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Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 09.16.25

* D.C. Circuit blocks attempt to fire Federal Reserve governor. [NBC News]

* Trump files $15 billion lawsuit against the New York Times for malicious reporting of stuff he doesn't like. [CNN]

* Two different people claim to be Chief Legal Officer of Microsoft and no one could figure out the correct answer. This is what happens when you run on Microsoft Teams. [Corporate Counsel]

* Brett Kavanaugh's getting protested in Waco, if you want a sense of how unpopular this Court has gotten. [Texas Lawyer]

* Prosecutors argue that Tom Goldstein can't pay his fees with his house since his house is the subject of one of the charges. [Law360]

* Trump administration calling its politically motivated federal cuts as contract breaches in order to shunt them into the Court of Claims where litigants can't get equitable relief. If you're wondering, yes, this is the bonkers baby-splitting solution Justice Barrett recently pitched. [Bloomberg Law News]

* China accuses Nvdia of antitrust violations. [Investopedia]

Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 09.15.25

* Lawyer accused of hallucinated cites in case about getting law license back. [ABA Journal]

* FTC sees collapse of CFPB as a new opportunity to oversee the fleecing of Americans. [Bloomberg Law News]

* EU allowing Microsoft to remove Teams from its product bundle to avoid antitrust issues, opening the door to your European colleagues having a teleconference tool that works. [Law360]

* Judge extends block on government randomly deporting kids in the middle of the night. [Reuters]

* SEC wants to keep its case against Musk in D.C., which makes you think: he did all that and still didn't get Trump to drop the SEC case? [National Law Journal]

* The financial press can't get enough Harvey stories. [Financial Times]

See Also

Amy Coney Barrett Sure Gets Around — See Generally

Amy Coney Barrett Immediately Starts Hedging On Dictatorship Fanfic: Justice Barrett shut down Trump's third term talk... until Fox asked her if she was sure and then she remembered to start hemming and hawing.

Colbert Should Moonlight As Sotomayor’s Burner Account: The justice gives her colleagues the benefit of the doubt in public. Stephen Colbert reads between the lines of the dissent.

Biglaw Associates Shocked To Discover Firm Still On Word Perfect: Maybe not that bad, but midlevels report the technology at their firms have them feeling like they're a solid decade behind.

SCOTUS Shadow Docket Continues Calvinball Streak: The Court knifes Humphrey’s Executor, proving precedent is only sacred when it props up Republicans.

Teachers Sue Over Blocked Loan Forgiveness, Because Chalk Doesn’t Pay The Mortgage: The American Federation of Teachers takes the fight to court.

Go In-House Early, Retire Before Your Friends Make Counsel: Confirming what everyone suspected: going in-house is the smartest move in legal life.

Amy Coney Barrett Ruminates On AI, Accidentally Summons HAL 9000: The justice shares her deep thoughts on artificial intelligence, which mostly reveal she hasn’t met Clippy.

What A Lawyer Paycheck Can Afford... By City: Let's look at some real estate listings in the supposedly "best bang for your buck" legal markets.

Training Young Lawyers In The Age Of AI Is Still Mostly Hazing: Beneath the mystery and rhetoric, firms are still teaching associates by throwing them into traffic and hoping they don’t die.

Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 09.12.25

* "Firms that aren’t willing or able to compete with the highest-paying players are instead competing on flexibility." Which is, frankly, the right business strategy. [Law.com]

* A lawyer for the Korean workers rounded up by ICE -- throwing the whole U.S.-South Korean economic alliance in turmoil -- says they all had legal visas at the time. Because of course that's how this turns out. [AP]

* Nadine Menendez gets 4.5 years in political bribery case. The Supreme Court has spent years trying to say bribery isn't a thing, so let's see there's hope for her yet! [Law360]

* Steve Vladeck breaks down the Kavanaugh concurrence in the ICE decision and it's... curious. [One First]

* Looks like the Feds are still trying to go after former Biglaw associate Paul Bryant even after the grand jury passed on an indictment. [ABA Journal]

* Trump attempt to block migrant children from Head Start programs they qualify for slapped down by federal judge. [Reuters]

* "Lower-court judges are defying precedent and even openly criticizing Supreme Court justices" Except, you know, shadow docket opinions are NOT precedent and the open criticism is "please take the time to write opinions to keep right-wing cranks from phoning in violent threats to our homes." Other than that, the Wall Street Journal op-ed page is making great choices. [WSJ]