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Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 01.04.23

* Class action lawsuit filed against Southwest Airlines over holiday travel meltdown right on schedule... unlike Southwest. [Corporate Counsel] * Sam Bankman-Fried trial set for October. [New York Law Journal] * Kasowitz suing Glenn Agre over fees. Glenn Agre partners worked on the matter at Kasowitz before founding Glenn Agre and bringing the work with them. Now that the matter is closed, Glenn Agre earned a success fee and Kasowitz wants a chunk of that. Does Kasowitz pay pro rated bonuses to associates who lateral to other firms mid-year? Because that's the firm's logic. [American Lawyer] * Biden renominates pending judgeship appointments. These nominations may have languished in the last Congress, but there's now a chance they can get confirmed before the next Speaker. [Reuters] * DoNotPay, the AI speeding ticket system, is set to defend its first matter in court. [New Scientist]

By Joe Patrice
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 04.29.21

* The Charleston Water System has filed a lawsuit against flushable wipes makers for allegedly making products that aren't fit for flushing. Bet they hope their case doesn't go down the drain... [ABC News] * Maryland has finalized a $577 million settlement of a lawsuit claiming the state underfunded historically black colleges and universities. [Capital Gazette] * A lawsuit filed by a Southwest Airlines flight attendant blames the airline on her husband's death from COVID-19. [Fox News] * A Maryland lawyer has been suspended from practice for giving paralegals the power to settle cases. [Daily Record] * Since Above the Law has not had a "Lawyerly Lairs" segment in a while, just wanted to relate that a Florida attorney is selling her swanky beachfront home for a pretty penny. [Real Deal]

By Jordan Rothman
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 10.28.19

* The drama at WeWork has resulted in huge amounts of legal work for several top law firms. Maybe the firms will get free office space along with their fees. [American Lawyer] * A new lawsuit alleges that Southwest Airlines pilots hid a video camera in an airplane lavatory and streamed the video from the cockpit. Sounds like a weird new Mile High Club... [Washington Post] * A 78-year-old woman has been sentenced to 22 years in prison for the attempted murder of her own lawyer. Her criminal defense attorney is one brave person. [AP News] * Steve Bannon is expected to testify against Roger Stone at the latter's upcoming trial for federal charges. [National Law Journal] * Arrests have been made for the murder of Rachelle Bergeron, the New York attorney who served as the acting attorney general of the island of Yap. [BBC] * Retired Justice Anthony Kennedy was awarded the Liberty Medal yesterday for efforts to promote education about the Constitution. The award comes with a $100,000 prize — hope he's not jealous that RBG won a $1,000,000 award last week. [Philadelphia Inquirer]

By Jordan Rothman
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 04.30.18

* "Please Stay, Justice Kennedy. America Needs You." The editorial board of the paper of record has penned a moving letter to Justice Anthony Kennedy, pleading with him not to retire from the Supreme Court during a moment in history when the high court -- and the country at large -- faces "an institutional crisis." [New York Times] * Par for the course? In order to be hired for her job, Attorney General Jeff Sessions's top spokeswoman apparently had to swear fealty to President Donald Trump because she had criticized him during the 2016 Republican primaries. [Washington Post] * House Republicans want to impeach Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, a punishment that was last used against an executive branch employee 122 years ago. FYI, "[i]t's not meant to use to go after officials who don't share your policy views or your political goals," so it's not likely to happen, but good luck with that. [USA Today] * T-Mobile has agreed to buy Sprint (again), and this time, they think that the Trump administration will allow the deal to go through because they want Make America's 5G Great Again. To paraphrase what Sprint spokesman Paul would say, all law firms are great, but we wonder which ones are on this deal. [Wall Street Journal] * The first lawsuit has been filed against Southwest Airlines by a survivor of the deadly flight where a passenger was partially sucked out of the window following an engine explosion. The suit was filed by Lilia Chavez, who "prayed and feared for her life" after she "witnessed the horror" of the disaster, and now claims she has PTSD. [ABC News] * Judge Robert F. Chapman, senior judge of the Fourth Circuit, RIP. [Fourth Circuit]

By Staci Zaretsky
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 08.26.15

* Melvin Feliz, husband of Keila Ravelo, the partner who allegedly bilked Hunton & Williams and Willkie Farr out of millions to lead a life of luxury, pleaded guilty in the fraud case brought against him. Is she a prospective Real Housewife of Cellblock D? [Bergen Record] * Sorry, Southwest passengers, but the Seventh Circuit says you're stuck with your free drink vouchers, and the lawyers who represented you in this class-action suit are stuck with their $1.65 million. No one is happy up in the unfriendly skies. [Associated Press] * China's economy may be on the brink, but that doesn't matter to Dentons. The firm is as happy as ever about its proposed merger with Dacheng because it really wants a horde of lawyers, so it's gonna get one. It's "almost absurd" to think otherwise. [Am Law Daily] * As we mentioned yesterday, lawyers work too damn much -- so much, in fact, that they're quitting their Biglaw jobs, starting competitor practices, and poaching talent from top firms by offering them a sense of work-life balance. [Harvard Business Review] * Kevin Fagan, perhaps better known as Juror 83 in the Dzhokhar Tsarnaev trial, is speaking to the media about his experience, and says he might've changed his death penalty vote if he had known the youngest victim's parents opposed it. [WSJ Law Blog]

By Staci Zaretsky