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Morning Docket: 04.05.23

* Overrated: Making these business records charges stick in 2023 rests on some flimsy legal theories. Underrated: Just charge Trump with anything and let him build a criminal contempt case for you. [Reuters] * Back in the Miller high life again: Democrats end conservative majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. [Bloomberg Law News] * Judge tosses the $500M defamation claim that Alan Dershowitz brought against CNN for making fun of him for taking the public position that presidential actions aren't impeachable if a president believes they will "help him get elected in the public interest," which was a legal theory only slightly less stupid than thinking you can get $500M when networks point out that it doesn't make sense. [Law360] * Ron DeSantis mentions "woke" and "gender ideology" multiple times in his memoir, spurring a movement to get his book banned under the explicit terms of his own anti-woke law. [The Guardian] * Law firm for Uber suffers data breach. That's the sort of thing that only earns you 4 stars. [Dark Reading] * Penn Law appoints a professor to serve as first female dean. Admit it, you're going to have to click on this just to assure yourself that it's not Amy Wax. [Law.com] * UK's Shoosmiths becomes the first big firm to join TikTok. Or as its new followers might understand it, think of Nicholas Cage as "the rest of Biglaw" and Pedro Pascal as Shoosmiths. [LegalCheek]

By Above the Law
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 06.21.18

* Michael Cohen resigns his RNC position in an email sharply criticizing the administration's child separation policy. So now we've reached the point where Michael Cohen is a sympathetic figure. [CNBC] * Supreme Court justice arrested on 22 criminal counts and faces 395 years in prison. Obviously it's a state supreme court, but try to guess which state! [Courthouse News Service] * Former Dewey & LeBoeuf CFO Joel Sanders was disbarred yesterday. Dewey know who needs a new career? [Law360] * Forcibly administering drugs to children is bad and the only downside of the royal whupping these jackboot thugs will eventually receive in the courts is that we'll here another decade of false comparisons from the anti-Vaxxer crowd. [HuffPost] * Allen & Overy partners fly to America for their annual meeting where they are definitely not talking about merging with O'Melveny because they've all denied that and law firms wouldn't lie to us. [International] * Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer closing in on a settlement in the long-running $214 million malpractice suit against them. * Europe pondering a law that would screw up the Internet. Obviously. [WIRED]

By Joe Patrice
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 05.01.18

* The New York Times has a list of the questions Mueller would like to ask Trump. Why are we hearing about it? Methinks the "he's exceeding his mandate" noise is about to ramp up. Either that or the New York Times scored a coup with their [email protected] account. [NY Times] * California Supreme Court opts for employee classification standard that critics claim could ruin the gig economy. That... sounds like a good thing. Happy May Day! [Law.com] * Cleary is getting slapped with a harassment suit arising from conduct between two Williams Lea employees. What does Cleary have to do with this? Well, the employees work at Cleary, use Cleary equipment, and are directly controlled by Cleary. It's the common law "walks like a duck" doctrine. [Law360] * Bush ethics lawyer Richard Painter is running for Senate in Minnesota as a Democrat because we've reached the point where even the W era is renouncing the GOP. [CNN] * The lawyer social event of the season is upon us, and it's called the Sprint/T-Mobile merger. At least a dozen firms are getting in on this fray. [American Lawyer] * Justice Sotomayor will get "reverse shoulder replacement surgery" which... sounds like the wrong direction. [National Law Journal] * DACA fight looks like it's heading for the Second Circuit. [Courthouse News Service] * DA candidate in Maine suspended from practicing law over sexual assault allegations brought by a former client who was living in the candidate's house. [Sun Journal]

By Joe Patrice