Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 01.19.18

* Happy Shutdown!!! In case you're wondering, the looming crisis won't close the federal courts... for a few weeks. [National Law Journal] * Sixth Circuit rules that cops can bust into your home and search for any reason at all. Who'd have thought putting an internet troll on an appellate court was a bad idea? [Slate] * Coming off turning over their op-ed page to the lowest common denominator, the New York Times pens a thinkpiece that could easily have been titled, "Did you ever see Person of Interest? That was awesome." [New York Times] * Apparently judges stealing cocaine from evidence lockers is frowned upon. [Legal Intelligencer] * DLA Piper forced to do some rearranging in Saudi Arabia. [American Lawyer] * Frank Darabont is suing Walking Dead again. Just when you thought these suits were dead, they come back to life. [Law360]

By Joe Patrice on January 19, 2018 9:21 am

* Happy Shutdown!!! In case you’re wondering, the looming crisis won’t close the federal courts… for a few weeks. [National Law Journal]

* Sixth Circuit rules that cops can bust into your home and search for any reason at all. Who’d have thought putting an internet troll on an appellate court was a bad idea? [Slate]

* Coming off turning over their op-ed page to the lowest common denominator, the New York Times pens a thinkpiece that could easily have been titled, “Did you ever see Person of Interest? That was awesome.” [New York Times]

* Apparently judges stealing cocaine from evidence lockers is frowned upon. [Legal Intelligencer]

* DLA Piper forced to do some rearranging in Saudi Arabia. [American Lawyer]

* Frank Darabont is suing Walking Dead again. Just when you thought these suits were dead, they come back to life. [Law360]