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Morning Docket: 10.29.25

* Meet the superstar team who have to convince the Supreme Court that the word “tariffs” does not appear in the IEEPA, which for some reason is an uphill battle. [National Law Journal]

* Ninth Circuit will convene en banc to reconsider giving Trump the power to send troops to assassinate costumed frogs. [CNN]

* Freshly pardoned former Binance chief threatens to sue Elizabeth Warren for saying he pleaded guilty to money laundering instead of pleading guilty to setting up the conditions to allow money laundering. Not sure how much reputational damage exists between that technicality trench. [NY Post]

* Cameo sues OpenAI claiming a feature named “cameo” violates their trademark. [Reuters]

* Another Trump U.S. Attorney found to be illegally squatting in the job. [Law360]

* D.C. Bar committee suggests firms who made deals with Trump have ethics issues. [NY Times]

* LinkedIn battles data scrapers to protect us all from a future where every AI response is about B2B marketing. [Bloomberg Law News]

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Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 10.28.25

* Kirkland provides communications training for lawyers after earning reputation as uncooperative. Weird, because the firm was super cooperative when Donald Trump asked them to roll over and give him free legal work. [Financial Times]

* Federal lawyers admit they falsely stated the number of agents sent to Portland — a key claim in the government’s claim that protests met the statutory threshold for deploying troops. You see, they told the court that conditions required 115 agents when the most they ever had was 31. Oops! [Oregon Live]

* Anthropic settlement puts four Supreme Court justices in line for checks. [Bloomberg Law News]

* Exonerated former trader launches suit against UBS alleging the company set him up as a fall guy for the Libor scandal. [Reuters]

* An interview with Anil Kalhan, the professor who coined the term Kavanaugh Stop. [Law Dork]

* OpenAI must face infringement claims from authors whose works were used to train the model. [Law360]

* Hogan Lovells counsels Miami in securing Lionel Messi contract extension. [Law.com International]

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