* Judge reassigned after mining In Living Color for the jokes best left in the 90s during a whole day of inappropriate remarks because, to put it in terms he might understand, “the court system don’t play that.” [ABA Journal]
* Big win for legal reporting in Idaho, where the top court official had been holding pleadings back in an effort to keep them from making the news. [Courthouse News Service]
* El Chapo lawyer launches music career. [AP]
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* Blame US Trade laws for fentanyl. [Reuters]
* Alaska’s taxing AI and they’ve got a pretty good plan. [Law360]
* It’s not really an answer to antitrust to spin off stores into a new competitor… and then immediately shut down that competitor. [Law360]
* Lawyer cops to fraudulent Iraq war claims. [Guardian]