Basketball

Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 05.27.21

* A lawsuit filed by a former college basketball player against Adidas has been dismissed. Maybe he should take Adidas's slogan "impossible is nothing" to heart if filing an appeal... [Oregonian] * A man accused of shooting a New Hampshire pastor has pleaded guilty to assaulting his own lawyer. [AP] * The University of Miami has fired the dean of its law school, and members of the law school community are reportedly not pleased. [Miami Hurricane] * Alan Dershowitz is reportedly suing Netflix over a docuseries about Jeffrey Epstein. [Fox Business] * A judge has lowered a sentence after a defendant alleged "shady shenanigans" by a federal prosecutor. Surely, the lawyer didn't use the word "shenanigans" lightly... [ABA Journal]

By Jordan Rothman
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 06.20.19

* The Anthony Davis deal may have royally screwed up the Lakers and it looks like it might be the lawyers' fault. [Silverscreen and Roll] * A reminder that Law & Order: SVU is largely based on Linda Fairstein. It seems to me that NBC's best move now would be unveiling "Law & Order: Qualified Immunity" forcing Mariska Hargitay to fend off legal challenges after DNA evidence clears characters from past shows. [NBC News] * In shocking new poll, women in law reveal that they don't like being consistently paid less than men. [Law360] * Antitrust law can't solve today's trusts. [NY Times] * The case against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton may fall apart because local elected officials (who surely couldn't be political allies of Paxtons!) are refusing to pay the bill for the prosecution. [Courthouse News Service] * Right-wing groups have drafted copycat bills for state legislatures to pass for years and now pro-choice groups are following the same blueprint. Welcome to modern federalism: less "laboratories of democracy" and more "paving over distinctions with cheaper lobbying bills." [USA Today] * R. Kelly has fully paid his child support bills. Finally, the guy can put all these legal problems behind him... oh. [TMZ]

By Joe Patrice
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 04.25.19

* The Am Law 100 left $4.4 billion on the table last year. Or... maybe. Biglaw offered $4.4 billion in discounts which could mean the industry undercut each other for an overall loss of value. Or it could mean the market gravitated toward what legal services are really worth. An interesting walk through the finances of Biglaw work. [American Lawyer] * Some Selendy & Gay partners are headed to arbitration Quinn Emanuel over a provision in their agreement that Quinn's exercising seeking a portion of their profits on ported business. So much for my wishful thinking that the two firms would come to let bygones be bygones. [New York Law Journal] * Litigation funders are hiring lobbyists to push back against a new push by Senate Republicans to require more transparency -- something those same Senate Republicans spend a lot of time fighting against when it comes to... lobbyists. The circle of life. [American Lawyer] * March Madness continues in court with testimony about Arizona paying players. It's at this point that we recall that Arizona wasn't even the best college basketball team in Arizona this season. [Law360] * EY continues its overseas legal build-out. [Law.com] * Twitter's chief legal officer made $11 million last year to tell everyone that they can't do anything about Nazis. [Corporate Counsel] * Supreme Court crushes class victims again! [Courthouse News Service]

By Joe Patrice