Non-Sequiturs: 02.26.10

onFebruary 26, 2010 at 4:50 PM

* Sorry, I can’t think of anything less important than the stupid Winter Olympics. I wouldn’t grant anybody a continuance in order to participate in reindeer games. [BL1Y]
* Blackmailing people into having sex with you is wrong. I do not support sexual extortion. Is that clear? Okay. Now, please take a look at this teen, he’s an evil genius. [Wired]
* Dechert is being shamed in England. [Roll on Friday]
* If you defer happiness, it might leave your sorry ass and find other employment. [WSJ Law Blog]
* I just assumed every contestant on The Bachelor had a sex tape. [Popsquire]
* How to avoid having sex while in law school. [Legally Noted]
* Gawker thinks Lat’s latest porn fetish requires immediate medical attention (last item). I got to watch him do it in a train station on the way back from Boston. It’s … pretty disturbing. [Gawker]

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Morning Docket: 04.30.24

* Trump attacks Todd Blanche behind-the-scenes, threatens to withhold legal fees. Again, Todd Blanche gave up a Biglaw partnership to live this whole Ransom of Orange Chief bit. [Mediaite]

* The Most Dangerous Game: Private equity firm accused of gambling on human lives. [Bloomberg Law News]

* Hugh Hewitt wrote a lengthy opinion piece about how “The left’s favorite legal ‘analysts’ are almost always wrong” which never (a) names a single left leaning analyst or (b) identifies any instance where a legal analyst was wrong about anything. Tremendous work all around over there. [Fox News]

* FTC action against affordable luxury brand merger “not in the bag.” Because when mergers break antitrust laws, courts write new rules and when the government challenges those mergers, courts say “didn’t you read those new rules we wrote?” And the cycle goes on and on. [Reuters]

* Man sentenced to 22 years for trying to give national secrets to Russian agents. Damn, where’s Judge Aileen Cannon when a defendant needs her? [Law360]

* State court ruling banning AI-enhanced video feels like a decision that’s going to undergo a lot of refining and transformation… not unlike an AI-enhanced video. [Legaltech News]

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