Georgia
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Courts
A Georgia Judge Was Removed For Exploiting Clients And Vacationing On The Public's Dime
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 08.03.23
* Plaintiff seeks sanctions against Rudy Giuliani in breach of contract lawsuit. This seems like… not the most pressing of the former NYC mayor’s legal woes. [New York Law Journal]
* Norton Rose Fulbright partner Vincent Dunn is working on the road from Australia. That’s because his daughter, Crystal Dunn, is playing for the U.S. Women’s National Team in the World Cup. [National Law Journal]
* 96-year-old Judge Pauline Newman wrote a pointed dissent amid questions of her competency. [Law360]
* Harvard Law’s Laurence Tribe weighs in on the case against FTX crypto founder Sam Bankman-Fried, on behalf of the defendant. [Reuters]
* Georgia district attorneys are suing over a new law giving the state the power to remove the elected officials over discretionary decisions. [Bloomberg Law]
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Courts
Lawyer Found Guilty Of Felony Charge For His Role In January 6th Riot
He was also found guilty of several misdemeanor charges. -
Courts
Trump Moves To Quash GA Indictment On Grounds Of YOU'RE NOT THE BOSS OF ME
Delay, delay, delay. -
Courts
GA Grand Jurors: Lordy, There Were MORE Tapes
What happens in Atlanta doesn't always stay in Atlanta. -
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Courts
Faced With The Prospect Of A Clarence Thomas Statue, State Senator Calls The Supreme Court Justice An 'Uncle Tom'
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Courts
DOJ Urges Court To Seal Filings Regarding Trump Grand Jury, If Such A Thing Exists, Which They Cannot Confirm Or Deny
Sure, you've been reading about that grand jury for months. But wouldn't it be fun to pretend in legal filings that we all live in a land of magical make believe? -
Courts
Court Gives Reporters A Peek At GA Grand Jury Report On 2020 Election Interference. But Just A Peek.
If prosecutors are happy, then we're not going to get to see much. -
Courts
The ABA Decides That Courtrooms Shouldn't Still Have Confederate Flags In Them. Also, There Are Courtrooms With Confederate Flags Still In Them.
The ABA has not yet decided if it is okay for courthouses to have The Punisher skull flags displayed proudly during vigilante violence cases. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 11.16.22
* Is “Woke” the new Race, Sex and Religion? [WSJ]
* Illegally obscuring a license plate is one thing, BUT FIXING IT? Nahhhhh [NYC.Streetsblog]* This judge hit Georgia’s six-week abortion ban with the gavel [CNN]
* New York continues to be the battle ground of what gun restrictions will be in the United States. [Gothamist]
* You know, you think people would start caring about politicians breaking laws enough to not vote for them. [Missouri Independent]
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Courts
Justice Thomas Does Lindsey Graham A Solid And Pushes Off Date With Georgia Grand Jury Investigating Electoral Interference
Let's see if Justice Kavanaugh likes beer enough to bail out the guy who threw a tantrum and got him confirmed.
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Government
Very Former Georgia Deputy Gets Caught Doing A Slavery
Of course this was based in Florida. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 09.12.22
* Georgia Deputy Police Chief gets caught up in a sex trafficking ring. You’d think there would be better background checks for the people whose literal only job is to prevent crap like this. [NY Post]
* Looks like Florida’s child safety laws should be concerned with more than keeping books out of children’s hands. [NBC]
* Keep speech alive! Judge prevents Arizona from punishing citizens for recording the police. [AP]
* Guess whose back? Back again? Polio. Thanks to everyone whose been adamantly fighting vaccine mandates! [The Guardian]
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Courts
Trump Decides To Face The Music With A Rapper's Former Council At His Side
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Tax Law
What Do Taxes Have To Do With The 'Batgirl' Movie, Electric Vehicles, And An Unborn Fetus?
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 08.05.22
* Monkeypox is officially a public health emergency. Let’s mind our manners so this doesn’t go apeshit, capiche? [NBC News]
* DeSantis isn’t having any of that Constitutional Sheriff mess when it doesn’t fit his policy choices. What happened to discretion? [Wesh]
* Officers face disciplinary action for letting a white privilege card slide. This isn’t hyperbole. Even I can admit this is funny. [AP]
* I know you know law school is expensive, but most people just think that means tuition. The textbooks ain’t cheap neither. [Reddit]
* California’s Governor pulls a “Come to Death Row Records” to spite Georgia. [CBS 46]
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Government
We Don't Need Symbolic Tax Breaks, We Need Bodily Autonomy
This has potentially disastrous implications.