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Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 05.02.22

* Florida is working on a "constitutional" carry thing. We need to stop the trend of just putting "bat" or "constitutional" in front of words like that to make a new product. [Tallahassee Democrat] * Ever wonder about prosecutorial discretion? Here's a primer. [WSJ] * When worlds collide: Looks like the IP buffs are duking it out with the antitrust advocates again. [NEXT TV] * Flexible or vague? A Virginian law about shorelines has homeowners swimming in uncertainty. [Bay Journal] * Looks like Massachusetts lawmakers are hiding the ball when it comes to gambling. [Mass Live] * Reminder: Vote on your top pick for Law Revue!!

Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 08.08.19

* Jones Day partner Don McGahn sued for failing to comply with House subpoena. [National Law Journal] * Short seller argues that Burford is out of money in move that pits highly sophisticated calculated gamblers against highly sophisticated calculated gamblers. [American Lawyer] * A reminder that the Supreme Court is going to hear a case that could allow employers to fire women for not acting feminine enough. [Vice] * ICE deported a guy to Iraq who had never lived there, didn't speak Arabic, and who subsequently died unable to secure insulin. [Slate] * Biglaw is making the diversity officer role more senior and more powerful. [American Lawyer] * MGM complaining that federal government gives tribes "monopoly" over casinos. That's... that's not how this works. [Courthouse News Service] * National Review is arguing for "red flag laws" in an editorial that it will deny ever publishing once the GOP quietly kills this issue. [National Review]

By Joe Patrice
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 10.30.18

* Trump says he will end the Fourteenth Amendment by executive order. This is your Andrew Jackson-John Marshall moment right here. Thankfully, he probably knows he can't do this and is just ranting in a desperate bid to energize a racist base to turn out for the Midterms. That's actually what passes for "thankfully" these days. [CNN] * Milwaukee judge puts defense attorney in chains for defending his client. The American justice system of 2018 is cruising along swimmingly. [Journal-Sentinel] * GCs making a lot more money to tell outside counsel that they can't afford the bills. [Corporate Counsel] * ...Of course our client was planning to bomb people, but that was if Hillary Clinton had won, so, in a sense, Trump saved all these potential victims! [Huffington Post] * Judicial Conference hearing testimony today about reforming the judiciary to address sexual misconduct. This should be a powerful meeting that results in lackluster reform. [National Law Journal] * Florida prosecutors are challenging the constitutionality of the state's "Stand Your Ground" law for forcing them to try self-defense claims without a jury. Too bad we couldn't have had this challenge several years ago. [Miami Herald] * Cravath on the outside looking in when its long-time client embarked on its biggest software acquisition ever. [American Lawyer] * New York judge rules that daily fantasy games are gambling because this stupid battle will never end. [Law360]

By Joe Patrice