Antonin Scalia

Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 05.19.23

* Neil Gorsuch brands COVID-19 health edicts possibly "the greatest intrusions on civil liberties in the peacetime history of this country." While some might remind him about slavery and segregation, I'm not sure we should be giving him any ideas. [USA Today] * Mike McKool leaves McKool Smith. Remember Garfield Minus Garfield? It's like that. [Reuters] * Judge rejects candy company's motion to dismiss in case of man trapped inside hardened chocolate for hours. Willy Wonka declined comment. [Legal Intelligencer] * Nancy Abudu confirmed to the Eleventh Circuit and all it took was a staggering 495 days or so. [Atlanta Journal-Constitution] * Justice Stevens working papers released. One gem involves Scalia chiding dissenters for worrying about damaging the Court's legitimacy. That tracks. [ABA Journal] * As part of broader efforts to diversify the ranks of special masters, some argue for rethinking the language of "master" itself. [Law.com] * Kari Lake's election challenge going about as well as her election did. [Courthouse News Service]

By Above the Law
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 04.14.22

>* The DOJ helping to keep lower-wage conspiracies at bay? Yeah, that sounds good. [NYT] * Kentucky just attacked Roe in a big way. [Reuters] * Colorado makes cycling a little safer by allowing bikers to make rolling stops. They were probably doing that before the law but progress is progress. [9 News] * Remember the suit about Elon not announcing his acquisition of Twitter shares earlier? Well, he wants it all now. [BBC] * Looks like not everyone is the biggest fan of Scalia’s writing style. [Reddit]

By Chris Williams
Courts

On Earth 2

On Earth 2, President Reagan just announced the nomination of Antonin Scalia for SCOTUS. Will conservatives think it is 'identity politics'?

By LawProfBlawg
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 11.19.18

* "You were very busy. Wow. Wow. I always knew I liked him." President Trump posthumously awarded the Medal of Freedom to the Justice Antonin Scalia on Friday and managed to crack a joke about the late justice's sex life when referring to his wife and their nine children. Wow. [USA Today] * Speaking about birth control... President Trump has proposed a new way for employers to get around the Affordable Care Act's birth control mandate by creating a Title X loophole that would "hijack" programs that already have limited funding and send women to low-income family planning clinics to get their contraceptives. [New York Times] * Will Biglaw be the next thing that millennials kill? Not only has Weil Gotshal shortened its partner track in order to keep its youthful talent from walking out the door, but the firm that once made a big joke out of work/life balance is now allowing associates to work from home once a week. [American Lawyer] * The California bar exam results are out, and they're not anything to write home about -- except if you enjoy schadenfreude, that is. Nearly six in 10 failed the test, and the overall pass rate is historically horrible. More on this later. [The Recorder] * After having already been rejected by the ABA's House of Delegates, the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar has sent its proposed 75 percent bar-passage rate within two years of graduation accreditation standard right back for another vote. Will it be approved this time around? We shall see. [ABA Journal] * Joel Sanders, the ex-CFO of failed firm Dewey & LeBoeuf, was jailed on Thursday for failing to pay a $1 million fine associated with his fraud conviction, but he was out by the wee hours of the morning on Friday thanks to his new firm, Greenspoon Marder, which paid the entire sum on his behalf. [American Lawyer]

By Staci Zaretsky