Sarah Palin

Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 02.24.22

* Honesty is the best legal policy: Colorado is on the cusp of no longer allowing police officers to lie to children during interrogations. [Oregon Live] * Not this time, Times! Sarah Palin wants a redo after losing her defamation case against the New York Times. Tough crowd, eh? [Reuters] * Texan man pleads guilty to hate crime charge after attacking a Burmese family with a knife. [CNN] * Hate to say I told you so: Woman sues LAPD after they mistook her identity and jailed her for nearly two weeks. [ABC 7] * Over my dead chassis: Subaru and Kia decided to simply make their cars less safe rather than let people fix their own clunkers. [WGRZ]

By Chris Williams
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 11.13.19

* A Florida woman who has a law degree but never passed the bar has been charged with stealing the identity of an admitted attorney. This was funny in My Cousin Vinny but not in real life. [Tampa Bay Times] * Sarah Palin said she first learned of her husband's divorce plans in an email from his attorney. Jeeze, that's cold. [San Francisco Chronicle] * A U.S. service member is challenging a ban on active military personnel suing their doctors for malpractice. [NBC News] * The Louisiana Supreme Court has refused to revive a lawsuit against the NFL regarding a missed call at a Saints game. Hope the plaintiff is not a sore loser. [ESPN] * Massachusetts lawmakers are considering whether to make coerced suicide a crime after the suicide of Conrad Roy III at the encouragement of his girlfriend. [CNN] * A Nevada attorney has been disbarred for letting clients use her cellphone during jailhouse consultations. Seems harsh — prisoners use cellphones in Orange is the New Black all the time... [Bloomberg Law]

By Jordan Rothman
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 08.30.17

* The First Amendment chalks up a much needed win: Southern District of New York Judge Jed Rakoff dismisses Sarah Palin's defamation lawsuit against the New York Times. [The Slot] * Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan is pushing the state forward on police reform, even without the assistance of the Department of Justice. [Washington Post] * Donald Trump Jr. is scheduling a date -- a private date -- with the Senate Judiciary Committee. Sounds like sexy times. [CNN] * Even former clerks of Justice Antonin Scalia can be convinced of the social good of class actions. Vanderbilt Law professor Brian Fitzpatrick's new article on class actions preventing corporate wrongdoing is creating quite the dustup in conservative circles. [Reuters] * Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr is defending Pepe the Frog... against the alt-right groups that want to co-opt the cartoon for white supremacist purposes. [Law.com] * The assault on voting rights continues -- a new Indiana law is purging voters from the rolls without notifying them or affording them an opportunity to respond. [Daily Beast]

By Kathryn Rubino
Non-Sequiturs

Non-Sequiturs: 08.11.17

* SNL's take on the Mooch. [Huffington Post] * Outside of the T14, the news for law schools isn't good. [TaxProf Blog] * Ethics, smethics. The one thing the Trump presidency is good at is making money -- for Trump. [Business Insider] * Penn Law is bucking the GRE trend. [Daily Pennsylvanian] * You aren't being paranoid, they're coming after your civil rights. [The Slot] * Advice for providing legal representation to iGen. [Law and More] * A look at the procedure involved in Sarah Palin's defamation case. [PrawfsBlawg] * Who is next on Trump's Twitter frenemy list? [Salon]

By Kathryn Rubino
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 06.28.17

* The First Amendment takes another knock: Sarah Palin is suing the New York Times for defamation. [New York Times] * Prosecutors are taking on the blue wall of silence, charging three police officers in the allegedly coverup in the Laquan McDonald shooting. [Chicago Tribune] * Nikki Haley may have violated the Hatch Act with an itchy Twitter finger. [NPR] * Breaking down Donald Trump's claims about the attorneys working with Mueller on the Russia probe. [Washington Post] * The Trump administration's media blackout could have implications for the Supreme Court. [The Hill] * What were the sharpest dissents this Term? [Law360] * Alabama was ordered to improve prison conditions for mentally ill inmates. [Jezebel]

By Kathryn Rubino
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 05.20.16

* Donald Trump is expected to announce his choice for Vice President at the Republican National Convention in July, and he's turned to former longtime O'Melveny chair A.B. Culvahouse Jr. to vet his potential running mates. The last VP Culvahouse vetted was Sarah Palin, and look how well that turned out. [Big Law Business] * Uh-oh... Revenue may be up, but demand is way down, and there's no longer enough work to go around. According to a recent report from Altman Weil, "[f]jrms are having trouble keeping their lawyers utilized." Will layoffs follow thanks to Biglaw's overcapacity problems? We'll have more on this later today. [Philadelphia Inquirer] * Back in March, 53% of Americans polled said the Senate should vote on whether to confirm SCOTUS nominee Chief Judge Merrick Garland now, instead of waiting for the next president. Last week, only 48% of Americans polled felt the same. Quick! Somebody get Taylor Swift to endorse this man to hold the public's interest! [New York Times] * In the meantime, Senate Democrats held a mock confirmation hearing for the would-be SCOTUS justice this week, but Judge Garland didn't attend. It's too bad, because at this point in the game, thanks to the political wrangling that's been going on, it may have been his only chance to attend a hearing held in his honor. [The Guardian] * From the "abortion of taxpayer dollars" file: Oklahoma legislators passed a bill that would make abortion a felony punishable by up to three years in prison. Per the Center for Reproductive Rights, the proposed law is "harmful, discriminatory, clearly unconstitutional, and insulting to Oklahoma women and their families." [Reuters]

By Staci Zaretsky