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Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 06.22.21

* A lawsuit alleges that the wife of an MLB star had an affair with a former pastor. Guess that pastor allegedly made it to home base... [Fox News] * A lawyer at Dechert has been sanctioned $10,000 for conduct during closing arguments of litigation involving purportedly defective earplugs. [Reuters] * A defendant accused of stabbing a California attorney to death is due in court. [ABC News] * A class action has been filed over a massive chemical fire that occurred at a Chemtool plant earlier this month. [Chicago Tribune] * Harvard successfully dismissed a lawsuit alleging that students should receive tuition discounts due to COVID-19. Guess a Harvard education doesn't just cost a Zoom subscription and $1.50 in late fees at the public library. [Forbes]

By Jordan Rothman
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 06.09.21

* The MLB is playing "hard ball" over a lawsuit concerning the location of the League's All-Star Game. [Hill] * The Ohio Attorney General has filed a lawsuit seeking to declare Google a public utility. [CBS News] * Systems at the New York City Law Department are still down days after it was targeted by a cyberattack. It was hard enough to schedule depositions with them already... [New York Times] * A woman who was impaled by a beach umbrella has filed a negligence lawsuit. [Scranton Times Tribune] * A new lawsuit alleges a company falsely claimed air purifiers protected against COVID-19. If true, that stinks... [NBC News]

By Jordan Rothman
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 04.13.21

* An MLB umpire was awarded $500,000 after filing a defamation lawsuit against a former pro baseball player. Guess his lawyers hit the case out of the park and that can buy a lot of peanuts and Cracker Jacks... [USA Today] * Fox News has hired a new general counsel as it battles a lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems. [Reuters] * Harvey Weinstein's lawyer claimed his client is going blind and is missing teeth in a bid to block extradition to California. [Fox News] * A New York attorney recently appeared on Jeopardy! [Bronx Times] * A lawyer for Marking a Murderer's Steven Avery claims a new witness's statements may exonerate her client. Maybe there'll be another season of the series after all... [Newsweek]

By Jordan Rothman
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 10.06.20

* A Michigan lawyer has changed his name to get more recognition from voters. This definitely worked for Eddie Murphy's character in The Distinguished Gentleman. [ABA Journal] * Eric Trump was deposed yesterday as part of a probe conducted by the New York Attorney General's Office. [CNN] * A Tennessee lawyer has been suspended from practice for allegedly forging a witness' signature on a court document. [Bloomberg Law] * A lawyer has been charged with allegedly trying to extort the University of Maryland Medical Center of $25 million. People should really read my article on attorney shakedowns... [Fox News] * The Supreme Court is allowing a class action filed by minor league baseball players who allege they are being paid less than minimum wage to proceed. Bet they're happy their lawsuit didn't strike out... [Sports Illustrated]

By Jordan Rothman
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 07.20.16

* The “Federal Criminal Discovery Blue Book” -- which is exactly what it sounds like, a trial manual by federal prosecutors for federal prosecutors -- is protected from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act as attorney work product. [Wall Street Journal] * Donald Trump Jr. seems to have "borrowed" lines from his convention speech from his own speech writer. And the defense of Melania Trump's plagiarism at Monday night's RNC keeps getting more and more outlandish. Now it involves My Little Pony. [CNN] * Former Cardinals director of baseball development Christopher Correa is going to jail for hacking into emails of the Houston Astros, and now Major League Baseball is looking into the scandal. [Law360] * The Department of Justice really, really wants the Supreme Court to rehear the immigration case of U.S. v. Texas, which ended in an unsatisfying tie -- preferably once they get, you know, the traditional nine justices. [National Law Journal] * And you thought your job was stressful -- imagine if you were running your global firm's Turkey office. [American Lawyer] * Potential merger in the air: CMS Cameron McKenna is eyeing Olswang. [The Lawyer]

By Kathryn Rubino
Non-Sequiturs

Non-Sequiturs: 01.11.16

* That time when an embarrassing photo from law school came back to haunt MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred. [NBC Sports] * This is one way to get people interested in tax law -- put a princess on trial. [Wall Street Journal] * This may be the most innocuous set of scandal pictures you will ever see, but the Iranian national soccer team's goalie still got arrested over them. [Screamer] * Why won't America, land of immigrants, let an immigrant be president? [Vox] * Burn! You may have already signed away your right! The real truth behind credit card agreements. [My Bank Tracker] * Yeah... you really should read those homeowners association rules. [Legal Juice]

By Kathryn Rubino
10th Circuit

Morning Docket: 06.26.14

* In case you missed this piece of news amid yesterday’s Supreme Court madness, the Tenth Circuit found Utah’s ban on gay marriage unconstitutional. It’s the first federal appeals court to make such a ruling. Hooray! [New York Times] * “Just about everyone he came in contact with, he managed to corrupt.” Paul Daugerdas, formerly of Jenkins & Gilchrist, was sentenced to 15 years for his role in an $8B fraud scheme. [Businessweek] * Despite what you may have been led to believe, not all patent awards are as high as those you see in media headlines. Fewer than 2% of infringement cases even result in damages. [National Law Journal] * When is it okay to turn down a Biglaw offer and head to a plaintiffs firm? Probably when you’re planning to file a massive class-action suit against the MLB on behalf of minor leaguers. [St. Louis Post-Dispatch] * William Mitchell Law’s new J.D. program is the first of its kind to be approved by the ABA. It’s half online, half on-site (does 9 times count as half?), and we see more like this coming down the line. [U.S. News]

By Staci Zaretsky
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Nationwide Salary Watch: Morgan Lewis Raises Salaries

We have good news for Morgan, Lewis & Bockius associates. Salary information is in and most people are getting raises. True-up raises at that. The class of 2008 pulled the short straw, but everybody else seems relatively happy. A tipster reports: Please post that yesterday MLB essentially unfroze salaries (most ’08 grades only went up […]

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