Robocalls

Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 02.18.20

* Harvey Weinstein's lawyer penned an op-ed imploring jurors to look past the headlines in her client's case. [Page Six] * A robo lawyer app has been developed to sue robocallers under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act. They took our jobs! [Consumer Affairs] * Over a thousand former DOJ lawyers have called for Attorney General Barr to resign. [Slate] * A Missouri peach grower has been awarded $265 million in damages in a weedkiller lawsuit. I guess you need help to grow peaches outside of Georgia... [Reuters] * A Seattle lawyer withdrew from a criminal defendant's case after his client punched him in court. Pretty sure the punch demonstrates the breakdown of the attorney-client relationship. [KOMO News]

By Jordan Rothman
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 7.29.16

* The gender discrimination case filed against Sedgwick is just the tip of the iceberg. There has been an uptick of suits filed against legal employers, and the growing publicity of the cases may lead to even more. [Law.com] * Political robocalls might be annoying, but U.S. District Judge Leon Holmes has ruled they are protect speech under the First Amendment. [Wall Street Journal Law Blog] * In a complaint to the Federal Labor Relations Authority, the National Weather Service union claims management at the Weather Service illegally surveilled the union's Facebook activities. [Washington Post] * The judge dropped the murder charges against Ingmar Guandique who had been faces charges in the death of Chandra Levy. An intern in Washington, D.C., Levy's disappearance in 2001 sparked national interest. [CNN] * The Navy is naming a ship after LGBTQ leader, Harvey Milk. Milk served in the Navy, but had to hide his sexuality while he did so. He was active inSan Francisco politics, and was assassinated in 1978. [Huffington Post]

By Kathryn Rubino
3rd Circuit

Morning Docket: 08.23.13

* Even the election law controversies are bigger in Texas. The Department of Justice is currently planning to intervene in one lawsuit and file another against the Lone Star state over its voter identification law and redistricting plans. [National Law Journal] * Here’s an especially helpful ruling for people who have been living their lives without landlines (so, basically everyone). You can gratefully thank the Third Circuit for allowing you to block those annoying robocalls on your cellphones. [Legal Intelligencer] * Well, that was quick — a Biglaw pump and dump, if you will. After only a year, David M. Bernick, former general counsel of Philip Morris, is leaving Boies Schiller and will likely be taking a position at Dechert. [DealBook / New York Times] * “[L]ife got in the way.” Who really needs loyalty in Biglaw these days? More than half of the nearly 500 associates and counsel who made partner in 2013 started their careers at different firms. [Am Law Daily] * Another one bites the dust. John McGahren, the New Jersey managing partner of Patton Boggs, just resigned from an office he opened himself after some major attorney downsizing. [New Jersey Law Journal] * “In a community of 98,000 people and 640,000 partners, it isn’t possible to say there will never be wrongdoing.” Comforting. Microsoft is under the microscope of a federal bribery probe. [Corporate Counsel] * Ronald Motley, a “charismatic master of the courtroom” who founded Motley Rice, RIP. [WSJ Law Blog]

By Staci Zaretsky
Election 2012

Morning Docket: 11.02.12.

* The media doesn’t have a liberal bias or a conservative bias, it has a sadness bias. If it’s negative, it’s on. [Talking Points Memo] * New York suspends the statute of limitations in the wake of the hurricane. [New York Personal Injury Law Blog] * I’m getting robocalls and I live on the upper […]

By Elie Mystal