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  • Morning Docket: 01.10.22
    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]

  • Morning Docket: 02.23.21
    Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 02.23.21

    * A lawsuit filed on behalf of thousands of New York City fitness studios argues that exercise facilities should be allowed to operate despite COVID-19. Guess people soon might not have an excuse to stay away from the gym… [Pix 11]

    * The Supreme Court has declined to get involved in the defamation lawsuit Stormy Daniels filed against Donald Trump. [Forbes]

    * Two New York City lawyers, who allegedly torched an NYPD car last year, have purportedly been offered a plea deal. [New York Post]

    * Check out this article on the cases Vice President Harris handled as the former California Attorney General. [Juris Lab]

    * A lawyer is aiming to create the “Starbucks of pet grooming.” Wonder what a caramel macchiato is with dogs… [Newsday]

  • Morning Docket: 02.11.21
    Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 02.11.21

    * Starbucks is being sued for allegedly failing to have real vanilla in its chilled Frappuccinos. Hope the plaintiff doesn’t settle like Kramer… [National Law Review]

    * A California lawyer was arrested earlier this week for allegedly defrauding investors of nearly $5 million on a bogus real estate opportunity. [KTLA]

    * A Texas lawyer is claiming that receiving stimulus money can lead to a higher divorce rate. [CBS News]

    * A lawyer has been sentenced to a prison term for charging a client for immigration work and never doing the promised tasks. [Go Erie]

    * One of Donald Trump’s impeachment lawyers apparently sued Trump last year. Must be water under the bridge… [Vanity Fair]

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  • Morning Docket: 01.26.21
    Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 01.26.21

    * Mike Lindell, the CEO of MyPillow, is filing a defamation lawsuit against a tabloid that said he was having an affair. Guess people should stop circulating “pillow” talk… [E! Online]

    * An attorney has been sentenced to two years in prison for failing to file tax returns and pay taxes. [Chicago Tribune]

    * A Texas lawyer and client were ordered to pay $150,000 for “outright lies” in court. [Texas Lawyer]

    * A Chicago attorney is racking up wins on the game show Jeopardy! [Chicago Tribune]

    * A lawyer is giving $20 Starbucks gift cards to teachers as a way to express his gratitude for educators. Guess it’s more useful than apples…[Fox News]

  • Morning Docket: 05.08.17
    Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 05.08.17

    * President Trump included a signing statement when approving the funding legislation that will keep the government running through the end of September. In it, he questioned the limits of his spending power and suggested he’d ignore advance notice requirements for Congress when taking foreign policy and military actions, amid other troubling stances on legal matters. [Bloomberg Politics]

    * In other news, sometime this week — possibly even later today — President Trump is expected to announce some of his picks for the more than 120 vacancies in the lower federal courts, all of whom are known for their “scholarly credentials and ‘intellectual boldness.'” As luck would have it, we already scooped predicted the names of many of the nominees. [New York Times]

    * #NoFilter necessary for this case: The End, a Brooklyn coffee shop, has filed suit against Starbucks, claiming the coffee giant copied its Unicorn Latte with its highly Instagrammable Unicorn Frappuccino. The End registered the name of its whimsical drink with the Patent and Trademark Office in January, and seeks all profits Starbucks made from its sale of its mythical sugar bomb. [Newsweek]

    * Even if you’re a passenger in a car, you’ll have no reprieve from police searches in this state. The Utah Supreme Court has ruled that police may ask for passengers’ identification and run background checks on them — without any suspicion of wrongdoing — during traffic stops, and that doing so will not stand as a violation of their Fourth Amendment rights. [FOX 13 Salt Lake City]

    * Think you’ve found the perfect person to write you a law school rec letter? Think again. “Like in the world of dating, it helps if your partner/prospective partner is supportive of your plans.” Here are some red flags to look out for that may indicate your reference isn’t going to meet your deadlines, isn’t going to remember who you are, and isn’t going to write you a glowing letter. [U.S. News]

    * Celebrity trial attorney Mark Geragos has filed a $100 million class-action lawsuit against rapper Ja Rule and entrepreneur Billy McFarland, the organizers of the ill-fated Fyre Festival, an event marked by “incompetence on an almost inconceivable scale.” In an interview with Variety, Geragos referred to the disastrous event as a “Petri dish of fraud, incompetence and hubris.” [Variety]

  • Morning Docket: 08.24.16
    Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 08.24.16

    * Ivanka Trump has responded to a lawsuit filed by fashion house Aquazurra, which accused her of infringing upon the luxury brand’s shoe designs. Trump repeatedly denied copying the shoe designs in question, and asked that the suit be tossed out like a pair of last season’s pumps. Will this keep on kicking until after the election? [Huffington Post]

    * A federal judge tossed a rather absurd suit that was filed against Starbucks, which alleged the company put a deceptive amount of ice in its cold drinks, writing, “If children have figured out that including ice in a cold beverage decreases the amount of liquid they will receive, the Court has no difficulty concluding that a reasonable consumer would not be deceived.” [WSJ Law Blog]

    * Bad Boies, bad Boies, whatcha gonna do? Whatcha gonna do when they finance you? The Boies/Schiller Film Group, a small film finance company started by law firm founder David Boies and Zack Schiller (son of law firm co-founder Jonathan Schiller), is fronting the cash needed for comedy movie based on reality show “COPS.” [Law.com]

    * Turing Pharmaceuticals, the drug company once led by disgraced pharma bro Martin Shkreli, has been accused of retaliation following the alleged sexual assault of its chief commercial officer at the hands of its interim chief financial officer. For his part in this mess, Shkreli is accused of sexist and vulgar behavior. [DealBook / New York Times]

    * “The allegations of the suit are ridiculous. We are confident that the suit will be dismissed in short order.” Cassidy Recruiting is suing Holland & Knight partner Dean Schaner over a failed law firm placement, and it’s seeking between $200K and $1M in damages, all because Schaner used another recruiter to join the firm. [Big Law Business]

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  • Non-Sequiturs: 05.02.16
    Non-Sequiturs

    Non-Sequiturs: 05.02.16

    * Lawyer remembers when young people were encouraged to fly instead of becoming the veal in the airlines’ effort to treat us all like cattle. [Travels With Darley]

    * Starbucks iced drinks too icy? Sue. [CNN]

    * Attention Class of 2016: you may be excited because you’re about to graduate and start your real life, but here is what you need to survive law firm life. [Law and More]

    * Eastern District of New York Judge Brian M. Cogan is upping the pressure on the government to unseal documents being sought by the press in the case of Felix Sater that they believe may illuminate business dealings between Donald Trump and the mob-connected figure. [Wise Law]

    * Know your Miranda rights before you get in a sticky situation and need them. [St. Louis Tribune]

    * There are lots of stats that can be aggregated by looking at this Term’s oral arguments at the Supreme Court, like which justice spoke the most and what does that tell us about the Court’s liberal justices? [Empirical SCOTUS]

    * The gentrification of Brooklyn can be summed up pretty easily. [Redline]

  • Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 07.30.15

    * The National Association for Law Placement released slightly improved jobs numbers for the law school class of 2014, so yay? [National Law Journal]

    * The battle royale that pits local musicians versus Biglaw heavyweight Skadden continues to rage on. [Washington Post]

    * Guess what? Prosecutors don’t like the Second Circuit’s higher threshold for insider trading cases and now they’d like the Supreme Court to do something about it. [Wall Street Journal]

    * A group of merchants including Amazon, Wal-Mart and Starbucks want the $7 billion settlement negotiated over interchange fees with Visa, Mastercard and American Express in an antitrust case vacated due to attorney Gary Friedman’s alleged misconduct. [Law360]

    * Don’t cha love it when media scandals become real life litigation? All your deflategate legal questions answered. [Stradley Law]

  • Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 05.12.15

    * Dean Erwin Chemerinsky of the UC Irvine School of Law thinks it’s time for California to follow New York’s lead and adopt the Uniform Bar Exam. After all, if doctors don’t have to take separate exams each time they move to a new state, lawyers shouldn’t have to do it either. [Los Angeles Times]

    * A jury just returned a verdict of $0 for a police officer who was severely burned after spilling a cup of free Starbucks coffee in his lap. The pictures of the burns that were used as evidence are pretty nasty, so you’ll obviously want to check them out. [NPR; WTVD]

    * According to a survey conducted by Kaplan Test Prep, 56 percent of recent law grads would have preferred to condense their schooling to two years, while just 34 percent of prospective law students felt similarly. Oh, to be that naive again. [National Law Journal]

    * Violent besties? As it turns out, the gun altercation George Zimmerman was involved in yesterday was apparently part of some sort of ongoing feud with Matthew Apperson, the same man he threatened to kill in a road rage incident last year. [Crimesider / CBS News]

    * If you’re wondering what you should do during the summer before going to law school, then you can take the advice of this future gunner and possibly enroll in a pre-law prep course and work yourself to death, or you can relax. It’s up to you. [The Diamondback]

  • Non-Sequiturs

    Non-Sequiturs: 02.24.15

    * An Idaho legislator asked if we could replace gynecological exams with women swallowing a tiny camera. In his defense, how else can you tell girls they can get pregnant from a blowjob? Audio of the hearing below the jump. [Lowering the Bar]

    * “Man tells cops he was drunk when he stole horse for ride to Mardi Gras parade.” I don’t think that’s a defense. In fact, being drunk may be an element for that one. [Times-Picayune]

    * Update on the dean searches at Wyoming Law, DePaul Law, and West Virginia Law. [all courtesy of The Faculty Lounge]

    * Legally related Instagram accounts worth following (in addition to @ATLblog). At least if you’re in the UK. [Legal Cheek]

    * Did you know the former General Counsel of Starbucks has a fusion folk/blues/jazz/rock band? Apparently everyone who works at Starbucks has a band on the side. [Hsu Untied]

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