Texas
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Government
Run, Ken, Run! Texas AG Flees From Process Server
You'd think an attorney would know better than to run away from a process server. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 09.19.22
* A picture is worth a thousand disbarrings: Kentucky prosecutor who would do legal favors for nude pictures is suspended. [Courier Journal]
* We really should have nipped that Facebook cancelled my free speech line of argument in the bud a few years ago. Just look at Texas! [Texas Tribune]
* A teenager who was punished with life in prison at fifteen is now starting law school a decade later. Talk about a hell of a personal statement! [Market Watch]
* Illinois is planning to abolish a poor people’s tax and people want you to think that it is Armageddon. It really isn’t. You should be more concerned over if your prosecutor is jailing people for not getting dem nudes. [Yahoo!]
* This is an A and B conversation. And C. And D. And E. And… [Protocol]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 09.14.22
* Remember the whole “Return the question to the states” thing? Yeah that was a lie. [Talking Points Memo]
* Texans are still reckoning with fetal personhood. [Texas Tribune]
* Indiana’s abortion ban takes effect tomorrow. [NPR]
* Ever wondered how big healthcare law impacts the little people? Here’s a primer. [Reuters]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 09.05.22
* If you thought leading a horse to water was hard enough, Trump allegedly tried to pay attorney fees with one. This is why you collect upfront, ladies and gents. [Huff Po]
* Longtime readers will recognize a familiar face on Mediaite! [Mediaite]
* Marco Rubio thinks that Trump’s alleged “document grab” that allegedly poses “an international security risk” is really just a security issue. [Huff Po]
* California knows how to raise minimum wage up to $22. Will they though? [WMUR]
* Texan Methodist Church thinks that Dobbs violates freedom of religion. Can’t wait to follow this suit with popcorn in hand. [WFAA]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 09.01.22
* If you planned on walking up and down Times Square with an AR-15 today, you should probably reconsider. [AP News]
* Kid got a boo-boo? Hope you did your paperwork beforehand. [Palm Beach Post]
* Oklahoma’s AG aims to clear up expectations for how new anti-abortion laws will be enforced. [KFOR]
* Hospital sues Michigan for the right to treat patients with horrible bedside manner. For religious reasons, of course. [M Live]
* Testing Texas’ “In God We Trust” law with Arabic and LGBTQ lettering goes about as smoothly as you’d expect. [Fox 11]
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Guns / Firearms
When Looking To Solve Problems, Most Use Crystal Balls To Look To The Future. Texas... Not So Much
Let's just hope Big Alcohol doesn't steal the NRA's approach and start paying for textualist judges to sit on cases involving drunk teenagers. 14 year-olds were definitely getting sloshed at The Founding ™. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 08.29.22
* Texan judge asks “What did the Founders Do?” when faced with current reality of teenagers with guns. [Business Insider]
* New York just made it a lot harder to be a DEVO fan if you’re under the age of 21. [Insider]
* Until there are $9: AOC pushes Biden to keep his word on student loan forgiveness. [Business Insider]
* New York deploys an interesting method of reparations. [Politico]
* Strict Textualism: Activist wants to flood Texas with Arabic “In God We Trust” signs to see how committed Americans are to this whole “religious neutrality” thing. [The New Arab]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 08.26.22
* Move over Texas! California found a way to fight environmental destruction with guns! [Press Democrat]
* Medical providers take a gambler’s approach to abortion access. [NBC Los Angeles]
* Forget losing your license, providing an abortion in Texas could get you life in prison! [NBC DFW]
* Surprising no one, a Mississippi Appeals Court keeps a Jim Crow voter suppression law on the books. [Mississippi Free Press]
* Tennessee anti-abortion law doesn’t allow any exceptions for abortions. Might not be the best place to practice medicine if you don’t want to see your patients die preventable deaths once things go septic. [The Tennessean]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 07.19.22
* Considering how wed we are to easy gun access, the Blue Lives Matter crowd might want to make sure 4-year-olds have better trigger discipline. [News On 6]
* Would surfing the ballot tide allow for a prosecutorial override? [MSNBC]
* Texas is quicker on violating children’s right to privacy than preventing teenagers from buying assault rifles. [CNN]
* Nothing upholds the Hippocratic Oath like letting a woman bleed for 10 days for fear of losing a medical license. Thanks, SCOTUS! [Independent]
* News sells, but who’s buying? A free oress only matters if people are pressed enough to read. [The Guardian]
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Government
Turns Out The Answer To One Prosecutor Is Another
Batman clone: 'What gives you the right? What makes you different from me?' Batman: 'I'm not wearing hockey masks!' -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 07.18.22
* If these magic words won’t get you your prescription, at least it should make the eventual lawsuit a little easier to win. [Twitter]
* Missouri is really good at criminalizing homelessness! [Business Insider]
* Dobbs is gonna make it harder to deal with the natural outcome of 10 to 15 percent of pregnancies. Thanks, SCOTUS! [NYT]
* Texas found a way to bypass that whole consent of the governed thing. Cool beans! [NPR]
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Biglaw
Biglaw Attorney Is One Of The Lawmakers Behind Letter Targeting Sidley Over Abortion Travel Costs
UPDATE: Guess who is no longer on the firm's website? -
Courts
Pregnant Texas Woman Says Unborn Baby Is Second Passenger In Carpool Lane Ticket Dust-Up
A police officer reportedly told her that her unborn child 'doesn't count.' -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 07.11.22
* It takes two: Pregnant driver argues that they should be able to use the carpool lane under Dobbs. [NY Daily News]
* Alabama judge accuses liberals of being racist after being caught doing a racism against Asian folks. [NBC News]
* “Could you be a little less loud about expecting us to do something after you’ve lost a civil right? Thanks.” – Joe Biden + Friends [The Daily Beast]
* Duty of care? 911 dispatcher charged with involuntary manslaughter because they refused to send out an ambulance unless the person asking for help said the magic words. [Insider]
* At this think tank, the uniform is your Sunday best. [ProPublica]
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Biglaw
Texas Legislators Threaten Sidley Over Abortion Care Travel Costs
They're going after big (law) dogs. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 07.01.22
* Requiem for the Vote: The Six Christians of the United States (SCOTUS) are slated to hear a case on voting rights next term. [CNN]
* It’s the first of the month — here’s what’s new in Virginia. [WTOP]
* “Don’t Say Gay” just took effect in Florida. [The Hill]
* NJ’s limit on gun ammo capacity is probably about to go the way of the Establishment Clause. [New Jersey Monitor]
* In today’s episode of anti-CRT: Chattel slavery was just an involuntary relocation. [AP]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 06.30.22
* Employees fired for not praying at work. Good thing we have the Establishment Clau…nevermind. [Newsweek]
* Given this Court, it may be a bad time to be gay in Texas. [The Hill]
* North Carolina’s vigilantes aren’t getting the go-ahead from their police chief. [Fox]
* Not The Onion: After promising to do everything he could to protect a woman’s right to choose, Biden is nominating an anti-abortion judge for life. [Business Insider]
* Bound 2 litigate: Ye West sued over sampling this banger of a house track. Shouts out to Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas! [Reuters]
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Government
Could Overturning Roe Change This State's Motto?
Corporations are willing to relocate based on medical service access? Maybe they actually are people.