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Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 01.28.21

* A new lawsuit alleges that tuna served at Subway is not really tuna. Guess they knew something smelled fishy... [Washington Post] * A prominent entertainment attorney, who represented novelists like Dan Brown and John Grisham, has passed away at 77. [Variety] * A New York attorney has been charged for allegedly defrauding real estate investors. [Department of Justice] * Investors are suing AstraZeneca for allegedly sustaining losses due to purported issues testing the company's COVID-19 vaccine. [Bloomberg Law] * President Biden's brother supposedly advertised his relationship with the president in a law firm advertisement. Didn't President Carter's brother use his celebrity to sell beer? [NBC News]

By Jordan Rothman
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 06.04.20

* A receiver may be appointed to oversee the dissolution of Cellino & Barnes. That receiver would have tough decisions about what to do with the jingle. [New York Post] * The former police officer accused of killing George Floyd is being represented by a new lawyer. [Reuters] * An attorney who is also a police officer has been prohibited from working on traffic matters in courts located in the county where he is a cop. [Bloomberg Law] * President Trump is already being challenged over an executive order he signed targeting social media. [Washington Post] * Steven Avery, a subject of the Netflix series Making a Murderer, has been diagnosed with COVID-19 according to his lawyer. [Daily Beast] * The Washington State Attorney General is suing tuna companies for allegedly fixing the price of their product. Hope the defendants don't use "canned" arguments when defending the case. [Spokesman Review]

By Jordan Rothman