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Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 05.07.21

* Lawsuits were filed mere minutes after Florida's new election reform was signed into law. Those attorneys must be fast typers... [Newsweek] * Check out this article on a law grad who has netted $83,000 a year as an underwear model on OnlyFans. [Law and More] * Roy Moore's lawyer was reportedly absent from a hearing in the case he filed against Sacha Baron Cohen related to Moore's appearance on Who Is America. [Courthouse News] * Devin Nunes's attorney has been ordered to pay CNN $21,000 in legal fees for filing frivolous defamation litigation. [Law and Crime] * The Attorney General of Texas has unblocked critics on Twitter following a lawsuit. [Yahoo News] * A lawsuit filed by an astronomer against a company that created a doll in her likeness has been dismissed. Like many things, very reminiscent of a Seinfeld episode... [Chicago Sun Times]

By Jordan Rothman
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 12.11.20

* A "robot lawyer" startup, that once focused on parking tickets, is now helping users file FOIA requests. Hope the platform can't write the Morning Docket... [TechCrunch] * A new lawyer for the Trump Campaign allegedly argued that Kamala Harris was not a natural-born U.S. citizen. [Forbes] * The Department of Justice is suing the State of Alabama over allegedly substandard prison conditions. [NPR] * Jerry Falwell, Jr. has dropped a defamation lawsuit he filed against Liberty University. [New York Post] * A federal judge has approved a class action of fighters suing the UFC for allegedly being a monopoly. They should have put a trial by ordeal clause in their contracts, may be quicker to settle this dispute in the octagon... [Bloomberg Law]

By Jordan Rothman
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 08.20.20

* New Jersey's governor said "bring it on" in response to a lawsuit filed by the Trump Campaign against the state's mail-in-voting plan. Have a good idea for how the Trump Campaign can respond... [Politico] * The practicalities associated with COVID-19 are leading to some interesting trials. [ABA Journal] * A residents' group on the Upper West Side of Manhattan is lawyering up to take action against homelessness in the area that has increased since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. [New York Post] * The Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case seeking to overturn the Affordable Care Act one week after the November election. [Hill] * An attorney has sued his former law firm for allegedly jilting him out of a fee split for a lucrative client the attorney brought to the firm. [Texas Lawyer] * A lawsuit in Alabama will determine if curbside voting will be allowed during the next election. If you can be sworn into the bar curbside, it seems like voting curbside should be no problem. [AL.com]

By Jordan Rothman
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 05.20.20

* A teenager in Alabama is on track to be the youngest lawyer in that state's history. Hollywood should turn this lawyer's story into "Doogie Howser, JD"... [NBC News] * Attorneys for Michael Flynn have filed a petition for a writ of mandamus asking that the judge overseeing his case be recused. [Fox News] * Singer John Legend "sang" the praises of a candidate seeking a district attorney's office. [Oregonian] * Workers at McDonald's have sued the company for an allegedly insufficient response to the COVID-19 pandemic. [NBC News] * The NCAA has lost a major antitrust lawsuit, which could open the way for college athletes to receive more compensation. As a Division Three athlete myself, I was happy to just get meal money... [USA Today]

By Jordan Rothman
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 12.23.19

* Right now, one out of every four circuit judges in the United States is a Trump appointee. [Washington Post] * Some scholars are arguing President Trump cannot be considered impeached until articles of impeachment are sent to the Senate. Legal experts make things so confusing. [Fox News] *An Alabama judge has been arrested for stealing nearly $50,000, and he left a paper trail of about 70 checks proving his misdeeds. This judge should leave criminal acts to the professionals. [News Maven] * A FISA court judge has ordered the Justice Department to turn over materials related to an F.B.I. lawyer connected with the Carter Page investigation. [New York Times] * An attorney convicted of shooting a fellow club patron has been sentenced to prison. Wouldn't want to be in court with this lawyer... [The Oklahoman] * An NYC realtor is suing the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for allegedly stiffing him on a hefty commission. [New York Post]

By Jordan Rothman
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 07.05.19

* Okay, fine, whatever, the Trump administration is apparently going to look for a way to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census. We're governing by tweet these days, and this is the latest information on this debacle. [Washington Post] * And it looks like the way President Trump is thinking of adding a citizenship question to the 2020 Census is through an executive order. The Justice Department has until this afternoon to straighten this out. [ABC News] * Nope, you still can't use money that was supposed to go to the Defense Department to build a border wall. The Ninth Circuit upheld an injunction on the use of these military funds just before the holiday. [Los Angeles Times] * Which Biglaw firms have received the most money from presidential candidates’ 2020 election campaigns? As you might have guessed, lawyers from Jones Day have gotten a lot to Republicans, and lawyers from Perkins Coie have gotten a lot to the Democrats. [National Law Journal] * Prosecutors have dropped the manslaughter charge filed against an Alabama woman who was five months pregnant and lost her unborn child after being shot in the stomach. Congratulations, Alabama! Way to be normal! [CBS News] * If you’re interested in going to law school, you should know that the average debt for the class of 2018 was pretty hefty at $115,481 — that’s $130,900 for private school graduates and $89,962 for public school graduates. Good luck paying it off! [Nerdwallet] * Matthew Benedict, a student at Buffalo Law, RIP. [New York Law Journal]

By Staci Zaretsky
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 06.05.19

* The White House has told former staffers Hope Hicks and Annie Donaldson to ignore a congressional subpoena for documents (as most Trump staffers are wont to do), but at least Hicks is cooperating a little bit. [Salon] * Meanwhile, Paul Manafort, one of President Trump’s former henchmen, will likely be transferred to Rikers Island where he’ll be held in solitary confinement while he faces state fraud charges in New York. Yikes... [Intelligencer / New York Magazine] * Alabama wants convicted child sex offenders to pay for their own mandatory chemical castrations before they can leave prison. If you’re shocked by this, please remember this is just Alabama being Alabama. [The Hill] * There’s no pure applesauce here: John Scalia, son of the late Justice Antonin Scalia, is heading back to Greenberg Traurig in Northern Virginia after spending a few years at Pillsbury in D.C. [Big Law Business] * Move over, Doogie Howser, because these young phenoms are heading to law school in droves. Aaron Parnas, who started law school at the ripe age of 18, has some advice for the latest crop of teenage 1Ls. [Law.com]

By Staci Zaretsky