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Morning Docket: 03.14.23

* Want a popular policy done, but Congress is uncooperative? Enter Executive Orders. Joe Biden plans to issue one on gun background checks today. [Bloomberg Law] * Can partisan gerrymandering get worse? Yes, yes it can. Today the North Carolina Supreme Court will reconsider the issue, which could have major repercussions for national politics. [Reuters] * Supreme Court to consider whether the Constitution provides protection against anti-trans discrimination. And I am sure completely coincidentally, a vocally anti-trans federal judge finds himself in the news. [Vox] * Court issues blow to California labor movement: an appeals court found ride share services can classify drivers as independent contractors instead of employees. [Huffington Post] * It's not that law school deans want to end rankings, it's that they want to make them better. [Slate] * Michael Cohen takes the stand: Donald Trump's one-time fixer is singing to a New York grand jury. [Law360]

Will Antitrust Make Lyft Take A Hike?

Something other than inflation has to explain how rides went from $5 to $17.32.

Morning Docket: 09.30.21

* Loophole in Massachusetts law could leave Lyft and Uber drivers making $4.82 an hour. That would drive me crazy. [Business Insider] * Two narcotics officers arrested for dealing fentanyl and accepting bribes. I'm sure they did so in self-defense, somehow. [Whio] * Appeals court may be deciding if Guantanamo Bay detainees have due process rights. Prepare your Con Law outlines! [WaPo] * Seattle continues to test if voting coupons could be the answer to funny money driving politics. [The Nation]

Morning Docket: 01.15.21

* A Yale Law professor who taught Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley claims his former students didn't pay attention to his lessons. To be fair, law school lectures are usually kind of boring... [USA Today] * President Trump is reportedly having a difficult time finding lawyers to represent him at his second impeachment trial. [Bloomberg Law] * Here is some advice from a "lottery lawyer" in case any of you win the extremely high Mega Millions or Powerball jackpots over the weekend. [CBS News] * A lawyer for a person accused of rioting at the Capitol last week says that President Trump should pardon his client. [St. Louis Post-Dispatch] * The California Bar is evaluating new ways of delivering legal services. Would be interesting if Uber and Lyft got into the legal services delivery business... [Bloomberg Law]

Morning Docket: 06.23.20

* Lawyers for the estate of the helicopter pilot accused in a lawsuit of causing the crash that killed Kobe Bryant and others wants the case removed from Los Angeles. Pretty sure people know who Kobe Bryant is outside of LA... [Yahoo Sports] * Lyft has settled a lawsuit filed by the Department of Justice alleging that the ride-sharing service violated the Americans with Disabilities Act. [Tech Crunch] * The Trump Administration is facing a lawsuit for failing to provide COVID-19 relief money to undocumented families. [Buzzfeed News] * A lawyer for alt-right figure Richard Spencer has been allowed to withdraw from representing him in a case involving the 2017 Charlottesville violence. [Yahoo News] * Check out this profile of a top Hollywood lawyer who wheels and deals while walking around 10 miles a day. That's kind of the opposite of the Lincoln Lawyer... [Wall Street Journal]

Morning Docket: 12.09.19

* Elon Musk has won the defamation trial stemming from his infamous "pedo guy" tweet. Hope this means we'll see more off-the-cuff tweets from Musk. [New York Times] * Simon Cowell has lawyered up for an investigation about an allegedly toxic culture at America's Got Talent. Wonder if he did an America's Got Talent type of competition to select counsel. [Variety] * A Seattle attorney has been sentenced to prison time and fines for fleecing a brain-damaged former client. [Seattle Times] * Ride-share services are facing a legal reckoning over sexual assault allegations against drivers. [New York Times] * A judge has refused to toss a lawsuit filed by Bill Nye against Disney for profits Nye is allegedly owed from his hit 90s TV show. As we know from South Park, Nye needs to be careful taking on Mickey Mouse... [Hollywood Reporter]

Kim Kardashian Visits White House To Announce ‘Second Chance’ Ride-Share Program For Former Prisoners

She attended with the attorneys who are helping her learn the law.

The Uber IPO Will Be Like Chernobyl For The IPO Market

This is going to be the granddaddy of all tech IPO disasters.

Lyft Threatens To Sue Morgan Stanley For… Acting Shady, We Guess?

The buttfumble that is the Lyft IPO has reached its 'Torts?!' level of desperation.

Morning Docket: 08.09.18

* The Keystone Kops that are Trump's legal team have rejected Mueller's interview request and posed a counteroffer to answer only questions about the weather. [ABA Journal] * If you're getting tired of hearing that the Big 4 will soon come in and crush the rest of the legal landscape... well, too bad, because here's the latest ominous development. [ALM Legal Intelligence] * Rep. Chris Collins will continue to seek re-election after getting indicted. He must have some hot inside info on his re-election chances. [NBC] * New York issues a wage base for Uber, Lyft, and other ride-share drivers. And then promptly squanders that good deed by putting a cap on licenses, artificially jacking up the price. [Law360] * TIL there's a Mexican condom cartel. Now all I can think about is a show like Queen of the South... but for condoms. [Corporate Counsel] * Alex Jones's lawyer is looking to dox the parents of the children killed at Sandy Hook because everyone involved with Alex Jones is an inhuman monster. [The Hill] * The law requiring drivers to only use the left lane to pass is "routinely ignored by drivers" This story should read "routinely ignored by bad drivers." [KRISTV]

With Uber Limping Around Wounded, Lyft Makes A Deal With Wall Street’s Angel Of Death

Be afraid Uber, be very afraid.

Lyft’s General Counsel Proactively Drives To The Top

This proactive approach is a large contributing factor to her success.

Non-Sequiturs: 03.22.16

* No matter what your right-wing uncle posts on Facebook, or what that drunken Bernie Bro tried to convince you of at a bar, no: Hillary Clinton is not getting indicted over her use of emails while at the State Department. Don’t believe me? Ask a law professor. [Media Matters] * If you’re wondering what Mitch McConnell is thinking, overtly being an obstructionist over President Obama’s Supreme Court nomination of Merrick Garland, you aren’t alone. But here is some insight as to why he is playing this political game. [Guile is Good] * We told you the Gawker verdict was no damn good. [Gawker] * Will it take a Cesar Chavez to takedown rideshare giants like Uber and Lyft? [Casetext] * Now that Donald Trump is within striking distance of the GOP nomination for president, will that impact potential sanctions against these lawyers? [Wise Law] * Columbia Law hosted a conference about Asian-Americans in the law, with our own David Lat, about demystifying the model minority myth and the "Bamboo Ceiling.” [Columbia Law School] * Can you make pre-packaged marketing materials work for you? [Reboot Your Law Practice] * Federal Trade Commissioner Julie Brill will be leaving public service and heading to Biglaw. She leaves the FTC effective March 31 and will then join Hogan Lovells. [Reuters]