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Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 07.27.18

* Papa John has filed suit against his former company in a bid to protect his legacy as America's foremost "racist guy who makes bad pizza." [Wall Street Journal] * While everyone prattles on about Trump's tapes, the government just blew another deadline to reunite the children they kidnapped with their parents. [Courthouse News Service] * Troubled law school Arizona Summit trying to get ASU to take its students if or when it loses accreditation. By the way, if you want to hear an in-depth discussion about the problems with Arizona Summit and its sibling schools, check out this. [AZ Central] * Speaking of independent law schools, the landscape for these programs -- for-profit or not -- is getting harder. [Law.com] * Lawsuit seeking to desegregate Minneapolis schools is moving forward. [MinnPost] * Government argues that Evan Greebel deserves 5 years for his role in aiding Shkreli. [Law360] * Former Biglaw associate accused of ripping off Harlem church. [New York Law Journal]

By Joe Patrice
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 04.26.18

* Rudy Giuliani is reportedly in talks with Robert Mueller over a Trump interview again. Because whenever you have a loose cannon for a client it's important to get them talking to federal investigators as soon as possible. [CBS News] * A quick primer on today's Michael Cohen hearing. [Courthouse News Service] * Looks like Geoffrey Berman gets to stay on the job at the SDNY. A little-known quirk of the system is that an interim U.S. Attorney, like Berman, can only stay in that role for 120 days and if the White House fails to confirm someone to the role by then, the district court gets to choose who will act as the U.S. Attorney. Judge McMahon says they'll choose Berman. It's an anticlimactic conclusion for those of us hoping the judges would put Preet back on the job. [Law360] * Charlotte Law may be gone, but it has managed to live on as a whistleblower suit, though that may be coming to an end soon and Staci Zaretsky and Kathryn Rubino are partially to blame according to the judge's opinion. [Daily Business Review] * The Cosby jury asked the judge to explain the legal definition of consent. How was that not a jury instruction? [Vulture] * Sally Yates, who lost her job over Trump's original Muslim ban, offers her take on the latest version. [PBS Newshour] * That story making the rounds about the golf course that called the cops on black golfers for golfing too slow? Well, one of those golfers is a lawyer. [Legal Intelligencer]

By Joe Patrice
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 11.27.17

* According to recently released tax records, a mystery donor gave more than $28 million to the Wellspring Committee to keep Justice Antonin Scalia's Supreme Court seat in Republican hands and help get Neil Gorsuch confirmed. How awesome would it be if that mystery donor were the president himself? [Law Newz] * The DOJ says Trump can appoint the interim director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau under the Federal Vacancies Act, but the Dodd-Frank Act says the deputy director will head the agency in the absence of a permanent director. Now we have two dueling CFPB directors, AND there's a lawsuit. Yay! [The Hill; CNN] * FCC commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel is so against Chairman Ajit Pai's "lousy plan" to do away with net neutrality that she wrote an op-ed to plead for help: "I'm on the FCC. Please stop us from killing net neutrality." She encourages us to "make a ruckus" about this -- and we really, really should. [Los Angeles Times] * The layoffs are coming! The layoffs are coming! Along with Sedgwick's announcement that the faltering firm intends to close its doors in early 2018 comes the news that it will shutter its back office operations center. Up to 75 people are expected to lose their jobs. It'll be a not-so happy New Year. [American Lawyer] * Start placing your bets: The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments in New Jersey's sports betting case next week, and is expected to issue a ruling in June. What's the over/under on the high court overturning the federal ban on sports betting? Come on, SCOTUS, make Atlantic City great again! [NJ.com] * Representative John Conyers Jr. will be stepping down from his platoon as the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee during an investigation into allegations that he sexually harassed his former aides. Even though a settlement was made in 2015, Conyers continues to deny the allegations. [New York Times] * The InfiLaw System has been lowering the bar for minority law students for years and years and dooming them to hundreds of thousands of dollars of nondischargeable loan debt, and the man who started it all seems relatively disappointed with what's happened and the awful outcomes students have seen. [Wall Street Journal] * "I think when it’s all said and done, what you’re gonna see is there was nothing racial that motivated this." The lawyer representing the white University of Hartford student who smeared period blood all over her black roommate's things to get her to move out doesn't think his client should be charged with a hate crime. [Hartford Courant]

By Staci Zaretsky