Chief Justice Roberts

  • Morning Docket: 06.22.22
    Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 06.22.22

    * Preventing collusion with enslavement in China has Americans worried things won’t be as cheap. Very strong “Ethical accountability is cool and all, but I need to eat chocolate!” vibes. [NYT]

    * Texas’s Robb Elementary school is slated to be demolished. [Reuters]

    * SCOTUS thinks having a gun during a theft isn’t inherently violent. Little weird but okay. [CNN]

    * Still figuring out where the Carson v. Makin ruling came from? The signs were there all along. [CNN]

    * Rule of discretion: Sheriffs are running on the platform of NOT enforcing the laws they’d be sworn to protect. Like a bunch of them. [Colorado Sun]

  • Morning Docket: 03.09.21
    Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 03.09.21

    * A new lawsuit alleges that a dog breeder took back a dog and then resold it to another owner. Maybe the judge will act like King Solomon or Newman when deciding who is the rightful owner of the pup… [New York Post]

    * The Supreme Court has dismissed the last election lawsuit filed by the Trump Campaign. [Forbes]

    * The children of Daniel Prude, who was killed after an interaction with Rochester, New York, police, have filed a federal wrongful death lawsuit. [Hill]

    * Andrew Cuomo’s Counselor to the Governor resigned amid the blowback from two scandals facing his administration. [New York Post]

    * Justice Roberts provided the sole dissent in a First Amendment case about speech policies at a Georgia college. Such a maverick. [CNN]

  • Morning Docket: 01.20.20
    Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 01.20.20

    * The New Jersey Supreme Court has thrown out a conviction because a prosecutor referenced The Shining during a trial. And it wasn’t even a “redrum” case… [New Jersey Law Journal]

    * Chief Justice Roberts will be swearing in another person today who opposed his confirmation to the Supreme Court. [Yahoo News]

    * An attorney said “I bet I don’t appear again. Goodbye!” last week in response to being denied leave to withdraw from a case. Of course this happened in Florida, and check out the video of the aftermath in the article, it’s amazing. [BoingBoing]

    * Newly-minted lawyer Tiffany Trump announced her engagement yesterday to boyfriend Michael Boulos. [New York Times]

    * A class action has been filed by residents who experience intense smells because they live near a Florida perfume factory. Maybe they prefer toilet smell to eau de toilette… [News4Jax]

  • Morning Docket: 12.27.19
    Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 12.27.19

    * Brush of your resumes everyone, a longtime general counsel of Boeing is going to retire by the end of the year. [Wall Street Journal] * A UK lawyer is under fire for claiming he killed a fox with a baseball bat. Lawyers need to learn to stop being cruel to animals. [New York Post]

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