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Morning Docket: 08.08.19

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* Jones Day partner Don McGahn sued for failing to comply with House subpoena. [National Law Journal]

* Short seller argues that Burford is out of money in move that pits highly sophisticated calculated gamblers against highly sophisticated calculated gamblers. [American Lawyer]

* A reminder that the Supreme Court is going to hear a case that could allow employers to fire women for not acting feminine enough. [Vice]

* ICE deported a guy to Iraq who had never lived there, didn’t speak Arabic, and who subsequently died unable to secure insulin. [Slate]

* Biglaw is making the diversity officer role more senior and more powerful. [American Lawyer]

* MGM complaining that federal government gives tribes “monopoly” over casinos. That’s… that’s not how this works. [Courthouse News Service]

* National Review is arguing for “red flag laws” in an editorial that it will deny ever publishing once the GOP quietly kills this issue. [National Review]