Morning Docket: 04.03.23

* 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]

onApril 3, 2023 at 8:57 AMApril 3, 2023 at 8:22 AM

President Trump Announces Revised NAFTA Deal With Mexico

(Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

* 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]

Sponsored

Early Adopters Of Legal AI Gaining Competitive Edge In Marketplace

How to best leverage generative AI as an early adopter with ethical use.

From LexisNexis

* 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]