Tim Wu

Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 06.26.18

* Michael Cohen's lawyers say just a little over 12K of their client's files are privileged. That's out of 4 million... and still seems high. [Law360] * If you thought the Westworld videogame felt suspiciously like Fallout Shelter, so did the makers of Fallout. [BBC] * Online retailers are confused in the post-Wayfair world. They've built algorithms that can guess what you want to purchase before you think of it, but they're totally baffled about tacking 6 percent on a sale heading to Kentucky. [Corporate Counsel] * Professor Tim Wu thinks yesterday's Amex decision has devastated antitrust law. There's no argument that this was the Court's intent, but it strikes me that the decision prevented the market from rapidly devolving into a Visa/MasterCard duopoly -- since they already have a near stranglehold on the market -- so it's hard to consider this anticompetitive in result even if it is in reasoning. [NY Times] * The economic dumpster fire that is Kansas will have to cough up more money to fund schools according to their Supreme Court, based on the state's constitutional obligation to equitably fund education. Don't worry, the Trump administration sees Kansas as a model for the country! [Courthouse News Service] * Age discrimination could blow up soon if the Seventh Circuit expands protection to job applicants. It's a pressing issue for an aging generation just now realizing that they've spent 30 years voting for the government to pilfer their retirement. [National Law Journal] * Lawyer indicted on charges of stealing $150K from clients. [NY Post]

By Joe Patrice
Non-Sequiturs

Non-Sequiturs: 09.15.15

* Intelligence Squared offers its latest debate tomorrow night, and it's incredibly timely. Four law professors will debate the following proposition: "Courts, Not Campuses, Should Decide Sexual Assault Cases." (We'll feature the livestream tomorrow.) [Intelligence Squared] * Oh, joy. A recent decision by Judge Rosemary Collyer promises to make Washington, D.C. more dysfunctional. How is the even possible? [New Republic] * Tim Wu is taking a sabbatical from Columbia Law -- he's been tapped by the Amazing Schneiderman for the New York AG's office. [New York Times] * Just how far is the reach of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act? Can you be prosecuted for clearing your browser history? Gulp. [The Nation] * Creating a system to rank humanity's worst crimes. This guy must be a blast a cocktail parties. [Pacific Standard]

By Kathryn Rubino
Biglaw

Morning Docket: 09.10.14

* Sweet billable hours: Congrats to Proskauer Rose on its efforts to keep the Buffalo Bills in Buffalo, New York. It’s the largest deal for the sale of an NFL team in history. [Am Law Daily] * Your firm brings in billions in verdicts, but that’s not prestigious enough. It needs to be on the inaugural list of America’s Elite Trial Lawyers. See if yours made the cut. [National Law Journal] * The best way to dodge traps in the LSAT analytical reasoning section is to display your analytical reasoning capabilities by not taking the LSAT in the first place during a time when law schools are in turmoil. [Law Admissions Lowdown / U.S. News] * Law professors Zephyr Teachout (Fordham) and Tim Wu (Columbia) were defeated in the Democratic primary election for New York governor and lieutenant governor, but they lost well. [New York Daily News] * The world wants to know if Ray Rice can be prosecuted for domestic violence, even though he’s enrolled in a pre-trial intervention program. Like the answer to all legal questions, it depends. [WSJ Law Blog]

By Staci Zaretsky
Abortion

Morning Docket: 09.02.14

* Could Columbia law professor Tim Wu become New York’s next lieutenant governor? He has a shot, according to the Times. [New York Times] * Which same-sex-marriage case is the best vehicle for Supreme Court review? [BuzzFeed] * A federal judge takes the wheel in steering Detroit into the future. [American Lawyer] * Is it “shameful” of the ALS Association to attempt to trademark the phrase “ice bucket challenge”? [ABA Journal] * Jury deliberations are expected to begin today in the corruption trial of former Virginia governor Bob McDonnell. [Washington Post] * Voter ID laws are back on trial, this time in Texas. [New York Times] * Speaking of Texas, the state seeks to stay a recent ruling that struck down the requirement that abortion clinics comply with standards for ambulatory surgical centers. [ABA Journal]

By David Lat
7th Circuit

Morning Docket: 08.27.14

* Judge Posner dished out a whole lot of benchslaps at yesterday’s Seventh Circuit arguments over Indiana and Wisconsin’s bans on same-sex marriage. [BuzzFeed] * Major U.S. and Canadian law firms chow down on Burger King’s whopper of a deal with Tim Hortons. [Am Law Daily] * A recent Delaware court ruling on attorney-client privilege might allow in-house lawyers to speak more freely about wrongdoing at their companies, according to Professor Steven Davidoff Solomon. [DealBook / New York Times] * The corruption trial of former Virginia governor continues; yesterday Bob McDonnell’s sister took the stand. [Washington Post] * A favorable evidentiary ruling for Aaron Hernandez. [Fox Sports] * And good news for Zephyr Teachout and Tim Wu, the two law professors running for governor and lieutenant governor of New York: the Times dissed their opponent, Andrew Cuomo, with a non-endorsement. [New York Times] * I recently spoke with one of my cousins Joao Atienza of the Cebu Sun Star, about Above the Law and the world of legal blogging. [Cebu Sun Star]

By David Lat
Basketball

Morning Docket: 05.12.14

* Due to the extreme polarization of SCOTUS, with its near constant 5-4 opinion line-ups, “it becomes increasingly difficult to contend … that justices are not merely politicians clad in fine robes.” Yep. [The Upshot / New York Times] * Tim Wu, the Columbia Law professor who first introduced the term “net neutrality” to the world, had two of his clerkships (Posner; Breyer) “arranged” by Professor Lawrence Lessig. If only we could all be so lucky. [New York Times] * We’re getting the sinking feeling that the lack of diversity in law school is one of those problems that everyone and their mother claims to be trying to fix, but the lack of momentum keeps it from ever truly improving. [National Law Journal] * When contemplating what law schools would have to do to get a bailout, this law professor has three ideas, and they involve changing her colleagues’ lives in uncomfortable ways. Well played. [Boston Globe] * Cole Leonard is struggling to decide between going to law school and going to Mars. Well, he’s more likely to have a job doing anything on Mars than here on Earth as a lawyer. HTH. [Dallas Morning News] * The L.A. Clippers have a new CEO, for the time being. Say hello to Dick Parsons, the former chairman of Patterson Belknap, a man who the world hopes is not quite as racist as his predecessor. [Am Law Daily]

By Staci Zaretsky