Colin Stretch

Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 07.26.18

* ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT FILED! Against Rod Rosenstein. Alternative headline: In stunning turn, Rep. Jim Jordan demands accountability as long as it's not for years of systematic sexual abuse. [Huffington Post] * That Shook Hardy attorney who argued that a woman got pregnant in a diabolical nine-month scheme to delay trial? Yeah, he's been suspended. [Daily Business Review] * The Fifth Circuit's James Ho isn't so much a judge as a political hack in a robe. That Orin Kerr Tweet from April was just the canary in the mine. [NPR] * Facebook GC Colin Stretch will pursue his lifelong passion of becoming the moderator of the Facebook Alumni Facebook Group. [Corporate Counsel] * Trump's ethics expert will also be leaving the job that he's ostensibly been performing. [The Hill] * Shareholder class actions are on the upswing this year. Gather ye rosebuds while ye don't have Judge Kavanaugh declaring Rule 23 a First Amendment violation. [National Law Journal] * Roy Moore sues PAC over negative campaign ads. Discovery should be fun. [Courthouse News Service] * Larry Nassar wants a new sentencing hearing. See, this is what happens when judges grandstand and rip up letters to advance their political career -- they just give these guys an in to try and futz with the sentence. [ESPN]

By Joe Patrice
Bankruptcy

Morning Docket: 06.21.13

* The makeup of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court is very homogeneous. Out of 14 judges who served this year, 12 are Republican and half are former prosecutors. Some diversity please? [Reuters] * Dewey know how much Judge Martin Glenn shaved off of Togut Segal & Segal’s $8.8M fees and expenses in the latest D&L payout approval? Just $167.76 for subway fare and meal overages. [Am Law Daily] * Ted Boutrous of Gibson Dunn is a very busy man, but he’s been categorized as a “Twitter freak.” The man is a self-professed news junkie, and he follows @atlblog, so you know he’s cool. #winning [Bloomberg] * Facebook has named a new general counsel. We wish a very warm welcome to Colin Stretch, a man who’s a Harvard Law graduate, a former Kellogg Huber partner, and a former Supreme Court clerk to Justice Breyer to boot. [Facebook] * If you’re waiting for your check to come for the BARBRI class action suit that was settled back in 2007, then keep waiting. But hey, at least the law firms are starting to get paid. [National Law Journal] * Ariel Castro, a man you might’ve eaten ribs with, is looking at additional indictments in the kidnapping case against him. Thus far, he’s pleaded not guilty to all of the 329 charges he currently faces. [CNN]

By Staci Zaretsky