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Senate Democrats Plan To Use Subpoena Power To Figure Out What The Hell Is Going On At The Supreme Court
The latest in the Supreme Court ethical saga.
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 10.27.23
* Remember Morgan Lewis partner Sheri Dillon? She’s the one who stood in front of a pile of — for all we know empty — folders and told everyone that they didn’t need to see Donald Trump’s taxes because they were fine. Well, the AG had some questions about that at trial yesterday. [Law360]
* Pillsbury ends merger talks with Stroock as two of the most star-crossed potential merger partners in Biglaw fail to get together. [American Lawyer]
* Today’s the day for Sam Bankman-Fried testimony. [Reuters]
* Bonus season is about a month away and likely to be a 2022 redux. [Bloomberg Law News]
* Attorney for Clarence Thomas denies that the justice’s RV loan was forgiven. Naturally, he refuses to provide any corroboration for this. [The Hill]
* Maryland posthumously admits Black lawyer it denied 166 years ago. [Washington Post]
* Legal tech prices are heading up. [Law.com]
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Clarence Thomas *Really* Wants To Re-Write First Amendment Law
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 09.28.23
* Democrats ask Clarence Thomas to recuse himself from case run by Koch attorneys because they’re under the mistaken impression that Thomas has any shame. [Law360]
* Adapting trial practice to persuade the TikTok generation. [DBR]
* Tanya Chutkan politely declines Trump’s bonkers demand that she leave the case. [Reuters]
* Former MLA recruiter’s bankruptcy estate pursuing sexual harassment claims. [American Lawyer]
* Just how much has Ron DeSantis cost Florida taxpayers? [New Republic]
* Law school routinely punching above its perceived weight class. [Bloomberg Law News]
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Clarence Thomas Keeps Getting Caught With Mega Donors? Let’s Hit Him In His Pockets.
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 09.22.23
* Somehow they’ve managed to find even more undisclosed private air travel. This time taking Clarence Thomas to a Koch brothers event in a level of impropriety that a former W. Bush judge said, “takes my breath away, frankly.” [ProPublica]
* Clifford Chance opts for permanent hybrid work model while other firms choose alienation and extortion. [RollonFriday]
* Second Circuit decides Sam Bankman-Fried can wait in jail. [Law360]
* North Carolina Supreme Court justice Anita Earls spoke publicly about implicit bias in the legal system. After the judiciary commission ordered her to pre-clear future statements with them, she sued over the prior restraint and the federal judge chastised her for making the justice system look bad by talking about bias out loud. [Balls and Strikes]
* Having toppled admissions, right-wingers take aim at scholarships that might possibly help non-white people go to school. [Reuters]
* Judge upholds the right of private investors to put their money toward companies that match their environmental and social goals. [Bloomberg Law News]
* Profiling the folks chronicling the opaque Google antitrust case. [Wired]
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We've Entered The 'Hopes And Wishes' Phase Of SCOTUS Accountability
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Democrats Unimpressed With Clarence Thomas's Feeble Attempt At Transparency
The senator does not hold back.
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 09.01.23
* Clarence Thomas brings on Elliot Berke to represent him in his ethical quagmire, marking the first sign Thomas is starting to take his scandals seriously. [Bloomberg Law News]
* Mitch McConnell froze again. Cornell Law professor Michael Dorf examines the constitutional gaps for dealing with the issue. [Dorf on Law]
* DOJ moves to stop upcoming Titanic expedition because… obviously. [CNN]
* Lawyer tried to sub in a fake client during an arraignment. Gotta admit, that’s a new one! [ABA Journal]
* Judge in Sam Bankman-Fried case wants all postponement requests filed immediately because he’s tired of vague claims about what might happen in the future based on nothing, which if you think about it is how this case got here in the first place. [Fortune]
* Not a great week for the Proud Boys. [Reuters]
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Judge Gets In Trouble For Name Calling Over A Parked Car. Now Let's Talk About SCOTUS.
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Clarence Thomas Clerks Defend Boss With Worst Letter This Side Of Your Middle School Poetry
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Clarence Thomas Has More Billionaire Friends That Lavish Him With Expensive Gifts Than We Previously Thought
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 08.10.23
* Another day, another several hundred grand worth of unethical and undisclosed gifts for Clarence Thomas. [ProPublica]
* ABA encouraging law firms to redouble efforts to expand diversity… before the Supreme Court makes it illegal. [Bloomberg Law News]
* Lawsuit alleges private attorney took on upwards of 600 indigent client criminal cases, collecting huge sums from the city, and then not doing any work. That’s not totally true… the lawsuit alleges that the lawyer was quite diligent about filing motions for fees. [ABA Journal]
* Treasury announcing regulations to curb money laundering through real estate. Maybe Manhattan will be affordable again in 15 years! [Reuters]
* A Wisconsin police department refuses to divulge the name of officers who shoot people citing victim’s rights laws and arguing that if they shot someone they must have felt threatened and therefore are the real victims. [Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel]
* Don’t use AI to write your firm’s web content reports the department of obvious things. [Search Engine Journal]
* Ninth Circuit says text spam is not covered by the TCPA. Great! Just in time for generative AI to remove almost every entry barrier to mass text spamming. [Law360]