Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 08.26.10

Ed. note: This post was compiled by one of our seven Morning Docket finalists. The finalists will be handling MD all week. As always, we welcome your thoughts in the comments.

* At Walmart you can save money and live better, except if you’re a woman. [New York Times]

* Zenovia Evans is fighting for law school transparency, one lie at a time. [Huffington Post]

* Surprisingly, bigger isn’t always better at Hooters. [WSJ Law Blog]

* California jury trials are slower than rush hour on the 405, but a new law might change that. [National Law Journal]

* It’s likely that Lindsay Lohan’s probation-mandated 12 steps will lead her back to her drug dealer. [Associated Press]

* Tiger’s divorce may have affected his golf, but you know his game is still in full swing. [New York Times

* I'm on a board, I'm on a board, SEC look at me 'cause I got proxy access to a board. [Wall Street Journal]

Morning Docket: 08.25.10

Lindsay Lohan

Ed. note: This post was compiled by one of our seven Morning Docket finalists. The finalists will be handling MD all week. As always, we welcome your thoughts in the comments.

* I’ll take the rapist for 200, Alex. The attorney for two women who accused the WikiLeaks Grand Poobah of sex crimes denies any involvement by the Pentagon or the CIA. [CNN]

* Stem cell judge has a history of ticking off presidents and playing cards with Scalia. [Washington Post]

* Civil Libertarians upset over “pay to play” high school sports in California. Libertarians fire back that there is no such thing as a free school lunch. [WSJ Law Blog]

* Lindsay Lohan was released from UCLA Medical Center yesterday. No word yet on which lucky UCLA law student got to chauffeur her home. [New York Post]

* The Brits aren’t sick of eggs. Hopefully you guys aren’t sick of egg stories. [New York Times]

* Tyler Perry’s Lawyers Prevail in Plagiarism Lawsuit. I smell a movie title. [Am Law Daily]

* Will the Justice Department weigh in with an amicus brief in the Proposition 8 case? Unclear. Is Perry v. Schwarzenegger the coolest case name ever? Yes. [National Law Journal]

Morning Docket: 08.24.10

Ed. note: This post was compiled by one of our seven Morning Docket finalists. The finalists will be handling MD all week. As always, we welcome your thoughts in the comments.

* Free Willy? More like $75,000 Willy. SeaWorld gets slapped with major OSHA fines after the February 2010 death of a killer whale trainer. [CNN]

* A settlement has been reached in the Minnesota bridge collapse litigation. Is $48.6 million enough to compensate the families of the 13 killed and 145 injured in the disaster? [New York Times]

* Too fat for a manicure? A nail salon in Georgia overcharged a client because she allegedly maxed out the weight limit on the salon’s chairs. She hasn’t decided if she will sue. [ABC News]

* A federal judge has blocked Obama’s funding for embryonic stem cell research, citing the 1996 Dickey-Wicker Amendment, which prohibits the destruction of human embryos. [Wall Street Journal]

* The manslaughter hearing for Conrad Murray will moonwalk into 2011 due to witness availability issues. Dr. Murray is accused of killing the King of Pop. Who’s bad? [AP]

* Boobs? Definitely a Happy Meal for most men. Dozens of mothers staged a “nurse in” at an Arizona McDonald’s after one breastfeeding mom was thrown out of the fast food joint. [The Consumerist]

* The only egg safety I usually care about is whether mine are fertilized or not. But, for those of you who are concerned about salmonella, don’t worry, the Senate is interested now, too. [Washington Post]

Morning Docket: 08.23.10

Ed. note: This post was compiled by one of our seven Morning Docket finalists. The finalists will be handling MD all week. As always, we welcome your thoughts in the comments.

* New York’s umm…working class, weighs in on the mosque debate. [Metropolis]

* Do lawyers really need new ways to ruin a marriage? [ABA Journal]

* Don’t be afraid to bite the hand that feeds you – or at least the one that was supposed to feed you and decided not to. [Am Law Daily]

* Someone’s going to have a really interesting “What I did this summer” report to give. [WSJ Law Blog]

* It seems like this list should be longer and include things like “Post grades in a timely manner.” [Volokh Conspiracy]

* What do 380 million bad eggs look like to a plaintiff’s lawyer? Cash. [NLJ]

* The creator of Girls Gone Wild has lawyers, and he’s not afraid to use them against Jerry O’Connell. [NY Post]

Morning Docket: 08.20.10

* And here’s the catch: sign up for the BP settlement fund, waive your right to sue BP and other major defendants. [New York Times]

* The only publicly owned law firm seems to be doing well. [Legal Week]

* You know how New York City works; when we run out of space, we just build up. Such is the plan at Fordham. [ABA Journal]

* Massachusetts order regarding the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) has been put on hold while the DOJ decides whether or not to appeal. [National Law Journal]

* Ground Zero strippers don’t have a problem with the Ground Zero mosque. [Wall Street Journal]

* Beware of 100% offers from firms who conducted layoffs not too long ago. [The Careerist]

Morning Docket: 08.19.10

* Mission accomplished? [New York Times]

* The DOJ and Barclays bank can kiss and make up, for $298 million dollars. [BLT: Blog of the Legal Times]

* You know what the Ground Zero mosque debate really needs? The New York Catholic Church. [NBC New York]

* Meanwhile, Obama pledges to support the 9/11 health and compensation bill. [New York Post]

* The first time SEC has ever gone after a state — and it’s New Jersey! [New York Times]

* You might not be able to be a Supreme Court justice if you go to law school in Arizona, but at least you’ll be able to see one. [Tax Prof Blog]

Morning Docket: 08.18.10

* Want to visit Cuba? The Obama administration plans to loosen travel restrictions to la isla bonita. [New York Times]

* Two federal judges in D.C., Judges Emmet Sullivan and Ellen Segal Huvelle, refuse to rubber-stamp settlements they view as insufficient, in actions brought by the feds against Barclays (Sullivan’s case) and Citigroup (Huvelle’s case). [WSJ Law Blog]

* Elsewhere in Washington, Harvard law prof Elizabeth Warren, a leading contender to head the new Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection, meets with lobbyists for big banks. [Washington Post]

* The Rod Blagojevich circus will continue, with the former Illinois governor to be retried on hung counts, but ethics reform in Illinois doesn’t seem to be going anywhere. [New York Times]

* Lehman has gone cold in the grave, but the company’s Chapter 11 case continues to be a cash cow for bankruptcy lawyers. [Am Law Daily]

* Federal criminal charges won’t be filed against the Lower Merion School District in the laptop spycam case, but civil litigation continues. [PC World via ABA Journal]

* Speaking of civil litigation, a trial date has been set in the wrongful death suit filed by the family of Robert Wone against his ex-college roommate, former Arent Fox partner Joseph Price, and Price’s two lovers. [Who Murdered Robert Wone?]

* The Obama administration supports creating a United Nations commission of inquiry into crimes against humanity and war crimes in Burma. [Washington Post]

Morning Docket: 08.17.10

Orly Taitz, Queen of the Birthers

* Former House majority leader Tom DeLay (R-TX) celebrates the Justice Department’s decision to drop its six-year investigation of his dealings with ex-lobbyist Jack Abramoff. [Washington Post]

* Speaking of money and politics, state judicial elections are being flooded with cash. [How Appealing]

* Two Stanford Law students strike a blow against California’s three-strikes law. [Los Angeles Times]

* Davis Polk, which has long had a soft spot for Asia (see first blockquote), launches a Hong Kong law practice. [Am Law Daily]

* The latest law firm to get work out of the BP oil spill: Cozen O’Connor. [Philadelphia Inquirer]

* Shocker: The Supreme Court won’t stay $20,000 in sanctions against Orly Taitz, “Queen of the Birthers.” [The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times]

* Musical chairs: Charles “Chuck” Greenberg — former head of Pepper Hamilton’s sports law practice, and the new managing partner and CEO of the Texas Rangers — is taking his team of sports lawyers to Reed Smith. [Am Law Daily]

* Crowell & Moring gets embroiled in litigation over legal fees and settlement money from a lawsuit arising out of the 1986 hijacking of Pan Am Flight 73 in Pakistan. [ABA Journal]

* Last week was a record week for Cahill. No wonder they paid out mid-year bonuses. [Cahill Gordon & Reindel]

Morning Docket: 08.16.10

* Career alternatives for lawyers: Vintner. [New York Times]

* When Rudy Lim was poached from DLA Piper to head Duane Morris’s Singapore office, he got a nice pay bump from $300K annually to nearly $700K. To help drive up his worth, though, he forged a pay slip at DLA. The fall-out? A fine, a day in jail, disbarment, and no one ever trusting him during salary negotiations again. [Bloomberg]

* The “law school scam” blogs get some mainstream media attention. Law is 4 Losers, the man behind the Big Debt, Small Law blog, is a Seton Hall law grad. And he appears to have erased his blog since the article came out. [The New Jersey Star Ledger]

* Another way the justice system confuses the general public. [Associated Press]

* Will the Ninth Circuit stage an intervention in the Prop 8 ruling? [New York Times]

* Oracle v. Google is good for Microsoft. [PC World]

* As New York finally ushers in no-fault divorces, the WSJ looks back on the history of the need for fault. They dug up from the 1800s what may be the best-named adultery-spurred divorce case ever: Cock v. Cock. [Wall Street Journal]

Weekend Docket: 08.14.10

* The third time proves the charm for prosecutors pursuing New Jersey right-wing blogger Hal Turner, who was convicted on Friday of threatening three illustrious Seventh Circuit judges. [AP via Chicago Tribune]

* In other Chicago-related news, the actual jury in Rod Blagojevich’s corruption trial is still out — but the court of public opinion may be somewhat sympathetic to the disgraced governor. [New York Times]

* President Barack Hussein Obama defends the right to build a mosque near Ground Zero — in remarks at a Ramadan dinner, natch. [Washington Post]

* First Cadwalader. Then Cravath. And now… the Brooklyn DA’s office. BEDBUGS!!! [Gothamist]

* Additional thoughts on GPS surveillance and the Fourth Amendment, via Charlie Savage. [New York Times]

* Yale law professor Peter Schuck has an interesting proposal for reforming birthright citizenship. [New York Times]

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