Ron DeSantis

Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 08.31.23

* Ron DeSantis rammed through massive tort reform in December to the delight of Florida residents who barely understand torts. They're about to find out what it all means when insurance companies refuse to pay up for Idalia. [Mother Jones] * Remember the Second Amendment exists to protect your right to hide guns in your belly fat. [People] * NY AG says Trump overinflated his net worth by upwards of $2.2 billion in a shock to absolutely no one. [CNN] * Texas GOP's "Death Star" legislation, designed to give the state legislature the power to strike down local laws and ordinances destroyed like all Death Stars because of tiny, yet fatal, flaw. In this case it's because it's entirely unconstitutional. Wow... that's much bigger than the womp rats I used to target in my T-16 back home. [Law360] * Alex Murdaugh loses phone privileges. [NY Post] * Squire Patton Boggs partner set to take break from violent, rough and tumble Biglaw world to referee Rugby World Cup. [LegalCheek] * In new phase of Hollywood strike, workers have filed comments with the FTC asking it to probe industry consolidation. And while fair compensation is a great reason to break up Hollywood, at least someone has to be mad about WarnerBrosDiscovery doing... any of the things it's done. [Bloomberg Law News]

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