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By Barbri
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 03.11.22

* Word is bonded: Houston Senator is pushing for people to front part of their bail before they walk. [Click 2 Houston] * The ties that bind: Giving birth in Indiana is making a change for the humane. [WTHR] * Connecticut might be zoning in on affordable housing. Woop Woop! [CT Mirror] * New Florida law makes it easier to regulate how people discuss race at work. HR HRs HR-rily. [USA Today] * I know long-arm statutes are a thing, but Missouri's attempt to ban abortions that happen in other states would make the court that wrote Wickard blush. [STL Today]

By Chris Williams
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 02.16.22

* "Wait, are we the bad guys?" The moral ambiguity of Law & Order may be indicative of our legal zeitgeist. Or something, I just write jokes. [NYT] * One man's consideration of financial need is another man's price fixing. While Yale won't like being the cause for litigation, I have a funny feeling they know a few good lawyers. [Yale Daily News] * Tired of venture capitalist bros being the only ones insufferably discussing NFTs? Learn the legal angles now and wow your soon-to-be ex-friends! Here's a primer. [Legalscoops] * Prison industrial complex to human rights breach pipeline? New Jersey's Institute for Social Justice says denying the formerly incarcerated the right to vote is a human rights violation. [Insider NJ] * Share with them a penny for the ferryman: Houston law firm does a little democracy assistance by fronting voters’ transportation costs. [NBC DFW]

By Chris Williams
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 06.14.21

* Six Flags has settled a lawsuit for $36 million involving the use of fingerprint scanners at a park . What would the old guy in its commercials think? [USA Today] * A judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by employees of a Houston hospital who protested their employer's policy that workers need to be vaccinated against COVID-19. [NBC News] * A Connecticut lawyer is under police investigation after a shooting occurred outside his office. [ABA Journal] * Check out this article on an Arizona lawyer who is performing name changes for trans individuals pro bono during Pride Month. [Arizona Republic] * A cryptocurrency company has hired new counsel. Wonder if she is getting paid in crypto... [Crypto Briefing]

By Jordan Rothman
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 06.01.21

* A Michigan lawyer, who allegedly gave his adversary the middle finger during a virtual court hearing, has purportedly been fined $3,000. That's one expensive bird... [Detroit Free Press] * Unvaccinated workers at a Houston hospital are suing over their employer's vaccination mandate. [Washington Post] * A Philadelphia-area attorney passed away last week hours after he was pulled from a bay in Longport, New Jersey. [Fox News] * Johnson & Johnson is asking the Supreme Court to hear an ovarian cancer case that resulted in a $2 billion judgment against the company. [NBC News] * A retired attorney is now the oldest person to have scaled Mount Everest. [Chicago Tribune]

By Jordan Rothman