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Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 06.25.25

* DOJ files suit in the District of Maryland against every judge in the District of Maryland. CHECKMATE! [Bloomberg Law News]

* Court agrees that using copyrighted material to train AI is fair use. [Washington Post]

* Judiciary tells Congress that PACER poses a cyber risk. Maybe if they’d modernized it with all those fees they collected instead of redesigning their offices, hm? [Law360]

* Lawyers copied brief from another law firm, including all the arguments that already lost. [ABA Journal]

* Law firms struggling to keep pace with the Trump administration’s changing list of banned words. [American Lawyer]

* Emil Bove’s judicial nomination will provide opportunity to ask about DOJ management, including report that Bove encouraged open defiance of court orders. See, a savvy administration might have not nominated him to avoid this…[Reuters]

* Stephen Miller may have a financial stake in the company he’s having ICE use to deport people. [Rolling Stone]

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Biglaw Partner Thought He Was Running The Continental From John Wick: In fairness, Biglaw would be a lot more interesting if they replaced all the associates with “assassins.”

Don’t Play Lawyerball With The Referee: Supreme Court majority tried to give “deporting people to war zones” the Drive-Thru treatment, but Justice Sotomayor turned the tables.

Certainly No One Cares About Mindlessly Pursuing Status In *Checks Notes* D.C.: The top law firms in Washington ranked!

Emhoff Class Is In Session: Maybe the Willkie lawyer is looking for an employer that isn’t planning to sell itself off to Trump.

Ma’am This Is An Arby’s (If The Arby’s Was A Contract Claim): Penn Law’s Amy Wax brought her First Amendment argument to a contract dispute and it went about as you’d expect.

How To Get Clients Beating A Path To Your Door: Turns out, making clients feel at ease has to begin before they’re even on board.

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