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Morning Docket: 04.24.24

* Wait, are you suggesting we shouldn’t have trusted the journalistic integrity of the National Enquirer? This Trump trial teaches us something new every day! [Reuters]

* Outgoing Boeing leadership collecting around $45 million as they walk out the door. The existing door, not one blown out the side of one of their planes. [Bloomberg Law News]

* Supreme Court to hear yet another case of women placed in life-threatening peril because of Dobbs. This time it implicates a Ronald Reagan law, so let’s see how quickly the principled conservatives throw the Gipper under the bus and then back over him. [CNN]

* DOJ offers up $139 million to Larry Nassar victims over the FBI’s multiple levels of failure in putting a stop to the abuse. [Law360]

* Deep dive into Latham’s work to change NYC property taxes, where poor neighborhoods pay upwards of three times higher tax rates than more affluent ones. [Litigation Daily]

* The Washington Post wrote an editorial about the homelessness case. It’s as if they didn’t bother to figure out the basic facts of the homelessness case. [Balls and Strikes]

* Columbia law professors raise concerns over university’s handling of protest. [Intercept]

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