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Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 11.01.21

* A light start: The Supreme Court hears on the legality of SB8 today. [FiveThirtyEight] * Former CEO of the ROC distinguishes between an ad and a commercial during an $18M civil lawsuit over perfume. [Law360] * Qualified immunity ambiguity continues to make it difficult to determine when Blue Lives are Reasonable. [Law.com] * New York passes a "Keep That S*&t Down!" law that aims to quiet the streets. [SILive]

By Chris Williams
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By Barbri
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 06.05.20

* President Trump tweeted a letter that his lawyer John Dowd wrote to former Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis about criticism Mattis lodged against President Trump. Guess Dowd can save money on a stamp... [Hill] * The attorney accused of firebombing an NYPD police car during protests last week has been suspended from his Biglaw firm. [New York Post] * A Texas attorney is accused of charging homeless people exorbitant fees to help process their stimulus payments. [KHOU.com] * Attorneys are fearful over plans to reopen Brooklyn courthouses closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As someone who has attended CCP and JCP in Kings County many times, I can understand the concern. [New York Daily News] * Jay-Z lent his private jet to Ahmaud Arbery's legal team so they could make it to a court proceeding on time. [E! Online] * Amazon is facing a lawsuit alleging that warehouse workers were not properly protected from COVID-19. Thought Amazon would just have robot workers by now... [Fox News]

By Jordan Rothman

Morning Docket: 01.15.20

* President Trump is assembling a legal “Dream Team” to defend him in his impeachment trial. [NPR] * A California lawyer has trademarked a moniker used by Meghan Markle and Prince Harry. Quite the entrepreneur. [Fox Business]

By Jordan Rothman
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 01.28.19

* Paul Weiss really showed its “commitment to putting the white in white shoe” with its new partnership class, and the New York Times is on it! See our coverage from December here. [New York Times] * President Donald Trump recently met with a group of right-wing activists led by Ginni Thomas, wife of Justice Clarence Thomas, where they criticized transgender people and women serving in the military. Trump reportedly looked “taken aback“ during the meeting, which is a bit of a rarity. [New York Times] * Some pretty major lateral moves for some pretty major players when it comes to appellate practice: Lisa Blatt is returning to Williams & Connelly where she’ll lead the firm’s Supreme Court practice, and Kannon Shanmugam is leaving Williams & Connolly to lead a new Supreme Court practice at Paul Weiss. Congrats! [NLJ; NLJ] * “I'm here to speak for the people who don't have a voice.” Rappers Jay-Z and Meek Mill have launched the Reform Alliance, an initiative for criminal justice reform, with the goal of dramatically changing laws and policies to reduce “unreasonable” probation, parole, and prison terms. [CBS News] * What happened to the people who were told that they passed the D.C. bar exam, when in reality they actually failed? “Just shock. I didn’t think that could happen. I never heard of a bar committee changing the results.” Here’s a bit of a depressing update. [Washington Post]

By Staci Zaretsky
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 01.17.19

* Jay-Z pointed out that it's nearly impossible to find a diverse arbitrator and Blank Rome says the claim that white arbitrators may be biased against minorities, "dubious, indeed offensive" and "contravenes every published authority on the matter." Every published authority? Bold. [American Lawyer] * Law professor notes that legal technology is going to kill off junior lawyers, which is something I've been saying for years now. [Legal Cheek] * Big 4's coming yo! (Hong Kong edition) [International] * The EPA is basically an empty shell these days. [Courthouse News Service] * The government shutdown raises hacking risks... which doesn't sound encouraging. [Law360] * Supreme Court poised to make it easier to access booze. Kavanaugh's appointment already paying dividends. [NY Times] * Trump appoints more dicks to the courts. [American Lawyer]

By Joe Patrice
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 12.26.18

* The D.C. Circuit awarded more than $501M in damages to the family of Otto Warmbier, the student who tortured so badly in North Korea that he was left deaf, blind, unable to speak, and died shortly after he returned home. [New York Times] * Trump's DOJ has filed many emergency SCOTUS requests to bypass lower courts, but here are the ones to watch: the asylum ban, the DACA wind-down, the transgender military ban, the citizenship census, and kids' climate change. [PBS NewsHour] * Ex-district judge and U.S. AG Michael Mukasey says Bill Barr is "probably the best-qualified nominee for U.S. attorney general since Robert Jackson in 1940." Mukasey has also linked "Baby, It's Cold Outside" to Islamic terrorism. [Wall Street Journal] * Not even a weird video in character as Frank Underwood can help him now: Kevin Spacey has been accused of sexually assaulting a minor and is scheduled to be arraigned on a felony charge of indecent assault and battery. [Boston Globe] * In case you missed it,after declaring war against the lack of diversity in the arbitration world, rapper Jay-Z managed to get the American Arbitration Association to commit to expanding its roster of black arbitrators. [Hollywood Reporter]

By Staci Zaretsky