Morning Docket: 08.19.15
* This is a footlong you definitely don't want (but it's probably much more like a six-incher if he's lucky). Former Subway spokesman Jared Fogle is expected to plead guilty to child-pornography charges. We can't wait to see what his plea deal with authorities actually entails. [CNN] * Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's lawyers filed a brief in favor of their client getting a new trial because his attack on the Boston Marathon apparently wasn't a "crime of violence" within the meaning of the law he was sentenced under at trial. [WSJ Law Blog] * “To achieve those solutions, wouldn’t it help if you had a free press?” Justice Ginsburg's travels recently took her to Vietnam, where she spoke to a packed house about the country's need for greater freedom of press to promote social justice. [Voice of America] * Here's a little-known fact about Biglaw: many of its most well-known partners were "White House rejects." For example, Willkie Farr, Dewey & LeBoeuf, Bracewell & Giuliani, and Davis Polk are all named after failed presidential candidates. [Am Law Daily] * A New Mexico criminal defense attorney charged with a slew of criminal offenses is representing himself in a trial having to do with his shooting of a man outside his office. His best defense thus far? The man was a "methed-out lunatic." [Albuquerque Journal]
* This is a footlong you definitely don’t want (but it’s probably much more like a six-incher if he’s lucky). Former Subway spokesman Jared Fogle is expected to plead guilty to child-pornography charges. We can’t wait to see what his plea deal with authorities actually entails. [CNN]
* Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s lawyers filed a brief in favor of their client getting a new trial because his attack on the Boston Marathon apparently wasn’t a “crime of violence” within the meaning of the law he was sentenced under at trial. [WSJ Law Blog]
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* “To achieve those solutions, wouldn’t it help if you had a free press?” Justice Ginsburg’s travels recently took her to Vietnam, where she spoke to a packed house about the country’s need for greater freedom of press to promote social justice. [Voice of America]
* Here’s a little-known fact about Biglaw: many of its most well-known partners were “White House rejects.” For example, Willkie Farr, Dewey & LeBoeuf, Bracewell & Giuliani, and Davis Polk are all named after failed presidential candidates. [Am Law Daily]
* A New Mexico criminal defense attorney charged with a slew of criminal offenses is representing himself in a trial having to do with his shooting of a man outside his office. His best defense thus far? The man was a “methed-out lunatic.” [Albuquerque Journal]