Executive Orders
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 05.11.22
* Democratic Senators are trying to enshrine and expand Roe in light of the Alito leak. [AP News]
* Might need faith bigger than a mustard seed for this one: the Supreme Court’s approval rating is tanking. [Yahoo!]
* Prep begins for a civil rights lawsuit after police appear to racially profile a lacrosse team. [USA Today]
* Biden may issue an executive order that increases abortion access. [Reuters]
* Weed being legal in NY means that employers have less leeway penalizing their employees for what they do in their free time. Oh noes. [Newsday]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 01.27.22
* To the windows, to the wall, Biden’s infrastructure bill will help keep families’ homes the right temperature. [WXFRTV]
* Been having Rockwell flashbacks ever since Apple dropped those AirTags? Pennsylvania’s got your back. [iMore]
* Has the recent flood of old Pyrex in thrift stores made you think about estate planning? Here are a few tips from an elder law attorney for getting your affairs in order. [WGN Radio]
* Biden’s executive order just made it easier to punish sexual assault in the military. About damn time. [WSJ]
* Virginia just passed Adam’s Law, which will require colleges and universities to publicly post hazing incidents in student organizations. Three cheers for informed decisions! [NBC]
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Government
With Biden In White House, GOP Discovers That Executive Orders Are Bad Actually
If it weren't for bad faith, they'd have no faith at all.
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 07.05.19
* Okay, fine, whatever, the Trump administration is apparently going to look for a way to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census. We’re governing by tweet these days, and this is the latest information on this debacle. [Washington Post]
* And it looks like the way President Trump is thinking of adding a citizenship question to the 2020 Census is through an executive order. The Justice Department has until this afternoon to straighten this out. [ABC News]
* Nope, you still can’t use money that was supposed to go to the Defense Department to build a border wall. The Ninth Circuit upheld an injunction on the use of these military funds just before the holiday. [Los Angeles Times]
* Which Biglaw firms have received the most money from presidential candidates’ 2020 election campaigns? As you might have guessed, lawyers from Jones Day have gotten a lot to Republicans, and lawyers from Perkins Coie have gotten a lot to the Democrats. [National Law Journal]
* Prosecutors have dropped the manslaughter charge filed against an Alabama woman who was five months pregnant and lost her unborn child after being shot in the stomach. Congratulations, Alabama! Way to be normal! [CBS News]
* If you’re interested in going to law school, you should know that the average debt for the class of 2018 was pretty hefty at $115,481 — that’s $130,900 for private school graduates and $89,962 for public school graduates. Good luck paying it off! [Nerdwallet]
* Matthew Benedict, a student at Buffalo Law, RIP. [New York Law Journal]
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Banking Law
Elizabeth Warren’s Letter To Goldman Sachs Actually A Subtle Diss
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Justice, Politics
We're About To Find Out If Trump Wants To 'Protect' Us Enough To Do It Legally
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Banking Law, Wall Street
Trump Wants To ‘Do A Big Number’ All Over Dodd-Frank
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White-Collar Crime
Trump And Tyranny
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 02.01.16
* Republican presidential candidate Senator Ted Cruz has pledged to “spend whatever political capital is necessary” to create the most conservative Supreme Court in our country’s history. Uh-oh! Voters better elect him, or else we’ll be “one justice away from … unlimited abortion on demand.” [ThinkProgress]
* A shakeup at the top? More than 20 Schiff Hardin partners — including the firm’s former managing partner, practice group leaders, and an executive committee member — are leaving to start their own firm thanks to an apparent leadership dispute. [Big Law Business / Bloomberg]
* On the seventh anniversary of his signing of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, President Obama took action to address the gender pay gap. Companies with 100 employees or more must now include salary info on their annual EEO reports. [New York Times]
* Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s legal team filed the first of what’s sure to be many appeals: They’ve asked the First Circuit to overturn his conviction and death sentence, as well as an order that he pay more than $101M to his victims. [Reuters]
* For some reason, people are highly opposed to the ABA’s proposal to lift its ban on law students receiving pay for their credit-bearing externship positions. Yes, let’s continue to make indebted students pay for their experiential learning opportunities. [ABA Journal]