Morning Docket: 09.06.18

* Could this be the year that law firms break out of their cycle of tepid growth? [American Lawyer] * In ordinary times, Roy Moore's laughable lawsuit against Sacha Baron Cohen would be bigger news. We do not live in ordinary times. [Law360] * One would have thought "independence" would be "having a lifetime job with no oversight and an impossibly onerous removal process." But, "independence" really means "only answering hypotheticals that don't raise potentially serious questions about a guy's fig leaf of a judicial philosophy." This is why it's so important to be a textualist! [Courthouse News Service] * It makes for a nice, vapid buzzword, but there actually is an "I" in "Team of Nine." [National Law Journal] * A federal judge has banned the Texas "bury your zygote" law. Don't worry Texas, your boy Brett's will make sure you don't have to worry about this ever again. [NPR] * Shocking no one, lawyers think Brexit was a bad idea. [Legalweek] * Oh, and we're going to "open up libel laws" now. [CBS]
Morning Docket: 09.06.18 curated from Above the Law