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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 12.23.21
* Worried all these new lawyers will dry up jobs? There won’t be a problem if you’re willing to move to the desert. [Law.com]
* More pairs of genes than GAP: New report suggests that Medicare part B is encouraging fraud. [National Law Review]
* Stacey Abrams is getting hit with the “no u” argument from across the aisle. [Politico]
* SCOTUS scheduled to look at if Joe can federally mandate vaccines for medical workers. [Law.360]
* States are willing to make big changes in the name of more equitable juries. [ABA Journal]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 11.29.18
* Trump’s talking about pardoning Manafort again. The power of the president to pardon people is clear, but the power of the president to tease a pardon to tamper with a witness is an interesting legal wrinkle. In a way, the pardon power is a Yoda conundrum: “do or do not, there is no publicly Tweeting signals.” [NPR]
* Speaking of Manafort, his attorneys claim their joint defense agreement covered his tipping off Trump on details of the Mueller investigation. Except… he pleaded guilty. That kind of ends the “joint defense” part. [The Hill]
* Jeffrey Epstein’s massive child sex ring allegations ended in a 13-month sentence and the prosecutor who bent over backward to protect him is now in Trump’s cabinet. Oh, and somehow Cy Vance’s obsequious starf**king ass shows up in this story because of course it does. [Miami Herald]
* It’s been a few days, so it’s time to remind everyone that the Big 4 accounting firms are about to wreak havoc on Biglaw. [American Lawyer]
* Stacey Abrams is suing over Georgia’s voting laws, and Professor Hasen is here to explain how brilliant this suit is. [Slate]
* Uber ordered to pay more than $1 million in fines because they failed to notice the surge pricing on data breach liability. [Corporate Counsel]
* Attorney poised to become godparent to royal baby. [Legal Cheek]
* The author of this piece is confused by how Republicans seem to completely misunderstand Section 230. It’s probably not confusing: they just want to kill it and lying about it is the easiest path. [The Verge]
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Non-Sequiturs: 12.15.10
* Here’s a list of America’s Worst Bosses for 2010. Shocker: some of them are lawyers. [eBossWatch] * Is this a legal and/or fair way to get a flaking eBay auction winner to pay up? Maybe all is fair in love and war e-commerce — although that approach didn’t work out well for Vitaly Borker. […]