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Morning Docket: 05.23.24

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Texas Lawyer ] * Meanwhile, when it's not convenient for their cronies, a Trump judge in Alabama is threatening to jail LGBTQ rights attorneys for "forum shopping" by trying to bring an Alabama case in Alabama. Alabama Political Reporter ] * Republican move to block college athletes from becoming university employees.

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Hiring Announcement: University of Alabama Seeks Civil Procedure Visitor for Fall 2022

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The University of Alabama School of Law is seeking a visiting faculty member for a podium visit in the fall 2022 semester from an ABA-accredited law school to teach Civil Procedure (4 credit hours) in the first-year required curriculum.

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Morning Docket: 04.12.22

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Parents prepare to sue over Alabama law that prevents gender-affirming medical procedures in youth under 19. [ Amazing list of things to look for when selecting a law school just dropped. * Judge faces threat of early retirement for not putting the interests of her party above judicial ethics. Guardian ]. The Hill ].

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Morning Docket: 09.08.23

Above The Law

* Alabama's open defiance of the Supreme Court's election law ruling sets up a potential return trip to DC, with Republicans hoping they can flip Brett Kavanaugh this time. A new leak -- which we'll also never get to the bottom of -- suggests Kavanaugh's original vote was the product of lengthy negotiations with John Roberts.

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Biden to create bipartisan commission on Supreme Court reform

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The announcement fulfilled a campaign promise by the president, who last fall proposed the idea of a commission after he declined to endorse efforts by liberals to expand the Supreme Court – efforts that Justice Stephen Breyer criticized in a speech on Tuesday at Harvard Law School. Elise Boddie, professor of law and Judge Robert L.

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Blind Justice or Blind Rage: New York’s Legal System Faces Ultimate Test With Obscene Trump Award

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An Alabama jury awarded $4,000 in compensatory damages for the loss of value in having a factory paint job, but then added $4 million in punitive damages. Even when the Alabama Supreme Court reduced that to $2 million, the U.S. Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at the George Washington University Law School.

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Senators spar over shadow docket in wake of court’s order allowing Texas abortion law to take effect

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Shadow docket” was coined in 2015 by University of Chicago Law School professor William Baude, a former clerk for the chief justice. Edmund LaCour, the solicitor general of Alabama, called the Texas ruling “entirely ordinary” and emphasized the importance of an emergency docket in judicial functioning. Tom Cotton, R-Ark.,

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