Sexual Misconduct

Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 10.12.22

* Troubling confession: Lawyer fined for warning school of a priest’s history of sexual misconduct. [The Guardian] * Pig in the mine: California’s pork law is an unexpected proxy for the legal side of the culture war. [Cal Matters] * Gauntlet thrown: Hawaii won’t make it easy for other states to criminalize abortion. [Huff Po] * No laughing matter: Comedians claim Atlanta airport’s search practices use racial profiling. [AP] * The right to cancel loans? You should read up on this cease and desist. [Business Insider]

By Chris Williams
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 11.01.18

* Supreme Court looks to further cripple class actions by killing off cases that chasten corporate misconduct but can't feasibly reimburse every individual victim. So, if you're planning to injure a bunch of people, make sure to do it in a small and difficult to track manner! [National Law Journal] * Brexit comes to Biglaw as Kirkland moves its European hub to Paris. [International] * Biglaw associate suing USA Gymnastics for all the reasons USA Gymnastics is getting sued these days. [American Lawyer] * Tribes are suing North Dakota over its naked effort to disenfranchise Native Americans. [National Law Journal] * Shocking absolutely no one, the EEOC finds that the #MeToo movement has not resulted in a surge in false allegations. [Law.com] * This lawsuit against Spirit Airlines uses a lot of fast food analogies but misses the most apt: flying Spirit Airlines is like willfully going to the dirtiest Sbarro you can find and being shocked. [Law360] * The legal battle over Selendy & Gay's billings following the departure from Quinn Emanuel pits contractual obligations against legal ethics. [New York Law Journal]

By Joe Patrice
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 09.24.18

* The Senate Judiciary Committee has reached a tentative deal with Dr. Christine Blasey Ford as to when she will testify about her allegations against Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault. The showdown is expected to go down on Thursday, pending any last-minute changes. [New York Times] * Judge Kavanaugh dug up calendars from the summer of 1982 to corroborate his denials of Dr. Ford's allegations. He apparently kept detailed entries as a teen, listing events like "go to [Mark] Judge's," but "drunk sexual assault fun time" is nowhere to be found. So convenient! [New York Times] * And now, a second woman has come forward to accuse Judge Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct -- this time, during his drunken college years. Meet Deborah Ramirez, who says that when they were Yale freshmen, Kavanaugh shoved his penis in her face and as she pushed him away, caused her to touch it without her consent. [New Yorker] * Professor Amy Chua claims that everything current and former Yale Law students are saying about her Kavanaugh clerkship coaching is "outrageous" and "100% false." Perhaps unsurprisingly, those Yale Law students say Chua is lying. [HuffPost] * "I am resigning from the firm, effective immediately." It may seem like former federal prosecutor Michael Bromwich quit his job as senior counsel at Robbins Russell after objections were raised by partners to his joining Dr. Ford's legal team, but they made a mutual agreement months ago about parting ways. His representation of Dr. Ford merely "accelerated" the departure. [National Law Journal] * Will President Trump fire Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein over his reported comments about wearing a wire before the midterms and Kavanaugh's prospective confirmation? Trump's GOP allies want him to wait before anything else gets muddled. [CNN]

By Staci Zaretsky