Above the Law: Morning Docket: 10.25.12

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Morning Docket: 10.25.12 Oct 25th 2012, 13:05 * Covington, Skadden, and Proskauer really like representing professional sports leagues: from 2010 to 2011, the NHL paid a combined total of $8.8M to all three, and Covington received $16.3M from the NFL over the last three years. [Am Law Daily] * The Department of Justice sued Bank of America yesterday for doing the "hustle." No, not the popular disco disco dance, but rather, a supposed elaborate scheme to defraud the government out of billions of dollars. [DealBook / New York Times] * Rajat Gupta was sentenced to a whole two years behind bars for insider trading, but my colleague Elie Mystal thinks that the more appropriate punishment would've been to force him to reenact the seminal 80s film, Trading Places. [HuffPost Live] * Unfortunately, Siri wasn't able to be helpful with this one. A federal judge had to recuse himself in a patent case involving the Siri voice assistant app because of his "interest" in Apple (likely stock ownership). [CNET] * Was Wednesday the day of departing deans? NYU's Richard Revesz said farewell, and so did Sydney Beckman of Duncan Law, but the latter flat out quit amid accreditation uncertainty. [Knoxville News Sentinel] * "We'll fight another day. This is not over." While a jury declared that Teresa Wagner wasn't a victim of Iowa Law's political bias, a mistrial was called as to her equal protection claim against the school. [Press Citizen] * Somebody really should've told Lawrence Taylor that when testifying in an underage sex trafficking case, it's probably not a good idea to mention that your accuser was "very, very pretty" and "very sexy." [Associated Press] Continue reading » Follow Above the Law on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook. Tags: Apple, Bank of America, Biglaw, Covington & Burling, Cristina Fierro, Department of Justice, DOJ, Duncan Law, Duncan Law School, Duncan School of Law, Dynamic Advances, Federal Judges, Football, Hockey, Insider Trading, Iowa Law, John J. Duncan Jr. School of Law, Judge Gary Sharpe, Judge Thomas Shields, Law School Accreditation, Law Schools, Lawrence Taylor, Lincoln Memorial University - Duncan School of Law, Mistrials, Money, Morning Docket, NFL, NHL, Patents, Political Bias, Political Discrimination, Politics, Proskauer Rose, Rajat Gupta, Recusals, Sentencing Law, Sex, Sex trafficking, Siri, Skadden, Skadden Arps, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP, Sports, Sydney Beckman, Teresa Wagner, Thomas Shields, University of Iowa College of Law, University of Iowa Law School

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