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Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 05.01.17

* Checks and balances, how do they work? President Donald Trump seems to be looking for anyone and anything to blame for his first 100 days in office being bungled, and he's finally settled on the rule system that controls the Senate, calling it a "very rough system," an "archaic system" that's "really a bad thing for the country." [The Guardian] * In other news, according to Reince Priebus, President Trump's chief of staff, something that the White House has looked into is changing libel laws to make it easier to sue news organizations, but "[h]ow it gets executed or whether that goes anywhere is a different story." Wow. [CNN] * One things for sure -- there's no Supreme Court retirement watch here: Described as "exuberant," Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg recently exclaimed that she "love[s] her job," and that Justice Elena Kagan must be absolutely thrilled about Neil Gorsuch's confirmation, since that means she'll no longer have to suffer through the incredibly boring tasks typically given to the high court's junior justice. [National Law Journal] * "The logic of the decision is hard to accept. You're OK'ing a system that perpetuates the inequity in compensation for women." In a disheartening opinion, the Ninth Circuit said employers may legally pay women less than their male counterparts for the same work based exclusively on differences in their prior salaries, even though those differences were recently ruled discriminatory under the Equal Pay Act by a lower court. [CBS News] * A second suspect has been arrested in the fatal April 10 shooting of Cook County Associate Judge Raymond Myles. Earl Wilson, 45, a man who is "no stranger to the criminal justice system," was charged with first-degree murder. Per prosecutors, this was a robbery gone wrong, and Myles was not supposed to be killed. Myles is the first Chicago-area judge to be fatally shot in more than three decades. [Chicago Tribune] * Late last week, the Hollywood Reporter released its annual ranking of the best attorneys who serve the nation's most glamorous celebrities -- the Hollywood 100 -- which is always celebrated like "lawyer Christmas in Hollywood for a day." How many Biglaw attorneys made the list in the tenth edition of the rankings, and how well represented are each of their firms? We'll have more on this later. [Big Law Business]

By Staci Zaretsky
American Bar Association / ABA

Morning Docket: 06.11.13

* A case of Supreme Court techciting gone wild: What happens when your book is cited in a SCOTUS opinion, but to express an opinion you’ve never endorsed before? A whole lot of irony. [New York Times] * The Justice Department is dropping its appeal over a federal order that would allow promiscuous prosti-tots minors to access the morning-after pill. Hooray, over-the-counter emergency contraception for all! [CNN] * The National Law Journal just released the most recent edition of the NLJ 350. As we saw in the Am Law 100 and 200, “economic wariness” was pervasive throughout Biglaw in 2012. [National Law Journal] * More women are “bringing home the bacon,” but it’s the cheap store brand because they can’t afford better. It’s been 50 years since the Equal Pay Act was signed into law, and women are still earning less money than men. [ABC News] * When it came time for the ABA to change the time frame for law schools to submit jobs data, it pushed the decision back till August. Adopting the wait-and-see method already, huh? [ABA Journal] * Jury selection has begun in the Trayvon Martin murder trial, where the verdict will hinge upon George Zimmerman’s credibility. It’s like we’re learning about trials for the first time, you guys. [Bloomberg]

By Staci Zaretsky