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  • Morning Docket: 10.07.22
    Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 10.07.22

    * Biden just mass pardoned everyone convicted of weed possession in DC. Next, the world! [CNBC]

    * Delaware’s Supreme Court to soon decide the constitutionality of mail-in voting. Prepare your parcels! [Delaware Online]

    * Nothing says Biglaw like dropping coin on a dime. Bitcoin, rather. [Bloomberg Law]

    * Plan on working long-term at Hogan Lovell’s Perth office? About that… [Law.com]

    * San Diego PD are resigning over accountability measures. [Just Sentinel]

  • Morning Docket: 04.11.22
    Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 04.11.22

    * Habeas Corpus? Discarded body determined to be a thrown-out sex toy. These things are really getting realistic. I hear… [Region News Source]

    * COVID made the takings clause relevant again. What’s next, the Third? [Reason]

    * During the Judge Jackson confirmation, several Republicans accused Democrats as being the party of pedophiles. Projection, maybe? [Slate]

    * Remember that viral video of police officers busting a 75-year-old man’s head open last year? Turns out nothing wrong happened. [CBC.ca]

    * Amazon pushes back against unionization, alleging that voters were bribed with marijuana. Is this why the plant isn’t legalized federally? [Business Insider]

  • Morning Docket: 08.06.20
    Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 08.06.20

    * A cannabis operator has hired a new top lawyer. Wonder if he’s charging $420 an hour… [Law360]

    * A new lawsuit alleges that a cruise line held crewmembers against their will and without pay during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. [Fox News]

    * An attorney has been suspended from practice for paying clients fake recoveries out of his own pocket. [ABA Journal]

    * That Google Plus class-action settlement email many of us got recently was real just in case anyone had doubts. [Fast Company]

    * An ex-Walmart employee has filed a lawsuit after allegedly being fired for reporting social distancing violations. [Hill]

    * A lawyer who borrowed $440,000 from a litigation funder may now be on the hook for $18 million. Don’t think an attorney can argue he didn’t read the contracts… [Legal Newsline]