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Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 01.31.23

* Trump sues Bob Woodward claiming copyright on all the stuff he told Woodward during interviews Trump granted for the purpose of letting Woodward write a book. This is not going in the magical "Trump keeps winning cases" bucket his lawyer talks about. [Courthouse News Service] * Johnson & Johnson tried the "Monopoly Man turns out his pockets" routine and failed. [Law360] * Hey Siri, explain labor law. [MacRumors] * Speaking of labor law, a look at the upcoming Supreme Court labor showdown from the perspective of the service workers are preparing. [Eater] * Jones Day facing sanctions request citing harassment as the motivation for the earlier sanctions request Jones Day made against former associates in discrimination case. You may remember this one as the case that brought attention to Jones Day's... questionable photoshop decisions. [Reuters] * The pandemic may have broken lawyers. I mean, lawyers were always broken, but it broke them in a new way. [American Lawyer]

Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 10.26.22

* Justice Alito thinks that the timing of the Dobbs leak, rather than the opinions therein, is the real problem. [Wa Po] * Despite being in legal limbo, you should still Pokémon Go do the student loan debt forgiveness application. [ABC News] * Does anyone else find it weird that it is easier to get arrested for feeding the homeless than it is to impose any accountability on Supreme Court justices? [AZ Family] * Due to an EU law, Apple will be switching over to USB-C charging cables. Take that, lighting cable! [CNBC]

Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 09.07.22

* Quick, is this a Simpson's gag or an American Tuesday?: Trump steals classified documents and inadvertently leaks another country's highly classified nuclear arms information. [Wa Po] * Do fetuses have standing? [Law and Crime] * Cowboys for Trump co-founder got hit with the 14th. Not to laugh at one's misfortunes, but teehee. [CitizensForEthics] * Apple just evaded a class action being bit from it. [Bloomberg Law] * Anti WOKE act accused of preventing teachers from doing their job because of how hard it restricts free speech. [Newsweek]

Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 03.31.22

* Texan student who was threatened with being given a failing grade for not reciting the Pledge of Allegiance earns a lot of lunch money. Gotta love the 1st Amendment. [Chron] * Facebook and Apple were so deferential to cops that they gave sensitive information to kids pretending to be them. What happened to two-factor authentication? [Dudes Code] * Loan company hit with a million-dollar fine for misleading its clients about loan forgiveness. Stop playing with people’s money! [Business Insider] * Pentagon drops a 700+ list of places named after members of the Confederacy they're considering renaming. About time we stopped handing out participation trophies to the pro-slavery people. [Military] * Tennessee is trying to overturn Obergefell. See what you’ve started now, Texas? [LBGTQNation]

Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 03.24.22

* Bad Blood: Apple is facing antitrust litigation because of its heart monitoring capabilities. [9to5Mac] * Idaho’s governor just yolo signed a bill that flouts Roe. [NYT] * All hands on deck: students are putting books on hold to support Ukraine. [Reuters] * No Cuomo: NY passed laws that will strengthen harassment and discrimination protections. [National Law Review] * According to the judge, you’re gonna need some paperwork for that. [Tennessee Lookout]