Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 08.14.20

* A lawsuit challenging New York's quarantine has been dismissed partly because an Arizona woman did not suffer harm by not being able to help a New York friend move. The judge obviously doesn't know how fun assembling Ikea furniture can be... [New York Daily News] * Georgia's governor has withdrawn a lawsuit challenging a mask mandate instituted by the Mayor of Atlanta. [CNN] * Claims of sexual impropriety are roiling the Texas Supreme Court. [Texas Lawyer] * An Ohio lawyer has been granted the green light to provide financial planning services along with legal representation in certain circumstances. [Bloomberg Law] * Carole Baskin of Tiger King fame has been served with papers related to a lawsuit about her missing former husband. Baskin took a selfie with the process server, maybe "service selfies" will trend on insta one day... [CBS News]

* A lawsuit challenging New York’s quarantine has been dismissed partly because an Arizona woman did not suffer harm by not being able to help a New York friend move. The judge obviously doesn’t know how fun assembling Ikea furniture can be… [New York Daily News]

* Georgia’s governor has withdrawn a lawsuit challenging a mask mandate instituted by the Mayor of Atlanta. [CNN]

* Claims of sexual impropriety are roiling the Texas Supreme Court. [Texas Lawyer]

* An Ohio lawyer has been granted the green light to provide financial planning services along with legal representation in certain circumstances. [Bloomberg Law]

* Carole Baskin of Tiger King fame has been served with papers related to a lawsuit about her missing former husband. Baskin took a selfie with the process server, maybe “service selfies” will trend on insta one day… [CBS News]


Jordan Rothman is a partner of The Rothman Law Firm, a full-service New York and New Jersey law firm. He is also the founder of Student Debt Diaries, a website discussing how he paid off his student loans. You can reach Jordan through email at [email protected].