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NCAA Hit With Another Class-Action Antitrust Lawsuit
The action was brought by Arizona State swimming and diving team member Grant House and Oregon women's basketball player Sedona Price.
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Morning Docket: 05.20.20
* A teenager in Alabama is on track to be the youngest lawyer in that state's history. Hollywood should turn this lawyer's story into "Doogie Howser, JD"... [NBC News] * Attorneys for Michael Flynn have filed a petition for a writ of mandamus asking that the judge overseeing his case be recused. [Fox News] * Singer John Legend "sang" the praises of a candidate seeking a district attorney's office. [Oregonian] * Workers at McDonald's have sued the company for an allegedly insufficient response to the COVID-19 pandemic. [NBC News] * The NCAA has lost a major antitrust lawsuit, which could open the way for college athletes to receive more compensation. As a Division Three athlete myself, I was happy to just get meal money... [USA Today]
Morning Docket 05.01.20
* Bed Bath & Beyond has a new top lawyer. Hope she gets more than a 20% discount. [Bloomberg Law] * The husband of the Los Angeles County District Attorney is under investigation for pointing a gun at protesters. [Los Angeles Times] * The NCAA is facing a lawsuit alleging that it did not do enough to protect women from violence perpetrated by male athletes. [USA Today] * The Florida Bar has launched a hotline to help attorneys dealing with stress amid the ongoing pandemic. [Daily Business Review] * R. Kelly "didn't believe he could fly" to Brooklyn for an arraignment on new charges, so he teleconferenced into the proceedings from his jail cell in Chicago. [New York Daily News] * Several death row inmates in Arizona have died because of COVID-19. [NBC News] * A Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice who lost re-election has unrecused himself. Hey, what about no backsies? [CNN]
NCAA Recommendations On College Athlete Rights Comes With Many Concerns
It may be a first step, but it's far from the whole journey.
College Sports Suffer From A Destructive Model Of Prohibition
If you want a system that ensures corruption and an inevitable, destructive black-market economy, look no further than our system of collegiate 'amateurism.'
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Morning Docket: 10.03.19
* Kirkland promotes whopping 141 to partner. [American Lawyer] * Supervised injection site given the go ahead in Philly. So maybe Gritty can finally get the help he needs. [Gizmodo] * Gordon Caplan set for sentencing today. Prosecutors are looking for 8 months of prison time. [New York Law Journal] * Trade war moves into the European theater. [Courthouse News Service] * Law schools lag when it comes to minority clinical faculty. [Law.com] * More clamoring for a national law to give NCAA athletes access to compensation for their likeness. [ESPN] * A bunch of useless facts about the UK Supreme Court in case you're looking for cocktail chatter. [Legal Cheek]
Morning Docket: 10.01.19
* IP professors swear IP cases are going to be interesting this time. Of course they say that... it's their trademark response. [National Law Journal] * Chris Collins resigns from Congress in advance of pleading guilty to abusing his board position. [Law360] * California has fired the first, serious shots at the NCAA's student-exploitation model. Where do we go from here? [Sports Illustrated] * Forever 21 enters Chapter 11, learning exactly what 32 feels like. [USA Today] * Law firm merger market remains relatively quiet. [American Lawyer] * Companies hiring GCs increasingly consider candidates based on potential to move into executive leadership someday. [Corporate Counsel]
Morning Docket: 09.12.19
* Immediately after John Bolton lost his job, a true genius tweeted that he'd signed with the Patriots. It looks like he might return to Kirkland which is basically the same thing in legal circles. [National Law Journal] * Supreme Court decides government can circumvent international law while asylum rules get litigated. Cool. [NY Times] * Dentons just added five firms across Africa in one day. [American Lawyer] * "Chief Counsel of Digital Citizenship" is an actual title a major company came up with for a lawyer presumably after spinning the buzzword wheel. [Corporate Counsel] * Latest appellate judge pick was so mealy-mouthed and evasive that even the Republicans snapped at him before they'll ultimately vote down the line to give the racist myth peddling jackhole a lifetime job. [Huffington Post] * Former Big 4 partner gets a year for fraud. [Law360] * What exactly would happen if California stood up for college athletes? [Sports Illustrated] * John Hinckley seeks sentence adjustment so he can move to California and get into the music business which is a sentence no one ever expected. [AP]
Morning Docket: 04.23.19
* Government wants jurors told that prosecution entirely over the NCAA's rules and overarching structure isn't about the NCAA. [Law360] * Don McGahn joins the ranks of "people getting subpoeaned. [Washington Post] * Speaking of McGahn, he reportedly told people that as White House Counsel he represented "pictures on the wall" and not Trump. What's impressive about this story is this means Trump hasn't replaced the entire White House art collections with Jon McNaughton. [National Law Journal] * Chalking tires for parking enforcement declared unconstitutional. [NBC News] * Wilmer partner joins forces massing near Winterfell. [American Lawyer] * Bob Kraft has inspired other massage guests to sue authorities. Given recent revelations that this may not have been a human trafficking operation as the cops originally suggested, the moral high ground momentum is swinging to Kraft and the gang's side. [Courthouse News Service] * Iowa facing challenge of its comically bad "Ag-gag" law. [Minneapolis Star Tribune]
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This Biglaw Associate Has A Nearly Perfect NCAA Bracket
Your bracket is probably busted, but hers is still going strong.
Morning Docket: 03.27.19
* Attorney General William Barr says he plans to make a version of special counsel Robert Mueller's report available to Congress and the public within a matter of weeks, and apparently the White House won't be receiving a copy in advance of the release. [Wall Street Journal] * Speaking of the Mueller report, Rudy Giuliani says he wouldn't have any issues with releasing Trump’s written testimony that was submitted to Mueller. Jay Sekulow would beg to differ. [Washington Examiner] * The EU approved the controversial Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive, a new IP law that will govern the way copyrighted material is uploaded online and who will be liable for infringement. At least memes are exempt? [BBC News] * Congratulations to Bridget Bade, who was just confirmed to the Ninth Circuit. She's the 37th circuit court judge to be appointed by President Trump, who is changing the makeup of the federal judiciary, one conservative judge at a time. [Big Law Business] * Elon Musk must appear in court next week for a contempt hearing over his Tesla tweets against self-interest that are allegedly in breach of his settlement agreement with the Securities and Exchange Commission. [CNN] * Your bracket may be busted, but this Biglaw associate has a near-perfect track record. She's gotten 46 out of 48 matchups right thus far, and at one point she was one of just eight people in the country with a perfect bracket. [American Lawyer]
Morning Docket: 01.22.19
* In college hoops corruption trial, it seems the defense wants to confuse having a "reason" with having an "excuse." The judge is not here for it. [Law360] * On the same theme, here's an exploration of how billable hour pricing models encourage overbilling that doesn't confuse identifying the impetus of bad behavior with excusing it. [American Lawyer] * Dog Gone! DA drops animal cruelty charges in "authorities accuse lawyer of sex with dog" case, putting an end to the most bizarre of the charges. All the drug and firearm charges though... yeah, he had to plead guilty to those. But Snoopy's honor is restored. [Trib Live] * Google, a company worth billions, gets hit with $57 million GDPR fine, reinforcing that GDPR is a lot of useful bark but very little actual bite -- at least for now. [NY Times] * Legal Aid fighting back against law that lets private investors pay off people's minor tax bills and then seize their homes. [Omaha World-Herald] * Shutdown may start killing people directly -- federal worker needs her insurance back to live. [Courthouse News Service] * Ghost of former national Chief Justice upset according to psychic. [Legal Cheek]
Morning Docket: 12.18.18
* Michael Flynn's going in for sentencing today. My money is on him not throwing out the plea deal over materiality. [National Law Journal] * Meanwhile, some of his old cronies have been charged for acting as illegal agents of Turkey, which is not the cooperation that's getting the most attention, but it's the cooperation that probably has the most direct impact. [Courthouse News Service] * Judge makes deer poacher watch Bambi. I guess to understand what a wonderful and delightful journey he kicks off when he kills boring adult deer. [LegalCheek] * The top verdicts of the year. [Law360] * Howrey doing with that bankruptcy? [American Lawyer] * Client misconduct is an underappreciated source of sexual harassment. Women in firms feel greater pressure not to report harassment from clients fearing it could damage their careers. Firms often don't even consider the possibility that this is going on. [Corporate Counsel] * Closing arguments due in NCAA's right to profit off of its student ath-o-leets. [The Recorder]