Paul Diamond

* Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams pleads guilty to accepting a bribe, ending his ongoing federal corruption trial and his tenure as DA — and sending him straight to jail, since Judge Paul Diamond denied bail. [ABA Journal]

* The Trump administration moves forward on implementing the travel ban (and has reversed its earlier determination that being engaged to marry an American doesn’t count as “a bona fide” connection to this country). [New York Times]

* Colorado baker Jack Phillips, petitioner in the Masterpiece Cakeshop case that the Supreme Court will hear next Term, explains his refusal to bake a cake for a same-sex wedding. [How Appealing]

* DLA Piper, hit by a major ransomware attack earlier this week, endures its third consecutive day without email. [Law360]

* And DLA isn’t the only Biglaw firm with big weaknesses in cybersecurity, as Ian Lopez reports. [Law.com]

* Lawyer turned television host Greta Van Susteren has been let go by MSNBC (after just six months). [Vanity Fair]

* The tragic case of Charlie Gard comes to an end: the European Court of Human Rights declines to review prior court rulings refusing to let the terminally ill 10-month-old boy travel to the U.S. for experimental treatment. [Washington Post]

* Drs. John Eastman and Sohan Dasgupta break down the Trinity Lutheran case. [Claremont Institute]

* What happens when a Biglaw associate at a prestigious firm is allegedly injured so badly in the D.C. subway that he’s prevented from working as an associate at that firm? He files a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against the Washington Metro Transit Authority, obviously. We’ll have more on this later. [Big Law Business]

* A federal judge has dismissed Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein’s bid for a recount in Pennsylvania as absurd, writing in a 31-page opinion that her theory of the hacking of the state’s electronic voting machines “borders on the irrational.” Ouch. [Reuters]

* Justice Stephen Breyer continued his assault against capital punishment this week, dissenting from his Supreme Court colleagues’ decision not to hear a death row inmate’s case. In that dissent, he didn’t discuss the evidence against the inmate, but rather, he discussed the evidence against the death penalty in America. [New York Times]

* Abortion-rights activists from the Center for Reproductive Rights have sought an injunction against the implementation of a controversial Texas regulation that would require the burial or cremation of fetal remains because it “imposes a funeral ritual on women who have … an abortion.” As if HB 2 wasn’t bad enough… [WSJ Law Blog]

* School-by-school results from the July 2016 administration of the California bar exam have finally been released (albeit not publicly, until now), and considering that the overall pass rate was the lowest it’s been in 32 years, law schools did not fare well. Which did the best, and which did the worst? We’ll have more on this later. [The Recorder]

* From prosecutor to prisoner: former Pennsylvania attorney general Kathleen Kane gets sentenced to 10 to 23 months. [CNN] * Oh, the irony: the ABA won’t publish a report calling Donald Trump a “libel bully” because of “the risk of the ABA being sued by Mr. Trump.” [New York Times] * How the AT&T/Time Warner […]