Idaho

Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 03.24.22

* Bad Blood: Apple is facing antitrust litigation because of its heart monitoring capabilities. [9to5Mac] * Idaho’s governor just yolo signed a bill that flouts Roe. [NYT] * All hands on deck: students are putting books on hold to support Ukraine. [Reuters] * No Cuomo: NY passed laws that will strengthen harassment and discrimination protections. [National Law Review] * According to the judge, you’re gonna need some paperwork for that. [Tennessee Lookout]

By Chris Williams
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 03.16.22

* KBJ now under fire for literally just doing her job as a public defender. How dare she! [NYT] * Turns out Major League Baseball fumbled by not paying their minor league trainees. In other news, I clearly know about the sports ball. [AP] * Reframing biodiversity discussions may play a key role in how litigants represent Nature. [The Guardian] * Can’t do that! Ag-Gag law ruled unconstitutional. [Des Moines Register] * Seeing double: Idaho is about to pass their version of the Texas Roe work-around. [Huffington Post]

By Chris Williams
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 03.02.22

* Come back when you’re older, spud: Bill to make tobacco purchasing age 21 passed Idaho’s Senate. [Daily News] * Not enough of a good thing: a spike in need for legal help fighting evictions is hurting legal services. [The Real Deal] * New Florida law makes panhandling a fineable offense. No clue how the state is gonna collect on that ticket. [FOX] * Mask off: mask mandates got banned in Virginia schools. We’re like 5 minutes away from hand sanitizer being contraband. [WRIC] * Deep rooted: Idaho wants to use contract to make sure that its Med students actually practice there once they earn their honorifics. [Idaho Capital Sun]

By Chris Williams
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 05.22.20

* The lawyer for Carole Baskin's missing husband says the signature on his former client's will may have been forged. Please let there be more Tiger King episodes about this. [Fox News] * An NFL player has filed a lawsuit against United Airlines over an alleged sexual assault that occurred on a recent flight. [ABC News] * The Supreme Court decided against considering an appellate ruling that ordered the State of Idaho to pay for a transgender prisoner's reassignment surgery. [New York Times] * Lawyers are looking to reopen cases in which Tara Reade, who accuses Joe Biden of sexual assault, served as an expert witness, since Reade may have exaggerated her educational background. [Politico] * Harvard Law School has made its "Zero-L" classes available to all law students online for free even though HLS originally planned on charging a fee for the courses. [Harvard Crimson] * Richard Simmons has won a lawsuit against a media company that installed a tracking device on his vehicle. Can kind of understand the desire to know where he's been recently. [Hollywood Reporter]

By Jordan Rothman
Non-Sequiturs

Non-Sequiturs: 01.13.15

* From the "Why the hell didn't you settle this?" file: Now that Alexandra Marchuk's case against Faruqi & Faruqi and Juan Monteverde has gone to trial, it seems the firm is getting all sorts of publicity -- mostly negative. [New York Post] * Supreme Court justices are really just like us... they show up late to work, too. Because Justice Antonin Scalia was stuck in traffic this morning, Chief Justice John Roberts had to summarize two of Scalia's opinions from the bench. Oops! [NPR] * Speaking of Justice Scalia, the Supreme jurist managed to sneak in a citation to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice in his opinion in Whitfield v. United States to show the common usage of the word “accompany." [Volokh Conspiracy / Washington Post] * Remember Dennis Doyle, the lawyer who lost his job and dropped $25K to see every single Knicks game this season? He said this of his tragic endeavor: "I can’t shut it down. I’m in too deep. ... I’ll see it through—if it doesn’t kill me first." [Bleacher Report] * An Idaho prosecutor is having regrets over the fact that he chose to issue an arrest warrant for a 9-year-old boy on gum-stealing charges, calling it “a mistake under the circumstances.” That kid must be the coolest on the playground. [ABA Journal] * "Trying to suppress [the value of parody] with violence is a fool’s errand." In the wake of the horror of the Charlie Hebdo shootings, it's worth recognizing that here in the U.S., we owe much to rappers who have capitalized on free speech. [LinkedIn]

By Staci Zaretsky