Tag: Divorce

* Virtually new applications: Employment lawyers are gonna have to figure out how the Metaverse will fit into their practice. [Financial Times]

* Carpooling to the ER: Michigan’s no-fault policy on car accidents is arguably filling up hospital beds. [Detroit News]

* Can’t beat ’em, join ’em: California deploys an SB8-esque bill that will allow people to sue gunmakers. [UPI]

* Florida is trying to ban discussions of LGBTQ topics around children from kindergarten to third grade… I can’t even see how this came up? Someone play music a little too loud during nap time? [Jurist]

* My Beautiful Dark Twisted Tweets: Looks like Ye’s blue bird ramblings are fair game in the divorce proceedings. [FOX]

* Starbucks is being sued for allegedly failing to have real vanilla in its chilled Frappuccinos. Hope the plaintiff doesn’t settle like Kramer… [National Law Review]

* A California lawyer was arrested earlier this week for allegedly defrauding investors of nearly $5 million on a bogus real estate opportunity. [KTLA]

* A Texas lawyer is claiming that receiving stimulus money can lead to a higher divorce rate. [CBS News]

* A lawyer has been sentenced to a prison term for charging a client for immigration work and never doing the promised tasks. [Go Erie]

* One of Donald Trump’s impeachment lawyers apparently sued Trump last year. Must be water under the bridge… [Vanity Fair]

* Divorce lawyer lays out how this Jeff Bezos divorce will go down. [VICE]

* Michael Cohen is going to testify to Congress, so that’s a new circus to look forward to. [CNBC]

* Florida’s newly passed law allowing felons to vote after they’ve served their sentence may have an exploitable flaw. A former Florida Supreme Court justice notes that the law requires the potential voter to satisfy their complete sentence, which might include fines or restitution payments that no one ever expects the convict to pay off. Retired Justice James E.C. Perry says that makes this “akin to a poll tax.” This is why Florida can’t have nice things. [ABC Action News]

* For those unfamiliar with “Ag-Gag” legislation, it’s a family of lobbyist concocted laws that ban environmentalists and animal rights activists from reporting on conditions in factory farms. If that sounds like a First Amendment violation to you, a federal court in Iowa agrees. [NPR]

* Vegas investigators want Ronaldo’s DNA in a rape case. [Fox News]

* The Russian government is demanding answers to why Natalia Veselnitskaya has been charged. Not sure they realize that their agitation only suggests Mueller’s right. [Reuters]

* Senator Tim Scott has effectively killed the district court nomination of Thomas Farr. At this point, the administration could just grab another name out of the hat of tons of nominally qualified North Carolina Republicans. But instead they’ll just wait until the next session and redo this whole thing with their newly expanded majority to own the libs. [Courthouse News Service]

* It looks like Trump may actually be zeroing in on a new AG. [CNN]

* The tech industry expects federal data privacy legislation next year. I don’t know if these people have noticed, but it’s unclear this upcoming legislature could pass a National Ice Cream Day resolution. [Corporate Counsel]

* Former FBI chief James Comey is moving to quash a lame duck House subpoena. Comey’s publicly declared that he’s happy to testify before the committee in a public hearing. But, as you might imagine, the House Republicans don’t want a public hearing where they won’t be able to spin what happens. [Reuters]

* While everyone’s predicted the death of the billable hour, it turns out that the antiquated billing mechanism has an unlikely defender: the clients. [Law360]

* The new tax law will completely screw up divorces. Add that to the overseas manufacturing incentives as something Trump probably didn’t realize when he dropped this dud of a law on the country. [Fox17]

* Firms could get slapped with malpractice over substance abuse or poor mental health. [New York Law Journal]

* What you can learn from Tiger Woods’s DUI arrest. [Versus Texas]

* Are we in the new age of monopolies? [Salon]

* This is reading an awful lot into unanimous Supreme Court decisions. [Washington Post]

* New York isn’t the liberal utopia you might think it is. [Jezebel]

* The election law gap between red states and blue states. [Election Law Blog]

* In NYC? Then join WNYC’s All Things Considered host Jami Floyd for a conversation about Loving v. Virginia on June 12th. [The Greene Space]

* Call off the lawyers. [Law and More]

* What’s the opposite of banning something? [Huffington Post]

* Theorizing over Jared Kushner’s motivation. [Slate]