Morning Docket: 08.17.21

* The Warriors are coming out to protect and serve. This lawsuit, and others like it, hopes to change that. [ABA Journal] * Arizona and Colorado will be having water cuts. Maybe global warming is just the push we need for environmental lawyers to consider switching over to something with more electrolytes? [Insider] * The Swiss used a supercomputer to calculate Pi to 62.8tn figures. Unfortunately, lawyer that I am, numbers above 13 that aren't salaries stop registering for me. Would that be a lot in damages? [The Guardian] * Bezos, not happy with being eclipsed by Elon, takes NASA to court. [BBC] * About half of US hospitals have experienced downtime due to ransomware. Tech & IP lawyers, do your thang. [Infosecurity Magazine]

* The Warriors are coming out to protect and serve. This lawsuit, and others like it, hopes to change that. [ABA Journal]

* Arizona and Colorado will be having water cuts. Maybe global warming is just the push we need for environmental lawyers to consider switching over to something with more electrolytes? [Insider]

* The Swiss used a supercomputer to calculate Pi to 62.8tn figures. Unfortunately, lawyer that I am, numbers above 13 that aren’t salaries stop registering for me. Would that be a lot in damages? [The Guardian]

* Bezos, not happy with being eclipsed by Elon, takes NASA to court. [BBC]

* About half of US hospitals have experienced downtime due to ransomware. Tech & IP lawyers, do your thang. [Infosecurity Magazine]


Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord™ in the Facebook group Law School Memes for Edgy T14s. Before that, he wrote columns for an online magazine named The Muse Collaborative under the pen name Knehmo. He endured the great state of Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boatbuilder who cannot swim, a published author on critical race theory, philosophy, and humor, and has a love for cycling that occasionally annoys his peers. You can reach him by email at cwilliams@abovethelaw.com.