New York City Law Department
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 06.09.21
* The MLB is playing “hard ball” over a lawsuit concerning the location of the League’s All-Star Game. [Hill]
* The Ohio Attorney General has filed a lawsuit seeking to declare Google a public utility. [CBS News]
* Systems at the New York City Law Department are still down days after it was targeted by a cyberattack. It was hard enough to schedule depositions with them already… [New York Times]
* A woman who was impaled by a beach umbrella has filed a negligence lawsuit. [Scranton Times Tribune]
* A new lawsuit alleges a company falsely claimed air purifiers protected against COVID-19. If true, that stinks… [NBC News]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 12.04.19
* The trial against Elon Musk for his “pedo guy” tweet is underway, and there are some competing theories about what “pedo guy” actually means. [New York Times]
* A lawyer from Sidley Austin has been disqualified from representing a Chinese tech company because of prior work at the Justice Department. [Reuters]
* A prominent lawyer has completed his one-month sentence for crimes related to the college admissions scandal. Wonder if he was billing time in the clink… [Boston Globe]
* A Black attorney in the New York City Law Department has received a $600,000 settlement for his discrimination lawsuit. [New York Daily News]
* League of Legends publisher Riot Games will pay $10 million to female employees for allegedly perpetuating a “bro culture” that passed women over for promotion. [The Verge]
* A disbarred San Diego attorney was convicted yesterday of stealing money from charities and filing false tax returns. Sounds like a law school hypothetical of what you shouldn’t do. [Fox News San Diego]
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Family Law, Kids, Quote of the Day
Quote of the Day: You Wagered Eleventy Billion Dollars?
There may be a case, which is for a court of law to decide, but that’s a made-up number. — Kate O’Brien Ahlers, a spokesperson for the New York City Law Department, commenting on the $900 trillion lawsuit filed against the city by Fausat Ogunbayo, a mother whose children were placed in foster care in […]