Sacramento
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 05.19.21
* A lawsuit claims that candles made by a company owned by Gwyneth Paltrow exploded. Wonder if Serenity by Jan made similar products… [NBC News]
* The St. Louis lawyer, who was infamously photographed wielding a gun in front of protesters last year, has announced his run for a U.S. Senate seat. [Kansas City Star]
* The City of Sacramento has settled a lawsuit over a law that required people to stand during the national anthem. [Sacramento Bee]
* An appeals judge in North Carolina has been issued a criminal summons for allegedly nearly hitting protesters with an SUV. [ABA Journal]
* Since Above the Law has not had a “lawyerly lairs” segment in a while, wanted to relate that the home of the founder of 1-800-LAWYERS is on the market. [New York Post]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 10.22.20
* A South Florida lawyer who used to work at Greenberg Traurig has been arrested for allegedly committing several bank robberies. This would make an amazing plot for a sequel to Point Break. [Miami Herald]
* A Sacramento judge refused to force the California GOP to release information about its controversial ballot dropbox program. [Los Angeles Times]
* A court has dismissed a lawsuit filed by one of Michael Jackson’s accusers, holding that the late singer’s companies did not owe the plaintiff a duty of care. [Yahoo News]
* The home of a lawyer representing a group seeking to remove homeless people from New York City hotel rooms has been vandalized. [New York Post]
* A defamation case against President Trump has been sidelined because a lawyer set to argue a matter traveled from out of state and was denied entrance to the courthouse. [USA Today]
* A New Jersey lawyer facing ethics complaints blamed his wife for his failure to appear at an important asylum hearing. This attorney is playing with fire… [New Jersey Law Journal]
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