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Morning Docket: 04.13.26

* White House ballroom construction resumes for now. [Reuters]

* Winston carries healthy profit growth into its merger with Taylor Wessing. [American Lawyer]

* Fourth Circuit agrees to let Big Ballz have all your Social Security information. Surely nothing can go wrong! [Courthouse News Service]

* Speaking of the Fourth Circuit, Judge Julius Richardson in a concurrence declared that emergency orders were “precedent” which is, um, not at all how that works. [One First]

* Oil companies want a litigation shield like the gun manufacturers have. [New York Times]

* Ed Blum is back with a new effort to purge Black students from schools. [Balls and Strikes]

* Trump elevates another of his personal attorneys to the appellate bench. [Law360]

* Wisconsin switches to the UBE for out-of-state admits. [ABA Journal]

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Yale Chokes Back Tears To Declare There’s No Shame In Second — See Generally

Yale Fail: Yale’s two-decade stranglehold on the No. 1 law school ranking ends in a rankings shakeup. Well, at least they have JD Vance — another famous second banana!

Feel Free To Let The Screen Door Hit You On The Way Out: Pam Bondi’s tenure as Attorney General ends just in time for a bar disciplinary investigation, unless Florida invents another reason to absolve Bondi of accountability for her actions.

Epstein, Who?: Meanwhile, Bondi hopes to use her firing to get out of explaining the Epstein files to Congress.

The Annual “Which Gilded Cage Is Most Prestigious” Survey: Vault again ranks the 100 most prestigious law firms in America.

Trolls Gonna Troll: Law school Federalist Society chapter invites Amy Wax to share her thoughts about the problem with women and minorities.

Diploma With A Two-Drink Minimum: Georgetown Law replaces its graduation gala with a school happy hour and many students aren’t happy.

Time Is Relative, Especially On A Timesheet: Lawyer bills more hours than exist in a calendar day, professional hilarity ensues.

The More It Smiles, The More You Should Worry: Legal AI tools optimized for user satisfaction are also the ones most likely to confidently hallucinate a fake circuit court opinion.

The USFL Never Died, It Just Became Federal Policy: Trump deploys the DOJ against the NFL over grievances that predate most of his current staff, because using the justice system as a personal grudge machine apparently has no statute of limitations.

The Pentagon’s Legal Battles Going About As Well As Iran: The Defense Department benchslapped over press policy.

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Can’t Take A Dick Joke — See Also

Cops Arrest Woman For Protesting While Wearing A Penis Costume: Can’t believe the prosecution took this case!

Regional Excellence: Check out Vault’s regional ranking of firms.

Justice Sotomayor Tells Law Students To Master AI: What will be the consequences of that mastery?

In Other News, People Still Care About Amy Wax: She got invited to speak by Cornell’s FedSoc chapter.

$35M Is A Lot Of Money!: WilmerHale is facing public scrutiny over a bill that has some wild pay jumps and logged hours.

By Chris Williams

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