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This Judge Is Just Begging For A Benchslap — See Also

Judge VanDyke Has Taken To Asking The Supreme Court For Favors: Of the benchslap variety.

Full Metal Briefing: Todd Blanche feared DOJ would get “skullfucked” by the courts.

The Tortured Logic Of John Yoo: Yoo tells Fox News that the DOJ should probe Zohran Mamdani for thought crime, which is as scary as it is buffonish.

No Merger, No Problem: Linklaters is doing just fine when it comes to revenue, thank you very much.

The Process Is The Process: Generative AI is all over the legal industry, but when it comes to discovery, process beats technology.

Congress Has Some Pointed Questions For Skadden: Will they answer? Probably not! But that won’t necessarily make the problem go away.

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Morning Docket: 07.21.26

* Anthropic settles copyright case for $1.5B dollars. [Reuters]

* Roughly half of Americans think the Supreme Court decides the cases based on politics. The other half are currently assisting a Nigerian prince recover his money. [ABA Journal]

* The entire American AI industry runs on financing that looks an awful lot like Enron. Good news for future eDiscovery demos in about 5 years! [Bloomberg Law News]

* Court hits pause on Paramount merger. [CNBC]

* Arizona Supreme Court rules that attorney-client privilege does not extend to communications with the party’s mother. And, since it’s Arizona, here’s the court’s official AI reporter to explain. [AZ Courts via YouTube]

* Border Czar Tom Homan more angry that people criticize ICE for killing innocent people than the fact that ICE is killing innocent people. [The New Republic]

* Lwsuit claims Puka Nacua bit a woman. [USA Today]

* Cop charged with covering bodycam to take pictures of naked prisoners. [Ars Technica]

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Supreme Court Takes Up Case Of Most Expensive Six-Pack Of Bud Light Ever — See Also

Just ‘Plane’ Wrong: Alaska wants to take a man’s $95,000 plane because he didn’t notice a passenger bringing a six-pack of Bud on board. By the state’s reasoning, it’s perfectly reasonable that it’s only a $1,500 fine, but a $95,000 forfeiture.

The Trump Administration Has A Theory About Who Shouldn’t Be Litigating The Biglaw EO Case: It argues Susman Godfrey is conflicted out of the case.

Send In The Clowns: Trump brings DOJ into his lawsuit against the BBC after the news organization refuses to just give him money to go away. Because why not spend taxpayer resources to pursue his own flagging lawsuit?

Constitution As Suicide Pact Alert: Fifth Circuit considering blowing up 99 percent of federal law to help a trafficker keep his gun.

Law Student Takes Jeopardy! By Storm: He’s made nearly $350K so far, which is an awesome run.