Morning Docket: 04.01.08
* Supreme Court grants cert in fantasy baseball case. [New York Personal Injury Law Blog]
* Treasury Department plan to reform financial regulation meets with skepticism, faces long odds for passage this year. [New York Times]
* "Breaking News? Less M&A Work for Lawyers in Q1." [WSJ Law Blog]
* More about the departure of HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson, currently under DOJ investigation. Yesterday Jackson invoked the old Beltway standby: more time with his family. [New York Times]
* Obama leads Clinton in doling out campaign cash to superdelegates. [McClatchy]
* Bad news for Cravath and Cadwalader associates: Manhattan judge scratches punitive-damages request by plaintiffs in bedbugs case. [WSJ Law Blog]
* Happy Birthday, Justice Alito! SAA turns 58 today. [SCOTUSblog]
(14) Comments
Whoa, Sid Finch reference on the New York Personal Injury Law Blog in the Fantasy Baseball case. I thought the stuff was legit until halfway through when the legendary Finch (who apparently has been playing French horn for 20 years) showed up. April Fools.
I think you've been April Foolsed.
I think Lat has been fooled as well. No reports anywhere on cert being granted. That story would be everywhere. Also, it is unlikely 3 justices would recuse themselves just because they are in a fantasy league.
April fools jokes should be funny; this just wasted my time.
someone tell him to take it down
It was a huge waste of time. Legitimate story had it been true. The idea of an april fools joke is to make it so outlandish that you laugh at all the signs you missed. There were so few reasons to think this was april fools.
No, Lat was in on the joke. Look at the SCOTUSblog link that closes Morning Docket:
"No oral arguments are scheduled and no non-capital orders are expected to be issued from the Court today."
Yes, but this morning docket is posted in the morning before any orders would be released. This is meant to be a story based on yesterday's orders which took some digging to find and there were two cases granted, neither was the MLB case.
10:05 - Yesterday's cert grants were covered in yesterday's Morning Docket (fourth link), which was posted later than usual.
Still it was a stupid april fools story. It wasn't that outlandish. It has been in the news recently and would not be a surprising case. Granted that there are a few things in the story that should have tipped everyone, but it was just dumb that this would be an april fools joke.
**There were so few reasons to think this was april fools.**
Or, perhaps, you just didn't see them.
Well, if it weren't a real case it would be hilarious, but the problem is that it's hard to even imagine a lawsuit that's so ridiculous that some attorney isn't willing to bring it.
This is why lawyers aren't comedians. The two just don't mix.
Tests for a lame april fool's joke:
1. Its about a cert. grant.
2. After the joker says April Fools, you shrug your shoulders and go back to work.