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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 03.28.23
* Mayday mayday! Georgia prosecutor has until May 1 to respond to Trump effort to quash grand jury report. Or, in other words, Trump has inadvertently set May 1 deadline for Georgia prosecutors to level charges. [Reuters]
* Hold onto your hats, but a commodity with the word “crypto” in the title might have tried to hide from legal oversight. [Bloomberg Law News]
* FTC looks to make it harder for companies to ensnare consumers in difficult to leave subscriptions, which is an immensely popular move so I’m looking forward to the partisan flack this will generate. [Corporate Counsel]
* When analogies go wrong: Amgen asked the Supreme Court to think of their patents more like a steam engine, prompting Thomas to quip, “It seems as though you’re actually trying to patent the use of steam pressure….” [Courthouse News Service]
* “Football, but without helmets” is apparently also fraught with concussion liability. [BBC]
* A dive into why representation matters when you’re illegally possessing classified documents. [Salon]
* Trainee lawyer diverted $100K in client insurance payments to himself to cover gambling losses. [Roll On Friday]
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Gorsuch And Kavanaugh Are Absolutely Right For All The Wrong Reasons
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John Roberts Was Cold As Ice After Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Death
John Roberts wasted no time after RBG died.
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 03.27.23
* “This is our third major financial crisis,” said Sullivan’s Mitchell Eitel describing his experience weathering the legal fallout of economic troubles. Remember the 50 years where we didn’t have major bank collapses? Maybe we were all onto something. [Bloomberg Law News]
* Supreme Court to hear more argument about law banning speech about illegal immigration and practically deployed to surveil journalists. [Courthouse News Service]
* “Utah governor: Social media law limiting minors’ access not ‘foolproof.'” I think he meant to say “constitutional.” [Axios]
* Purdue’s online law school seeks permission to send graduates to the bar exam. Because rather than regulate legal education to graduate lawyers who can practice immediately or require a comprehensive exam for any interested potential practitioner, we have BOTH. [Journal Gazette]
* Someone leaked Twitter’s source code online in latest development from clown car central. [Reuters]
* Shearman revenue down 10 percent and partner profits off 17.5 percent. No wonder they were so hot to merge. [American Lawyer]
* New York will take another stab at selecting a Chief Judge. [Law360]
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Do You Want More Evidence The Dobbs Leak Came From The Right? Here Ya Go.
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 03.23.23
* SCOTUS digs into parody Jack Daniel’s dog toy, “Bad Spaniel’s.” Personally, I’m a Barker’s Bark man. [Bloomberg Law News]
* Johnson and Johnson also ask Supreme Court to save them from the consequences of their own actions. [Reuters]
* White & Case sues client for unpaid fees. If you’re trying to stiff a vendor, it’s ill-advised to stiff the one who can sue you for free. This has been my TED Talk. [American Lawyer]
* While everyone focuses on an indictment, Trump also tried to get the AG’s civil case delayed. He failed. [ABC]
* Deep dive into how reality TV thrust Biglaw lawyer into the spotlight. [LA Times]
* Muslim attorneys sharing advice for Ramadan. [Legal Cheek]
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Yeah, There Are *Still* A Bunch Of Unanswered Questions About The Supreme Court's Dobbs Leak Investigation
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 03.14.23
* Want a popular policy done, but Congress is uncooperative? Enter Executive Orders. Joe Biden plans to issue one on gun background checks today. [Bloomberg Law]
* Can partisan gerrymandering get worse? Yes, yes it can. Today the North Carolina Supreme Court will reconsider the issue, which could have major repercussions for national politics. [Reuters]
* Supreme Court to consider whether the Constitution provides protection against anti-trans discrimination. And I am sure completely coincidentally, a vocally anti-trans federal judge finds himself in the news. [Vox]
* Court issues blow to California labor movement: an appeals court found ride share services can classify drivers as independent contractors instead of employees. [Huffington Post]
* It’s not that law school deans want to end rankings, it’s that they want to make them better. [Slate]
* Michael Cohen takes the stand: Donald Trump’s one-time fixer is singing to a New York grand jury. [Law360]
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Abortion Clinic Initiative Named In Honor Of Samuel Alito's Mom
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Can You Tell Me How To Get, How To Get To Ketanji Brown Jackson Street?
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How A Student Loan Servicer Might Be Able To Save Student Loan Forgiveness
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King County Bar Moves The ABA To Adopt A Code Of Ethics For The US Supreme Court
It is a historic resolution that has already made waves in the legal community, mobilizing organizations and advocates within the legal profession to draft their own codes of ethics.
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Biden Appoints T14 Law School Dean To Prestigious Supreme Court Committee
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 03.07.23
* Baylor Law School out of compliance with ABA standards. [KWTX]
* But the good news is that some other schools are back in compliance! [ABA Journal]
* O’Melveney explains how expansion pushed them into a billion-dollar firm this year. We’ve said this before, but as we wait for the Am Law 200, make note of these stories because it’s “the notes they’re not playing” — every peer firm that’s not rushing to tell their story to the American Lawyer right now is probably sitting on some iffy numbers. [Law.com]
* Police charging attorney observer from the SPLC with “domestic terrorism” for monitoring Cop City protests. Branding legal counsel as “domestic terrorism” might seem like a prelude to fascism, but we’ve all been assured that the REAL fascism is Yale students not inviting kids they don’t like to parties. So we’re all fine. [AL.com]
* The EU is coming for Asiago. [Bloomberg Law News]
* Supreme Court throws head in sand and refuses to consider that FedEx might have a workforce that crosses state borders… as a delivery company. [Reuters]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 03.06.23
* Sam Bankman-Fried allowed to carry flip phone. Cue the Eighth Amendment. Just give him a rotary phone and be done with it. [Reuters]
* Former inspector general revisits the Supreme Court’s “oops, I mean, we talked to the justices ‘about’ the investigation but I cannot say that they were part ‘of’ the investigation” effort, and ruminates on how unbelievably inept this is. [The Atlantic]
* George Conway is getting a divorce from Kellyanne confirming that marriage requires more than one person with a foot in reality. [CNN]
* Starbucks’ labor troubles have gone from venti to cento. [Bloomberg Law News]
* Law360 continues to be laser-focused on the former NY Chief Judge Janet DiFiore beat, uncovering seemingly misleading testimony used to justify her multimillion-dollar publicly funded security detail. [Law360]
* A collection of crazy law firm merchandise. [LegalCheek]
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Famed Supreme Court Advocate Retires, Citing High Court's Problematic Conservative 'Supermajority'
He may be leaving the Supreme Court Bar, but he won't be leaving the law entirely. -
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SCOTUS Predictions Based On Lower Court Judges
The current Supreme Court seems to not only take its cues from conservative lower court judges, but particularly from Trump’s nominees. -
Taamneh Case Gave Us A Glimpse Of The Horror Websites Would Face In A Post-Section 230 World
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This Lawyer's Advocacy May Have 'Snatched Victory From The Jaws Of Defeat' In The Student Loan Forgiveness Cases
Student debtors are hoping that she was able to convince the justices of the plan's legality.