Morning Docket: 10.12.22

* Troubling confession: Lawyer fined for warning school of a priest’s history of sexual misconduct. [The Guardian] * Pig in the mine: California’s pork law is an unexpected proxy for the legal side of the culture war. [Cal Matters] * Gauntlet thrown: Hawaii won’t make it easy for other states to criminalize abortion. [Huff Po] * No laughing matter: Comedians claim Atlanta airport’s search practices use racial profiling. [AP] * The right to cancel loans? You should read up on this cease and desist. [Business Insider]

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Priest handcuffed * Troubling confession: Lawyer fined for warning school of a priest’s history of sexual misconduct. [The Guardian]

* Pig in the mine: California’s pork law is an unexpected proxy for the legal side of the culture war. [Cal Matters]

* Gauntlet thrown: Hawaii won’t make it easy for other states to criminalize abortion. [Huff Po]

* No laughing matter: Comedians claim Atlanta airport’s search practices use racial profiling. [AP]

* The right to cancel loans? You should read up on this cease and desist. [Business Insider]

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Atlanta, California, Hawaii, Morning Docket, Pigs, Schools, Sexual Misconduct

Morning Docket: 04.19.24

* The Trump jury is picked. The search for more alternates continues today. No rest for the very, very sleepy! [Washington Post]

* This story about the Dominion case and Clare Locke losing a lot of its talent to MWPP is… wild. [NY Times]

* Advice for Biglaw firms: when you tell a client “to avoid disclosure” and “try to do so in a way that looks legitimate,” you’re gonna have a bad time. [Roll on Friday]

* Ron DeSantis continues to throw taxpayer money on a heaping bonfire of avoidable litigation. This time it’s a law to allow public school chaplains. [USA Today]

* Another assessment of Judge Ho’s recent forum shopping speech concludes that his bombastic response only ended up making the case for reform that he set out to debunk. [Balls and Strikes]

* Democrats propose inspector general role for the judiciary. But we already have ProPublica, don’t we? [Law360]

* Gun manufacturers beg Supreme Court to bail them out on the bedrock principle that no one should be allowed to question them. [Reuters]

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