“As we approach the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, we are experiencing an onslaught,” Yusuf Z. Zakir of Davis Wright Tremaine writes. “Here, I will seek to correct the record about equity, inclusion, and diversity.”        

“We are getting good with the technical applications of fighting the stuff. But at the end of the day, it comes down to the human,” said Stephen Dougherty, a financial fraud investigator with the U.S. Secret Service.        

“People are just more willing to listen about the future and creating connections, than in previous years,” noted one Am Law 200 leader.        

EBay CEO Jamie Iannone called the 2019 harassment campaign, which included sending live spiders and cockroaches and a bloody pig mask, “reprehensible.”        

“It’s election year and that’s always tough, but I think the Democrats are committed to filling every possible vacancy,” said University of Richmond law professor Carl Tobias.        

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A cannabis company owner challenging a state license denial “cannot use the Dormant Commerce Clause to demand a constitutional right to participate in an illegal interstate market,” wrote U.S. District Judge Tiffany Cartwright of Washington’s Western District.        

Although advocates for these bankruptcy strategies say they can be more efficient routes to payouts for claimants, some attorneys say judges are likely to shut down these more novel uses of the bankruptcy code.        

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