S.D.N.Y.

Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 02.08.16

* Remember Kent and Jill Easter, the married lawyers who planted bags of weed and pills in the car of Kelli Peters, a PTA volunteer at their son's school? Kent's law license was suspended, Jill was disbarred, they're now divorced, and to top it all off, a jury recently awarded Peters $5.7M in her case against them. [Orange County Register] * The horror! The horror! Not only did Marco Rubio get his ass handed to him during this weekend's Republican debate, but it turns out he's accused of having been a law firm lobbyist for Florida firms Becker & Poliakoff and Broad and Cassel. [BuzzFeed News] * A proposed ABA resolution that local bar groups think has to do with non-lawyer ownership of law firms -- they're not entirely sure, of course -- is making the hair stand up on the back of attorneys' necks. What could possibly go wrong? [WSJ Law Blog] * Career alternatives for attorneys law school deans: David Yellen, dean of Loyola Law - Chicago for more than a decade (and former ATL columnist), will be leaving the law school game to assume the presidency at Marist College. [Poughkeepsie Journal] * Applications may be down at Yale Law School when compared to prior years, but administrators aren't exactly concerned about it. Come on, get real: It's Yale, and the law school "still [has] more qualified applicants than [it] can accept." [Yale Daily News] * According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the legal profession celebrated the New Year by shedding 1,400 jobs. Don't worry, 2016 graduates, there's still a chance the job market could improve, but we'll have to wait it out. [Big Law Business / Bloomberg BNA] * Miriam Cedarbaum, longtime federal judge of the S.D.N.Y., RIP. [New York Times]

By Staci Zaretsky
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 11.25.15

* Judge Richard Posner of the Seventh Circuit completely obliterated a Wisconsin law that required doctors performing abortions to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals. Posner said any health benefits conferred by the law were "nonexistent." [Reuters] * Judge Richard Sullivan (S.D.N.Y.) wasn't a fan of the Bank of China essentially telling Gucci to "suck it up" when it came to "ridiculous" delays in providing counterfeiters' records, so he held the bank in contempt and is considering assessing millions of dollars in fines. [WSJ Law Blog] * A Pennsylvania attorney activist who launched the "Kane is not Able" campaign has asked the state's highest court to provide clarification on how AG Kathleen Kane should delegate her duties considering the fact she has a suspended law license. [PennLive.com] * A proposed class-action suit has been filed against fashion company Kate Spade over its alleged "imaginary discount prices." If this goes the way of the $4.88M Michael Kors settlement over the same issue, then Kate Spade could be in trouble. [Consumerist] * "Talk about being uprooted!" Vendors who sell wares outside of Brooklyn Law are pissed about the school's plans to install planters on the sidewalks around the building, thereby kicking the vendors not to the curb, but out onto the street. [Brooklyn Paper]

By Staci Zaretsky