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Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 08.05.20

* A Chicago lawyer featured on the Netflix show Indian Matchmaking is facing a tough adjustment after experiencing the fame of being on the show. This series keeps showing up on my queue... [Chicago Sun Times] * The Los Angeles District Attorney's husband will face charges for waiving a gun at protesters near his home. [Hill] * A new lawsuit is demanding that White House briefings have sign language interpreters. [New York Times] * The American Bar Association has voted on a set of best practices for third-party litigation funding. That sentence may sound boring, but the implications are profound. [American Lawyer] * A new class-action lawsuit claims that the popular app TikTok steals consumer data and sends it to China. [NPR] * Check out this story of a lawyer who paid off $200,000 in student loans in two years. Man, she beat me by 22 months, hope she doesn't start a blog... [Business Insider]

By Jordan Rothman

Morning Docket: 06.11.20

* An attorney who spent more than 10 years on the run has been sentenced to three years in prison for developing and selling illegal tax shelters. Sounds like a good plot for a John Grisham book. [Accounting Today] * A lawyer for former National Security Adviser John Bolton alleges that the White House is claiming Bolton's new book contains classified information that cannot be revealed. [CBS News] * The Florida Supreme Court has suspended an attorney who has filed thousands of questionable lawsuits against property insurers. [Insurance Journal] * The Attorneys General of most U.S. states and territories have filed litigation against 26 drugmakers for allegedly fixing the price for generic drugs. [Reuters] * NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has paid $10 million to settle an age discrimination lawsuit alleging that it systematically fired employees over 40 and replaced them with younger workers. Sounds like a twisted kind of Midsommar... [CBS News]

By Jordan Rothman