Cellino & Barnes

* Steve Barnes, co-founder of New York personal injury powerhouse Cellino and Barnes, was killed in a plane crash along with his niece this past Friday. [New York Times]

* Joe Bornstein, one of Maine’s best-known personal injury lawyers, also passed away late last week. [Press Herald]

* Attorney General Barr will self quarantine after he had close contact with several Trump associates who tested positive for COVID-19. [Boston Globe]

* Several aides are accusing the Attorney General of Texas of bribery, abuse of office, and other illicit conduct. [CNN]

* The Attorney General of Michigan will no longer enforce certain executive orders issued by Michigan’s governor after the state’s highest court found that the governor exceeded her powers in issuing many executive orders related to COVID-19. [ABC News]

* A boxing champion is facing a lawsuit after allegedly failing to pay for around $500,000 in jewelry. This would have been a much less dramatic ending to the Adam Sandler movie Uncut Gems. [New York Post]

* Nicki Minaj has scored a win in a lawsuit alleging that one of her songs infringed on another artist’s copyright. Hope there were live performances at the motion hearing… [Vulture]

* If you ever wanted to know the amazing story of New York personal injury powerhouse Cellino and Barnes, check out this article… and listen to the jingle. [Intelligencer]

* InfoWars founder Alex Jones has been denied a delay in a defamation lawsuit stemming from Jones’s statements about the Sandy Hook shootings. [Newsweek]

* The family of a UPS driver who was killed during a shootout in south Florida last year has filed a lawsuit over the driver’s death. [AP]

* Eric Trump is attempting to delay his deposition relating to a probe initiated by the New York Attorney General until after the presidential election. [NBC News]

* IMDB has defeated a lawsuit filed by a lawyer-producer seeking to force the website to change the listed release date of a film. Found out I still have an IMDB listing while writing this… [Hollywood Reporter]

* A receiver may be appointed to oversee the dissolution of Cellino & Barnes. That receiver would have tough decisions about what to do with the jingle. [New York Post]

* The former police officer accused of killing George Floyd is being represented by a new lawyer. [Reuters]

* An attorney who is also a police officer has been prohibited from working on traffic matters in courts located in the county where he is a cop. [Bloomberg Law]

* President Trump is already being challenged over an executive order he signed targeting social media. [Washington Post]

* Steven Avery, a subject of the Netflix series Making a Murderer, has been diagnosed with COVID-19 according to his lawyer. [Daily Beast]

* The Washington State Attorney General is suing tuna companies for allegedly fixing the price of their product. Hope the defendants don’t use “canned” arguments when defending the case. [Spokesman Review]

Stephen Barnes’s girlfriend is suing his ex-partner Ross Cellino and Cellino & Barnes over a bonus she is allegedly owed. Hopefully she gets the infamous jingle in the settlement. [Buffalo News]

* Harvey Weinstein’s lawyer has suggested he may not favor releasing Weinstein since Weinstein might get arrested on different criminal charges when released. [Bloomberg]

* A Utah woman who was seen topless by her stepchildren has taken a plea deal to avoid being labeled a sex offender. Her topless husband was standing next to her and wasn’t prosecuted…seems like a double standard. [Fox News]

* President Trump’s re-election campaign is suing The New York Times for libel over an opinion piece about Russian interference in the 2016 election. [USA Today]

* Joe Biden has announced that he intends to nominate a black woman to the Supreme Court if he is elected president, and some see parallels to a promise Reagan made during the 1980 presidential campaign. [Washington Post]

* The New Hampshire Supreme Court rejected a lawyer’s claim that his sleep apnea was to blame for his professional misconduct. Got to hand it to this lawyer for coming up with a creative argument. [AP]

* President Trump’s impeachment lawyers are getting paid from various sources. [Washington Post] * A lawyer linked to Jared Kushner was removed from the jury pool in Michael Avenatti’s criminal case. The other potential jurors will need to find other excuses… [New York Post]

* Settlement talks are underway to break up Cellino & Barnes into two separate firms. No news yet on which firm will keep the infamous jingle. [Buffalo News]

* A winner has finally been declared in the close San Francisco District Attorney race. [Washington Post]

* Woody Allen has ended his year-long lawsuit against Amazon involving Amazon canceling projects with Allen over MeToo allegations. [New York Times]

* A North Carolina attorney has plead guilty to tax fraud for paying hundreds of thousands of dollars in personal expenses, including plastic surgery, out of his business account. Can’t he argue that plastic surgery is a business expense? [Charlotte Observer]

* Hundreds of Penn Law community members have voiced dissatisfaction with the school’s new name honoring a donor. Hey, money talks. [Daily Pennsylvanian]

* A Queens attorney has been sued over extremely lurid allegations of sexual harassment. This attorney must not practice employment law. [New York Post]

* A rundown of the legal problems with Florida’s decision to criminally charge the school cop at Parkland for not being a better guy with a gun. [CBS News]

* White House aims to take legal services and exercise away from migrant children for cruelty’s sake. [NY Times]

* Opioid manufacturer settles case for pocket change. [Courthouse News Service]

* While its former athletic director is reportedly under investigation, USC got a bit of happy news when one of its former basketball coaches avoided prison time. Fight on. [Law360]

* Cellino and Barnes battle royale gets a bit more juicy. [Buffalo News]

* Tom Brady is trying to trademark another Hall of Famer’s nickname. [BU Today]

* A day in the life of a human rights attorney. [Lifehacker]

* Recently confirmed Judge Timothy J. Kelly (D.D.C.) has refused to block Mick Mulvaney from serving as acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, denying a request from would-be director Leandra English’s for a temporary restraining order. Donuts for everyone! [CNN]

* The Senate has confirmed Greg Katsas, one of President Trump’s former legal advisers, to the D.C. Circuit. The Thomas law clerk will replace Judge Janice Rogers Brown on one of the nation’s most influential courts. [ABC News]

* AT&T has responded to the Justice Department’s lawsuit over its planned merger with Time Warner, and things just got ugly. AT&T claims that the government has no antitrust argument because it’s not buying a competitor. [Washington Post]

* For the second time this year, the Supreme Court has suspended the wrong attorney. This time around, the Supreme Court bar accidentally suspended a former Supreme Court employee. Oopsie! [Associated Press]

* With the goal of having women make up at least 50 percent of the leadership roles on its litigation teams, JPMorgan is trying to make a major statement with its latest initiative for women in the legal profession. [American Lawyer]

* “I don’t give a f–k, I will burn the place to the ground….” Ross Cellino and Stephen Barnes of Cellino & Barnes continue to have a very friendly relationship as the firm is dissolved. [New York Daily News]

* Hot on the heels of the news that Amazon would be purchasing Whole Foods, legal nerds wanted to know which firms would be handling the $13.7B transaction. SullCrom is representing Amazon and Wachtell is representing Whole Foods in Bezos’s bid to sell asparagus water on Prime. [Texas Lawyer]

* Governor Andrew Cuomo has nominated Appellate Division Justice Paul Feinman to replace the late Judge Sheila Abdus-Salaam on the New York Court of Appeals. If confirmed, Feinman will be first the first openly gay judge to be seated on the bench of New York’s highest court. Congrats! [Journal News]

* But her his emails! The state of Indiana will be paying “small-town firm” McNeely Stephenson $100K to handle a backlog of public records requests having to do with the contents of then Governor Mike Pence’s private AOL account from which he conducted state business over email. [Chicago Tribune]

* Shortly after a mistrial was declared in Bill Cosby’s sexual assault case, his spokesman had some sarcastic remarks to share with those who represented the comedians accusers: “For all those attorneys who conspired — like Gloria Allred — tell them to go back to law school and take another class.” [FOX News Insider]

* Legal documents related to the dissolution of annoying jingle firm Cellino & Barnes are currently under seal, but several media outlets are trying to convince a judge to unseal the records because the “litigation over the dissolution of [the firm] is an issue of local and national importance.” [New York Daily News]

* “They’ve been great at dodging this. But they know they’re not going to be able to dodge it for much longer.” New York City may finally do away with its nearly century-old ban on dancing in restaurants, bars, and clubs thanks to a proposed a bill seeking the repeal of the city’s 1926 “Cabaret Law.” [New York Post]

* When New York’s largest personal injury firm collapses, who gets access to (800) 888-8888? [New York Personal Injury Blog]

* This is what it’s like when the President Tweets you. [Bloomberg BNA]

* The Indy 500 — the latest way to delay a deposition. [The Washington Post]

* Cardozo Law gets in on current events. [Law and More]

* Well this is, allegedly, awful. [Jezebel]

* The Civil War lives on at Virginia courthouses. [Katz Justice]

* Hmmm, where is Jeff Sessions in the whole Comey mess? [Slate]