* Dr. Dre's lawyer has been disqualified from representing him in his divorce. Too bad Dr. Dre went to medical school instead of law school... [Page Six]
* A Florida man, who was found guilty of impersonating a lawyer, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison. [New York Times]
* A new lawsuit alleges that the tipping policy of Olive Garden's parent company has a discriminatory impact on workers. If true, maybe "when you're here, your family" should apply to employees too. [Today]
* Veritas founder James O'Keefe is threatening litigation after being banned from Twitter. [Forbes]
* Fyre Festival has settled claims with 277 ticket-holders over the ill-fated 2017 music event. Hope they make a documentary about this part of the Fyre Festival saga... [Fox News]
* Michael Cohen, President Trump's former attorney, will finally be released today from prison to serve the rest of his sentence at home. His situation is not unlike many Americans right now. [BBC]
* Environmental lawyer Steven Donziger has been ordered to continue his home confinement pending a contempt of court trial in September. Again, less of a burden given the current environment. [Intercept]
* A New York lawyer who forgot to attend oral arguments has been forced to pay his adversary's costs for coming to the courthouse. [ABA Journal]
* The College Board is facing a class action lawsuit over glitches with online Advanced Placement exams. [Washington Post]
* An Ohio lawyer has been suspended for a number of ethical violations, including offering a client a Xanax. [Bloomberg Law]
* Kendall Jenner has agreed to pay $90,000 because of her promotion of the ill-fated Fyre Festival. If you haven't seen the documentaries about this dumpster fire of an event, check them out! [Page Six]
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* A New York City attorney has been accused of filing over 300 lawsuits on behalf of two clients who had no idea he was representing them. [New York Post]
* Ben & Jerry's has been sued for allegedly misleading consumers about claims that its milk is sourced from "happy cows." Wonder if the cows will get subpoenaed... [USA Today]
* New York has joined California and others in suing Juul, the maker of electronic cigarettes, for allegedly illicit conduct in connection with advertising to minors. [NBC]
* Ja Rule has been dismissed from a class action about the failed Fyre Festival. No need to read the article, there will probably be three documentaries about the lawsuit someday. [Billboard]
* A South African lawyer died in a freak accident this week after she dropped a loaded gun in court. [People]
* A lawyer in Texas has been arrested for returning to the firm that had just axed her and firing a gun. [Dallas Morning News]
* 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]
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* Stormy Daniels, the porn actress who was paid six figures in exchange for not spilling the beans about her affair with Donald Trump, is now suing him, claiming that the "hush agreement" she entered into prior to the election is invalid because he never signed it. [Washington Post]
* File this under Not Top Ten: Former ESPN legal analyst and sports anchor Adrienne Lawrence, a onetime associate of Greenberg Traurig, Arent Fox, and McGuireWoods, has filed a sexual harassment suit against the sports network, claiming that SportsCenter anchor John Buccigross constantly harassed her. [American Lawyer]
* Not only will the government be able to seize more than $7.3 million of disgraced pharma bro Martin Shkreli's assets -- including his one-of-a-kind Wu-Tang Clan album -- but prosecutors want to throw him behind bars for no less than 15 years. [New York Law Journal]
* Attorney General Jeff Sessions will announce today that the Justice Department will be filing suit against California over its "sanctuary state" laws. As alleged in the complaint, the Golden State's laws -- AB 450, SB 54, and AB 103 -- were all created to impede immigration laws. [USA Today]
* "When I heard the gun went off accidentally, that just didn’t ring true. Someone has to pull the trigger. They just don’t accidentally discharge." Prospective jurors in former Biglaw partner Claud "Tex" McIver's murder trial weren't exactly buying his defense. [Atlanta Journal-Constitution]
* Forget about the egregious law school tuition you'll have to pay in the future, because it can cost quite the pretty penny to apply to law school in the first place. You may want to look into fee waivers so you can save yourself some cash. [U.S. News]
* Billy McFarland, the millennial entrepreneur who organized the disastrous Fyre Festival, has taken a plea deal after defrauding the investors who bought into the failed event. He's looking at sentence of eight to 10 years in prison. [Big Law Business]
* President Trump included a signing statement when approving the funding legislation that will keep the government running through the end of September. In it, he questioned the limits of his spending power and suggested he'd ignore advance notice requirements for Congress when taking foreign policy and military actions, amid other troubling stances on legal matters. [Bloomberg Politics]
* In other news, sometime this week -- possibly even later today -- President Trump is expected to announce some of his picks for the more than 120 vacancies in the lower federal courts, all of whom are known for their "scholarly credentials and 'intellectual boldness.'" As luck would have it, we already scooped predicted the names of many of the nominees. [New York Times]
* #NoFilter necessary for this case: The End, a Brooklyn coffee shop, has filed suit against Starbucks, claiming the coffee giant copied its Unicorn Latte with its highly Instagrammable Unicorn Frappuccino. The End registered the name of its whimsical drink with the Patent and Trademark Office in January, and seeks all profits Starbucks made from its sale of its mythical sugar bomb. [Newsweek]
* Even if you're a passenger in a car, you'll have no reprieve from police searches in this state. The Utah Supreme Court has ruled that police may ask for passengers' identification and run background checks on them -- without any suspicion of wrongdoing -- during traffic stops, and that doing so will not stand as a violation of their Fourth Amendment rights. [FOX 13 Salt Lake City]
* Think you've found the perfect person to write you a law school rec letter? Think again. "Like in the world of dating, it helps if your partner/prospective partner is supportive of your plans." Here are some red flags to look out for that may indicate your reference isn't going to meet your deadlines, isn't going to remember who you are, and isn't going to write you a glowing letter. [U.S. News]
* Celebrity trial attorney Mark Geragos has filed a $100 million class-action lawsuit against rapper Ja Rule and entrepreneur Billy McFarland, the organizers of the ill-fated Fyre Festival, an event marked by "incompetence on an almost inconceivable scale." In an interview with Variety, Geragos referred to the disastrous event as a "Petri dish of fraud, incompetence and hubris." [Variety]
* A look at how behavior on the Court has changed since Justice Gorsuch’s began serving. [Empirical SCOTUS] * Is General Counsel Dianne Brandi likely to be the next head to roll of Fox News? [Law and More] * We’ve all seen the local news and after school specials — cyberbullying is a real phenomenon. […]
* Fewer than 18 percent of federal appeals have oral arguments because federal judges think your argument is just as dumb as the rest of us. [Law.com]
* Mark Geragos files $100 million lawsuit against Ja Rule and the other organizers of Fyre Festival because rich people can't be forced to live like poors without consequences. [Variety]
* Former Acting Solicitor General Ian Gershengorn says, "I feel like I am standing on the shoulders of giants," which is just a tad sly considering he's returning to the firm he worked at for 12 years. [National Law Journal]
* Speaking of the exodus to the private sector, the "Government to Debevoise Pipeline" rolls on with SEC Enforcement's FCPA chief Kara Brockmeyer joining the firm. For those keeping track this pipeline has now officially created more jobs than the Keystone Pipeline promised. [Corporate Counsel]
* Maybe we'll make this whole roundup about moving to private practice! Crowell & Moring adds former Homeland Security Chief of Staff Paul Rosen. [Politico]
* Fox Rothschild does what anyone else who spends time in Los Angeles does: moves to Seattle. [Legal Intelligencer]
* The Supreme Court made it harder to sue a foreign government that seizes American assets. Good thing America's leadership is focused on sound diplomacy and doesn't needlessly provoke countries by describing them as "a mess." This should work out well. [Law360]
* The folks behind the Bar Exam Stats blog have opened a Law School HQ, a new site with a broader focus. [Law School HQ]
