Morning Docket: 01.16.19

* Neil Gorsuch wrote an opinion in favor of labor rights and against mandatory arbitration. Yes, that Neil Gorsuch. [Slate] * The Trump Administration takes an L: S.D.N.Y. judge rules they can't ask citizenship questions in the census. [New York Law Journal] * Federal courts are now intending to squeak by on funding through January 25th. This is the second extension the Office of Court Administration has been able to muster due to aggressive cost cutting. [National Law Journal] * Kirsten Gillibrand, former Davis Polk associate and current New York senator, is running for president -- shocking exactly no one. [NPR] * The Boston legal market is still hopping. The Beantown merger mania doesn't look like it will stop anytime soon. [American Lawyer] * A date has been set for Robert Durst's murder trial. The Jinx star is being prosecuted for the murder of Susan Berman 18 years ago. [Courthouse News Service]
Morning Docket: 01.16.19 curated from Above the Law