Kanye West

* Virtually new applications: Employment lawyers are gonna have to figure out how the Metaverse will fit into their practice. [Financial Times]

* Carpooling to the ER: Michigan’s no-fault policy on car accidents is arguably filling up hospital beds. [Detroit News]

* Can’t beat ’em, join ’em: California deploys an SB8-esque bill that will allow people to sue gunmakers. [UPI]

* Florida is trying to ban discussions of LGBTQ topics around children from kindergarten to third grade… I can’t even see how this came up? Someone play music a little too loud during nap time? [Jurist]

* My Beautiful Dark Twisted Tweets: Looks like Ye’s blue bird ramblings are fair game in the divorce proceedings. [FOX]

* Kanye West allegedly called his lawyer “f*cking stupid” and stormed out of a hearing. Sounds pretty “heartless“… [Sun]

* Meet the former lawyer who started a successful accessories brand. [Cut]

* The Supreme Court has tossed a lawsuit challenging Obamacare. [Politico]

* Lawyers for Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of Theranos, are not happy with the judge’s changes to a jury questionnaire in Holmes’s criminal case. [Yahoo News]

* A Long Island judge is accused of shoving a lawyer and calling another one “anti-Semitic.” You’d expect someone from “Strong” Island to have a lot of personality… [New York Post]

* Kim Kardashian has purportedly hired an all-star lawyer to pursue a divorce against Kanye West. Too bad, this could have been her first case as a legal professional and some might call her a gold digger… [Page Six]

* President Trump is seeking to dismiss a fraud lawsuit filed by his niece. [Reuters]

* Over 1,000 law graduates have become attorneys through emergency licensure programs recently without taking a bar exam. [Bloomberg Law]

* A lawyer who lost an election to Josh Hawley at Yale Law School is urging the senator to accept the results of the last presidential election. [Yahoo News]

* Michael Jordan was awarded $46,000 in damages from a Chinese company that allegedly used a word that translates into “Jordan” to brand products. Jeeze, Jordan is a great name, wish it was worth more money… [CBS Sports]

* Kanye West is facing a lawsuit for reportedly failing to pay individuals who worked on one of his performances. If true, “how could you be so heartless?” [OK Magazine]

* Lawyers representing Stephen Bannon in his criminal case moved to withdraw from the representations after Bannon seemed to suggest beheading Dr. Anthony Fauci and others. [Hill]

* A South Florida lawyer tragically died of a heart attack after collapsing during a court hearing held through Zoom. [Daily Business Review]

* President Trump is making little headway in his post-election lawsuits. [New York Times]

* A man who is accused of threatening the Attorney General of Israel claims that autocorrect is to blame. This is a creative defense. [Haaretz]