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Morning Docket: 07.08.26

* Yale Law School is working behind the scenes to convince Yale University to stop trying to cut a deal with the Trump administration citing threat to rule of law. [NY Times]

* Latham cleaning up on AI power demands. [Bloomberg Law News]

* Former Wisconsin judge faces sentencing for refusing to allow ICE to use her courtroom to kidnap migrants. [Reuters]

* Biglaw pro bono chill may be thawing a bit. [American Lawyer]

* DOJ sent letters to threatening to prosecute election officials if noncitizens vote. Which they won’t, since we’ve had years of investigations unable to prove it even happens in any significant way. [NBC News]

* Eleventh Circuit strikes higher education provision in Florida’s Stop W.O.K.E. Act, with Trump appointee writing for the court “[i]f the First Amendment offers any boundary of protection at all for public university classrooms, this statute crosses it.” [ACLU]

* Government wants judge to stop release of documents covering Todd Blanche’s role in Epstein coverup currently due right before his confirmation hearing. [The New Republic]

* Kalshi loses effort to keep New York from treating it as a gambling site. Because it is… a gambling site. [Law360]

See Also

Is The Supreme Court Putting Money On The Merits? — See Also

SCOTUS Betting On Its Own Cases? It shouldn’t be this hard for Chief Justice Roberts to answer this one.

More People Come Out Against Todd Blanche’s nomination for the Attorney General Role: But what the Senate does with that information is up to the Senate.

The Trump Administration May Be Making It More Difficult To Do Pro Bono Work: But these Biglaw firms managed to crack the code to help others.

Blanked: Blank Rome hit with a couple lawsuits over data breach caused by trusting a fake IT call.

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Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 07.07.26

* Breaking down the Supreme Court financial disclosures. [National Law Journal]

* Blanche brings his ethical dumpster fire to Congress for confirmation hearings set for next week. [The Hill]

* “Taylor Swift Sends Poet’s $25M IP Suit To The Dismissed Dept.” I see what you’re trying to do Law360, but it’s very tortured. [Law360]

* Everything’s A-OK at A&O Shearman as the firm teases ‘material’ profit growth. [American Lawyer]

* “Supreme Court Trans Sports Ruling Adopts Originalist Vision For JV Volleyball Rosters.” [The Onion]

* Lawyer disciplined in two states over sex with clients claims. [ABA Journal]

* Meta claims states are seeking $1.4 trillion in damages over child safety risks. So the obvious response is to build a gambling site! [Reuters]

* Sidley raids peers for capital markets boost. [Bloomberg Law News]

See Also

Another Bill Trump Won’t Pay — See Also

Roberta Kaplan Wants Her Client To Get Paid: Trump’s legal goons, on the other hand, are trying more delay tactics.

World Cup Of Lawyerball: The United States dragged the soccer world into its national pastime — legal threats.

You’d Have To Be High To Buy Elon Musk’s Legal Arguments: And Judge Charles Breyer was not, refusing the billionaire’s request to blow off the fraud verdict against him.

Environmental Law Isn’t Just For Tree-Huggers: Check out the law schools that make the latest Honor Roll here.

Kasowitz Sued: Former clients accuse Kasowitz of pocketing lion’s share of settlement.