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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]

By Joe Patrice
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 09.12.18

* Law schools in North and South Carolina have canceled classes for the foreseeable future so that students, faculty, and staff can evacuate the area and hunker down before Hurricane Florence arrives. Please be careful and stay safe, everyone. [Law.com] * President Trump is eager to choose Emmet Flood to succeed Don McGahn as the next White House counsel. Ty Cobb, one of Trump's former lawyers, is in Flood's camp because he's "battled investigations from the White House before—[and] that’s what will be coming." [Wall Street Journal] * Earlier this week, Bob Woodward said that former Trump attorney John Dowd told the president he couldn't testify in the Russia investigation because he's "disabled" and "can't tell the truth." That sounds just about right. [People] * The University of California Berkeley School of Law may soon be doing away with almost all references to John Henry Boalt thanks to his racist views. Public comment on the issue will close on Halloween, and then Dean Erwin Chemerinsky may formally apply to dename Boalt Hall. Let's see what happens with this one. [ABA Journal] * "This is clear interference with an ongoing criminal investigation." Representatives from the New York state tax department reportedly met with Michael Cohen's attorney yesterday over the objections of Southern District of New York. [CNN] * A family of conspiracy theorists: Donald Trump Jr. says he's not worried about going to jail as a result of Robert Mueller's Russia probe, but "[t]hat doesn't mean they won't try to create something" that could put him in jail. [USA Today]

By Staci Zaretsky