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Morning Docket: 02.09.17

* Jeff Sessions has a new job. [CNN] * Beyoncé sued by YouTube star's estate. She'd better hire Becky with the good law degree. [NBC News] * David Boies is taking on human trafficking. Hopefully this fight doesn't require any travel today. [Litigation Daily] * Groups are suing to block Trump's proposal to eliminate two regulations for every one enacted. If you want safe drinking water, hope you like spoiled eggs and no airbags, motherf**kers! [Law360] * Speaking of political shenanigans with the law, the courts have put the kibosh on North Carolina's hilarious lame duck effort to limit the powers of the governor once they realized they lost it. [ABC News] * When lawyers go wrong. [Am Law Daily] * Scott Alvarez, the Fed's top attorney, is retiring. Or "leaving his current job." Let's not pretend there won't be a Biglaw of GC seat waiting for him if he wants it. [MarketWatch] * Is it legal for the president to delete Tweets? Probably not. [Forbes] * Putin signs a law decriminalizing a huge chunk of domestic violence claims. In case you were wondering what's on tap for after midterms. [Fox News]

By Joe Patrice
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 11.14.16

* Shortly after being urged to settle the Trump University lawsuit, lawyers for President-elect Donald Trump have filed a motion to continue the trial -- now scheduled to begin just after Thanksgiving -- until after his inauguration in January. If no settlement can be reached, we may get to see a sitting president on trial for fraud. [San Diego Union-Tribune] * Before he even nominates another judge to take the late Justice Antonin Scalia's seat on the Supreme Court, President-elect Donald Trump could significantly alter the high court's trajectory this term by undoing Obama administration policies on immigration, climate change, cost-free contraceptive care, and transgender rights. [Associated Press] * Many New York law schools saw their bar exam passage rates soar thanks to the state's first-time administration of the Uniform Bar Exam this past summer, but some law schools didn't fare quite as well and saw their passage rates decline. Which law schools did well and which ones didn't? We'll have more on this later. [New York Law Journal] * IMDb.com has filed suit against California over a new law set to take effect in January that will allow actors to conceal their ages in their biographies on the television and film site. The state believes this will prohibit age-based discrimination in Hollywood, but the website claims that the law infringes upon its First Amendment rights. [WSJ Law Blog] * "It is unfortunate that the DOJ continues to fight for an interpretation of BMI's consent decree that is at odds with hundreds of thousands of songwriters and composers (and) the country's two largest performing rights organizations," but it seems the DOJ hopes the Second Circuit will force BMI to change the way it collects royalties. [Reuters]

By Staci Zaretsky
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Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 10.26.16

* Somebody cry Justin Timberlake a river, because the pop star is currently under investigation for taking a ballot selfie in his home state of Tennessee. He may face up to 30 days in jail and a fine of $50 for posting a picture of himself at a polling station on his Instagram account, where it was seen by his more than 37 million followers. [Reuters] UPDATE: Amy Weirich, District Attorney General of Shelby County, Tennessee, said the following as to Timberlake's alleged violation of the state's ballot selfie law: "No one in our office is currently investigating this matter nor will we be using our limited resources to do so." * If Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump were to win the election, he'd be entering the presidency with an unprecedented number of unresolved legal cases. At present, Trump has at least 75 pending lawsuits, and they'd follow him to the White House where he'd continue to be dogged by them, leaving him distracted. [USA Today] * "Diversity is the future; embrace it or you’re obsolete." According to Andrew Glincher, Nixon Peabody's managing partner, his firm has tried to increase its diversity because while the legal profession itself is "focused on past and precedent," his firm is "future-focused," and he finds that a diverse workforce makes his teams better overall. [Forbes] * Want to attend a law school that will teach you about real-life music issues? Want to attend a law school that's produced some of the most well-known music lawyers in the country? Then you may want to attend one of these 10 law schools (many in the T14), handpicked by Billboard for their elite alumni practicing in the music field. [Billboard] * Citing changes in donor participation, Big Bend CrimeStoppers has reduced the reward being offered for information leading to an arrest in the 2014 killing of Florida State law professor Dan Markel. Considering three suspects have been arrested and charged -- and one of them has already taken a plea deal -- this isn't so bad. [Tallahassee Democrat]

By Staci Zaretsky
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 08.05.16

* Judge Olu Stevens, who famously said he would not “check his First Amendment rights at the courthouse door,” will be dropping his suit against the Kentucky Judicial Conduct Commission. He remains charged with six counts of misconduct related to public comments made about the exclusion of black jurors. [WDRB] * Four partners from Cadwalader […]

By Staci Zaretsky
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 08.03.16

* Singer Kesha has dropped her lawsuit in California against producer Dr. Luke, but will continue her appeal in New York. She says she dropped the suit because she's "focused on getting back to work," but Dr. Luke's lawyer says it's because she has "no chance of winning." Ouch, that's got to sting. [People] * Get off my lawn, you damn kids! A New Jersey personal injury attorney has filed a class-action lawsuit against Niantic, the company behind Pokemon Go, for the "unlawful and wrongful" invasion of his property. It seems that in the rush to catch 'em all, people have been gathering outside of his home, knocking on his door, and asking to enter his backyard. [WSJ Law Blog] * Following up on his tentative oral ruling, Juge Gonzalo P. Curiel has ruled that a Trump University fraud case filed against Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump may proceed to trial, but he refused to release Trump's videotaped deposition. We suppose that the transcript will have to be good enough. [New York Times] * "These are things that don't just affect one job; it keeps women's wages down over their entire lifetime." Thanks to a new law geared toward closing the gender wage gap, in Massachusetts, it is now illegal for employers to ask about applicants' salary history before offering them jobs. This goes into effect in 2018. [DealBook / New York Times] * "We are confidently looking to the future." Following a series of "regrettable departures" and a capital call that successfully raised about $18.4 million from the firm's existing partners, it looks like the "modernization" and restructuring of the King & Wood Mallesons partnership is finally going to be drawing to a close. [Big Law Business] * Jenner & Block has teamed up with the University of Chicago Law School to create a Supreme Court and Appellate Clinic, with the goal of "educat[ing] and train[ing] the next generation of extraordinary appellate advocates and continu[ing] the tradition of helping clients hanks their most important litigation problems." Congratulations! [ABA Journal]

By Staci Zaretsky