ExxonMobil

Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 01.19.22

* Company that probably played a massive role in proliferating anti-global warming propaganda fears the chilling effects of accountability. [Mother Jones] * New Jersey governor renews law that prevents cops from being near polling places because of that whole voter suppression by force thing. When are we getting a new Voting Rights Act again? [New Jersey Globe] * Illinois is trying to make birth control a little more accessible. It's not over the counter, but it’s a start! [WTTW] * Jersey just passed some harm reduction-focused legislation that will increase access to safe needles. [Inquirer] * Find it suspicious that you're getting advertisements for Sweet Baby Ray's after privately making fun of Zuckerberg? These congresspeople are looking to stop that. [ZDNet]

By Chris Williams
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 12.15.16

* The Supreme Court takes on an issue of major importance to the patent bar (and the Eastern District of Texas): where can an infringement suit be filed? [How Appealing] * And SCOTUS also grants cert to a case raising the scope of what prosecutors must disclose to the defense under Brady v. Maryland and a case about a criminal lawyer's erroneous advice to his client about immigration consequences of a guilty plea. [New York Times via How Appealing] * Sheriff of Wall Street Preet Bharara loses another deputy to private practice: Katherine Goldstein, head of the S.D.N.Y.'s securities-fraud unit, will join several of her former colleagues -- Adam Fee, Antonia Apps and George Canellos -- at Milbank Tweed. [WSJ Law Blog] * President-elect Donald Trump won't take office for a few weeks, but he's already inspiring new law school courses. [National Law Journal] * And Trump might also trigger new lawsuits from state attorneys general seeking to rein in his administration. [New York Times] * As for existing litigation between Trump and celebrity chefs José Andrés and Geoffrey Zakarian, both the real estate tycoon and his adversaries are repped by big Biglaw names: Seyfarth Shaw and Steptoe & Johnson. [BuzzFeed] * Speaking of Seyfarth, it's the firm representing ExxonMobil in litigation alleging anti-gay discrimination in its hiring practices -- litigation that continues even as CEO Rex Tillerson prepares to leave the company to head the Trump State Department. [Washington Blade]

By David Lat
Bankruptcy

Morning Docket: 07.23.14

* Yesterday afternoon, two of D&L’s former executives quietly settled a clawback suit filed by Alan Jacobs, the firm’s bankruptcy trustee. Dewey know how much Messrs. Sanders and DiCarmine had to pay the piper? [WSJ Law Blog] * GrayRobinson is the latest firm to hop aboard the medical marijuana bandwagon by launching its own regulated products practice group. Lawyers will soon puff, puff, pass around those lovely billable hours. [Daily Business Review] * Pain at the pump apparently extends to this gas giant’s résumé dumps. A suit alleging bias in ExxonMobil’s hiring moves forward thanks to the Illinois Human Rights Commission. [Washington Blade] * Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg will be testifying against Paul Ceglia in court to prove that the alleged huckster faked a contract that claimed he owned more than half the company. Like. [Bloomberg] * It seems that Kid Rock has been subpoenaed over a glass sex toy that was supposedly given to him by a former Insane Clown Posse employee. Kid Rock is probably thrilled to be in the news again. [MLive.com]

By Staci Zaretsky