Aliens

Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 05.03.21

* A lawsuit about the Alienstock festival, which was supposed to take place near the famous Area 51 site, has been settled. Hope the settlement amount wasn't out of this world... [Review Journal] * A Kentucky judge is taking action to purge cases filed by a lawyer who was allegedly involved in social security fraud. [Hill] * Newsmax has settled a case filed against it by Dominion Voting Systems over allegedly false statements made by the media company about election fraud. [Forbes] * Blue Cross Blue Shield has settled a class action alleging the company used anti-competitive tactics that harmed consumers. [Duluth News Tribune] * A Michigan law firm is accepting cryptocurrency, including Dogecoin, as payment. Elon Musk was right, Dogecoin is useful for something... [Click On Detroit]

By Jordan Rothman
Non-Sequiturs

Non-Sequiturs: 10.01.15

* Don't get accused of a crime you didn't commit in Oklahoma, turns out they don't collect fingerprint evidence on the reg. [The Journal Record] * What those deal toys really mean. [Daily Lawyer Tips] * Yeaaah, the 1% do get different justice: judge lets embroiled Wall Street CEO Benjamin Wey out of his curfew to watch Swan Lake. [Dealbreaker] * Is the law equipped to deal with aliens (like the extraterrestrial kind)? [Law and More] * Kentucky governor Steve Beshear is having exactly none of Kim Davis's horse hockey. [Wonkette] * Law firms are still hopelessly stuck in the past. [The Atlantic]

By Kathryn Rubino
Basketball

Non-Sequiturs: 06.20.14

* You’d think a tax attorney would remember to file a tax return. You’d be wrong. [SF Gate] * You think you have difficult clients? Try representing a sovereign hellbent on making political hay by contradicting every representation you make in court. [Reuters] * Dov Charney out at American Apparel. And he seemed like such a nice guy… [Slate] * The Central Park Five civil rights lawsuit has settled for $40 million — or roughly $1 million for each year the accused spent in prison. [New York Times] * It’s a bad week for everyone affiliated with the Miami Heat. Now they’re losing to bloggers. [South Florida Lawyers] * In an unfortunate follow-up, the effort to unionize some lawyers at Bloomberg has fizzled and the primary organizer has been fired with no severance and a baby on the way. Which is surely a complete coincidence and not related to his organizing activity at all. [Fortune] * Former Delaware Supreme Court Justice Carolyn Berger has resigned and she is not bashful that it’s all to do with being passed over as chief justice in favor of Leo Strine. [Delaware Law Weekly] * Save the date, D.C. The 2nd Annual Go Formal for Justice gala will be held October 18. [DC Bar Foundation’s Young Lawyers Network / Facebook] * Yale Law grad and former Senior Counsel to the World Bank, Karen Hudes, wants you to understand that JFK was killed over the gold standard and that there’s a species of coneheads in control of the Vatican. We should do a Career Alternatives on her. Video after the jump… [Starship Earth: The Big Picture]

By Joe Patrice