Theodore Olson

  • Morning Docket: 03.05.18
    Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 03.05.18

    * No donation is too small, and no donor is too young: Former Senate candidate and former judge Roy Moore is begging his supporters via Facebook for cash for his legal defense fund because his “resources have been depleted” and he’s “struggled to make ends meet.” [Washington Post]

    * The Trump administration wants to stop federal judges from issuing nationwide injunctions, and the Justice Department is using the travel ban case to ask the Supreme Court to “reject the deeply misguided practice.” Will SCOTUS put these “so-called judges” in their place? [Associated Press]

    * Remember Claud “Tex” McIver, the Biglaw partner who shot his wife in the back and killed her, allegedly blamed the incident on a Black Lives Matter protest? Jury selection for his murder trial begins today. [Daily Report Online]

    * No, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg isn’t advising LeadInvest, a company promoting cryptocurrency investments in Texas, and neither are former U.S. Solicitors General Theodore Olson, Seth Waxman, and Paul Clement. The Texas State Securities Board sent a cease-and-desist letter demanding that the company remove photos of the justice and the lawyers from its site. [National Law Journal]

    * And the Oscar for Best Lawyer goes to… John Quinn of Quinn Emanuel has served as outside counsel to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences since 1986, and he attends every show with the ABC contract in his pocket in case a legal issue pops up. [Corporate Counsel]

    * Is it time to bring back the lists and rankings commemorating the “hotties of law”? Vivia Chen has a hot take, and thinks that in this puritanical era, it’s high time that we stop pretending lawyers are asexual. So long as both men and women are included on the lists, what’s the harm? Right now, a lot. [American Lawyer]

  • Morning Docket: 05.23.17
    Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 05.23.17

    * Trump’s reportedly close to selecting outside counsel. According to these reports, the top contenders are Robert Giuffra Jr., Marc Kasowitz, Theodore Olson and Reid Weingarten. [The Hill]

    * Speaking of Trump, he’s asking the D.C. Circuit to delay a ruling on health care subsidies because throwing markets into chaos is the new normal. [NY Times]

    * Sessions suggests that sanctuary cities will lose Justice and Homeland Security funds if they don’t affirmatively prove that they’re deputizing themselves to federal immigration officials. That really puts in the proper perspective exactly how committed this guy is to actually keeping people safe from crime. [USA Today]

    * La La Anthony has hired a top-notch divorce lawyer. “Carmelo is still in denial and thinks he can fix his marriage.” Well, he still thinks he can fix the Knicks too so…. [Page Six]

    * Dorsey & Whitney is out and Proskauer is in, much to the judge’s dismay. [Law360]

    * DOE releases some loan money to Charlotte Law students. [ABA Journal]

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