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Morning Docket: 07.03.25

* Deal market boom creates M&A lateral feeding frenzy. [Bloomberg Law News]

* Abrego Garcia lawyers detail beatings and torture at El Salvador slave labor camp. [NY Times]

* Supreme Court leaned into culture wars this Term. You think? [Reuters]

* Pour one out for your local immigration lawyer because they’re really going through it right now. [American Lawyer]

* Prosecutor disbarred over recordings. [ABA Journal]

* Lawsuit says DHS arbitrarily targeting minorities in Los Angeles. The allegations are so shocking it makes you wonder what this article looked like before the AI bias bot got to it. [Law360]

* Wisconsin Supreme Court ends ancient abortion restriction. [Mother Jones]

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