New York
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 10.19.22
* Changes to the gig economy may be impacting your favorite California strip club(s). [Wired]
* Just in case the wage gap isn’t enough, you’ve gotta be aware of the race gap too. [Reuters]
* New York’s AG wants to prevent the sharing of killing spree videos. There probably should have been a law against helping killers get famous ages ago. [Bloomberg Law]
* New San Jose gun law could result in fines for violators. Better mind your Ps and Mac 11s! [MSN]
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Government
Struggling To Scrounge Up Enough For That Chopped Cheese? New Yorkers Just Got A Bit Of Student Debt Relief
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 10.06.22
* Boutique firm aims to represent problem clients. Guess they’re taking “everyone deserves representation” seriously. [NBC News]
* New York church sues for right to bring guns into church. Looks like the armor of God just isn’t what it used to be. [WGRZ]
* Law school accidentally accepts 4,000 applicants. Before you ask, this probably isn’t IIED. Still sucks though. [Boston]
* Stanford is experimenting with income sharing! Let’s see how long it takes for other law schools to adopt. [Stanford Daily]
* An internal investigation turned deadly — LAPD officer investigating his four colleagues alleged gang rape was killed during a “training accident”. His lawyer suggests there was foul play. [Complex]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 09.28.22
* I know there is a lot of money to be made at a law firm, but I’d also think they’d pay attention to laws being broken. [News Leader]
* Baltimore cop caught planting a gun on someone gets less than 2 years. Remember that time they gave a dude life for stealing a pair of gardening shears? Odd, that. [KossyDerrickEnt]
* Rifle law would effect period reenactors. You know what? This may actually be what The Founders™ had in mind by bearing arms! [WHEC]
* Rutgers will be offering a certificate in cannabis law and business. GO RU! [ROI-NJ]
* Some New York teachers are still doing the ol’ beating-other-people’s-children thing. Thankfully, it looks like laws will be changed to curb it. [Times Union]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 09.27.22
* Brett Farve loses radio deal after allegedly stealing millions from the underserved. I can’t believe he’s being forced into silence after stealing from those in dire need. What’s next, jail time?! [Hollywood Reporter]
* Girls Who Code deemed too woke. Not even hiding the ball about controlling women and girls this time, huh. [The Guardian]
* Indiana’s near total abortion ban runs counter to this Church’s religious beliefs. I wonder how this suit will pan out. [FOX]
* If you’re a law student at University of Idaho and are considering getting health advice from school faculty, I’d be cautious. [Idaho Capital Sun]
* Reminder, when cops say they can find a reason to arrest you, BELIVE IT. Also, mums the word in NY elevators, apparently. [Live 959]
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Government
Brooklyn Beats Crime By Cleaning Records Tied To Dirty Cops
All of this could have been prevented if they just made the cops pinky swear not to plant evidence. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 09.09.22
* How hard is it to not commit human rights violations? For folks running New York’s prisons, pretty hard apparently. [ Gothamist]
* Hope you enjoyed your voting rights before Court is back in session. [Esquire]
* Don’t say Games Done Quick: Popular game speedrunning event cancelled in part due to Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law. [Wa Po]
* Move over I’m biking here!: Portland case claims crowded sidewalks violate the ADA. [Bike Portland]
* ACB set to take part in case involving folks that have paid her repeatedly. The Supreme in Supreme Court refers to them being above accountability. [Raw Story]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 09.01.22
* If you planned on walking up and down Times Square with an AR-15 today, you should probably reconsider. [AP News]
* Kid got a boo-boo? Hope you did your paperwork beforehand. [Palm Beach Post]
* Oklahoma’s AG aims to clear up expectations for how new anti-abortion laws will be enforced. [KFOR]
* Hospital sues Michigan for the right to treat patients with horrible bedside manner. For religious reasons, of course. [M Live]
* Testing Texas’ “In God We Trust” law with Arabic and LGBTQ lettering goes about as smoothly as you’d expect. [Fox 11]
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Courts
Religious School Pushes To Maintain The Right To Keep LGBTQ Group Off Campus
That’s one way to bypass those pesky “WWJD” objections. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 08.29.22
* Texan judge asks “What did the Founders Do?” when faced with current reality of teenagers with guns. [Business Insider]
* New York just made it a lot harder to be a DEVO fan if you’re under the age of 21. [Insider]
* Until there are $9: AOC pushes Biden to keep his word on student loan forgiveness. [Business Insider]
* New York deploys an interesting method of reparations. [Politico]
* Strict Textualism: Activist wants to flood Texas with Arabic “In God We Trust” signs to see how committed Americans are to this whole “religious neutrality” thing. [The New Arab]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 08.12.22
* Considering that performers get bottles thrown at their heads, I can see why they wouldn’t want to perform somewhere with guns. [NBC DFW]
* Whistleblowing has diminishing returns in Colorado [9 News]
* Kentucky wants to keep sex offenders from getting badges. [WRDB]
* NY law requires museums to acknowledge if the art was stolen by Nazis. It’s like that Killmonger scene, but different. [Gothamist]
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Fast Food
Chipotle's Labor Law Violations Will Cost Them A Lot More Than Extra Guac
I'll take the barbacoa and some transparency, please.
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 08.10.22
* Who needs Fish and Chips when you can have Chips and Science?! [CBS News]
* Will that cost an arm and a leg? Who knows…and that’s illegal. [KDVR]
* As much as I’d like Alex Jones to pay out ~$50M for trolling Sandy Hook parents, the actual outcome is gonna look a lot more in his favor. [Click2Houston]
* $20M?! Now that’s an expensive burrito bowl! [AlJazeera]
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Government
Monkey See, Monkey Quarantine: California Gets Serious About The Pox
Just when I getting comfortable leaving the house again. -
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 06.24.22
* Interested in finding out what the government is doing? It’s all in there. Hard to navigate though. [Axios]
* Even if SCOTUS is just LARPing as a squad of John Henrys right now, we should probably know the practical implications of this new 2nd Amendment ruling. Here’s a primer. [WBALTV]
* “Fine. I’ll do it myself.” States scramble to put limits on guns after Thomas and friends™️ say walking outside with a Mac is totally okay. [NYT]
* Florida law lets officers ticket for playing loud music outside. I’m generally against ticketing, but something has to be done to prevent blasting this new Drake album. [Wesh]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 06.16.22
* Biden signed an executive order that, among other things, limits the use of federal funding for conversion therapy. Woop Woop! [The Guardian]
* A vocal majority: Most New Yorkers would like fewer guns on the streets. [NY Post]
* By the way, SCOTUS ruled that border agents can make warrantless arrests in most major American cities. No biggie. [Fox]
* You know, there’s probably a joke to be made about not paying people on the federal holiday meant to commemorate the end of slavery. [AP]
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Government
New York's New Gun Law Caught Me A Little Off Guard...
Next on the list — banning kneepads and hard hats. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 06.07.22
* In a blow to landlords’ rights, Oakland’s requirement that they give a damn about kicking people out on the street is upheld in court. [SF Chronicles]
* NY just banned the purchase of body armor. You’d think the right to self defense in the home would cover that sort of thing. [NY Daily News]
* You know that thing when investigators say a person allegedly did a thing, despite them clearly being caught in 4k? Trump allegedly broke the law, again. [Forbes]
* While red flag laws aren’t a blanket solution, they can be useful in specific contexts. Here’s some context. [CBS News]
* Still want Biden to clarify this whole debt forgiveness thing? Looks like you’ll be waiting for a while. Might as well read a couple Bar Tabs in the meantime. [Insider]