong as a state when a law school sues you. [NYU News]
* Things appear to be looking up for the Indian Child Welfare Act. [West Hawaii Today]
* Success doesn’t always make you safe in layoff season. [Law.com]
* The infighting among judges soft banning aspiring Yale clerks continues. [Daily Princetonian]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 11.09.22
* A survival guide for New York living as a lawyer. [Global Legal Post]
* Looks like NJ teachers may have even more work on their plates! [Bronx.News]
* David Stras spoke about The Holocaust and Free Speech at Harvard Law. Check out the write-up! [The Crimson]
* Trademark just doesn’t trademark like it used to. [Bloomberg Law]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 11.08.22
* I wonder if Elon factored in International Law when he bought his “free speech” platform? He definitely didn’t factor in parody. [QZ]
* Yale Law keeps its enemies closer. [Yale Daily News]
* Need a legal bird’s eye view? Got you covered. [Law.com]
* Few things are worse than a power tripping judge and strict textualism. [Reddit]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 11.02.22
* Let’s Litigate Ball!: Brooklyn Law School hosts its second sports law symposium. [Brooklyn Eagle]
* I know that SCOTUS is on a rights limiting kick right now, but nursing homes? [NPR]
* Don’t mess with Texas(‘ tax law), churches. [Texas Tribune]
* SCOTUS is soon slated to hear arguments on the constitutionality of the Indian Child Welfare Act. [AP]
* New York’s salary transparency law isn’t as transparent as one would hope. [Guardian]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 11.04.22
* Does attorney-client privilege extend to business communications? We need answers, SCOTUS! [Bloomberg Law]
* It’s not always about the size of the firm… [Law.com]
* I did not expect to read about the Constitutional implications of renting on Airbnb, yet here we are. [Inquirer]
* Here’s a representation problem much bigger than whether or not Ariel looks like how she did when you were a kid. [WHEC]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 11.03.22
* What?! Ginni Thomas’ husband may be involved in the whole undermining democracy thing? Who’d have thunk it?! [MSNBC]
* Looks like models that require profit aren’t the only thing preventing recycling from catching on. [Cal Matters]
* Here’s what you should know for NYC’s pay transparency law. [Fortune]
* Yale Law just covered tuition for some students. Woop Woop! [Yale Daily News]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 11.02.22
*If you were looking for a reason to take “Lawyer” out of your Tinder bio, here’s your sign. [Indy 100]
* Watch out! There’s scarcity in the hiring pool! [Law.com]
* Turns out sometimes you have to actually do the thing to make the money. [Law.com]
* Questioning the legality of weed is so passe. Moonshine however… [Charlotte Observer]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 11.1.22
* The IRS is AFK when it comes to Church law breaking. [Texas Tribune]
* Talk about “Give me Liberty”… [Law.com]
* Dropbox under fire for alleged patent infringement. Sounds more like dropping the ball. [Law.com]
* Maine is facing a defense lawyer deficit. [News Center Maine]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 10.31.22
* Opponents of affirmative action will deliver their case to the Supreme Court today. Finally, white people found something racist to do on Halloween besides blackface. [CNN]
* Judges have zero patience for discovery delays. Which brings them down from… where, exactly? Because I don’t remember super patient magistrates in my past. [Law.com]
* What’s the billing code for “explaining modern culture to old people”? Because that’s what junior lawyers had to do on the Twitter deal. [LegalCheek]
* The tale of the Texas patent court phenomenon. [Courthouse News Service]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 10.28.22
* Ever wanted to know what your law professor thought about truth in advertising? This probably isn’t your law professor, but it’s in the general ballpark. [The Epoch Times]
* Hilary Clinton visits to Yale Law for some reason. Read this and tell me why once you get the chance. [Yale Daily News]
* Firm touts the opportunity to turn off your camera during online meetings. It’s like micro dosing vacation! [Irish Times]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 10.27.22
* One of the good things about weed being legal in some places? You can now sue if it isn’t loud enough. [CBS News]
* Been wishing you could shave a year off the K-JD pipeline? Yet another reason to think about Cornell. [Cornel Sun]
* Go play ball: A MLB’s antitrust case has recently been dismissed. [The Athletic]
* Bikesharing in California is threatened by a new law. [Biking in LA]