Insider Trading While Posing As Your Mother Is Officially Illegal
The Ballad of John Afriyie has been sung, and it was batshit glorious.
Morning Docket: 01.31.17
* Here's a roundup of the legal challenges against Trump's foray into immigration policy. [Vice News] * Oh and while we're at it, here's a couple more. [New York Times] * The SEC has brought fraud charges over an $81 million Hamilton Ponzi scheme. It was an ambitious scheme, but if convicted, the defendants will have to... take a break. *Groan* [Courthouse News Service] * Harvard Law Review elects it's first female black president. [WBUR] * Insider trading defendant John Afriyie earned a guilty verdict in less than three hours of deliberation. Sources say the jury would have been in faster, but they kept sticking on the fact that Afriyie had skipped bail and tried to hide out in New Jersey. Only a truly insane man would go to New Jersey willingly. [Law360] * Alston & Bird wins malpractice appeal. [New York Law Journal] * Remember Pokémon Go? Well the lawsuits are still out there. [The Recorder]
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Morning Docket: 01.24.17
* SEC probe into whether or not Yahoo had an obligation to disclose data breaches to shareholders could set a precedent, which would mark the first time Yahoo's been on the cutting edge of something since the mid-90s. [National Law Journal] * Dewey know anyone looking to get out of jury duty? [Law360] * If you're trying to become a fugitive from justice, dream a little bigger than a Quality Inn in New Jersey. [NY Post] * The top Biglaw firms continue to pull away from the rest of the pack. This isn't so much news as a quarterly reminder that the rich get richer. [The Am Law Daily] * Britain's Supreme Court blocks Theresa May's effort to trigger Article 50 without a parliamentary vote. Because breaking up is hard to do. [BBC] * A bevy of laws to criminalize peaceful protests coming soon. At least the death of American democracy is still running on schedule. [The Intercept] * Finally someone willing to stand up to the tyranny of snow globes. [Clickhole]