Morning Docket 09.04.08

* Sarah Palin and Rudy Giuliani were in attack dog mode during the Republican convention last night. [ New York Times ] * A look at the laws that govern Facebook. Being too active can get you banned, as our very own David Lat discovered . [ Washington Post ] * Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick heads to court today for his criminal perjury case. Will he plead guilty and resign? Or will he keep dragging this thing out? Stay tuned. [ Detroit Free Press ] * Perhaps Kilpatrick’s extramarital text messaging behavior has a genetic component. He could be one of the men carrying the "commitment-phobia" gene. [ Los Angeles Times ] * Disgraced Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff will be sentenced today in his corruption trial. [ Associated Press ] * Pizza delivery man to be tried for the murder of his teacher wife’s teenage lover. [ CNN ] * Emergency budget crisis for courts in England. [ The Times ] * An argument against lawyers for president. "The problem is that ...