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Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 03.16.21

* A Texas brewery has changed its name after another brewery filed a lawsuit claiming the name was too similar to their own. They should have resolved this with a Beerfest-style competition... [San Antonio Current] * A New York lawyer claims he cannot competently defend his client in court while wearing a mask. [Syracuse.com] * A Virginia lawyer, who allegedly tried to cultivate a romantic relationship with two clients, has been suspended from practice. [Virginia Lawyer's Weekly] * Breonna Taylor's boyfriend has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the Louisville Police Department. [Essence] * Check out this article on how the lawyer in the Jurassic Park movie differs from the book. Wonder if he still dies in the same memorable way... [Screen Rant]

By Jordan Rothman
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 10.18.19

* Did you know over 100 firms have reported data breaches since 2014? Something to make you feel warm and fuzzy. [Law.com] * If you were wondering how conservatives would spin Mick Mulvaney admitting to a quid pro quo holding up foreign assistance in exchange for personal political vendettas, Laura Ingraham's attempt was to say it was all a misunderstanding because Mulvaney's not a lawyer. Ron Howard Arrested Development voice: Mick Mulvaney is a lawyer. [Daily Beast] * Appellate court says it's illegal to watch porn in your car in New Jersey. Sorry if that forces some of you to change your weekend plans. [New Jersey 12] * Anheuser-Busch files counterclaim accusing MillerCoors of stealing their recipes for sub-par beer. [STL Today] * TransPerfect to be fined $30K/day until it drops litigation in Nevada. [Delaware Online] * After Greenberg Traurig threw shade on the Dentons U.S. expansion plans, Joe Andrew of Dentons responds to those "Parochial and Condescending" criticisms. [National Law Journal] * What Parks and Rec can teach us about court reporters. [ABA Journal] * Watchdog group says judge should be removed from the bench for being a harassing, misogynist prick. If only the Supreme Court worked that way. [Law360]

By Joe Patrice
Non-Sequiturs

Non-Sequiturs: 11.06.15

* The Supreme Court announced today it will take up yet another challenge to the Affordable Care Act, this time on the contraceptive compromise. [Wall Street Journal] * You know all those Special Lawyer lists? Yeah, they're silly and meaningless. [Attorney at Work] * Rut-roh. Did Congress screw up and make the latest appropriations bill end a day sooner than they intended? I mean would Congress ever screw up?!?! [Notice & Comment] * Oh no they didn't! Law & Order: SVU takes on the Duggars and it is glorious. [Slate] * When Mexican Donald Trump gets going he cannot be stopped. [Funny or Die]

By Kathryn Rubino
Non-Sequiturs

Non-Sequiturs: 08.20.15

* Out of Germany comes news of a real tragedy -- spoiled beer. [Legal Juice] * Justice Sonia Sotomayor got a pretty bad-ass tribute in the form of a graffiti mural, unveiled in the Bronx. [Colorlines] * A look at how voter suppression efforts have morphed with the times. [Washington Post] * Don't feel bad about your Josh Duggar/Ashley Madison schadenfreude. [Lawyers, Guns & Money] * Want to waste some time? Take this fun quiz matching quotes to the lawyers that said them. [Suited Gladiators] * A lesson in how not to deal with a government investigation, courtesy of the American Red Cross. [Cady Bar The Door] * George Washington would be embarrassed to hear today's candidates' take on torture. And so would the rest of the founding fathers, ya know, if they were zombies. [Lowering the Bar] * We're about to announce the finalists for our Summer Associate Event Contest -- so if you have a nomination, send it to us ASAP! [Above the Law]

By Kathryn Rubino
Morning Docket

Morning Docket 05.07.15

* Are you tired of hearing about Tom Brady's balls? No? Good. Here's a great profile of the Paul Weiss litigator that authored the report on deflategate. [New York Times] * Good news for all the Pandora listeners out there. The Second Circuit affirmed Pandora's access to the ASCAP music catalogue. [New York Law Journal] * As if the "Jena Six" haven't been through enough, now one of its members is heading to law school. [American Lawyer] * Brewery scores big First Amendment victory. Let's all celebrate with a nice cold bottle of "Raging Bitch" beer. [Corporate Counsel] * The federal government paid $45 million to Northrop Grumman Systems to settle claims it misappropriated trade secrets related to their satellite program. [National Law Journal] * The debate over the minimum wage rages on in Ninth Circuit case on the constitutionality of Los Angeles' Living Wage law. [Law360]

By Kathryn Rubino
Non-Sequiturs

Non-Sequiturs: 01.15.14

beer craft beer* Lagunitas sued Sierra Nevada over beer. Beer connoisseurs pulled themselves out of their own vomit to tweet their disapproval. And it worked, Lagunitas dropped the suit. Imagine if we could harness the power of drunks for good. Or evil. Just anything. [SF Gate] * Musing that maybe that daunting LSAT was the obstacle keeping students from filling seats, University of San Diego Law just opened up the school to USD grads -- no LSAT required. [University of San Diego School of Law] * Saks has heard the public backlash against its assertion that transgender people deserve no legal protections in the workplace and responded by... reasserting that transgendered people have no rights. [Slate] * Fashion law isn't just for Elle Woods acolytes anymore. [Racked] * Ninth Circuit does not take kindly to a state prosecutor who lied under oath. [Seeking-Justice] * SCOTUS justices don't have to recuse themselves, and when they do, they don't have to explain why. Let's look at the recusals this Term and venture a guess at why each justice sat out. [Fix the Court] * NY subways boast some ridiculous safety posters to cover themselves legally. Here's a breakdown of their latest efforts. [NY Observer] * Checking in on the always messed up developments down at Manhattan Supreme Court. [Wise Law NY] * "Good news for law grads and law schools!" article ends up buried in a sea of caveats. Because of course it does. [TaxProf Blog]

By Joe Patrice
Abortion

Morning Docket: 01.06.14

* “Either access to abortion will be dramatically restricted in the coming year or perhaps the pushback will begin.” We’re moving back in history. Here’s hoping pro-choice advocacy will be born anew in 2014. [New York Times] * George S. Canellos, the SEC’s co-chief of enforcement, announced his departure on Friday, and people are already wondering whether he’ll return to his old stomping grounds at Milbank Tweed. [DealBook / New York Times] * We hope legal educators had fun at the Association of American Law Schools annual meeting, but we hope most of all that they learned what needs to change to really make legal education pay. [WSJ Law Blog] * “I believe women lawyers can contribute a lot to the legal system.” Saudi Arabia now has its first female law firm dedicated to bringing women’s issues to the country’s patriarchal courts. Congratulations! [RT] * A Starbucks spokeswoman issued a defense to the cease-and-desist response letter that went viral worldwide, and it reads just like how her company’s coffee tastes: bland. [International Business Times] * Amy “Tiger Mom” Chua is back with a vengeance, co-authoring a controversial new book (affiliate link) with her husband, Jed Rubenfeld. Which cultural groups are superior? [New York Post]

By Staci Zaretsky
Antonin Scalia

Non-Sequiturs: 06.26.13

* Former Patriots TE Aaron Hernandez arrested. In other news, that Patriots offense was killing people last year. [NBC News] * Elie appeared on HuffPo Live to explain how today’s rulings changed his marriage. [Huffington Post Live] * For all the role-playing game nerds out there, a guide to the SCOTUS alignments. I’m not sold that Scalia isn’t “Lawful Good” and Alito “Chaotic Good,” but the point remains. [It's a Great Life If You Don't Weaken] * Aaron Zelinsky has a solution for the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down the VRA formula — force every jurisdiction to adhere to Section 5 preclearance. That would make way too much sense. [Concurring Opinions] * Iowa’s Supreme Sausage Fest to reconsider “irresistible attraction” ruling, which you may remember from stories like this or this. [On Brief: Iowa's Appellate Blog] * Ilya Somin on the strange bedfellows emerging on questions of standing. [Volokh Conspiracy] * Congratulations to Saccharomyces cerevisia, the newly minted Official State Microbe of Oregon. The bacteria is also known as “brewer’s yeast,” so it makes a lot of sense when Portland has the most breweries per capita in the country. [Lowering the Bar] * This judge makes important observations about rodent control. Or at least some clerk slipped footnote 5 in because Caddyshack deserves more legal citation. Unfortunately it does not conclude with, “By Order of this Court, We’re All Gonna Get Laid.” Opinion below…

By Joe Patrice
Antitrust

Morning Docket: 04.22.13

* With the capture of Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, many legal questions are being asked, like if he’ll be Mirandized, where he’ll be tried, and if he’ll be considered an enemy combatant. [New York Times] * Thanks for kicking this keg, Mr. Baer: the Department of Justice and Anheuser-Busch InBev have settled their antitrust differences with respect to beer brewery’s planned acquisition of Grupo Modelo. [Legal Times] * Which firm has a “generous tuition reimbursement” program? And by “generous,” we mean 100% of law school tuition, which is awesome. We may have more on this later today. [Capital Business / Washington Post] * Stan Chesley, the “master of disaster,” is retiring — not because he wants to, but because he’s disbarred in Kentucky and surrendered his Ohio license before the state could take it from him. [WSJ Law Blog (sub. req.)] * California may soon follow in New York’s footsteps when it comes a pro bono mandate before bar admission, but the New Jersey Bar Association has an active hit out on the idea. [National Law Journal] * In an effort to avoid a trial that would’ve lasted longer than their sham marriage did in the first place, fauxlebrity Kim Kardashian and NBA player Kris Humphries settled their divorce last week. [Reuters] * Morris Kramer, an M&A pioneer and part of Skadden’s “Fab Four,” RIP. [DealBook / New York Times]

By Staci Zaretsky