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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 12.01.23
* Miss Manners asked the appropriate way to respond when people make fun of lawyers. Somehow the answer wasn’t, “just suck it up you weenie.” [Washington Post]
* Study confirms that there aren’t enough legal aid lawyers. [ABA Journal]
* Giving the judges a Nazi salute seems like it should be worth a lot more than a 250 quid fine. [RollonFriday]
* Google takes aim at Microsoft with UK antitrust regulators. [Reuters]
* Another Biglaw firm yanks an offer over public statements supporting Palestinians. This one’s headed to the EEOC. [Bloomberg Law News]
* Biglaw associate approved for admission to Maryland bar despite cheating issues. [Law.com]
* In resounding triumph for free speech, Montanans can watch stupid videos again. [Law360]
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Health Care / Medicine
FDA Probes New Cases Of Cancer That May Stem From Cancer Cell Therapies
CAR T-therapies for cancer are now under tighter FDA scrutiny as the agency opens an inquiry regarding reports that some patients who received these cell therapies went on to develop new cases of cancer. The FDA said benefits of these therapies still outweigh their risks, but it is evaluating the need for regulatory action.
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 11.30.23
* Supreme Court poised to kill off SEC in-house enforcement. Weird how they think administrative courts pose an affront to justice when they fine millionaire speculators but don’t have a problem with it incarcerating pro se 3-year-olds. [NPR]
* But at least the Court began from the premise that the Fifth Circuit is probably crazy. [Dorf on Law]
* CFPB warns that AI vests too much power to a handful of tech CEOs. Yeah… but that won’t last long. I’ve seen Ex Machina. [Law360]
* Until the robot uprising though, several state insurance authorities are probing carriers using AI to make “discriminatory garbage in, discriminatory garbage out” coverage decisions. [Bloomberg Law News]
* Preet Bharara wants the Justice Department to stop ghosting targets. Amazing how the perspective changes when you’re representing folks on the other side of the table. [Reuters]
* IPOs coming back. Time for firms that laid off all their corporate folks to wildly flail about. [Corporate Counsel]
* Crowell enters the Eric Adams imbroglio. [Gothamist]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 11.29.23
* Supreme Court considers whether verdicts are verdicts. The answer is always, but with this Court we need to sweat it out a bit. [Balls and Strikes]
* Trump judge tells lawyer that no case in “history” supports the position that the government consider asylum requests from seekers denied access to U.S. soil. Probably because there until the Trump administration everyone realized that was illegal so it never came up. [Law360]
* Amazon orders pro-union materials torn down because why follow federal law? [Bloomberg Law News]
* Biglaw’s coming for the emerging markets, but it’s not just to capture new business. [American Lawyer]
* Lawyers used to worry about hallucinations, but a new concern is emerging when it comes to generative AI. [Legaltech News]
* Alex Murdaugh gets another 27 years but who’s even counting at this point? [Reuters]
* Charlie Munger, founder of Munger Tolles & Olson dies at age 99. [Daily Journal]
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Health Care / Medicine
Novo Nordisk Plans €2B Site Expansion As GLP-1 Drug Demand Grows
Novo Nordisk's planned expansion will more than double the footprint of its France production site, bringing new capacity for manfacturing GLP-1 drugs for metabolic conditions. The location is already one of the company’s largest for making diabetes products. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 11.28.23
* Supreme Court hears challenge to nearly a century of SEC enforcement authority. As the Constitution doesn’t even mention “securities and exchange,” we should go back to the economic glory days of the early 1930s. [Reuters]
* Honestly can’t think of a more idiotic legal claim than suing the platforms where FTX ran ads. [Law.com]
* State AGs suing Facebook say Zuckerberg rejected a ban on image filters “shown to be harmful to mental health.” Never mind that most research advocates against banning such filters. Ugh, do we have to defend Mark Zuckerberg here? [Law360]
* Litigation finance? In my day we laundered our money through fine art purchases and we liked it! [Bloomberg Law News]
* Why is Trump’s judiciary continuing its assault on Voting Rights Act after John Roberts already set an outer bound on the law? Because when you set a legal standard that amounts to one guy’s whim, you don’t have rule of law, you have a bunch of dingbats auditioning to replace that guy. [Vox]
* John Eastman asks for a speedier trial in Georgia in a clumsy bid to give Trump a sneak peek at the evidence. [Newsweek]
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Health Care / Medicine
What 4 Execs Want People To Know About The Intersection Between The Justice System And Behavioral Health
There needs to be better communication, a focus on clinically appropriate care and more empathy when it comes to treating the mental health of the incarcerated population, executives said during a recent panel discussion. - Sponsored
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 11.27.23
* Judge prepares to embark on beer taste test in ongoing intellectual property dispute. It’s a tough job, but someone’s got to do it. [Law Society Gazette]
* Lest you think that being a cop would get him the sort of basic protection every other prisoner is routinely denied in prison… Derek Chauvin got stabbed and the Bureau of Prisons isn’t even bothering to update his family. [NBC]
* Kirkland makes big bucks off big mistakes. [Bloomberg Law News]
* Former recruiter’s bankruptcy estate sues Major, Lindsey & Africa alleging sexual assault cover up. [American Lawyer]
* White, heterosexual male NYU Law 1L who preemptively assumes he’s too dumb to make law review can continue to pursue his case anonymously for now. [Reuters]
* Lizzo tries to argue that everything she does is in the public interest. [Law360]
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Health Care / Medicine
Why Boulder Care’s CEO Is Hopeful About The Future Of Substance Use Disorder Treatment
The DEA proposed a rule back in March that would roll back some of the COVID-19 flexibilities for the virtual prescribing of controlled substances, but has since extended the flexibilities. Stephanie Strong, founder and CEO of Boulder Care, feels confident that the DEA will continue to be open to the prescribing of these medications via telemedicine. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 11.22.23
* Remember the runaway inflation in the price of eggs? Well, which came first: the chicken or the collusive price-fixing scheme? [Law360]
* Man who got rich selling fake money in trouble. [Bloomberg Law News]
* Court finds Elon Musk knew about Tesla autopilot defect. Probably a good time to launch a distraction lawsuit against Media Matters or something. [Reuters]
* Women accuse Amazon of discrimination, which is ironic for the Classics majors out there. [Law.com]
* Judge scolds Biglaw lawyers for immaturity. [ABA Journal]
* “I just wanted to relax and stop being accused of misrepresenting assets,” says Trump Org exec bringing epic levels of I’m-sorry-that-you’re-angry energy to the proceedings. [Courthouse News Service]
* Donna Adelson to be held without bond. [ABC]
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Government
New York Proposes Regulations For Stronger Hospital Cybersecurity
New York Governor Kathy Hochul released a proposed set of cybersecurity regulations that require hospitals to establish new policies and procedures to protect themselves from ever-intensifying cyber threats. The state also put aside $500 million in funding to help hospitals upgrade their technology systems to comply with these new rules.
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 11.21.23
* In “Elon Musk defamation suit” news, man brings claim against Musk that might have actual merit unlike Musk’s claim against Media Matters. [CNN]
* Trump organization officials say Mazars was fully aware of all the valuation tactics Trump used. Which is like Michael Corleone testifying that it was all cool because Tom knew what was up. [Law360]
* The turmoil at OpenAI can be traced back to its governance structure, which looks like something ChatGPT came up with. [Corporate Counsel]
* Judge Ho used the concurrence in another case to pen a shadow brief in the Rahimi case now that even this Supreme Court signaled that they think Ho’s crazy. [Bloomberg Law News]
* Supreme Court denies Derek Chauvin’s bid to find someone willing to give him qualified immunity for murder. [Reuters]
* Alex Murdaugh pleads guilty. Not to that thing, the other thing. No, not that other thing, the other other thing. [ABA Journal]
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Health Care / Medicine
U.K. Is First To Approve A CRISPR-Based Therapy, Covering Two Blood Disorders
Casgevy, from Vertex Pharmaceuticals and CRISPR Therapeutics, is now approved in the United Kingdom for treating the blood disorders sickle cell disease and beta thalassemia. It’s the first regulatory approval in the world for a CRISPR-based therapy. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 11.20.23
* Billing rates are up and somehow the narrative around this never mentions that we had a spate of overall inflation in the middle. [American Lawyer]
* Lawyer pleads guilty to paying clerk for referrals. The hustle is real. [ABA Journal]
* DOJ asks court to strip Eric Adams of control over Rikers Island. Was he trying to sell that to Turkey too? [Gothamist]
* Bob Menendez hires Paul Hastings. [Reuters]
* Federal Circuit asking judge to let them continue to pocket impeach Pauline Newman just like it doesn’t say they can in the Constitution. [Bloomberg Law News]
* Abuse lawsuit against Diddy settles instantly. Seems like something that could’ve been handled with a demand letter. [Law360]
* David Boies plans to step back from firm leadership in 2025. [Litigation Daily]
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Courts, Fashion
Meta And Christian Louboutin File Joint Lawsuit Against Mexico-Based Counterfeiter
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Technology
AI Update: A WaPo Deep Dive, AI Passes Legal Ethics Exam, Google’s AI Scam Suit
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 11.17.23
* Mistrial in the Breonna Taylor case. [CNN]
* DEI consulting is booming after the Supreme Court rollback of affirmative action. [Bloomberg Law]
* Progress on an alternative to the bar exam in California. [Reuters]
* Judge in Google search case keeping a very open mind. [Law360]
* Alex Murdaugh one step closer to a new trial. [Law & Crime]