* The FTC's Lina Khan defends the agency's aggressive antitrust enforcement strategy. [Law360]
* Foursquare facing class action lawsuit for allegedly selling location information. [Law.com]
* Disgraced former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo would love to subpoena the New York State Office of the Attorney General and the New York State Assembly Judiciary Committee about investigations into the former governor. A Brooklyn magistrate judge rejects the motion. [New York Law Journal]
* Special counsel Jack Smith is getting a boatload of material from a former ally of President Trump, Bernard Kerik. [Huffington Post]
* The Department of Justice is going after Texas and Greg Abbott over border strategy. [Politico]
* New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg commissioned a report on SDNY Judge Shira Scheindlin in advance of her ruling on the NYPD’s controversial “hey, you’re black, come get a pat down” “stop-and-frisk” policy. According to the report, Judge Scheindlin is biased because she ruled against the NYPD in search and seizure cases 60% of the time. An alternative read is that the NYPD is really bad at following the Constitution. Occam’s Razor strikes again. [New York Daily News]
* STRIKE!: Legal Services NYC walked off the job this morning after rejecting new contract offers. [New York Law Journal]
* Pentagon Papers lawyer James C. Goodale thinks President Obama, whose administration seized phone records of journos, is worse than President Nixon, who tried to charge the New York Times for conspiracy to commit espionage. Because hyperbole is the awesomest thing in the world! [New York Observer]
* A surplus of lawyers over law jobs exists in every state, and for most states the surplus has grown. I’m sure third-party litigation financing will solve all of this though. [Am Law Daily]
* Tennessee law grad and judicial affairs director fired amid allegations she hooked up with Tennessee basketball player Trae Golden. [MStars News]
* After revelations earlier that Arkansas wasn’t “buying American” and instead getting its death penalty drugs from the UK, the pharmaceutical company announced it would cut off the supply, joining a number of drug companies that are practically slowing executions around the country by limiting supply. [YubaNet]
* After the post, check out the Biglaw firm using 4square way too much…
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