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In Dodging FCC Review, AT&T’s Time Warner Mega-Merger Just Got Much Easier Under Trump
A busy time to be a lobbyist.
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Morning Docket: 10.25.16
* From prosecutor to prisoner: former Pennsylvania attorney general Kathleen Kane gets sentenced to 10 to 23 months. [CNN] * Oh, the irony: the ABA won’t publish a report calling Donald Trump a “libel bully” because of “the risk of the ABA being sued by Mr. Trump.” [New York Times] * How the AT&T/Time Warner […]
AT&T & Time Warner Versus Consumers With Pitchforks
Everybody needs to slow their roll. Teddy Roosevelt is not walking through that door.
Morning Docket: 10.24.16
* "Every woman lied when they came forward to hurt my campaign." Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump plans to sue all of the "liars" who have accused him of sexual assault within the last two weeks when the election is over. As an attorney representing one of Trump's accusers noted, a lawsuit would provide a "field day" to depose him under oath. [CNN] * The American Bar Association's Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar has approved a tougher bar-passage rate standard that would require 75 percent of of a law school’s graduates who sit for the bar exam to pass it within two years. It's up to the ABA House of Delegates to decide if the stricter standard will ever be implemented. We'll have more on this later today. [ABA Journal] * "I don’t know why he would wait around for 200 days and then pull out at the very moment that it seemed likely that he was going to get confirmed." Will Judge Merrick Garland be confirmed to SCOTUS? With senators calling for lame-duck hearings if Hillary Clinton is elected and a bare-bones oral arguments calendar scheduled, it seems like even the justices are holding out hope for a full house in 2017. [Washington Post] * In a deal likely to invoke government scrutiny, AT&T has agreed to purchase Time Warner for $84.5 billion. Teams from Sullivan & Cromwell (transaction work) and Arnold & Porter (regulatory work) will be representing AT&T, while Cravath will be representing Time Warner. Faiza Saeed, Cravath's deputy presiding partner, will lead the team working on the deal from her firm. [DealBook / New York Times; Am Law Daily] * According to testimony from Bridget Kelly, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's former deputy chief of staff, Christie allegedly knew about the Bridgegate lane closures a month before they occurred, not afterwards, as he's repeatedly claimed. Kelly, who says she thought the lane closures were for a traffic study, not a politically motivated scheme, is currently being tried in federal court over her role in the 2013 scandal. [Reuters]
Think Tank Argues That Giving Up Privacy Is Good For The Poor
This is a fantastic argument...
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Judge Tells Citi To Sit Down And Shut Up
Go home, Citi.
Citigroup Sues AT&T For Saying ‘Thanks’ To Customers
OK, now this is just getting silly.
Morning Docket: 10.15.15
* Daaaammmmn. Some serious shade as Greenberg Traurig CEO Richard Rosenbaum takes a swipe at Dentons. Video below the jump. * Lamar Odom is still technically married to Khloe Kardashian, thereby giving his estranged wife authority when it comes to medical decisions. Good, because I think we were all hoping a man's tragic health crisis could be fodder for May Sweeps. [Eonline] * Linklaters is "internally crowdsourcing" to find a solution to provide a better work-life balance. Jesus. Bring on the necessary resources to cap any individual's work week at 60 billable hours and move on. Anything less is just an invitation to rearrange deck chairs on the Titanic. [Law360] * Looks like NPR's hit podcast Serial is ready for a second season. [The Onion] * Dewey think these deliberations will ever end? [The Am Law Daily] * Ah, the life of in-house counsel: writing bitchy emails to customers telling them how stupid they are. [L.A. Times] * Rand Paul explains how "liberty" works for gay people. [Gawker] * Before joining a class action, make sure aren't advertising your own criminal behavior to authorities. [Times-Picayune] * And here's that Greenberg Traurig-Dentons swipe. This strikes me as an ill-considered decision given that Dentons is known as a firm that doesn't start fights, but sure as f**k ends them. [Big Law Business / Bloomberg BNA]
The Supreme Court Still Blows But We Have No Idea How To Fix It
After a "liberal" term, progressives continue to lament the ideological bent of the Roberts Court, but have fewer answers when it comes to changing course.
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DOJ Leans On Old Laws And Even Older Cases To Argue Against Privacy Expectations In Cell Site Location Data
Some judges and justices have noted that today's connected world would be completely unrecognizable to the judges who made the decisions the government relies so heavily on
Let Freedom Ka-Ching! On The 50th Anniversary Of ‘I Have A Dream,’ AT&T Can Use The Speech To Sell Phones, But You Can’t Post It
"I have seen the promised land... and it has unbeatable deals!"
Internet Hacker Sentenced to Prison Garners Ill-Conceived Support
Andrew Auernheimer receives 41-month prison sentence. It may be too severe, but Auernheimer was asking for it.
AT&T’s New Restriction on iPhone FaceTime Gets Hit With FCC Complaint, As It Should
AT&T is facing an FCC complaint over the way it's handled Apple's decision to allow FaceTime over cell networks.
Morning Docket: 12.20.11
* The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Obamacare over three days in March. Let’s fast forward to June so we can see how Election 2012 is going to turn out. [Blog of Legal Times] * The Grinch definitely stole AT&T’s Christmas this year, and even a team of Biglaw superstars couldn’t save the […]