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Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 04.06.21

* A new lawsuit alleges that a radio personality's "rabid" fans forced a Florida man to leave the Sunshine State. Maybe the plaintiff was just a "snow bird"... [Tampa Bay Times] * The highest-paid lawyers at Viacom/CBS were paid $12.7 million last year. [Bloomberg Law] * The Supreme Court handed Google a win over Oracle in a longstanding copyright dispute. Maybe the justices just hate using Bing... [CNN] * Harvey Weinstein has filed an appeal of his criminal conviction. [Fox News] * A group of farmers recently filed an antitrust lawsuit against a number of agricultural companies. [AP] * A Florida lawyer is getting recognition for helping professional wrestlers trademark parts of their personas. Guess he smells what the Rock is cooking... money. [Tampa Bay Times]

By Jordan Rothman
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 02.19.21

* Prosecutors are allegedly expected to file federal weapons and drug charges against a former member of the band Panic! At The Disco. Bet he's hoping to be "victorious"... [Court TV] * Court filings allege that Facebook knowingly provided less accurate data about the reach of potential advertisements on the platform. [NBC News] * Former wrestlers are asking the Supreme Court to hear a case they filed against the WWE. Would be interesting if the justices ordered them to resolve their issues in the ring... [New York Post] * A former Georgia attorney is facing felony charges for wiring money from a title company to his personal account. [CBS News] * Michael Avenatti and Michael Cohen are apparently feuding. They should know how to settle their dispute in the yard... [Daily Beast]

By Jordan Rothman
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 09.10.20

* A Rhode Island woman is accused of stealing around $740,000 from her godmother's law firm. Maybe this could form the basis of a spinoff to the Francis Ford Coppola classic... [WPRI.com] * A federal appeals court has upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit against the WWE over brain damage allegedly sustained by former wrestlers. [Chicago Sun Times] * George Bizos, an anti-apartheid lawyer who represented Nelson Mandela, has died of natural causes at 92. [BBC] * Attorney General Barr is claiming that the increase in violent crime in New York recently is a result of the state's new bail reform law. [New York Post] * President Trump announced 20 more people he may select to fill a vacancy on the Supreme Court. Happy to say I have had a beer with one person on the list... [Fox News]

By Jordan Rothman
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 01.26.17

* You could say these lawyers made an epic screwup when they cribbed another complaint and failed to make even the most obvious changes, but I like to think they were just trying to prove the dangers of repeated concussions. [Law.com] * Class action certified in PACER suit. If you want to read the order, I'm sure there's a place online you can go to find it. [Law Sites] * Sounds like Charlotte School of Law has some real issues. [The Atlantic] * Trump hires Stefan C. Passantino of Dentons to handle ethics and compliance for the new administration. Because Dentons has done so well on this score lately. [Law360] * For some reason, whistleblower lawyers feel pretty good about their practices for the next few years. [National Law Journal] * Andrew Ceresney believes the SEC will remain aggressive in the new administration, proving that this whole alternative facts thing is spreading! [Law.com] * Some student groups want a formal role in the process of hiring Harvard's next dean including membership on the search committee. Don't cross that line -- a strong, vocal student body prepared to critique the school's decisions actually requires staying out of the decisions themselves. [Harvard Crimson]

By Joe Patrice
Non-Sequiturs

Non-Sequiturs: 02.11.15

* Katy Perry’s lawyers from Greenberg Traurig lob another volley at the sculptor of Left Shark. Amazingly, they’re trying to use his sculpture in their trademark application. Can’t make this up. [Political Sculptor] * Former ATL Lawyer of the Year, Paul Weiss’s Roberta Kaplan, has an interesting new project. She’s asking Americans to co-sign an […]

By Joe Patrice
Bankruptcy

Morning Docket: 10.12.12

* “Enough is enough.” Come on, Togut, did you really think all of the Dewey drama was going to end just because the judge approved your settlement plan? Now he’s trying to get the former partners committee disbanded. This won’t end well. [Am Law Daily] * Covington & Burling was disqualified from representing Minnesota in its anti-pollution case against ex-client 3M over a conflict of interest. A “conscious disregard” of professional duties? This is 1L stuff, really. [Twin Cities Pioneer Press] * Remember J. Michael Johnson, the former dean of Louisiana College Law who resigned for a “great job offer” before the school even opened? He’s now senior counsel for the ultraconservative Liberty Institute. [Alexandria Town Talk] * “If you’ve been hit by a table, ladder, or chair, call David Otunga.” What has this Harvard Law grad turned WWE wrestler up to these days, aside from filming commercials at criminal defense firms? [City Sentinel] * “The argument is absolutely absurd.” An ex-high school coach accused of having sex with a student wants Oklahomas’s ban on student-teacher relationships overturned as unconstitutional. [Alva Review-Courier]

By Staci Zaretsky
Celebrities

Case Closed: David Otunga Steps Out of the Ring to Return to the Courtroom

Harvard Law School graduate and former Sidley associate, David Otunga, has been flexing his muscles in the ring since 2008, but our tipsters were unimpressed, noting, “From Harvard Law School to I Love New York to the WWE. Unfortunately the next stop is probably porn.” Well, sorry to disappoint you, but Otunga hasn't signed up for his porn industry debut just yet. Instead, he took a momentary break from wrestling to make his return to the courtroom....

By Staci Zaretsky