Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 08.23.19

* The DOJ sent a newsletter to the nation's immigration judges including links to a white nationalist website. Bill Barr is running a real crackerjack organization. [Buzzfeed News] * A deep question and answer exchange with Penn Law's Amy Wax and she comes off just as loony as you'd expect. [New Yorker] * It looks like Michael Avenatti is going to put Nike on trial in his upcoming extortion suit. [Law360] * A Brad Pitt role holds the key to being a good prosecutor. It's not Tyler Durden and that's a little surprising. [ABA Journal] * Weil Gotshal may have cost investment bankers millions, leaving them mere multimillionaires. [NY Post] * Ed Whelan seems to have no idea how law review articles are written in this tortured effort to defend Trump circuit appointee Steve Menashi's reputation. Essentially, Whelan says because Menashi's controversial article was cited by real academics it must be real scholarship -- as opposed to a 2L randomly inserting Menashi into a string cite. [National Review] * Nicholas Sparks won that fight he's been having with the former headmaster of his vanity school. [Deadline]

By Joe Patrice on August 23, 2019 7:45 am

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* The DOJ sent a newsletter to the nation’s immigration judges including links to a white nationalist website. Bill Barr is running a real crackerjack organization. [Buzzfeed News]

* A deep question and answer exchange with Penn Law’s Amy Wax and she comes off just as loony as you’d expect. [New Yorker]

* It looks like Michael Avenatti is going to put Nike on trial in his upcoming extortion suit. [Law360]

* A Brad Pitt role holds the key to being a good prosecutor. It’s not Tyler Durden and that’s a little surprising. [ABA Journal]

* Weil Gotshal may have cost investment bankers millions, leaving them mere multimillionaires. [NY Post]

* Ed Whelan seems to have no idea how law review articles are written in this tortured effort to defend Trump circuit appointee Steve Menashi’s reputation. Essentially, Whelan says because Menashi’s controversial article was cited by real academics it must be real scholarship — as opposed to a 2L randomly inserting Menashi into a string cite. [National Review]

* Nicholas Sparks won that fight he’s been having with the former headmaster of his vanity school. [Deadline]