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Morning Docket: 12.21.10

* The fight for the future begins: the FCC is going to deal with net neutrality today. Are we going to end up with a red pill versus blue pill scenario? [Media Decoder / New York Times] * Super-agent...

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Non-Sequiturs: 04.11.11

* New Egyptian democracy is already putting critics in jail. Dammit Middle East, this is why we can’t have nice things. [Gawker] * We must make sure this technology never gets into the hands of...

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Town Clerk In New York Resigns Rather Than Enforcing The Law — The ‘Gay’ Law,...

I’m always amazed when people aren’t afraid to let everybody know their prejudices. Even a little impressed. In most situations, people try to their disguise their disgust at an entire class of people,...

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Could the Anti-Marriage-Equality People Please Make Up Their Minds?

For years, the anti-gay-marriage crowd has been railing against unelected judges “imposing” marriage equality on a people not yet ready for social progress. But New York’s gay marriage bill was...

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Morning Docket: 09.22.11

* It took SCOTUS more than four hours to write one sentence. But oh, to be a fly on the wall last night when they decided to deny a stay of execution for Troy Davis. [New York Times] * AT&T wants...

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Non-Sequiturs: 12.27.12

* I don’t fully understand this story, but it involves the beautiful and deadly Zhang Ziyi and a SLAPP suit. [Techdirt] * I’m interested in who Andrew Cuomo appoints to the New York Court of Appeals,...

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Morning Docket: 01.04.13

* The Department of Justice has reached yet another settlement in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill case, this time with Transocean Ltd. for $1.4 billion in civil and criminal penalties and fines....

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Morning Docket: 01.10.13

* Eric Holder has agreed to serve once more as attorney general during President Barack Obama’s second term, but he still plans to leave at some point — after all, he’s no “Janet Reno of the Justice...

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Morning Docket: 01.16.13

* “It’s very hard to copyright a story about an individual growing up in the ghetto and getting involved in crime.” Go Third Circuit, it’s your birthday, we gon’ affirm that like it’s your birthday....

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Andrew Cuomo Pads His White House Quals By Having Senate Crap All Over His...

The New York Senate has decided to give Andrew Cuomo a taste of the presidency by acting like toddlers and dissing his Court of Appeals nominee. Continue reading »Follow Above the Law on Twitter or...

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The Difference Between Sharks And Soda

The Nanny State… for sharks. Continue reading »Follow Above the Law on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook.Tags: Andrew Cuomo, Animal Law, Bloomberg Soda Ban, Drinking, Food, Michael Bloomberg, Nanny...

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Morning Docket: 05.01.14

* Boies Schiller announced it will be working with Hausfeld LLP for the limited purpose of creating a new practice group that will allow the firms to co-represent professional athletes. (Sorry, college...

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Morning Docket: 05.06.14

* U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara wants to know more about why Governor Andrew Cuomo shut down an anticorruption commission. [New York Times] * The ABA weighs in on the “unfinished business” controversy...

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Ask Not What The NFL Can Do For Buffalo

If the Bills stay in Buffalo, lawyers will make New York pay through the flared nostrils.

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Two Prominent Professors Plunge Into Politics

Which high-profile law professors are running for governor and lieutenant governor of New York?

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Andrew Cuomo Investigated For Corruption In Blocking Investigations Into...

A prominent law professor believes Governor Cuomo should resign if these allegations prove true. He probably won't.

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Non-Sequiturs: 08.06.14

* Donald Trump is suing to get his name removed from the Trump Plaza and Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City because his reputation is tarnished by tacky façades dedicated to giving off the mere illusion...

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Morning Docket: 08.27.14

* Judge Posner dished out a whole lot of benchslaps at yesterday’s Seventh Circuit arguments over Indiana and Wisconsin’s bans on same-sex marriage. [BuzzFeed] * Major U.S. and Canadian law firms chow...

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Morning Docket: 09.12.14

* Following the divisive decision in Shelby County v. Holder, voting rights cases may be heading back to the SCOTUS sooner than we thought. Thanks, Texas and Wisconsin. [USA Today] * Bienvenidos a...

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Non-Sequiturs: 05.22.15

Ed. note: Above the Law will not be publishing on Monday, May 25, in observance of the Memorial Day holiday. * The settlement deal between Target and Mastercard over the 2013 data breach is dead after...

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