Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 01.31.17

* Here's a roundup of the legal challenges against Trump's foray into immigration policy. [Vice News] * Oh and while we're at it, here's a couple more. [New York Times] * The SEC has brought fraud charges over an $81 million Hamilton Ponzi scheme. It was an ambitious scheme, but if convicted, the defendants will have to... take a break. *Groan* [Courthouse News Service] * Harvard Law Review elects it's first female black president. [WBUR] * Insider trading defendant John Afriyie earned a guilty verdict in less than three hours of deliberation. Sources say the jury would have been in faster, but they kept sticking on the fact that Afriyie had skipped bail and tried to hide out in New Jersey. Only a truly insane man would go to New Jersey willingly. [Law360] * Alston & Bird wins malpractice appeal. [New York Law Journal] * Remember Pokémon Go? Well the lawsuits are still out there. [The Recorder]

By Joe Patrice on January 31, 2017 8:58 am

Hamilton* The SEC has brought fraud charges over an $81 million Hamilton Ponzi scheme. It was an ambitious scheme, but if convicted, the defendants will have to… take a break. *Groan* [Courthouse News Service]

* Here’s a roundup of the legal challenges against Trump’s foray into immigration policy. [Vice News]

* Oh and while we’re at it, here’s a couple more. [New York Times]

* Harvard Law Review elects it’s first female black president. [WBUR]

* Insider trading defendant John Afriyie earned a guilty verdict in less than three hours of deliberation. Sources say the jury would have been in faster, but they kept sticking on the fact that Afriyie had skipped bail and tried to hide out in New Jersey. Only a truly insane man would go to New Jersey willingly. [Law360]

* Alston & Bird wins malpractice appeal. [New York Law Journal]

* Remember Pokémon Go? Well the lawsuits are still out there. [The Recorder]