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E. Jean Carroll Judge Rejects Move To Delay, Brands Trump Appeal 'Frivolous'
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Not Every Good Jurist Is A Good Manager
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Courts, Health Care / Medicine
43K Patients In California Could Get Refunds, Bill Corrections As Part Of Discounted Care Settlement
Santa Clara Valley Healthcare in California has begun notifying 43,000 patients about their eligibility for billing corrections and refunds. The system’s patient outreach effort is a result of a recently settled lawsuit. In the complaint, former patients alleged the county did not inform them about its hospitals' charity care and discount payment policies, leading them to have to pay large bills. -
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You Will Absolutely Believe James Ho's Financial Connection To Plaintiffs In The Abortion Pill Case
Republican jurists may not think women deserve autonomy over their own bodies, but they sure can have their own bank accounts -- that just *happen* to accept money from right wing sources with business before the judges. -
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State Supreme Court Justice Caught Editing Own Wikipedia Entry
Can you possibly imagine any US Supreme Court justice doing this and why is it Sam Alito? -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 08.18.23
* White House Counsel Stuart Delery is leaving the job next month. Where will the revolving door land? Probably Gibson Dunn. [Law360]
* State judge blocks Texas law that barred Houston — and only Houston — from running its local elections after the city started electing Black women. [AP]
* NY Times mulls suing OpenAI to prevent GPT from learning how to compose whataboutism takes that put David Brooks out of a job. [NPR]
* We knew Thomson Reuters planned to buy Casetext for $650 million. It’s now official. [Legaltech News]
* Yes, you can lose your job for posting about committing vehicular manslaughter against Black people. [Reuters]
* Supreme Court could improve its legitimacy by hewing closer to rigorous policy analysis. They can’t even do rigorous historical analysis, how are they supposed to do rigorous policy analysis? [Milken Institute Review]
* Before getting indicted for joining criminal coup-spiracy, Ken Chesebro was a Larry Tribe research assistant. [ABA Journal]
* EEOC considers renewing race and gender pay reports. Raising concerns about litigation from anti-affirmative action forces who are so sure that discrimination doesn’t exist that they don’t want anyone checking their work. [Bloomberg Law News]
* Fired attorney calls cops on partner. [Roll on Friday]
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The Supreme Court Could Overrule Rent Control In New York And Across The Nation
My money is on Clarence and Alito's decision coming out on the side of the people that paid them. -
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MAGA Judge James Ho Unveils New Injury Based On Conservative Tears
If you thought the Dobbs decision was the low point for reproductive freedom in this country, James Ho is here to show you how much worse it can get. -
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A Georgia Judge Was Removed For Exploiting Clients And Vacationing On The Public's Dime
If only the U.S. Supreme Court had as much guts as Georgia's. -
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Woman Arrested For Threatening To Kill Federal Judge Overseeing Trump Jan. 6th Case
She used a racial slur while threatening the judge because of course she did. -
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Courts, Government
CMS Lowers No Surprises Act Fee After Court Nixes Price Hike
This move came a week after the Texas Medical Association won a court case challenging HHS over its 600% price hike on the fee. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 08.17.23
* Fifth Circuit judges anoint themselves pharmaceutical scientists to determine that the FDA probably didn’t understand mifepristone when its scientists exercised their statutory and regulatory authority. So now judges are historians, neurologists, and drug scientists. Yale and Harvard JDs really prepare you to be jackasses of all trades! [Reuters]
* Speaking of judges acting as neurologists, the Federal Circuit backtracked to avoid that charge and cited Judge Pauline Newman’s reticence to hand over medical records of a cardiac event as the key justification to ban her from the court. Which fails their own twisted rationale since a risk of heart attack has no bearing on a judge’s faculties. But in any event, they’re cardiologists now, too. [Law360]
* It took a matter of hours for Trump supporters to publicly circulate the names and addresses of Georgia grand jurors. [NBC]
* By nixing student loan forgiveness, the Supreme Court likely also jacked the market by robbing it of 401(k) investment. [Bloomberg Law News]
* Law firms are generally uninterested in a fully remote workforce — which is understandable in some practice areas. But somehow this is going to get conflated with hybrid work models and some dumb firm is going to think it has cover to fully end working from home — to the delight of the firms looking to poach. [American Lawyer]
* Fox News needs a new CLO after the last one presided over the company accumulating upwards of a billion in liability. Who would want this job? [Corporate Counsel]
* Freshfields managing partner races in FIA bronze level events in his spare time. [LegalCheek]
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Judge Earns Misconduct Complaint After Ordering Lawyers Take Training Classes From Anti-LGBTQ Group
Maybe judges can't just reverse engineer opinions for shock value. -
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Trump-Appointed Judge James Ho Uses Dissent To Peacock His Love Of Country In Case Trump Gets Elected
He could have gotten the same effect by just chanting 'Liberty!' really loudly. -
Courts, Legal Ethics
Lawyers Whose Lawyers May Themselves Need Lawyers: Trump’s Crackpot Legal Team Of Indictees
There is nothing noble or necessary about being paid handsomely to represent a billionaire’s personal interests. -
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Some Supreme Court Justices Cringed At Cases Involving Tax Law
Almost all of the Supreme Court justices have, at best, limited experience with tax laws.