United Nations

Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 06.09.20

* A judge in Florida is in hot water for pretending to be her son's lawyer during an interrogation. Wonder if she told investigators her name was "Jerry Gallo"... [Daily Business Review] * 3M is suing a merchant who is selling PPE on Amazon for 18 times the listing price. [Wall Street Journal] * A Florida lawyer who appeared on beaches dressed as the Grim Reaper has attended recent protests in the same costume. [Fox News] * George Floyd's lawyer is asking the United Nations to intervene in his case and make recommendations for police reform. [Newsweek] * Prince Andrew seems royally screwed over an investigation into his connections with Jeffrey Epstein. [AP] * A lawyer has been suspended from practice for filing a $67 million lawsuit over pants he lost at the dry cleaners. Maybe the pants were just really nice? [ABA Journal]

By Jordan Rothman
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 02.05.16

* Today the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention held WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has been at the Ecuadoran Embassy in London for more than three years, is being "arbitrarily detained" arguing he should be allowed freedom of movement without fear of being extradited to Sweden where he is wanted for questioning for a variety of charges including rape. Though the decision has no formal authority, but Assange, who has maintained his innocence on the Swedish charges, can at least claim a moral victory. That's something at least. [Washington Post] * The Fourth Circuit found that Maryland's gun law, passed in the wake of the horrific Newton shooting, should be reviewed under a strict scrutiny standard since it "significantly burdens the exercise of the right to arm oneself at home" and remanded the case back to the district court. [Wall Street Journal] * Uber had an actual victory amid all of its legal woes. The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation decided against combining over a dozen employment cases into a MDL. [National Law Journal] * Meet the woman recently hired as the NFL's senior vice president for investigations. Lisa Friel, formerly a New York prosecutor in the Sexual Victim's Unit under District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau, is charged with investigating all potential violations of the league's personal conduct code. Hopefully she can bring some consistency to the process. [New York Times] * The human cost behind a life led in immigration limbo. No wonder last night's Dem debate spent so much time talking about the need for comprehensive immigration reform. [CNN]

By Kathryn Rubino
Non-Sequiturs

Non-Sequiturs: 01.07.16

* People in the United Nations are doing a lot of legal research on a very disturbing subject. [Vox] * David Schwimmer is playing the late Robert Kardashian in American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson -- but that doesn't mean he'll meet with the Kardashian sisters. [The Hollywood Reporter] * If, for some reason, you need yet another reminder that we have a terrible problem in this country with racism and police aggression, here is an eloquent reminder. [Black Debate Guy] * Does the public have a right to know if their legislators are sleeping with lobbyists? One Missouri lawmaker thinks they do. [Columbia Tribune] * Gerald Rosenberg (affiliate link) is still wrong that court victories derail activist movements. [Lawyers, Guns and Money] * Is it child endangerment to leave a sleeping baby alone? Is that a cultural thing? [Law and More]

By Kathryn Rubino
Deaths

Non-Sequiturs: 11.27.12

* Legendary union leader Marvin Miller died today at the age of 95. This is a guy who lost a huge case at the Supreme Court fighting against Major League Baseball, and still found a way to win. He wasn’t a lawyer, but he mastered the law. [USA Today] * Tax professors weigh in on the fiscal cliff. [Tax Prof Blog] * Jersey Shore residents are suing over sand dune protection from storms. They’re not suing because they’re weren’t protected enough, they’re suing because the new sand dunes block their ocean view. [Asbury Park Press] * Yahoo! and NBA lawyers might need to talk about what, precisely, the NBA is endorsing. [Marc Edelman Blog] * I’m going to go on and vote “no” on the question of whether or not the U.N. should get to “govern” the internet. Wait… I don’t get a “vote” on what the U.N. should do? Well, that sounds like a good reason to go back to not giving a crap about anything the U.N. says. [The Volokh Conspiracy] * Looks like the wheel finally came ’round on InTrade. [Dealbreaker] * The Justice Resource Center, coordinator of the 2013 NYSBA High School Mock Trial Tournament, seeks voluntary attorney-coaches. Help teach young people about the law — and get CLE credit, too! [Justice Resource Center]

By Elie Mystal