Judge Whitaker is tidying up loose ends before the jury returns on Monday. She finally got to the small matter of Judge Glanville’s secret meeting with the prosecution and Mr. Copeland where they tried to bully him into testifying against Jeffrey Williams & co. Brian Steel decided that this is one of the hills he […]
* The Supreme Court takes on an issue of major importance to the patent bar (and the Eastern District of Texas): where can an infringement suit be filed? [How Appealing] * And SCOTUS also grants cert to a case raising the scope of what prosecutors must disclose to the defense under Brady v. Maryland and a case about a criminal lawyer's erroneous advice to his client about immigration consequences of a guilty plea. [New York Times via How Appealing] * Sheriff of Wall Street Preet Bharara loses another deputy to private practice: Katherine Goldstein, head of the S.D.N.Y.'s securities-fraud unit, will join several of her former colleagues -- Adam Fee, Antonia Apps and George Canellos -- at Milbank Tweed. [WSJ Law Blog] * President-elect Donald Trump won't take office for a few weeks, but he's already inspiring new law school courses. [National Law Journal] * And Trump might also trigger new lawsuits from state attorneys general seeking to rein in his administration. [New York Times] * As for existing litigation between Trump and celebrity chefs José Andrés and Geoffrey Zakarian, both the real estate tycoon and his adversaries are repped by big Biglaw names: Seyfarth Shaw and Steptoe & Johnson. [BuzzFeed] * Speaking of Seyfarth, it's the firm representing ExxonMobil in litigation alleging anti-gay discrimination in its hiring practices -- litigation that continues even as CEO Rex Tillerson prepares to leave the company to head the Trump State Department. [Washington Blade]
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A prosecutor's oath is to do justice, not just to win.
Apparently no one brushed up on legal ethics over the break.
* Let’s hit some lingering holiday stories that came in after we went off the air on Tuesday. Think of it as your Christmas hangover. First up, ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas, reimagined as a lesson on pregnancy discrimination. [Bolek Besser Glesius] * On a related note, here’s a nice chart comparing the original poem with the legalese version created by Dezert-Rose. [TaxProf Blog] * Well, that’s one thing you can do with law reporters in the age of Westlaw and Lexis. [Legal Cheek] * Isn’t it really nice of prosecutors when they actually try to fulfill their constitutional obligations? [Katz Justice] * A life lesson for these thieves: there’s no such thing as a Christmas tree that doesn’t shed. [Legal Juice] * The lawyers supposedly told NFL players they would not be taking any of the concussion settlement money. There’s a lesson to be had here about how you shouldn’t trust lawyers. [Overlawyered] * Professor Nancy Leong went on Ashley Madison with a “white” profile and an “Asian” profile. The Asian profile got more hits. Is this interesting? Sure. Is this the sort of academic work worth charging law students $180K to support? Not so much. [Lawyers, Guns & Money]
The Ninth Circuit rewrites Brady: prosecutors must disclose potentially exculpatory evidence if they feel like it.
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Can you believe the egregious Brady violations in this case? The Ninth Circuit barely could, it seems....