Holocaust

Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 10.27.20

* The judge in the Google antitrust case just set the first hearing in the lawsuit. Maybe the parties scheduled it through Google Hangouts... [Fox Business] * Amy Coney Barrett was confirmed by the Senate and sworn in last night as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. [New York Times] * Another lawyer, who accused the Attorney General of Texas of criminal acts, has resigned. [Seattle Times] * A lawsuit filed by the estate of a Holocaust survivor featured in the new Borat movie has been dismissed. [Deadline] * A former employee at Goldman Sachs is suing the company for sexual misconduct allegedly committed by a top lawyer at the shop. [Business Insider] * The Idaho Attorney General is warning of fake COVID-19 cures. It's like the Carbolic Smoke Ball all over again... [Idaho Statesman]

Jews

Letter from London: Our Greatest Fear

When Hitler came to power in January 1933, more than half of Berlin’s 3,400 lawyers were of Jewish origin. All of them, alongside the thousands of other Jews practising law throughout the rest of Germany, were forced to re-apply for admission to the national bar. At which point, only German-Jewish lawyers who had qualified before […]