Staten Island

  • Morning Docket: 05.24.21
    Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 05.24.21

    * Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, took the witness stand in a lawsuit filed by the maker of Fortnite. Wonder if he swore the oath on an iPad… [BBC]

    * An Egyptian court has permitted the Suez Canal to keep holding the ship that caused a blockage in the waterway earlier this year. [Reuters]

    * A lawsuit claims a worker aboard the Staten Island ferry was injured trying to stop a fight. [New York Post]

    * A federal prosecutor was injured by a stray bullet while dining out in Brooklyn last week. [New York Daily News]

    * Coinbase, the cryptocurrency exchange, is beefing up its legal team. After last week’s dip, hope they aren’t getting paid in Bitcoin… [Reuters]

  • Morning Docket: 06.02.20
    Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 06.02.20

    * The Supreme Court has declined to hear a case about mandatory bar membership. Looks like all of us will be shelling out money for bar dues for the foreseeable future. [Bloomberg Law]

    * Attorney General Barr looked on as people protested over the death of George Floyd outside of the White House yesterday. [Fox News]

    * New York is predictably experiencing a spike in litigation filings now that new cases can be initiated. [Advance Local]

    * The two Brooklyn attorneys accused of firebombing an NYPD police car have been granted bail. [New York Times]

    * The Second Circuit has rejected claims of qualified immunity over the shooting of a mentally ill man. [New York Law Journal]

    * A lawyer who had his client’s case dismissed due to failure of service of process, and falsely claimed he had malpractice insurance, has been suspended from practice. Maybe this lawyer should get malpractice insurance for real if he ever practices law again… [Virginia Lawyers Weekly]

  • Charles Fried, D.C. Circuit, Law Professors, Lindsay Lohan, Non-Sequiturs, Politics

    Non-Sequiturs: 02.22.13

    * In the E.D.N.Y., Pitbull prevailed over lovable, legal loser Lindsay Lohan. Lohan’s knack for the epic legal fail carried over to her attorney, Stephanie Ovadia, who was fined $750 for plagiarism by Judge Denis Hurley. [Billboard] * Charles Fried is pretty sure Senator Ted Cruz is crazy for saying there was only one Republican on the Harvard Law faculty. But the joke’s on Fried… no one considers a Reagan appointee a Republican anymore, you silly goose! [New Yorker] * Here are some outtakes from Michelle Olsen’s coverage of the D.C. Circuit (the main event, if you will, was published here). Sadly, unlike some outtake reels, the D.C. panel did not address the problem of snow blindness in cats. [Appellate Daily] * Brian Leiter and Paul Campos had a little dispute. This article sums it up and has some interesting thoughts on just how little law professors care now about their own teaching methods. Don’t read this if you’re averse to honesty. [The Faculty Lounge] * Fisticuffs erupt over messing with the thermostat. This is an official warning to the other ATL editors if that office is too hot next week… [LegalJuice] * The whole “publish or perish” racket is rough. Bill Araiza needs a hug. [PrawfsBlawg] * The ideological center of the U.S. House of Representatives is Staten Island. Woe to the Republic. [New York Daily News]
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