Walking Dead

Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 04.10.20

* Michael Cohen, President Trump's incarcerated former lawyer, has been moved to a Special Housing Unit ("SHU") after a confrontation with another prisoner. Fans of Orange is the New Black should know what that is. [Fox News] * The Supreme Court is facing challenges about how to function during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. [New York Times] * A Brooklyn judge allegedly balked at social distancing guidelines in his courtroom just two weeks before he died from COVID-19. [New York Daily News] * Actors playing "Walking Dead" zombies at Universal Studios have sued the park claiming that Universal promotes an environment that encourages guests to fight and grope the actors. [Daily Beast] * Doulingo, the popular language-learning company, has picked it's new general counsel. Hope he knows that money is the universal language... [Corporate Counsel]

By Jordan Rothman
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 01.19.18

* Happy Shutdown!!! In case you're wondering, the looming crisis won't close the federal courts... for a few weeks. [National Law Journal] * Sixth Circuit rules that cops can bust into your home and search for any reason at all. Who'd have thought putting an internet troll on an appellate court was a bad idea? [Slate] * Coming off turning over their op-ed page to the lowest common denominator, the New York Times pens a thinkpiece that could easily have been titled, "Did you ever see Person of Interest? That was awesome." [New York Times] * Apparently judges stealing cocaine from evidence lockers is frowned upon. [Legal Intelligencer] * DLA Piper forced to do some rearranging in Saudi Arabia. [American Lawyer] * Frank Darabont is suing Walking Dead again. Just when you thought these suits were dead, they come back to life. [Law360]

By Joe Patrice
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 04.06.16

* Gawker asks judge to reduce or set aside the $140.1 million Hogan verdict. That's nice to offer the judge avoid a humiliating reversal on appeal. And yet I've seen Wrestlemania, so expect the doomed judge to hit Nick Denton over the head with a chair while he isn't looking before this gets better. [Capital New York] * Ramon Fonseca assures the world that all of its operations were legal. Sure. I mean, cockfighting is still legal in Panama so this might not be the most ringing affirmation. [NBC News] * The Stoli trademark battle may be headed to the Supreme Court. That's absolut-ly crazy. [Law360] * There's an unauthorized Walking Dead theme restaurant out there in case you had a hankering for some possum and cheese whiz and there's no Carl's Jr. nearby. [Litigation Daily] * Which Biglaw firms are making big bucks off baseball season? [The Am Law Daily] * Eric Conn, dubbed "Mr. Social Security" arrested on federal charges that his immense success is due less to his legal acumen than "paying a doctor and a judge to rubber-stamp false disability claims using phony medical evidence." Remember when he hired Miss Congeniality USA as a PR flack? Those were happier days. [ABC News] * North Carolina releases its February bar exam results. So we know of at least 201 people who couldn't let the championship game spoil their high. You may say, "well Duke students weren't going to be devastated by the game." Silly rabbit, Duke kids aren't taking the February exam. [Bar Exam Stats]

By Joe Patrice