Securing The Bounty: Bug Bounties Take Center Stage In Uber CISO’s Criminal Appeal
Bug bounty programs have been prized as a cybersecurity tool by tech giants and small startups for years, but effective bug bounty programs must have ground rules.
Morning Docket: 03.14.23
* Want a popular policy done, but Congress is uncooperative? Enter Executive Orders. Joe Biden plans to issue one on gun background checks today. [Bloomberg Law] * Can partisan gerrymandering get worse? Yes, yes it can. Today the North Carolina Supreme Court will reconsider the issue, which could have major repercussions for national politics. [Reuters] * Supreme Court to consider whether the Constitution provides protection against anti-trans discrimination. And I am sure completely coincidentally, a vocally anti-trans federal judge finds himself in the news. [Vox] * Court issues blow to California labor movement: an appeals court found ride share services can classify drivers as independent contractors instead of employees. [Huffington Post] * It's not that law school deans want to end rankings, it's that they want to make them better. [Slate] * Michael Cohen takes the stand: Donald Trump's one-time fixer is singing to a New York grand jury. [Law360]
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Will Antitrust Make Lyft Take A Hike?
Something other than inflation has to explain how rides went from $5 to $17.32.
Morning Docket: 09.30.21
* Loophole in Massachusetts law could leave Lyft and Uber drivers making $4.82 an hour. That would drive me crazy. [Business Insider] * Two narcotics officers arrested for dealing fentanyl and accepting bribes. I'm sure they did so in self-defense, somehow. [Whio] * Appeals court may be deciding if Guantanamo Bay detainees have due process rights. Prepare your Con Law outlines! [WaPo] * Seattle continues to test if voting coupons could be the answer to funny money driving politics. [The Nation]
Morning Docket: 05.18.21
* Kodak and its CEO might be sued over insider trading that allegedly occurred just before the company announced a lucrative deal with the U.S. government. Maybe they figured regulators didn't know the company still existed... [Wall Street Journal] * Derek Chauvin's lawyer denied that he leaked information about a rejected plea deal to the press. [Insider] * A new lawsuit alleges that Montana is infringing on the rights of Native American voters. [New York Times] * Rudy Giuliani's legal team disputed the legitimacy of search warrants issued against the former Trump lawyer. [Wall Street Journal] * The Supreme Court rejected Uber's attempt to avoid a lawsuit over drivers' pay. Guess the company is going to have to take the off ramp... [Reuters]
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Morning Docket: 01.15.21
* A Yale Law professor who taught Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley claims his former students didn't pay attention to his lessons. To be fair, law school lectures are usually kind of boring... [USA Today] * President Trump is reportedly having a difficult time finding lawyers to represent him at his second impeachment trial. [Bloomberg Law] * Here is some advice from a "lottery lawyer" in case any of you win the extremely high Mega Millions or Powerball jackpots over the weekend. [CBS News] * A lawyer for a person accused of rioting at the Capitol last week says that President Trump should pardon his client. [St. Louis Post-Dispatch] * The California Bar is evaluating new ways of delivering legal services. Would be interesting if Uber and Lyft got into the legal services delivery business... [Bloomberg Law]
Morning Docket: 11.20.20
* A California judge has approved some marijuana delivery services within the state. Guess Pineapple Express can now be expressly delivered, and you can get your weed and munchies delivered at the same time... [Los Angeles Times] * Joe Biden might be considering Deval Patrick, the former governor of Massachusetts, to be his Attorney General. [CBS Boston] * A new lawsuit alleges that employees at a Waterloo, Iowa, meatpacking plant (a facility hit hard by the pandemic) took bets about how many workers would contract COVID-19. Seems pretty morbid. [CNN] * A lawyer has been charged with multiple crimes for allegedly luring teenage girls to sleep with him in exchange for being their "sugar daddy." [New York Post] * A former Virginia attorney said that "I may have have made a mistake" after losing his law license for allegedly misappropriating millions from a client. Seems like an understatement... [CBS News]
Uber Conducts In-House Layoffs Due To COVID-19 Outbreak
The company has laid off thousands of employees in recent weeks -- and now it's time for the lawyers to face the music.
Uber IPO Underwriter Morgan Stanley Was So Certain That It Overpriced The Uber IPO It Shorted Uber Shares Right Before The IPO
Sit down, we can -- kind of -- explain.
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Uber IPO Underwhelming Everybody, And It’s The Best News We’ve Had In Weeks
The market is teaching Uber a very hard lesson about how dynamic pricing really works.
The Uber IPO Will Be Like Chernobyl For The IPO Market
This is going to be the granddaddy of all tech IPO disasters.
Lyft Threatens To Sue Morgan Stanley For… Acting Shady, We Guess?
The buttfumble that is the Lyft IPO has reached its 'Torts?!' level of desperation.
Pre-Law Student Kidnapped, Murdered By Stranger Posing As Uber Driver
She would have been a shining star at the law school.
Morning Docket: 11.29.18
* Trump's talking about pardoning Manafort again. The power of the president to pardon people is clear, but the power of the president to tease a pardon to tamper with a witness is an interesting legal wrinkle. In a way, the pardon power is a Yoda conundrum: "do or do not, there is no publicly Tweeting signals." [NPR] * Speaking of Manafort, his attorneys claim their joint defense agreement covered his tipping off Trump on details of the Mueller investigation. Except... he pleaded guilty. That kind of ends the "joint defense" part. [The Hill] * Jeffrey Epstein's massive child sex ring allegations ended in a 13-month sentence and the prosecutor who bent over backward to protect him is now in Trump's cabinet. Oh, and somehow Cy Vance's obsequious starf**king ass shows up in this story because of course it does. [Miami Herald] * It's been a few days, so it's time to remind everyone that the Big 4 accounting firms are about to wreak havoc on Biglaw. [American Lawyer] * Stacey Abrams is suing over Georgia's voting laws, and Professor Hasen is here to explain how brilliant this suit is. [Slate] * Uber ordered to pay more than $1 million in fines because they failed to notice the surge pricing on data breach liability. [Corporate Counsel] * Attorney poised to become godparent to royal baby. [Legal Cheek] * The author of this piece is confused by how Republicans seem to completely misunderstand Section 230. It's probably not confusing: they just want to kill it and lying about it is the easiest path. [The Verge]