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Courts
People Love Laughing At Plaintiffs, That Doesn't Mean They're Wrong
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 08.19.20
* A New York attorney, who billed himself as the “lottery lawyer,” is accused of swindling lottery winners out of millions. Hey, you never know…your attorney’s allegedly bilking you. [NBC News]
* The top employment lawyer at Target is going to be the new top attorney for Minneapolis. [Minneapolis Business Journal]
* A suspect in Florida walked out of a hospital just hours before he allegedly killed an Orlando-area attorney. [Fox News]
* A ton of states are suing the United States Postal Service over anticipated delays in mail delivery. [Bangor Daily News]
* A petition of certiorari has been filed at the Supreme Court for a copyright case involving Led Zepplin’s iconic song “Stairway to Heaven.” Hopefully the justices will demand a live performance. [Billboard]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 03.06.17
* Hey, sometimes the Supreme Court falls for bad data. [NY Times]
* Lessons in professional responsibility: people frown upon lawyers telling people, “I think you should commit suicide.” [NY Post]
* How much of Tiffany Trump’s law school fate is based on being the daughter of the president, asks newspaper willing to blindly speculate on her test scores to undermine her credibility as a student? [Washington Post]
* Dewey know who didn’t trust the troubled firm? [Law360]
* JAMS facing trial in mediator résumé padding case. [The Recorder]
* Make Target great again. [National Law Journal]
* Covington settles its conflicts case with 3M. [Am Law Daily]
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Crime
Stat Of The Week: 'Attention Walmart Shoppers, Keep Your Hands Where I Can See Them'
The burgeoning phenomenon of "Walmart-as-high-crime-zone." -
Fashion, Fat People
Is It Time To Make Fat People A Protected Class?
What do we want? "Basic Fairness!" What do we want it with? "A Side Of Fries!" -
Technology
One Year Later: Consumers Can Proceed Against Target in Data Breach Lawsuit
On the one-year anniversary of Target’s announcement that it had suffered a massive data breach, Judge Magnuson in the District of Minnesota cleared the way for a consumer class action against the retailer to move forward into discovery. Earlier in December, the court ruled that the financial institution class actions can also proceed. -
Technology
Court Allows Financial Institutions To Proceed With Data Breach Class Action Against Target
On December 2, 2014, a U.S. District Court in Minnesota ruled that a group of banks and other financial institutions could proceed with a class action against large national retailer Target arising from the data breach Target sustained from a computer hacking... -
Contract Attorneys, Document Review, Privacy
Predicting The New Area Of Growth For Document Review
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California, Minority Issues, Racism, White People
Lawsuit Claims Target's Sensitivity Training Is Just As Racist As Target's Regular Behavior
When is sensitivity training so remedial that it becomes racist in itself? -
Allen & Overy, Biglaw, Defamation, Federal Judges, Magic Circle, Minority Issues, Morning Docket, Racism, Trials, United Kingdom / Great Britain
Morning Docket: 07.11.13
* Thanks to the slow transactional markets in Western Europe, Magic Circle firms like Allen & Overy, Linklaters, and Clifford Chance are struggling to pull a rabbit out of a hat in terms of gross revenue and profits. [Am Law Daily]
* If at first you don’t succeed because of John Ashcroft, try, try again. Former Missouri Supreme Court Judge Ronnie White is once again being considered for the federal bench in St. Louis. Good luck! [Missouri Lawyers Weekly]
* In case you’ve been sleeping under a rock, Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev pleaded not guilty to murder charges. He’s looking at life in prison or the death penalty. [Bloomberg]
* Target, if you’re wondering why you’re getting sued, it’s because of this alleged memo explaining that not all Hispanic employees eat tacos, dance to salsa, and wear sombreros. [Huffington Post]
* “Please don’t be hung” is a solemn prayer that’s only useful to a woman whose case is on re-trial. Ex-Bengals cheerleader Sarah Jones’s defamation suit was sent to the jury. [Associated Press]
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Alston & Bird, Biglaw, Education / Schools, FDA, Gay, Gay Marriage, Politics, Women's Issues
Non-Sequiturs: 04.05.13
* The Kardashians are suing their father’s widow for allegedly trying to exploit his diary — because the Kardashians object to anything exploitative. [Courthouse News Service] * Judge Edward Korman ruled that the FDA must stop requiring those under 17 years old to present a prescription for the morning after pill. MTV’s programming executives plan to appeal. [CNN] * Do litigators really need instruction not to scream at witnesses? [Roll on Friday] * A school in Massachusetts privatized school lunches, and then that company told its workers to dump the food of students who were in default on their lunch tickets. America! F**k Yeah! [Lawyers, Guns and Money] * Illegalities sums up the malaise of being a Biglaw associate with this reblog. [Illegalities] * Target learns the value of editing after labeling plus-sized dresses with the word “Manatee.” [Forbes] * After the jump, watch Elie discuss his take on Democrats just coming around to supporting gay rights. Maybe McKayla Maroney rubbed off on Elie during their interview, because in this segment, he’s not impressed…. -
Celebrities, Constitutional Law, Crime, D.C. Circuit, Facebook, Law Professors, Law Reviews, Law School Deans, Law Schools, Lindsay Lohan, Non-Sequiturs, Politics, Religion, Rudeness, Shopping, Weddings
Non-Sequiturs: 03.22.13
* So, after being shut down for more than two years, Caitlin Halligan asked President Obama to withdraw her nomination to the D.C. Circuit. This is how democracy works in our country, folks, and it’s pretty sad. [People For the American Way; Post Politics / Washington Post] * In America, we’re trying to get official recognition for gay marriage. In Scotland, they’re trying to get official recognition for weddings performed by Jedi Knights. Please, by all means, proceed to stroke each other’s lightsabers over this exciting nerd news. [Volokh Conspiracy] * Oh my god, this is something I’m definitely going to have to sit down and read, it looks so salacious and — oh. *eyeroll* This just in from the subtitle letdown department…. [Overlawyered] * A political consultant in Nebraska apparently got himself fired because he called Sen. Danielle Conrad a C-U-Next-Tuesday on his Facebook page. That was way harsh, Tai. [Jezebel] * Click here to listen to Professor Brian Tamanaha and Dean Lawrence Mitchell talk about rethinking the future of legal education. Tamanaha thinks the tuition is too damn high, whereas Dean Mitchell simply thinks that “life is expensive.” Not even kidding, he really said that. [Associate's Mind] * At Target, you can definitely expect more and pay less, but that’s probably because your money’s allegedly being stolen out of the cash register. [Legal Juice] * And just because I love just about everything that Lindsay Lohan does because she’s the hottest of all messes, here’s a timeline of her mug shots ranked in order of her sex appeal. I love that we live in a world where such a thing actually exists! [Gawker] -
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Cyberlaw, Privacy, Screw-Ups, Technology
Hackers Probably Stole Your Email Address Last Weekend
Raise your hand if you are a JPMorgan Chase customer. Now raise your hand if you’ve shopped at Best Buy. How about Citibank, Target or Walgreens? Has everybody in the world raised their hands yet? Congratulations — your email address may have been stolen. There was a data breach at Epsilon, a Texas-based marketing firm, […]