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* New York braces for Trump surrender. A lot of people are talking about how it’s going to be just the best surrender. HUGE. Very classy. [Reuters]

* Security measures in the city follow a fake bomb threat that turned out to be a Russian ploy. Because… obviously. [Law360]

* Fenwick & West: Which client is this federal law enforcement subpoena for? Feds: Funny story… [Bloomberg Law News]

* “Disney didn’t do anything secret. They publicized it, they advertised it,” [a law professor and former GOP legislator] said. “If you’re in Tallahassee, and you’re replacing the board, how do you not know what that board is doing in their public meeting? This was negligence on the part of the governor’s office and Republican legislators.” Yup. [Wall Street Journal]

* Judge Ho expands clerk hiring boycott to Stanford, ditching “free speech” rationale in favor of religious discrimination claim in bid to reclaim spotlight from Judge Duncan. Well played. [Washington Free Beacon]

* Lawyers don’t want to be state judges any more. If you can’t drag law schools into a phony Passion play in the WSJ editorial pages, what’s even the point of being a judge? [Law.com]

* SEC seeks $200 million in real money to deal with enforcement problems caused by fake money. [Law360]

* We noted in our coverage of the Disney-DeSantis battle that Trump was going to roast this guy for embarrassing himself in a land deal. A Trump PAC has already started. [CNN]

* Law schools growing antsy over new USNWR rankings after they yanked their data from the process. The elite schools will still be the elite schools, but even if there’s not much change, what does it mean when we all know it’s not backed by the school’s data? [Reuters Legal]

* Legislators hate TikTok more than they like actually legislating, which totally tracks. [Bloomberg Law News]

* Federal rules may craft special provisions for MDL litigation. Has it really been that much of a problem? Judges have managed to handle it for decades at this point. [Law.com]

* Meta settles class action for $725 million, which might be the most the company has lost without Zuck wearing VR goggles. [Courthouse News Service]

* Paltrow trial “riddled With ’embarrassing’ mistakes by legal teams.” Like allowing it to happen in the first place? [Newsweek]

The Magical World Of The Rule Against Perpetuities.

On the one hand, don't do this... on the other hand, I like watching bad people suffer the consequences of their own actions.

* So uhh… why isn’t this darn near $8 BILLION lawsuit getting more attention? [Puck]

* Employees sue Disney for thinking they’re “above the law.” That’s our job! [Fox]

* Practiced law for four days and had enough of it? You’re not the only one. [Bloomberg]

* Biden administration claims a 1986 law preempts state-made abortion laws in emergency cases. [BuzzFeed News]

* Be sure to check out the 23rd Annual Supreme Court Review. Dahlia Lithwick’s moderating a panel including Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, former SG Gregory G. Garre, SCOTUSBlog’s Amy Howe, and Phi Beta Kappa’s Frederick Lawrence. It’s Tuesday, July 12, from 12-1:30 ET and it’s free! [ADL.org]

You mean the same copyright protections everyone else has?

Listen to this like a time capsule...

* Georgetown Law courts publicity again by inviting an alleged anti-Semite to speak on campus. Did they get a David Duke endowment recently or something? [Mosaic]

* Disney not sure what to do after getting Florida-ed. No way it’s more confusing than figuring out the licensing for the Kingdom Hearts franchise. [Star Advertiser]

* International Lawsuit: Musk’s attention-grabbing purchase isn’t rubbing the EU the right way. [Business Insider]

* “What’s all that movement back there?”: Suit filed against Massachusetts police for acting in secrecy. [Boston Herald]

* Good Apples: Two officers sue, claiming they were suspended because they reported a colleague’s racial profiling. [NJ.com]

* Unholy inequality: PA school faces discrimination lawsuit for not allowing Satanists to set up an after-school club. What would Jesus do? [Global News]

* A Whole New World: Texas judge invites Disney to relocate. [WFLA]

* Question: Will SCOTUS be as deferential to Biden on immigration as they’ve been to Trump? Magic 8-Ball says not likely. [NPR]

* A swing and a miss: Golf course hit with $5M verdict after hitting the same house over 600 times! I thought four was the limit. [NBC News]

* New hope for a Texas death row inmate accused of killing her daughter. [PBS]

* Irate Policing or Intellectual Property?: Cops play Disney songs on patrol to prevent the public from recording them. [CNN]

* Special lasagna: Newly weds break in their relationship with criminality after dosing their special guests. [CNN]

* Texas and Florida are looking to end tenure. If only this directly impacted a certain professor at Penn. [The Hill]

* SCOTUS may give the ok for people to carry guns on NY trains. I still shudder thinking about Goetz. [Fast Company]

* Its my money and I need cash now!: Seattle law clinic helps workers fight wage theft. [King 5]

The letter presumably got filed in the Happiest Trash Can On Earth.

If you've seen the movie 'Encanto,' you'll realize that it's easy to compare Luisa's challenges with doing it all to the stress and pressure of owning a law firm.

Regulatory capture is usually more subtle.

* Georgia passed a new law aimed at curbing illegal street racing. Probably safer to stick with the midnight train to Georgia… [Atlanta Journal-Constitution]

* The New York Attorney General is arguing that the NRA’s bankruptcy case should be dismissed. [ABC News]

* A Texas lawyer known as the “DUI Guy” has been sentenced to serious prison time for federal charges. [Dallas Morning News]

* The County of Los Angeles has denied wrongdoing in a lawsuit filed by Vanessa Bryant over photos of the deadly helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant were circulated. [USA Today]

* Disney and Marvel are facing a lawsuit claiming they ripped off designs for Iron Man and Ant Man. [WDWNT]

* A lawsuit alleging that Disney infringed on copyrights when it rebooted “Muppet Babies” has been dismissed. Guess Disney doesn’t have to open its Miss Piggy bank and the lawsuit is now Gonzo… [Hollywood Reporter]

* The Supreme Court sided with Facebook in a recent case alleging that unwanted text messages sent by the social media platform violated federal law. [Hill]

* A contempt conviction has been upheld against a lawyer who allegedly streamed a hearing live on Facebook. [Macomb Daily]

* Check out this feature on Kim Kardashian’s divorce lawyer. [New York Times]

* A class action alleging that a telemarketing company overcharged clients has settled for millions of dollars. [Oregonian]

* Thousands of government workers in New York may be unable to smoke recreational marijuana under a proposed law. Thank you for your service… [Daily News]

* A lawsuit has been filed over the name for Corona Hard Seltzer. Maybe they can resolve the despite by kicking back a few… [Chicago Tribune]

* A California woman is accused of impersonating two lawyers and committing PPP loan fraud. Going to refrain from making a My Cousin Vinny reference here… [SF Gate]

* A former Disney employee is accusing the company of bad accounting in a new lawsuit. Maybe they just lost track of their Star Wars money. [Orlando Sentinel]

* The defense teams of three individuals charged in the killing of George Floyd are asking for charges to be dismissed against their clients. [Star Tribune]

* Check out this article on the rate at which federal courts of appeal grant oral argument. The data should be “appealing” to many litigators. [Juris Lab]

* A woman is apparently considering a lawsuit against the maker of Gorilla Glue after she purportedly sustained damage from using the product in her hair. Not sure the claims will “stick”… [Fox News]

* Alan Dershowitz added his own voice to the chorus of commentators who believe Donald Trump’s impeachment lawyers did not do a good job on the first day of the impeachment trial. [Yahoo News]

* An animal rights lawyer is accused of hiring a hitman to kill her ex-husband and his girlfriend. [New York Daily News]

* The Senate has set a hearing date to advance the nomination of Merrick Garland to be Attorney General of the United States. [Hill]

* The union that represents performers who dress up as Disney characters is facing some legal challenges. It would be interesting to see those union members walk a picket line… [ABC News]

* A company run by Evel Knievel’s son is suing Disney because a character in Toy Story 4 allegedly resembles the late performer. Assuming Disney already has the license for Mr. Potato Head… [AP]

* A black British lawyer has received an apology after being mistaken as a criminal defendant instead of a lawyer multiple times in a single day. [New York Daily News]

* A New York attorney has been disbarred for sending “disturbing” emails to the New York City Bar Association and then failing to respond to ethics inquires. [New York Law Journal]

* A defamation lawsuit filed against Tucker Carlson by Karen McDougal, an alleged paramour of Donald Trump, has been dismissed. [Hill]

* A well-known immigration lawyer in Milwaukee, Wisconsin has been killed following an altercation with a bicyclist. [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]

* An NCIS investigator has won a lawsuit for unpaid overtime pay. Since NCIS is entering its 18th season, everyone involved with that show probably deserves some overtime pay as well… [Bloomberg]

* Facebook is paying up to $650 million to settle a lawsuit alleging the company violated Illinois’ facial recognition law. That’s basically a parking ticket for Zuckerberg… [Vox]

* Michael Cohen is being released from prison again after a federal judge found that he was sent back to the clink in retaliation for publishing a book on President Trump. [CNBC News]

* A lawsuit has been filed against Disney by two writers who claimed they developed a spec script for Pirates of the Caribbean years before the movies were produced. [Business Insurance]

* The former police officer accused of killing George Floyd has been charged with tax evasion, along with his wife. [ABC News]

* Tesla has filed a lawsuit against rival Rivian for allegedly poaching talent and trade secrets. Nerd fight! [TechCrunch]

* A federal appeals court has ruled that President Trump’s former White House Counsel, Donald McGahn, does not have to testify before Congress. [CNBC]

* Roger Stone called an adversary’s lawyer a “little bitch” at a deposition last month. Check out the video to see if the insult was warranted. [VICE]

* Lori Loughlin’s attorney says that notes written by the mastermind of the Varsity Blues racket exonerate Loughlin of wrongdoing. [Forbes]

* This week, the Supreme Court will hear its first major abortion case of the Trump era. [Reuters]

* A new lawsuit alleges that Disney is breaking the law by making people with disabilities wait too long for rides. I sense an episode idea for Curb Your Enthusiasm here… [Texarkana Gazzette]