Morning Docket: 08.09.23

* Can you avoid discovery by saying, "the dog ate my homework"? Asking for a Rudy Giuliani. [Guardian] * Anti-porn legislation is "Making the Online Porn Industry Retreat." Impressed with the restraint it took not to say "pull out." [Politico] * Ohio voters reject effort to game the rules. [Courthouse News Service] * Shareholders approved fewer ESG proposals this year because they're fickle cowards. [Corporate Counsel] * Starbucks can't fire people just for being pro-union. [Law360] * Teacher refusing to use student's personal pronouns to test SCOTUS standard. [Bloomberg Law News] * Southwest will appeal court's order that it take training classes from a designated hate group. Too bad that appeal is going to the Fifth Circuit. [Reuters]

By Above the Law on August 09, 2023 8:58 am

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* Can you avoid discovery by saying, “the dog ate my homework”? Asking for a Rudy Giuliani. [Guardian]

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* Anti-porn legislation is “Making the Online Porn Industry Retreat.” Impressed with the restraint it took not to say “pull out.” [Politico]

* Ohio voters reject effort to game the rules. [Courthouse News Service]

* Shareholders approved fewer ESG proposals this year because they’re fickle cowards. [Corporate Counsel]

* Starbucks can’t fire people just for being pro-union. [Law360]

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* Teacher refusing to use student’s personal pronouns to test SCOTUS standard. [Bloomberg Law News]

* Southwest will appeal court’s order that it take training classes from a designated hate group. Too bad that appeal is going to the Fifth Circuit. [Reuters]