Seinfeld

Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 05.07.21

* Lawsuits were filed mere minutes after Florida's new election reform was signed into law. Those attorneys must be fast typers... [Newsweek] * Check out this article on a law grad who has netted $83,000 a year as an underwear model on OnlyFans. [Law and More] * Roy Moore's lawyer was reportedly absent from a hearing in the case he filed against Sacha Baron Cohen related to Moore's appearance on Who Is America. [Courthouse News] * Devin Nunes's attorney has been ordered to pay CNN $21,000 in legal fees for filing frivolous defamation litigation. [Law and Crime] * The Attorney General of Texas has unblocked critics on Twitter following a lawsuit. [Yahoo News] * A lawsuit filed by an astronomer against a company that created a doll in her likeness has been dismissed. Like many things, very reminiscent of a Seinfeld episode... [Chicago Sun Times]

By Jordan Rothman
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 03.09.21

* A new lawsuit alleges that a dog breeder took back a dog and then resold it to another owner. Maybe the judge will act like King Solomon or Newman when deciding who is the rightful owner of the pup... [New York Post] * The Supreme Court has dismissed the last election lawsuit filed by the Trump Campaign. [Forbes] * The children of Daniel Prude, who was killed after an interaction with Rochester, New York, police, have filed a federal wrongful death lawsuit. [Hill] * Andrew Cuomo's Counselor to the Governor resigned amid the blowback from two scandals facing his administration. [New York Post] * Justice Roberts provided the sole dissent in a First Amendment case about speech policies at a Georgia college. Such a maverick. [CNN]

By Jordan Rothman
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 07.15.20

* A law professor will be hosting a fake class about Seinfeld in order to raise money for charity. Guess it's easy to have a fake class involving a show about nothing... [ABC News] * The first federal execution in two decades was carried out yesterday after the final stay of execution was lifted. [CNN] * Ghislaine Maxwell's lawyer cited the the case of attorneys accused of fire bombing an NYPD car when making arguments about Maxwell's bail. [New York Post] * Some bar candidates are expressing trepidation over the prospect of taking the bar exam online. [Hill] * Defense lawyers in the case involving George Floyd's death are accusing the Minnesota Attorney General of allegedly violating a gag order. [Star Tribune] * An attorney made the news for having a deposition in his backyard. Please, I've done depositions in a school, a firehouse, hospitals, homes, a church, restaurants, hotel rooms, a gym, a college campus, a casino, and other odd places, and this never made the news... [CBS News]

By Jordan Rothman
Non-Sequiturs

Non-Sequiturs: 08.12.18

* Thanks to the not-so-orphaned Kennedy clerks, this Term could see a record number of clerks at the Supreme Court, as Tony Mauro reports. [National Law Journal] * Speaking of clerks, I talk quite a bit about them and their role in this interview with Kaley Pillinger about my writing career (from Underneath Their Robes to Above the Law to Supreme Ambitions (affiliate link)). [The Politic] * Speaking of SCOTUS, and more specifically of Judge Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the high court, Ed Whelan responds to the arguments of Senate Democrats against -- yes, against -- the prompt provision of records from Kavanaugh’s years as White House counsel. [Bench Memos / National Review] * If Judge Kavanaugh becomes Justice Kavanaugh, how will that affect the Court's business jurisprudence? Adam Feldman has this analysis. [Empirical SCOTUS] * The failure of Ryan Bounds's Ninth Circuit nomination could be a "teachable moment" for Senator Tim Scott (R-S.C.), according to Will Folks. [FITSNews] * Speaking of disappointing failures to confirm, Paul Mirengoff shares my frustration over the inexcusable delays in Department of Justice confirmations. [Power Line] * It's unfair to dismiss Seinfeld as "a show about nothing"; episodes offer insight into numerous legal issues -- for example, the law of conspiracy. [Seinfeld Law] * Kal Raustiala and Christopher Jon Sprigman offer interesting reflections on how data-driven authorship might affect the way we think about creativity and copyright. [Volokh Conspiracy / Reason] * If you're interested in litigation finance, there's a conference coming up next month here in New York that you might want to check out. [LF Dealmakers Forum]

By David Lat
Non-Sequiturs

Non-Sequiturs: 06.16.16

* Superfans of Seinfeld will remember the Michigan bottle scam, wherein Kramer and Newman try to return bottles to Michigan for the 10 cent deposit. Apparently, that's a felony punishable by up to 5 years in prison, as this poor sap is learning the hard way. [11 Points] * Intelligence Squared is circulating a petition to fix the presidential debate. They want to see robust policy discussions not gotcha questions... maybe this'd work if Donald Trump weren't one of the candidates. [Change.org] * You need to take care of yourself in order to fight the legal battles that need to be fought. [Katz Justice] * Now that the D.C. Circuit has upheld the FCC's right to enforce net neutrality, what will the Supreme Court do about it? [Slate] * Has the fact that there are only 8 justices on the Supreme Court affected its cert rate? [Empirical SCOTUS] * U.S. District Judge David Godbey ruled, no, Texas, you can't sue the federal government over Syrian refugees. [Huffington Post]

By Kathryn Rubino
7th Circuit

Non-Sequiturs: 08.23.13

* Former federal prosecutor Moe Fodeman of Wilson Sonsini breaks down the case against Walter White. Spoiler: Fodeman thinks Orange Is the New Black for White. [Esquire Culture Blog] * President Obama joins the chorus calling for an end to the 3L year. But when will students take all those "Law and Running a Massive Domestic Spying Operation" seminars? [Buzzfeed] * At the end of this HuffPost Live clip, Elie suggests anti-gay clergy should unsubscribe from the Bravo network. Seems unfair to those who enjoy watching “Real Housewives of the Provo Tabernacle.” [HuffPo Live] * Scottie Pippen and Horace Grant formed a dominant NBA Jam team. But without Grant, Pippen got dismantled by the duo of Easterbrook and Posner (and Williams). [FindLaw] * Jim Beam has resuscitated Seinfeld attorney Jackie Chiles in a new ad campaign about suing bears for stealing honey. It mkaes slightly more sense when you see the whole ad. Slightly. [Hollywood Reporter] * Judge E. Curtissa Colfield seems to have gotten a little drunker than she thought the other night and started berating cops. Maybe drinking is why she had that problem getting those decisions issued on time. [Legal Juice] * Is rapping about crime probative to charges of committing a crime? Both the majority and dissenting opinion are worth a read. [Las Vegas Law Blog] * Speaking of…. Taking the Notorious R.B.G. label seriously, here’s some SCOTUS-themed lyrics to Biggie’s Juicy. Embed after the jump….

By Joe Patrice
Biglaw

Small Firms, Big Lawyers: T-Bone, Esq.

Ed. note: This is the latest installment of Small Firms, Big Lawyers, one of Above the Law’s new columns for small-firm lawyers. Let’s get one thing straight here. It’s a universal law: You can’t give yourself a nickname. Only someone else can give you a nickname, and it has to happen pretty much organically. There’s […]

By Jay Shepherd