West Virginia
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Law Schools
West Virginia Could Have A New Law School. I Wonder Where It Will Rank?
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 02.07.22
* If each person is a militia wasn’t enough, now every person with a gun license is a law enforcement officer? [WSMW]
* It’s only illegal federally: St. Louis law to prevent cops from enforcing federal gun laws. [ABC News]
* We don’t hate the poor, we just love cats! Silicon Valley’s mountain lions trade off with affordable housing. [Yahoo]
* A challenger approaches! West Virginia may be getting a law school soon. [Herald Dispatch]
* Free speech and a shovel: Trump’s most recent talk might have dug him into some trouble. [The Guardian]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 01.26.22
* Making man a better friend: a recent Texas law aims to protect dogs left out in the cold. And the hot. [Fox]
* Transparency each day keeps the bankruptcy away: a new bill will prevent surprise charges on medical bills. [Kare11]
* Connecticut’s Supreme Court recently ruled that women only gyms break discrimination laws. The jury is out if it is okay for the women that would have attended the women’s only gym to yell “You lift like a girl!” at men doing deadlifts at Planet Fitness. [AP]
* Arizona makes $1.2b in revenue from its first year of legal weed sales. That’s a lot of iced tea! [NY Post]
* Soon, it may be legal to make homemade hard liquor in this state. West Virginia…Bootleg mama… [WBOY]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 06.08.21
* R. Kelly’s attorneys are requesting to withdraw as his counsel and say it is “impossible” to properly represent him. Bet the lawyers hope they aren’t “trapped” in the courtroom… [Fox News]
* A prominent West Virginia attorney passed away this week following a car crash. [Metro News]
* The Department of Justice says it will defend former president Trump in a private defamation lawsuit. [Forbes]
* Stormy Daniels says her attorneys are cooperating with investigators looking into the operations of the Trump Organization. [Hill]
* A Boca Raton attorney was allegedly intoxicated around four times above the legal limit when she was involved in a car crash. Wild even by Florida standards… [Boca News Now]
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Government
Lawmaker Who Livestreamed Himself Storming Capitol Gets Charged, Refuses To Resign Because He 'Committed No Criminal Act'
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 12.31.20
* An appellate court was divided about whether a lawyer should be given slack for missing a filing deadline because of COVID-19. The judges not giving this attorney a break are real “juristicklers”… [Texas Lawyer]
* A West Virginia lawyer has been disbarred for attempting to barter sex in exchange for handling a stripper’s divorce case. [Bluefield Daily Telegraph]
* The Manhattan District Attorney is reportedly hiring forensic accountants as the criminal probe into President Trump’s activities deepens. [Washington Post]
* A new lawsuit alleges that a black man was misidentified and jailed due to facial-recognition technology. [NBC News]
* The Space Force is delaying a $12 billion deal after a court found that a contractor may have engaged in fraudulent conduct. Steve Carrell must be behind this conscientious move… [Hill]
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Government
WV Legislature Invites Neighboring County Into Mountain Mama's Warm Embrace
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Crime
West Virginia Impeaches Entire State Supreme Court, Will Return To Trial By Combat During Changeover, Probably
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ATL Redline, Justice, Racism
Spokesperson For West Virginia A.G., And White Supremacists, Fired From At Least One Of Those Jobs
Having been fired and publicly disavowed for appearing in white pride propaganda, the moral of her story is "should you see something of concern, please don’t pass it along or engage in public conversation on the matter." -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 05.26.16
* David Mourey, the former assistant dean for bar preparation and academic success at Barry Law, was fired after students continued to fail the bar exam, but in a recently filed gender discrimination and retaliation lawsuit, he claims he was discriminated against because he was “singled out for discipline by an all-female management team.” We may have more on this later. [Orlando Sentinel]
* Despite the wishes of the public and rumors of his firing in the face of the Baylor University coverup of reports of rape and sexual assault by football players, “Ken Starr is [still] president and chancellor of Baylor University.” According to a university spokeswoman, the school has not yet finished reviewing Pepper Hamilton’s report on the matter, but Baylor will likely make an announcement by June 3. [Associated Press]
* “We are willing to fight this all the way to the Supreme Court if we have to.” Eleven states have filed suit against the Obama Administration in an effort to get around its guidance on transgender rights for children in schools, calling the policy a “massive social experiment.” The states suing are Alabama, Arizona, Georgia, Louisiana, Maine, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia, and Wisconsin. [Reuters]
* Sumner Redstone turns 93 years old tomorrow, and he’s been in and out of court for the past few months in a battle to prove he’s mentally competent. The salacious case filed by his former female companion may have been dismissed, but now he’s attempting to fend off claims from Viacom directors who were ousted from a trust that will control his media holdings if he dies or is found incompetent. [DealBook / New York Times]
* Now that the world knows that PayPal’s co-founder provided funding for Hulk Hogan’s invasion of privacy suit against Gawker, it’s time to take a look at the lawyer who’s been representing the wrestler. Charles Harder is no stranger to Hollywood cases, and may be a longtime fan of litigation finance since he “[tries] to win and do so in a way that’s cost effective for a client, so they don’t lose when they’re winning.” [WSJ Law Blog]
* Since revenge litigation finance’s recent invention, what’s there to keep billionaires from destroying you with lawsuits? Unfortunately, the answer to this question is not much, especially when “there is no obligation to disclose the litigation financing arrangements” that have been made. Ethical issues aside, we really hope the super-rich wield their new power to ruin lives through rented lawsuits carefully. [Fortune]
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 03.09.16
* Karma alert: West Virginia lawmakers celebrated legalizing raw milk by drinking some… and they promptly got sick. [Gizmodo]
* Porn stars with some real talk about the First Amendment — all while being tastefully blurred. [Funny or Die]
* Everything old is new again — an illuminating interview with Marcia Clark. [American Lawyer]
* Inside the financial disclosure of Donald Trump’s sister, Judge Maryanne Trump Barry. [National Law Journal]
* Another Trump lawsuit — this time he is accused of stealing tips from servers. [Wonkette]
* Contract attorney by day, bestselling author by night — congrats to Chloe Neill on all her success! [Omaha.com]
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Bar Exams
Which State Is Limiting How Many Times You Can Pee During The Bar Exam?
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California, Courthouses, Federal Judges, Litigators, State Judges, Technology, Trials
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Biglaw, Defamation, Job Searches, Money, Morning Docket, NALP, National Association for Law Placement (NALP), Television, Trials
Morning Docket: 06.20.14
* This Biglaw firm is getting into the imaginary money business by bidding on $18M of Bitcoins seized in the Silk Road raid. Maybe they’ll accept this new “currency” as payment. [Am Law Daily]
* Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev wants his trial moved to New York or D.C. for an unbiased jury. Moving it to cities where terrorist attacks have occurred is a great idea! [Bloomberg]
* Here’s a perfect headline for a lovely Friday when we imagine people will be able to get in some quality day drinking: “Market Struggles to Absorb Record Law School Class of ’13.” [National Law Journal]
* Part of George Zimmerman’s defamation lawsuit against NBC was dismissed because his attorneys waited too long to ask the network for a retraction. Time to paint a picture about it, Georgie. [Fox News]
* Can you sue the dude who banged your wife for ruining your marriage? It sucks for cuckolded husbands, but you can’t in most states, including West Virginia, where family trees grow in a circle. [WSJ Law Blog]
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Constitutional Law, Crime, Kids, Quote of the Day, Violence
Prosecutor Says It's His Constitutional Right To Beat His Son
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Attorney Misconduct, Clerkships, Deaths, Drugs, Education / Schools, Gay, Gay Marriage, Legal Ethics, Martin Lipton, Money, Morning Docket, Murder, Police, Privacy, SCOTUS, Sentencing Law, Shira Scheindlin, State Judges, State Judges Are Clowns, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Clerks
Morning Docket: 08.16.13
* Former SCOTUS clerks earn more money for having clerked at the high court than SCOTUS justices earn for their yearly salaries. Consider how ridiculous that is. [The Economist]
* As it turns out, the National Security Agency oversteps its legal authority thousands of times each year, but that’s only because it’s a “human-run agency.” [Washington Post]
* Federal judges have come together to bemoan sequestration. “We do not have projects or programs to cut; we only have people.” Eep! Don’t give them any ideas. [National Law Journal]
* Ready, set, lawgasm! The comment period for proposed amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure opened up yesterday, and yet again, e-discovery rules are on the table for debate. [Forbes]
* NYU professors want Martin Lipton to step down from the school’s board of trustees, but the Wachtell Lipton founding partner has had a honey badger-esque response — he don’t give a s**t. [Am Law Daily]
* As was widely expected, Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s army of New York City lawyers will soon take the first step to appeal Judge Shira Scheindlin’s stop-and-frisk ruling. [New York Law Journal (sub. req.)]
* A West Virginia judge was federally indicted for attempting to frame his secretary’s husband with drug charges. Did we mention that the secretary is the judge’s ex-lover? Quite dramatic. [Charleston Gazette]
* Consortium: Not just for straight couples. A same-sex couple in Pennsylvania is trying to appeal the dismissal of a loss of consortium claim in light of the Supreme Court’s Windsor ruling. [Legal Intelligencer]
* Christian Gerhartsreiter, aka poseur heir Clark Rockefeller, was just sentenced to 27 years to life in prison in a California cold-case murder. Maybe Lifetime will make a sequel to that god-awful movie. [Toronto Star]
* Jacques Vergès, defender of notorious villains and perpetual devil’s advocate, RIP. [New York Times]
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Biglaw, Layoffs, Partner Issues, Staff Layoffs
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