* 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]
* A Long Island lawyer has filed nearly 100 lawsuits alleging that companies are falsely claiming their products contain vanilla. He should go after restaurants unfairly advertising they sell New York-style pizza and bagels... [Inside Edition]
* A Florida lawyer, who dressed as the Grim Reaper on beaches to promote social distancing, is facing legal setbacks in his lawsuit against Florida's Governor Ron DeSantis over COVID-19-related measures. [News Service of Florida]
* A number of court proceedings in Durham County, North Carolina, have been canceled because a substantial amount of local prosecutors are quarantining after being exposed to COVID-19. [WRAL.com]
* A Michigan funeral home recently settled a lawsuit that led to a major LGBT ruling at the Supreme Court. [Star Tribune]
* Massachusetts is paving the way for marijuana delivery, which may prompt legal action from retailers. Guess Mr. Nice Guy might soon be legal in the Commonwealth... [Mass Live]
* A Long Island gym owner is planning on filing a lawsuit over New York's plans to delay the reopening of gyms. Guess they call it "Strong" Island for a reason... [Long Island Press]
* Pinterest has hired outside counsel to investigate allegations of a hostile work environment. [Bloomberg]
* The Michigan Attorney General is suing Exxon Mobil and other energy companies over alleged culpability with climate change. [NPR]
* Booz Allen has been hit with a sex discrimination and retaliation lawsuit by a former employee. [Bloomberg]
* A New York lawyer who lied about his grandfather's death to miss a court date and is one of the most disciplined lawyers in the Southern District of New York has been sanctioned $104,000 for conduct in a copyright case. This guy might make a good Above the Law lawyer of the year candidate... [Daily News]
Peter Madoff, the lawyer who served as "chief compliance officer" for Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff, used to live in this big house (before getting sent to the Big House).
* While Dewey’s former culture gets roasted on a spit, and the seemingly unending drama gets turned into a montage of living lawyer jokes, we’re still waiting for the final punchline. [New York Times; Wall Street Journal]
* Don Verrilli tried so hard, and got so far (depending on who you ask), but in the end, it doesn’t even matter. When Linkin Park lyrics apply to your oral argument skills, you know you’re kind of screwed. [New York Times]
* The 9/11 arraignments went off without a hitch this weekend. And by that, we mean that it was a 13 hour hearing filled multiple interruptions, and grandstanding about “appropriate” courtroom fashion. [Fox News]
* In a “re-re-reversal,” Judge Jerry Smith, on a three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit, reinstated Planned Parenthood’s injunction against Texas, without even so much as a homework assignment. [Dallas Observer]
* The It Gets Worse Project: if you thought that the Law School Transparency debt figures were scary before, then take a look at them now. Six figures of debt just got a lot harder to swallow. [National Law Journal]
* Scalia gets busted on a case of hot-dog hooking. No, not that Scalia. A woman from Long Island has been accused, for the second time, of selling swallowing foot-longs in the back of her food truck. [New York Post]
* Illinois is suing Standard & Poor’s, accusing the financial services company of misleading investors and putting the country in the poorhouse thanks to its high ratings for mortgage-backed investments. [Washington Post] * CHECK YOU LATERALS: William Burck, who served in the White House counsel’s office under President Bush, is leaving Weil to co-manage the […]
* Obama took a break from his vacation to sign the NDAA. But don’t worry, as long as he’s president, he’ll never indefinitely detain American citizens. Oh boy, we get a one-year guarantee. [New York Times] * “By your powers combined, I am Captain Primary!” Four Republican presidential candidates are joining forces to assist Rick […]
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Josh is a very smart kid. I really doubt he would be involved in anything like that. He works hard, and he’s earned everything he’s gotten. — David Chefec, a “prominent” lawyer, commenting over a week ago on his son’s alleged involvement in the New York SAT cheating scandal. Chefec’s son, Joshua Chefec, surrendered to […]
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