Valentine’s Day

Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 02.02.21

* A Michigan lawyer is giving away a free divorce for Valentine's Day. How romantic... [Fox News] * Google is paying millions to resolve allegations that it discriminated against female and Asian job applicants. [Bloomberg Law] * A paralegal in Texas is accused of embezzling around $40,000 from her former employer. [ABC News] * A settlement has been reached in a lawsuit about the alleged lack of Spanish-language voting materials in Florida. [NBC News] * Quinn Emanuel is apparently operating an office in Atlanta out of a former partner's home. Since everyone is working from home anyways, this seems completely normal. [Bloomberg Law]

By Jordan Rothman
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 02.14.18

* "Plaintiffs’ claim to being the only ones in the world who can refer to players playing and haters hating is frivolous." Taylor Swift has successfully shaken off an absurd copyright infringement lawsuit thanks to her lawyer's player-hating. [THR, Esq. / Hollywood Reporter] * President Trump has nominated 87 judges thus far, and of those nominees, 80 are white, five are Asian-American, one is Hispanic, and one is African-American. Trump's nominees are 92 percent white, which "turns the clock back on years of work and effort that went into promoting judicial diversity." [USA Today] * Happy Valentine's Day, everyone! What better way for a law firm to celebrate the special occasion than to offer a free divorce? We may have more on this later. [UPI] * Yesterday was the second anniversary of Justice Antonin Scalia's death, and [t]hanks to [his] disruption, the Supreme Court may never be the same." Admirers, critics, and clerks share their memories of the man, the myth, the legend. [National Law Journal] * Elizabeth Rose, a former employee of Vice Media, has filed a proposed class-action suit against the company, alleging that women were "systemically and intentionally" paid less than their male counterparts in violation of equal pay laws in New York and California, as well as in violation of the Equal Pay Act. [Los Angeles Times] * Judge Sandra Townes, the first African-American woman to be appointed to the Eastern District of New York, has died of cancer at 73. RIP. [New York Law Journal]

By Staci Zaretsky
Non-Sequiturs

Non-Sequiturs: 02.04.15

* Silk Road's Ross Ulbricht found guilty. [Law360 * Valentine's Day gifts for lawyers. [Law and More] * "7 Things You Only Find Out as a Lawyer to the Poor." [Cracked] * On the day high school athletes sign away their futures, this article explains that law school is almost as bad when it comes to transfers. [Inside Higher Ed] * The lawyer who won Survivor: Racism Survivor: Cook Islands is now in charge of keeping Facebook users from throwing privacy hissy-fits. [Fusion] * Win your case... still lose your license. [Associated Press via Philly.com] * On the subject of law-related scents, does you law school have a custom fragrance yet? [TaxProf Blog] * Should law professors serve as both parties and counsel on amicus briefs? An interesting question of ivory towerness. [Josh Blackman's Blog] * The duty to vaccinate: or not all libertarians are as crazy as Rand Paul. [The Volokh Conspiracy / Washington Post]

By Joe Patrice