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Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 08.31.17

* Colin Kaepernick's lawsuit against the NFL alleging collusion between NFL teams will be allowed to go forward, at least to a full hearing. [Slate] * A former NBC exec says the network threatened to smear Ronan Farrow if he kept investigating Harvey Weinstein. [Daily Beast] * Proskauer settles lawsuit over the work the firm did for convicted Ponzi schemer R. Allen Stanford... to the tune of $63 million. [New York Law Journal] * A Mueller bombshell to drop by 5pm today? We'll be watching. [Mediaite] * Inside the fight to deregulate the U.K. legal market. [The Financial Times] * Microsoft is doubling down in making sure its outside law firms (and other suppliers) provide paid parental leave for their employees. [Corporate Counsel] * Bank of America is facing backlash after freezing accounts of people they suspect as being non-U.S. citizens. [Huffington Post]

By Kathryn Rubino
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 07.12.16

* How would a Gingrich VP run impact Dentons? Because Gingrich getting a 4-month vacation is the most pressing question about the Trump ticket at this point. [The Am Law Daily] * North Carolina enacts legislation to keep police cam footage out of the public record in a move that isn't a cynical cover up effort at all. [ABC 11] * International arbitration panel rules against China's claims to South China Sea territory. It's like that apocryphal story about Andrew Jackson saying of John Marshall "let him enforce it" if Andrew Jackson was armed with nuclear weapons. [Huffington Post] * The Department of Justice is going to bat to protect the Department of Labor's fiduciary rule as plaintiffs beg judge to take a bat to the Department of Labor's fiduciary rule. [The National Law Journal] * In a pending gender bias suit, Bank of America denies having a "Bro's Club" culture. I'm fuzzy on the regulations, but I'm pretty sure in that statement BofA just forfeited its status as a "bank." [Law360] * Did you know prison laborers are planning to go on strike on September? Me neither, but there you go. [Occupy] * Straightforward review of the CFTC's proposed Regulation AT aimed at the practice of automated trading. [Morrison Cohen] * University of Houston Law Center professor and former dean Stephen Zamora died last week. He was 72. [UH Law Center]

By Joe Patrice
Benchslaps

Morning Docket: 08.29.14

In honor of the Simpsons marathon let’s introduce each of these with a Simpsons quote. * Dr. Hibbert: And hillbillies want to be called “Sons of the Soil,” but it ain’t gonna happen. — BofA wants that $1.3 billion verdict tossed as “unreasonable.” [Law360] * Superintendent Chalmers: Oh, I have had it, I have had it with this school, Skinner! The low test scores, class after class of ugly, ugly children! — Suffolk University fired its president just days before school began. I’d like to think it was over their subway ads. In any event, the interim president seems to get the problem: “‘I don’t think there’s growth there,’ he said, referring to [law school] enrollment.” [Boston Globe] * Homer: Barney’s movie had heart, but “Football in the Groin” had a football in the groin — College football kicked off last night (or Wednesday if we cared about Georgia State), so check in with the lawyer for the USC player who pretended he injured himself saving his nephew’s life. [Deadspin] * Lionel Hutz: There’s the truth and… the truth! — Bracewell & Giuliani partner, Glenn A. Ballard Jr., got benchslapped in Texas for “an affront to this court, to the other parties and to judicial integrity.” Everything’s bigger in Texas. [Houston Chronicle] * Chief Wiggum: You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say blah blah blah blah blah blah. — After Philip Seymour Hoffman’s overdose, the police actually arrested a jazz musician. He got no jail time after he hired a new lawyer, Alex Spiro, who went after the cops for taking advantage of his client. [NY Daily News] * Jimbo: You let me down, man. Now I don’t believe in nothing no more. I’m going to law school. — Professor Campos wonders if American University law school will sue students who drop out or transfer? [Lawyers, Guns & Money]

By Joe Patrice
Deaths

Non-Sequiturs: 05.28.14

* In sad news, Judge Harold Baer Jr. died last night. A giant of the Southern District of New York, Judge Baer will be remembered for his sound judicial temperament and his biting wit. [New York Law Journal] * Paris Hilton hit with $2 million lawsuit for breaching a footwear deal. Does anyone still care enough about Paris Hilton to sign her to multi-million dollar sponsorship deals? [Radar Online] * Kamala Harris may have a bright future, but her present has some issues. She started a task force to go after foreclosure consultant fraud and managed to pursue only 10 cases, fewer than her colleagues in other states despite California’s foreclosure crisis. Part of having a prestigious job is actually doing it. [East Bay Express] * A Texas woman has filed suit claiming she was forced to give birth in solitary confinement, begging for — and not receiving — medical care. The baby died. But, hey, the baby came out of her, so it’s not a problem whether it lives any more in conservative Texas. [Feministing] * Judge allows Bank of America to continue foreclosing on the home of Burt Reynolds. And somewhere Alex Trebek smiles. [WPEC] * More on the female brain drain at law firms and how to fix it. [She Negotiates] * 5 awesome charts that prove that patent litigation is officially out of hand. [Vox] * Ray Rice’s lawyer offers a hypothetical of the videotaped altercation between Rice and his now-wife. This is why lawyers shouldn’t use hypotheticals. [Sports World News] * Is there really a “third way” when it comes to Net Neutrality? This article makes a good case for rules allowing providers to take reasonable actions to address the different needs of Skype vs. email. [The Hill] * Law firms are starting to think like media companies. Next thing you know, Biglaw will be all Hollywood. Video after the jump…. [Mimesis Law]

By Joe Patrice
Banking Law

Morning Docket: 10.24.13

* Parties in the greenhouse gas cases before SCOTUS have agreed to trim the number and length of their briefs to reduce the number of times “go f@ck yourself and die” is written. [Blog of Legal Times] * The latest patent reform bill up for debate promises that it will put an end to the trolls by forcing them to do more work before filing suit. If only it were that easy to keep the trolls at bay. [National Law Journal] * Do the hustle, and blame it on Becca! A jury has found that Bank of America is liable for selling defective mortgages, and the potential penalty could be up to $848 million. [DealBook / New York Times] * Since the law was puff, puff, passed, lawyers in Washington State have politely asked their Supreme Court if and when they’ll allowed to smoke weed and represent clients that sell it. [Corporate Counsel] * Class certification in the Alaburda v. TJSL lawsuit over allegedly deceptive employment statistics has officially been denied. We guess that all good things must come to an anticlimactic end. [ABA Journal] * Another law school gets it: the U. of St. Thomas will its freeze tuition at the low, low price of $36,843, allowing students to pay a flat fee for all three years of education. [Campus Confidential / Star Tribune] * If you’d like to ace your law school interviews (which apparently are a thing these days), it helps if your personality doesn’t inspire ritualistic seppuku. [Law Admissions Lowdown / U.S. News & World Report] * Michael Skakel, the Kennedy cousin convicted of killing, was granted a new trial due to ineffective assistance of counsel. Getting away with murder? Aww, welcome to the family, Mike! [Washington Post]

By Staci Zaretsky