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Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 02.15.23

* If you want vigorous antitrust enforcement, you've got to break a few eggs... or at least shed some Republican members of the FTC. The Federal Trade Commission's Christine S. Wilson is leaving the agency over Chair Lina Khan's leadership priorities. [Law360] * The National Labor Relations Board may be changing course on a widespread anti-unionization tactic. The NLRB's general counsel Jennifer Abruzzo's latest advice memo takes aim at misleading statements by employers during unionization drives, looking to overturn precedent from 1985. [Corporate Counsel] * Family of Emmett Till would really like the arrest warrant in his 1955 lynching served. And they're filing a federal lawsuit to make it happen. [Law & Crime] * After spending 28 years in prison for a crime he did not commit, Lamar Johnson is a free man. [Huffington Post] * The Department of Justice would really like it if you couldn't select exactly which far-right federal judge heard your case. Of course, the "worst judge in the United States" probably won't end the practice that's garnered him so much notoriety. [Vox]

By Above the Law
Non-Sequiturs

Non Sequiturs: 01.27.19

* Regarding the nomination of Patrick Bumatay to the Ninth Circuit, "Why are Democrats fighting the judicial nomination of a qualified gay minority?" Good question! [The Federalist] * Speaking of highly qualified minority nominees under attack, Carrie Severino argues that it's the critics of D.C. Circuit nominee Neomi Rao, not Rao herself, who are being inflammatory. [Bench Memos / National Review] * And KC Johnson, reviewing the collegiate writings by Rao that have generated the attacks against her, argues that Rao's views on campus sexual assault -- from 25 years ago, so who knows whether or not she still holds them -- are "align[ed] both with statute and today’s mainstream opinion." [City Journal] * Litigation over a watchdog commission for handling complaints of prosecutorial misconduct in New York State involves a lot of legal luminaries, including Jim Walden and Jacob Gardener of Walden Macht, Jim McGuire and Daniel Sullivan of Holwell Shuster & Goldberg, and Andrew Rossman, Kathleen Sullivan, and Alex Spiro of Quinn Emanuel. [New York Law Journal] * Could Nick Sandmann and the Covington boys file libel lawsuits over some of the commentary on their controversy? It could be an uphill climb, according to Eugene Volokh (a First Amendment expert, and hardly anyone's idea of a leftist). [Reason / Volokh Conspiracy] * But if Covington cases do get filed, they could give rise to some interesting issues of civil procedure, as Howard Wasserman notes. [PrawfsBlawg] * Many lessons can be learned from the Fyre Festival debacle -- and one of the legal ones is that FTC disclosures actually matter. [All Rights Reserved] * If you're a liberal or progressive appellate litigator interested in taking on the Trump Administration, check out this new job posting from the good folks at the CAC. [Constitutional Accountability Center]

By David Lat
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 10.25.16

* From prosecutor to prisoner: former Pennsylvania attorney general Kathleen Kane gets sentenced to 10 to 23 months. [CNN] * Oh, the irony: the ABA won’t publish a report calling Donald Trump a “libel bully” because of “the risk of the ABA being sued by Mr. Trump.” [New York Times] * How the AT&T/Time Warner […]

By David Lat
Non-Sequiturs

Non-Sequiturs: 03.22.16

* No matter what your right-wing uncle posts on Facebook, or what that drunken Bernie Bro tried to convince you of at a bar, no: Hillary Clinton is not getting indicted over her use of emails while at the State Department. Don’t believe me? Ask a law professor. [Media Matters] * If you’re wondering what Mitch McConnell is thinking, overtly being an obstructionist over President Obama’s Supreme Court nomination of Merrick Garland, you aren’t alone. But here is some insight as to why he is playing this political game. [Guile is Good] * We told you the Gawker verdict was no damn good. [Gawker] * Will it take a Cesar Chavez to takedown rideshare giants like Uber and Lyft? [Casetext] * Now that Donald Trump is within striking distance of the GOP nomination for president, will that impact potential sanctions against these lawyers? [Wise Law] * Columbia Law hosted a conference about Asian-Americans in the law, with our own David Lat, about demystifying the model minority myth and the "Bamboo Ceiling.” [Columbia Law School] * Can you make pre-packaged marketing materials work for you? [Reboot Your Law Practice] * Federal Trade Commissioner Julie Brill will be leaving public service and heading to Biglaw. She leaves the FTC effective March 31 and will then join Hogan Lovells. [Reuters]

By Kathryn Rubino