Stormy Daniels
* The Stormy Daniels documents are about to be released and that should be a big political story for about 5 minutes before Trump sends ICE to deport Nancy Pelosi or something. [Reuters]
* Because Europe isn’t America and still understands antitrust law, the EU has opened an investigation into Amazon for allegedly using market data it collects from sellers to then go out and undercut them. It’s a practice Elizabeth Warren recently broke down in baseball terms as, “you can be the umpire or you can own a team, but you can’t do both.” [Law.com]
* Alex Acosta tried to save his job by touting that he got Jeffrey Epstein jail time. Lawyers now claim that Epstein was having sex with underaged girls during his sentence. [ABC News]
* Can virtual law firms close the gender pay gap? Probably not a good sign when pay equity can only come from a knockoff brand. [American Lawyer]
* Neal Katyal is giving young associates real opportunities to better train the next generation of Supreme Court advocates. [National Law Journal]
* In moving tribute to Justice Stevens, the courts prepare to dismantle his landmark decision. [Law360]
* With all the problems in the world, state legislatures want you to know they’re all over that the Sharia law problem that literally no one has. [USA Today]