Philadelphia
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Courts
Showing Up Is Half The Battle -- And A Bunch Of Philly Lawyers Are Losing
Bad things really do happen in Philly. -
Courts
Police And Prosecutors Allegedly Engaged In Scheme Of Using Sex And Drugs To Coerce Confessions
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Courts
This Supreme Court Justice Absolutely, Positively Should Not Have A Street Named After Him
Get it together, Philly.
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 08.22.22
* Want to have a good 3Lol? Plan for it before disaster strikes. [Bloomberg Law]
* The city of brotherly love just got hit with a suit for aiding abortion access. [Inquirer]
* The big bucks are coming in for more summer associates. [Business Insider]
* Tired of lawyers making bar review jokes? Cheers to love and wine! [Washingtonian]
* Hey employment law professors, new hypo material just dropped! Maybe you can modify it to be a nice little antitrust issue too? [CNN]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 08.16.22
* Dollar General faces a million-dollar payout for violating worker safety laws. You know how many things you can buy with a payout like that at a Dollar General? At least three! [WSBTV]
* Took money all from their worker’s wages, and they ain’t even know it: Ricky Rozay’s family is in some hot oil. [Mississippi Today]
* At this point, you think businesses would just treat their employees well. [Inquirer]
* Looks like its gonna be a little harder to get an electric vehicle after Biden signs off on this law. [Reuters]
* Amber Heard is appealing the recent verdict handed down in the lawsuit against her former husband. [Philly Voice]
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Government
Philly Has The Opportunity To Take Care Of Its People. Will It?
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 08.15.22
* How private is data privacy really? NPR has a great primer on what happens when cops want to know about your social media. [NPR]
* Remember a while back when folks were arguing we could either choose the rule of law or Trump? The DHS is finding that out the hard way. [The Hill]
* A Bill of Rights for the homeless may be underway in the city of brotherly love. [Law.com]
* Being out of practice by choice is one thing, but that’s not what happened to this former councilman. [Penn Live]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 03.04.22
* Leave me alone: Philly’s Driving Equity Law stops cops from pulling people over for minor traffic violations. [Billy Penn]
* Only Fox I trust is a Red One: Former Fox News producer in legal trouble after allegedly working with Russian Oligarchs [NYT]
* Law school applications are down 10%! Maybe this video is finally doing what needs to be done. [Reuters]
* Louisiana legislator wants to ban watching porn at college. Will the procrasturbation ban raise or tank GPAs, I wonder? [Lailluminator]
* Oregon’s Senate just passed a bill that specifies when cops can use tear gas on people. I hope the acceptable scenarios are closer to never than when the clouds are out. [KPTV]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 01.10.22
* We are still in a political climate where a not Forbes 400 rich, but still rich guy can treat charges for inciting a riot like making a traffic ticket disappear. Woo. [Reuters]
* Working at a law firm in Philly? You may not need to change out of those sweatpants for a little longer. [Law.com]
* Federal judges gave most of the failed coup’ers lighter sentences than prosecutors recommended. I didn’t expect them to get life in jail for stealing 9 bucks or anything, but come on. [The Crime Report]
* The United States imposes visa restrictions on Cuban officials as a punishment to their connection to arresting citizens for peaceful protests. I hope other countries don’t return the favor. [Jurist]
* OSHA! COVID test for OSHA! Starbucks mandates vaccines or weekly COVID tests for its employees to keep in line with OSHA. [Legal Reader]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 04.07.21
* The NRA’s top lawyer claims he was not consulted on the group’s bankruptcy filing. Guess the organization might be shooting from the hip… [LAw360]
* A high-profile Nevada lawyer has seemingly admitted to failing to safeguard client funds and other ethical breaches. [Las Vegas Review-Journal]
* Several Italian-American organizations are filing a lawsuit against the City of Philadelphia and local officials over canceling Columbus Day and removing statutes of Christopher Columbus. [CBS News]
* Colorado is considering mandatory diversity training for all attorneys. [Denver Post]
* Drinker Biddle must face a lawsuit alleging it broke a promise when it purportedly promised to retain an attorney so long as she “performed as an average associate.” Seems like a low bar… [ABA Journal]
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Constitutional Law
Arguments For Religious 'Accommodation' Have Become Tyrannical
Respect for pluralism is one thing, trying to make nonbeliever rights submissive to conservative religious views is entirely another. -
Crime
New Philly D.A. Is Fittin' To Change The Whole Game
Newly elected District Attorney has already fired 31 people. -
Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 04.17.17
* Iranian law students participating in an international moot court competition “surprised” over the warm reception they’ve gotten in the United States. [Al-Monitor]
* Yup, Justice Gorsuch is going to be just fine on the Court. [New York Times]
* The newest justice’s first test. [Slate]
* Look at this district attorney race to get a sense of the anti-Trump resistance. [Salon]
* Are lawyers branding themselves all wrong? [Law and More]
* Don’t call it a comeback. [Politico]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 01.11.17
* After hearing powerful testimony from victims’ relatives, a federal jury sentenced Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof to death. [BuzzFeed]
* Dahlia Lithwick on yesterday’s Jeff Sessions hearing: the nominee “will be handily confirmed,” and Democrats “are rightly very, very afraid.” [Slate]
* An interesting puzzle for the Supreme Court: free speech and credit card fees. [New York Times via How Appealing]
* Also from Howard Bashman, also about free speech: Gibson Dunn partner Miguel Estrada “warns City of Philadelphia that his hourly rate is very expensive.” [How Appealing]
* More about Morrison & Foerster snagging former Justice Department national security chief John Carlin — the latest in a series of high-profile hires of former government lawyers, including Kathryn Thomson and Jessie Liu. [Law.com]
* Some good news out of the Charlotte School of Law: students might be getting their spring semester loan proceeds after all. [ABA Journal]
* Speaking of money, Volkswagen is going to pay a lot of it — perhaps $4.3 billion in fines — to resolve the federal criminal investigation into its cheating on vehicle emissions tests. [New York Times]
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 01.05.17
* President Obama is making his call for criminal justice reform in the Harvard Law Review. [Harvard Law Review]
* Take cover, the amici are coming! [Empirical SCOTUS]
* Ho-Love is doubling down on Philly. [Biz Journals]
* The polling game ain’t what it use to be, and so Nate Silver turns his attention to making college football more like a debate tournament. [FiveThirtyEight]
* A look back at the sensational Menendez trial. [Law and More]
* A tribute to Judge Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain of the Ninth Circuit, who takes senior status this week. [National Review]
* Advice to help make that resolution stick. [Huffington Post]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 12.12.16
* Duncan Lloyd, the Philadelphia assistant city solicitor who spray-painted “F*ck Trump” on a building while wearing an ascot and holding a glass of wine, will be able to keep his job after completing 40 hours of community service. We’re sure many Americans feel that he has already completed his community service through his actions. [Philadelphia Inquirer]
* Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who took a leave of absence from Greenberg Traurig to support Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump through the end of the election, has removed his name from consideration for any position in President-elect Trump’s administration (but only after reportedly being offered three other positions that he didn’t want). He’ll now be returning to his law firm. [ABC News]
* The struggling European and Middle East arm of King & Wood Mallesons has received “a number of indicative purchase offers” from other law firms. Biglaw behemoth Dentons is rumored to be a potential merger partner for firm’s EUME branch, with DLA Piper and Greenberg Traurig ready to make lateral offers to partners. [Big Law Business]
* Just because your law school isn’t one of the best in the nation, it doesn’t mean that you can’t dream big. Case in point: The most recent winners of the prestigious Skadden public interest fellowships has been announced, and two of them will graduate from CUNY School of Law. We’ll have more on the new Skadden Fellows later. [Skadden]
* Dislike? A woman who wanted to serve her estranged husband with divorce papers via Facebook has been denied by a judge who noted that the social networking profile had been inactive for two-plus years, writing that to allow service would be “akin to the Court permitting service by nail and mail to a building that no longer exists.” [WSJ Law Blog]
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Justice, Politics
City Attorney Spraying Anti-Trump Graffiti While Drinking Wine Is All We Have Left
That's a man, wearing an ascot, holding a glass of wine, who tagged an upscale supermarket. -
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Biglaw
Lawyer Accuses Former Firm Of Ripping Off Associates Through Creative Billing
Is this boss cheating employees? One lawsuit says yes. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket 4.30.15
* Supreme Court actually limits speech rights and upholds a Florida ban on judicial candidates’ direct fundraising. Here’s the excellent plain English breakdown of Williams-Yulee. [SCOTUSblog]
* Former NYS Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver pleaded not guilty to a superseding indictment. [NY Law Journal]
* Professor Dorf analyzes the sex discrimination rationale in the same-sex marriage case. [Dorf on Law]
* $1 million in sanctions upheld against a Philadelphia lawyer. [Legal Intelligencer]
* So this is what they mean by practicing “sexy” law. 2015 list of 100 top Hollywood attorneys revealed. [Hollywood Reporter]
* In an increasingly rare bipartisan act, patent reform is back on the agenda. [Corporate Counsel]
* According to a new study by Harvard University, nearly 50% of millennials believe the criminal justice system is unfair. Welcome to the party kids. [NY Post]