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Morning Docket: 09.02.21

* We’ve moved past the shadow docket, this is just open defiance. [CNBC]

* Got busted for a fake COVID card. Bet she’s even madder about maderna [sic]. [NBCNews]

* I can’t believe they’re secretly using prisoners as test subjects! China? No — Arkansas. [ABCNews]

* Horton hears empty acres as trees die out. Environmental lawyers, you’re up. [The Guardian]

* The party not too big on Gov’t invention with the choices businesses make now handing out 5k fines if they do what they want. [News4Jax]

Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord™ in the Facebook group Law School Memes for Edgy T14s. Before that, he wrote columns for an online magazine named The Muse Collaborative under the pen name Knehmo. He endured the great state of Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boatbuilder who cannot swim, a published author on critical race theory, philosophy, and humor, and has a love for cycling that occasionally annoys his peers. You can reach him by email at [email protected].

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