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Technology
Restaurant Association Looks To Take Back Taco Tuesday For The People
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Politics
Alabama Student Group Claims It Was More Concerned About Hooliganism Than Booing Trump, Trump Disagrees
The president is happy to chill free speech against him.
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Sports
Lawsuit Filed After Umpire Calls Mayor's Son Out At The Plate
High-stakes kickball politics ends in litigation. -
Courts
Lawyer Gets Court-Ordered Extension To Watch Baseball Playoffs
Do we really need extensions for baseball? -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 10.03.19
* Kirkland promotes whopping 141 to partner. [American Lawyer]
* Supervised injection site given the go ahead in Philly. So maybe Gritty can finally get the help he needs. [Gizmodo]
* Gordon Caplan set for sentencing today. Prosecutors are looking for 8 months of prison time. [New York Law Journal]
* Trade war moves into the European theater. [Courthouse News Service]
* Law schools lag when it comes to minority clinical faculty. [Law.com]
* More clamoring for a national law to give NCAA athletes access to compensation for their likeness. [ESPN]
* A bunch of useless facts about the UK Supreme Court in case you’re looking for cocktail chatter. [Legal Cheek]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 10.01.19
* IP professors swear IP cases are going to be interesting this time. Of course they say that… it’s their trademark response. [National Law Journal]
* Chris Collins resigns from Congress in advance of pleading guilty to abusing his board position. [Law360]
* California has fired the first, serious shots at the NCAA’s student-exploitation model. Where do we go from here? [Sports Illustrated]
* Forever 21 enters Chapter 11, learning exactly what 32 feels like. [USA Today]
* Law firm merger market remains relatively quiet. [American Lawyer]
* Companies hiring GCs increasingly consider candidates based on potential to move into executive leadership someday. [Corporate Counsel]
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Courts
Justice Sotomayor Throws First Pitch At Nationals-Phillies Game, Probably Should Join Phillies Rotation
A night at the ballpark before the October Term. -
Intellectual Property
LeBron James Tries To Trademark 'Taco Tuesday,' Proving He Understands Trademarks Better Than Ohio State
It turns out LeBron James is a cagey IP expert too. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 09.12.19
* Immediately after John Bolton lost his job, a true genius tweeted that he’d signed with the Patriots. It looks like he might return to Kirkland which is basically the same thing in legal circles. [National Law Journal]
* Supreme Court decides government can circumvent international law while asylum rules get litigated. Cool. [NY Times]
* Dentons just added five firms across Africa in one day. [American Lawyer]
* “Chief Counsel of Digital Citizenship” is an actual title a major company came up with for a lawyer presumably after spinning the buzzword wheel. [Corporate Counsel]
* Latest appellate judge pick was so mealy-mouthed and evasive that even the Republicans snapped at him before they’ll ultimately vote down the line to give the racist myth peddling jackhole a lifetime job. [Huffington Post]
* Former Big 4 partner gets a year for fraud. [Law360]
* What exactly would happen if California stood up for college athletes? [Sports Illustrated]
* John Hinckley seeks sentence adjustment so he can move to California and get into the music business which is a sentence no one ever expected. [AP]
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Intellectual Property
THE Obvious Conclusion To Ohio State's Stupid Trademark Application
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 09.10.19
* Redaction comedy: filings in the Roger Stone case inadvertently gave out Trump’s phone number. [National Law Review]
* Law firm growth has slowed but we’re going to pretend that’s not a troubling sign. [American Lawyer]
* California’s going to war with the NCAA and they stand a better chance than this year’s UCLA team. [KTLA]
* Former Penn State GC faces discipline hearing before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. [Law.com]
* Insider trading trial begins with argument that banker didn’t intend to go in on an insider trading scheme with his dad. [Law360]
* FDA sends warning letter to Juul over its claims to be “safer than cigarettes” being potentially false as opposed to its claims to “not make you look like a douche” which are demonstrably false. [Corporate Counsel]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 09.03.19
* The new list of Mansfield certified firms is coming. [American Lawyer]
* Corporate lawyer quits to start Equestrian Sports Data company proving there’s always a stupider way to make money. [Noelle Floyd]
* “Allen & O’Melvery” is dead. The firms have nixed merger plans. [Financial Times]
* The Offspring are locked in a legal battle and I’ll admit I’d totally forgotten they existed. [Forbes]
* Politicians want to destroy the Internet and no one seems to be stopping them. [NBC News]
* Locke Lord crypto scam trial coming in November. [Law360]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 08.30.19
* Brexit is going to be a real problem for law firms. [Law.com]
* Former paralegal sues firm alleging it “fosters a ‘party culture’ rife with drug use and sexual harassment.” [Philly Voice]
* Law firms are feasting on the Sears bankruptcy. [NY Post]
* 2020 could be a monster year for Biglaw fundraising. [American Lawyer]
* What happens to intellectual property when artificial intelligence starts inventing things? [The Recorder]
* Even the Second Circuit doesn’t want to fly Spirit. [Law360]
* SEC targets investment fund that allegedly preyed upon brain-damaged NFL players to enrich themselves. Team owners, meanwhile, face no repercussions. [Daily Business Review]
* The DOJ makes secret laws? Super. [Politico]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 08.26.19
* 3M is asking Biglaw to care for attorney mental health in its new procurement process. The fourth “M” is for “Mindfulness.” [Corporate Counsel]
* In today’s installment of “intellectual property law is broken,” publishers are suing over audiobooks that offer captions. [New York Law Journal]
* A guy who legally changed his name to Atticus Finch when he was 8 is now in law school. If you think you hated Go Set A Watchman… [Texas Lawyer]
* Second Circuit doing all sorts of fact-finding because adhering to the record and precedent is out of fashion apparently. [Law360]
* Anti-gay blogger Judge John Bush calling out Kim Davis for “antihomosexual bias” is peak 2019. [National Law Journal]
* Famous football players who became lawyers. [Law.com]
* Convict seeks sheriff job. [HuffPo]
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Sports
Larry Bird Objects To Mating Bunnies Tattoo On Larry Bird Street Art
I mean, let's not make a federal case out of this, okay? -
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Biglaw
From Pro Basketball To Biglaw, No Matter The Court, You'll Still Work Your Ass Off
How did this former WNBA player make the transition to litigator? -
Sports
Colin Kaepernick Settled His Grievance, Jay-Z Is Just Taking The Money
People who are comparing Kaepernick's settlement to Jay-Z's business deal need to step all the way back.