Crime

* Here we go again! Biden uses another avenue to issue some of the student debt relief blocked by Republicans in the Super Legislature. [Reuters] * After the Supreme Court opened the floodgates to foreign knockoffs, IP lawyers are left “questioning” what’s left. [Bloomberg Law News] * Fake money leads to real federal fraud charges. […]

* Employers are finally stepping up and suing health insurers for continually screwing over employees in case you’re looking for a lawsuit with the least sympathetic defendants imaginable. [Bloomberg Law News]

* It’s arraigning men… or at least one man as Walt Nauta heads to the courthouse today. [Reuters]

* AI won’t disrupt the legal world for a good while yet. [LegalCheek]

* Cop shows never read the second half of Miranda and it shows. [ProPublica]

* Did you know not to use a Sharpie for redactions? I thought everyone did, but apparently not. [Legaltech News]

* JetBlue won’t appeal antitrust loss in bid to secure larger market share a different way. [Law360]

* Ken Paxton will not testify at his impeachment trial. I mean… why add perjury to this list? [Reuters]

* The revelation that the attorneys in 303 Creative tried to create fictional standing can’t force the Court to revisit the case, but could be the basis of ethical claims against the attorneys. Just because the Supreme Court is in on the fraud doesn’t make it any less of a fraud. [Yahoo Sports]

* Federal judge who had already become a go to judge for the “let’s all die of COVID” lobby, blocks White House from communicating with social media platforms, complaining that the government had done too much to push back against anti-vaxx misinformation. [Business Insider]

* It will shock you to learn that a core Trump business interest is slapped with an $18 million SEC fine. [Law360]

* The morass of web-scraping laws and the future of AI. [Bloomberg Law News]

* While everyone focused on the Supreme Court’s broad-based assault on constitutional and statutory norms last week, they also quietly kicked to the curb a challenge aimed at a law explicitly created as part of Jim Crow voter suppression. [The Guardian]

* Lawyer accused of murdering lawyer father. [NY Post]

* Joe Biden criticizes Supreme Court but confirms that he’s unwilling to do a single thing about it so… good talk, champ! [NY Times]

* It’s never RIC-O My God It Is!!! Former Ohio House Speaker gets 20 years in bribery case. [Bloomberg Law News]

* Reed Smith associate who first reported racist messages posted by trial lawyer testifies at disciplinary proceedings. [Law360]

* FTX sues its former attorney for allegedly aiding in fraud. [Reuters]

* Divorce attorney writes incest-fueled romance novel. [Roll on Friday]

* Trump’s unofficial election lawyer superteam sanctions to be sanctioned for ‘whole raft’ of baseless claims. [ABA Journal]

* Microsoft lawyer accidentally informs judge that Elder Scrolls 16 is coming in 2026, which is funny because it would require Bethesda to put out 10 non-buggy games without multiple years of delays. [Game Rant]

* If firms keep telling the press that everyone wants to go back to the office then maybe it’ll be true! That certainly seems to be the strategy anyway. [American Lawyer]

* Religious groups challenging abortion restrictions hoping to take advantage of the trend of courts offering exemptions to public policy to anyone who claims it offends them. Yeah… this puts a lot of weight on the idea that those opinions reflect some sort of principled Free Exercise jurisprudence instead of “we’ve found a new way to legalize discrimination, guys!” [Politico]

* KPMG dominates the bank audit space with clients like Signature, and SVB, and First Rep– oh. Uh oh. [Bloomberg Law News]

* We’re set to learn who bailed out George Santos. On one hand, public inquiry into bail sureties emboldens disingenuous attacks on bail funds, which are often critical to social justice and giving meaningful effect to the right to protest. On the other hand… George Santos is accused of misusing funds already. [NY Times]

* Insider trading conviction brings juror to tears. The prospect of sending someone to prison should give jurors more pause, but Goldman bankers making insider trades isn’t where one would expect an outpouring of empathy. [Law360]

* Clarence Thomas’s dissent in the False Claims Act case ran contrary to everything “Originalism” claims to believe. This is going to shock you, but Originalism may not be the robust, good faith interpretive strategy we’ve been told. [Dorf on Law]

* “FTC to argue Microsoft’s deal to buy Activision should be paused.” GROAN. [Reuters]