Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 05.27.21

* A lawsuit filed by a former college basketball player against Adidas has been dismissed. Maybe he should take Adidas's slogan "impossible is nothing" to heart if filing an appeal... [Oregonian] * A man accused of shooting a New Hampshire pastor has pleaded guilty to assaulting his own lawyer. [AP] * The University of Miami has fired the dean of its law school, and members of the law school community are reportedly not pleased. [Miami Hurricane] * Alan Dershowitz is reportedly suing Netflix over a docuseries about Jeffrey Epstein. [Fox Business] * A judge has lowered a sentence after a defendant alleged "shady shenanigans" by a federal prosecutor. Surely, the lawyer didn't use the word "shenanigans" lightly... [ABA Journal]

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* A lawsuit filed by a former college basketball player against Adidas has been dismissed. Maybe he should take Adidas’s slogan “impossible is nothing” to heart if filing an appeal… [Oregonian]

* A man accused of shooting a New Hampshire pastor has pleaded guilty to assaulting his own lawyer. [AP]

* The University of Miami has fired the dean of its law school, and members of the law school community are reportedly not pleased. [Miami Hurricane]

* Alan Dershowitz is reportedly suing Netflix over a docuseries about Jeffrey Epstein. [Fox Business]

* A judge has lowered a sentence after a defendant alleged “shady shenanigans” by a federal prosecutor. Surely, the lawyer didn’t use the word “shenanigans” lightly… [ABA Journal]


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