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Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 11.24.21

* Man exonerated after wrongfully serving 43 years will not be given any compensation for his time served. Now that's criminal. [NYT] * Living in Iowa? A judge just ruled that Medicaid refusing to help you with  gender affirming care is unlawful. Woop Woop! [NBC News] * Company that's known for basically selling decaf cigarettes to children has to pay out $14.5M over a lawsuit that accused them of...marketing decaf cigarettes to children. Maybe now they won't advertise vapes on Cartoon Network! Woop Woop! [Axios] * White Supremacists will have to give up the green after being held liable for civil conspiracy to incite violence. Now if you excuse me, I am going to watch this on repeat for the rest of the day. Woop Woop! [ABA Journal] * CVS, Walmart, and Walgreens will be on the hook for helping to deepen the opioid crisis. Alarms should have went off when they started playing this whenever the pharmacy put you on hold, but I guess hindsight is 20/20. [NPR]

By Chris Williams
Non-Sequiturs

Non-Sequiturs: 05.27.16

Ed. note: Above the Law will not be publishing on Monday, May 25, in observance of the Memorial Day holiday. * John Quinn is opening up a museum for the brokenhearted. Yes, this is real. [Big Law Business] * Chris Martin is getting some really good legal advice. [Jezebel] * It may have seemed like Baylor was super forthcoming when it fired Art Briles and demoted Ken Starr to law school professor for failing to adequately deal with allegations of sexual assault by football players, but really, they've mastered the art of saying nothing. [Lawyers, Guns and Money] * NBCUniversal to a federal judge: watch Straight Outta Compton. Actually, in context of the case, this request makes sense. [The Hollywood Reporter] * David Lat on why Peter Thiel shouldn't be mad at Gawker for reporting that he is gay. [Washington Post] * Walgreens allegedly didn't verify that the blood-testing technology Theranos was peddling actually worked before it partnered with the startup. [Law and More] * You may not like that Peter Thiel is trying to sue Gawker out of existence, but that doesn't mean the practice should be illegal. [Slate]

By Kathryn Rubino
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 10.29.15

* It's almost Halloween, so members of the legal profession had to have expected some spooky legal proceedings to occur this week. It seems that Lori Sforza, a witch priestess from Salem, has been granted a protective order against a well-known warlock. [Associated Press] * Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders would like to remove marijuana from the list of dangerous controlled substances that are regulated by the Drug Enforcement Administration, which would free up states to legalize it on their own terms. Stoners are really feeling the "Bern" now, in more ways than one. [Washington Post] * Four federal lawyers spent weeks nailing down the legalities behind the killing of Osama bin Laden, and they weren't allowed to ask Attorney General Eric Holder for help for fear of leaks to the press. They even had to do the legal research themselves! [New York Times] * According to a new report by the National Association of Women Lawyers, there's been no "appreciable progress" made for women in the nation's largest law firms since at least 2006. This is extremely disheartening. Please do better, Biglaw. [Big Law Business / Bloomberg BNA] * You know Walgreens is buying Rite Aid for $9.4B, but you might not have known which law firms were prescribing advice in the mega pharmacy merger. Skadden, Jones Day, Simpson Thacher, and Weil Gotshal got billable scripts. [DealBook / New York Times]

By Staci Zaretsky
6th Circuit

Morning Docket: 07.03.14

* Law firm mergers are on a record-setting pace, with 39 thus far in 2014. Just one “megamerger” was announced in the second quarter (Patton Boggs / Squire Sanders), but hey, we still have half the year ahead of us. [Am Law Daily] * It hasn’t been a good week for the Thomas M. Cooley Law School. In addition to all of its enrollment woes, the Sixth Circuit affirmed the dismissal of its defamation suit against Team Strauss/Anziska. [National Law Journal] * The doctors who spent the month of June evaluating Oscar Pistorius’s mental health found that he was depressed and posed a potential suicide risk. You’d feel the same if you were facing jail time. [CNN] * Walgreens will give $180,000 to an ex-employee with diabetes as a settlement after the store fired her for eating a $1.39 bag of chips before paying to fend off a low blood sugar attack. [San Francisco Chronicle] * Lindsay Lohan is suing Rockstar Games over an alleged character likeness in Grand Theft Auto V. To be fair, the character does kind of look like LiLo circa her “Mean Girls” days. [International Business Times]

By Staci Zaretsky