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Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 03.15.23

* Justice Ketanji has stood out for her questions. Her decisions have fallen in line with the others thus far. [ABA Journal] * A Texas judge could play a role in banning abortion pills nationwide: Quite a lot of intervention from the Lone Star state. [Reuters] * Like voting? You should follow this one: North Carolina's redistricting case is gonna have some spillover. [Reuters] * The "Rust" prosecutor flaked. [NYT] * Conflicts of interest are no joke in these parts. [NY Daily News]

Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 10.07.22

* Biden just mass pardoned everyone convicted of weed possession in DC. Next, the world! [CNBC] * Delaware's Supreme Court to soon decide the constitutionality of mail-in voting. Prepare your parcels! [Delaware Online] * Nothing says Biglaw like dropping coin on a dime. Bitcoin, rather. [Bloomberg Law] * Plan on working long-term at Hogan Lovell's Perth office? About that... [Law.com] * San Diego PD are resigning over accountability measures. [Just Sentinel]

Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 04.04.22

* Two Americas: Legal battles are making for radically different living experiences state by state. [NYT] * Too little, too late? New federal anti-lynching law may not be enough of a deterrent. [NPR] * Florida has been trying to make the most of the whole 1965 Voting Rights Act being gutted and all. [NYT] * Trump’s Twitter emulator is failing bigly. Hard to speak freely with bad coders. [BBC] * All good boys protect and serve: Officer attacking a teenager bitten by K-9. [YouTube]

Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 01.07.22

* A fig leaf or a Trojan Horse? McConnell backing an election law change has a few people confused. [The Hill] * And a 1 and a 2! Utah has to figure out how they are going to deal with armed protesters. [Deseret News] * The judge from the highest court (of our childhoods) creates a $5M scholarship to help women succeed in law. [Law.com] * The legal aftermath of the men who lynched Ahmaud Arbery continues — the length of their sentencing and a potential death penalty are still on the table. [CNN] * UNLV Law is going to keep some of their courses online for the semester. Will other schools follow suit? [FOX News]

Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 01.04.22

* Teaching is fundamental: how teachers handle the return to in-person classes and the implementation of anti-CRT legislation is gonna be groundbreaking. [AP] * A civil rights lawyer from the Loving case thinks the case is still relevant to... a death penalty case? See if you follow the logic. [Bloomberg Law] * A change of scenery: Texan abortion providers want the district court to hear challenges to SB8 rather than the appeals court. I hope it goes well. [The Texas Tribune] * NY mayor has some hesitation about letting non-citizens vote in elections. This is probably gonna go to court. [City and State] * What is beyond a reasonable doubt, exactly? Legal ambiguity may have put a man on death row. Again. [NYT]