Attorney General

* The NCAA has failed to dismiss a lawsuit filed by athletes aimed at recovering a portion of TV revenue. This has not been a good week for the NCAA… [USA Today]

* “Stuttering John” from the Howard Stern show has lost his lawsuit against SiriusXM. [Reuters]

* Attorney General Merrick Garland said that 500 people have been arrested so far for the January 6th Capitol riots. [CNBC]

* A lawsuit has been filed to stop the Governor of Maryland from ending federal unemployment benefits. [Washington Post]

* A veteran lawyer for GameStop has left the company to work as counsel to a chicken-restaurant chain. Hope they aren’t just paying him chicken feed… [Bloomberg]

* Former Attorney General Eric Holder, Jr. now bills at $2,295 an hour in private practice. Quite a step up from the government grind… [ABA Journal]

* A disbarred lawyer has been sentenced to prison for stealing nearly $1 million from a first responder who suffered 9/11-related illnesses. [New York Daily News]

* A Texas attorney has been charged in a $225 million tax fraud. [Houston Chronicle]

* Attorney General Merrick Garland led a commemoration for the anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombings, a case with which Garland was involved as a federal prosecutor. [New York Times]

* The lawyer for “pharma bro” Martin Shkreli is having his retirement accounts garnished as part of a restitution order related to purported wire and securities fraud. [ABA Journal]

* A lawsuit about the use of the “Corona” brand name with hard seltzers is heating up. It’s an interesting name to be associated with these days… [Yahoo News]

* Ramsey Clark, the former United States Attorney General and a civil rights lawyer, has passed away at 93. [New York Times]

* An Oklahoma City attorney, who allegedly fell in love with a client, has been charged in the triple murder of the client’s girlfriend and parents. [Oklahoman]

* Congressman Matt Gaetz has hired a lawyer who is also representing the Trump Organization in a criminal probe. [NBC News]

* President Biden has established a commission to consider reforms to the Supreme Court and the federal judiciary. [Politico]

* The State of Florida has filed a lawsuit aimed at reopening the cruise industry. This would make a great plot of a sequel for Speed 2: Cruise Control… [CBS News]

* Several states have passed laws that give robots the same rights as pedestrians on sidewalks. This is a slippery slope to Skynet… [Axios]

* A lawyer defending the leader of the NXIVM cult in a criminal case is withdrawing from the representation. [Times Union]

* An Andrew Cuomo accuser says talk of Cuomo being considered for Attorney General prompted her to come forward. [Boston Globe]

* A former Bachelorette contestant has filed a defamation lawsuit against outlets who he alleged falsely reported that he was at the January 6th Capitol riots. [KHOU.com]

* A lawyer is in hot water for using the imagery of a pit bull in advertising. Maybe they’ll throw him a bone… [Daily Business Review]

* A woman is apparently considering a lawsuit against the maker of Gorilla Glue after she purportedly sustained damage from using the product in her hair. Not sure the claims will “stick”… [Fox News]

* Alan Dershowitz added his own voice to the chorus of commentators who believe Donald Trump’s impeachment lawyers did not do a good job on the first day of the impeachment trial. [Yahoo News]

* An animal rights lawyer is accused of hiring a hitman to kill her ex-husband and his girlfriend. [New York Daily News]

* The Senate has set a hearing date to advance the nomination of Merrick Garland to be Attorney General of the United States. [Hill]

* The union that represents performers who dress up as Disney characters is facing some legal challenges. It would be interesting to see those union members walk a picket line… [ABC News]

* Merrick Garland said he will sell his stocks after he is confirmed as Attorney General. Maybe he is just unloading his GameStop shares… [Barrons]

* A Roger Ailes accuser is alleging that lawyers for Fox News are using improper litigation tactics against her. [Daily Beast]

* Two Attorneys General of Alaska have resigned in around six months. And it’s not because of the weather… [New York Times]

* A New Jersey attorney has been disbarred for using client money on personal expenses, including items at Walmart and Home Depot. [New Jersey Law Journal]

* The supermarket Market Basket is facing a lawsuit over allegedly misstating the number of cups that can be made with a container of coffee. Maybe the plaintiff just likes strong brew… [CBS News]

* A lawyer is demanding to know whether the FBI has uncovered $400 million of gold from the Civil War. Sounds like a sequel to National Treasure… [New York Post]

* The New York Attorney General alleges that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo underreported nursing home deaths from COVID-19 in New York. [CNBC]

* PACER apparently crashed yesterday because so many people were looking at class-action filings against Robinhood involving GameStop stock. [Law & Crime]

* President Biden has started staffing a commission on Supreme Court reform. [Politico]

* Facebook is allegedly preparing an antitrust lawsuit against Apple. At least Google isn’t the target of antitrust action for a change… [Yahoo News]

* The Girl Scouts recently sued the Boy Scouts over recruitment tactics. Maybe the winning side will give their lawyers merit badges… [Guardian]

* The next Attorney General will be greeted with a large number of highly charged legal matters. [Wall Street Journal]

* A new lawsuit alleges that two women were unlawfully denied entry to a Florida strip club because they were not accompanied by a man. [Orlando Sentinel]

* Check out this article on why the booby traps in Home Alone are perfectly legal. [Movie Web]

* Cardi B has settled a lawsuit with her former manager. The ex-manager should know she’s making money moves… [TMZ]

* Facebook could be hit with antitrust litigation as soon as this week. Don’t get it, people still use MySpace…right? [Washington Post]

* A former lawyer and an active attorney have been charged with allegedly writing fraudulent opinion letters. [ABA Journal]

* More than 1,500 attorneys from across the country have signed a letter condemning the Trump Campaign’s legal team. [Hill]

* A New York lawyer is accused of steeling eight properties from unsuspecting clients through deed fraud. [New York Daily News]

* Kamala Harris’s sister is allegedly advancing the name of Kamala’s brother-in-law to be Joe Biden’s Attorney General. There is some precedent for nepotism in the Attorney General position… [Politico]

* The Supreme Court may soon decide if New York’s Governor Andrew Cuomo had the power to issue many pandemic-related orders. At least the Supreme Court can’t take Cuomo’s Emmy away… [Wall Street Journal]

* The Trump Campaign is cutting ties with a lawyer who allegedly conveyed false conspiracy theories. [Forbes]

* Former Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland is reportedly on Joe Biden’s list of possible Attorney General picks. [NPR]

* A lawyer, who was disbarred in New Zealand, also had his law license revoked in the State of Oregon. [Bloomberg Law]

* Kentucky’s Attorney General has joined a lawsuit aimed at overturning in-person learning restrictions imposed by the Governor of Kentucky. This might be a little awkward… [CNN]

* A California judge has approved some marijuana delivery services within the state. Guess Pineapple Express can now be expressly delivered, and you can get your weed and munchies delivered at the same time… [Los Angeles Times]

* Joe Biden might be considering Deval Patrick, the former governor of Massachusetts, to be his Attorney General. [CBS Boston]

* A new lawsuit alleges that employees at a Waterloo, Iowa, meatpacking plant (a facility hit hard by the pandemic) took bets about how many workers would contract COVID-19. Seems pretty morbid. [CNN]

* A lawyer has been charged with multiple crimes for allegedly luring teenage girls to sleep with him in exchange for being their “sugar daddy.” [New York Post]

* A former Virginia attorney said that “I may have have made a mistake” after losing his law license for allegedly misappropriating millions from a client. Seems like an understatement… [CBS News]

* The former CEO of McDonald’s is asking to be dismissed from a discrimination lawsuit filed by two former executives. Sounds like he could use a Happy Meal… [Restaurant Business]

* A Connecticut lawyer has been sentenced to prison for allegedly fleecing donors of a veterans’ charity. [Hartford Courant]

* Sources suggest that Senator Amy Klobuchar is being considered as a potential Attorney General in the Biden Administration. [CNBC]

* The first woman has been elected to become the new Maricopa County Attorney, leading the third-largest prosecutorial agency in the country. [Arizona Republic]

* The Los Angeles Times and Tribune Publishing have settled a longstanding pay disparity lawsuit. It must be interesting for the Times to write an article about itself… [Los Angeles Times]