Second Circuit

* The Department of Justice has backed a lawsuit against Hawaii over the state’s mandatory quarantine for out-of-state travelers. Maybe DOJ lawyers just really want to visit the Aloha state… [Fox News]

* A South Carolina lawyer has been disbarred for making numerous false and misleading statements on her bar application. [Bloomberg Law]

* A lawyer who walked out on a client during settlement negotiations is on the hook for a $300,000 malpractice verdict. [Legal Newswire]

* The Second Circuit expressed bewilderment while considering the bail request of two lawyers charged with firebombing an NYPD police vehicle during protests last month. [Law360]

* Bayer has agreed to pay $10 billion into a settlement fund to resolve thousands of lawsuits related to the weedkiller Roundup. And Bayer was able to settle the lawsuits without having to pay two plaintiffs’ lawyers a $200 million “consultation” fee. [NBC News]

* Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former attorney, will finally be released today from prison to serve the rest of his sentence at home. His situation is not unlike many Americans right now. [BBC]

* Environmental lawyer Steven Donziger has been ordered to continue his home confinement pending a contempt of court trial in September. Again, less of a burden given the current environment. [Intercept]

* A New York lawyer who forgot to attend oral arguments has been forced to pay his adversary’s costs for coming to the courthouse. [ABA Journal]

* The College Board is facing a class action lawsuit over glitches with online Advanced Placement exams. [Washington Post]

* An Ohio lawyer has been suspended for a number of ethical violations, including offering a client a Xanax. [Bloomberg Law]

* Kendall Jenner has agreed to pay $90,000 because of her promotion of the ill-fated Fyre Festival. If you haven’t seen the documentaries about this dumpster fire of an event, check them out! [Page Six]

* A lawyer who got ejected from the Second Circuit last year is asking the Supreme Court to hear his case. Since the high court is conducting arguments by phone currently, maybe he’ll just get hung up on. [New York Law Journal]

* A lawyer who stole $128,000 from a mentally ill client has been suspended from practice. [Bloomberg Law]

* Missouri has become the first U.S. state to sue China over the COVID-19 pandemic. Not sure this is a distinction to be proud of. [U.S. News and World Report]

* A Texas judge has been forced to take down a rainbow flag after an attorney filed a complaint and compared the symbol to a swastika and Confederate flag. [Hill]

* Attorney General Barr has called stay-at-home orders “disturbingly close to house arrest” and the Justice Department might take actions against states that go too far. [NBC News]

* Lawyers are having a difficult time determining if COVID-19 is an act of God. Maybe they should subpoena the Almighty to get more clarity… [Bloomberg Law]

* A lawyer removed from Second Circuit oral arguments last month has petitioned for an en banc review of the matter he was arguing. If at first you don’t succeed… [New York Law Journal]

* An attorney argued that a Manhattan building was safe months before debris fell from a facade killing a woman on the sidewalk below. [Wall Street Journal]

* Adult film actresses have won a multi-million dollar verdict against a website that allegedly deceived them into being filmed. [Washington Times]

* Over 200 members of Congress have asked the Supreme Court to reconsider its landmark Roe v. Wade ruling. That’s not how the system works. [CNN]

* The Kentucky Attorney General has asked the FBI to investigate the ex-governor’s pardons after he went on a pardoning spree before leaving office. [USA Today]

* A woman is suing Marriott for allegedly forcing her to sign a “no party policy” because of her race. Apparently, there ain’t no party like a Marriott party. [Fox News]

* Simpson Thacher isn’t increasing associate salaries to the $190K scale (yet), but it is partnering with Columbia Business School to launch a new associate training program. We bet your incoming associates are “STBReady” … for higher salaries. Click here to see all the firms that have raised salaries thus far . [New York Law Journal]

* President Trump is appealing the decision that says he can’t block people on Twitter based on their political views to the Second Circuit (because of course he is). He already had to unblock the seven plaintiffs in the case, and he likely wasn’t very happy about it because of glorious follow-up tweets like this. [BuzzFeed]

* After reportedly being rejected by several candidates for the associate attorney general position — one that would oversee the Mueller investigation if Rod Rosenstein were to suddenly depart — the Trump Administration is giving up on trying to fill the job for the moment, and focusing on other vacancies. [Wall Street Journal]

* In the wake of allegations of sexual harassment against former Ninth Circuit Judge Alex Kozinski, the federal judiciary’s working group on sexual harassment has released 24 recommendations, specifying three areas that need change to make circuit courts an “exemplary workplace.” [Big Law Business]

* The American Bar Association wants out of this whistleblower suit, ASAP. ABA officials claim that former Charlotte Law professor Barbara Bernier only added the law school regulatory group to her suit against the defunct law school and its owner, InfiLaw, as a “last-ditch effort” to keep her action kicking in court. [Law.com]

* President Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, claims that he used his home equity line to pay off Stormy Daniels out of the goodness of his heart, and while people have been focusing on the fact that he may have violated campaign finance laws, not many have mentioned that he likely violated New York’s ethics rules, would could get him disbarred. [Slate]

* Remember the time that Judge Katherine Forrest ruined the internet with a single ruling? Several media outlets are preparing to appeal to the Second Circuit, saying the copyright decision could change the internet as we know it. [Big Law Business]

* Dean Andrea Lyon of Valparaiso Law — the school that’s not closing, per se, but will stop accepting students and is hoping to merge with another school or move locations — will be resigning on June 1. No one knows what will happen to the school, and soon there won’t even be a dean. These poor students… [Indianapolis Business Journal]

* Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a foodie, and in honor of her upcoming birthday — and because “[s]he eats real food and plenty of it” — here are a few of the Notorious One’s favorite places to dine in her hometown of New York City. [am New York]

* The February bar exam has come and gone, and with it, hundreds of jobs across the entire legal services industry. According to the latest report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 200 fewer people were employed in the legal sector last month than in January. Hopefully things improve before graduation. [American Lawyer]

* “Katy Perry represents everything we don’t believe in. It would be a sin to sell to her.” Sister Catherine Rose Holzman, 89, who had been locked in litigation with the singer and the archdioces for several years over the sale of her former convent, collapsed and died in court on Friday during a post-judgment hearing. [NPR]