Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 04.30.24

* Trump attacks Todd Blanche behind-the-scenes, threatens to withhold legal fees. Again, Todd Blanche gave up a Biglaw partnership to live this whole Ransom of Orange Chief bit. [Mediaite] * The Most Dangerous Game: Private equity firm accused of gambling on human lives. [Bloomberg Law News] * Hugh Hewitt wrote a lengthy opinion piece about how "The left’s favorite legal 'analysts' are almost always wrong" which never (a) names a single left leaning analyst or (b) identifies any instance where a legal analyst was wrong about anything. Tremendous work all around over there. [Fox News] * FTC action against affordable luxury brand merger "not in the bag." Because when mergers break antitrust laws, courts write new rules and when the government challenges those mergers, courts say "didn't you read those new rules we wrote?" And the cycle goes on and on. [Reuters] * Man sentenced to 22 years for trying to give national secrets to Russian agents. Damn, where's Judge Aileen Cannon when a defendant needs her? [Law360] * State court ruling banning AI-enhanced video feels like a decision that's going to undergo a lot of refining and transformation... not unlike an AI-enhanced video. [Legaltech News]

By Above the Law on April 30, 2024 9:14 am

Opening Statements Begin In Former President Donald Trump’s New York Hush Money Trial

Todd Blanche and Donald Trump (Photo by Brendan McDermid-Pool/Getty Images)

* Trump attacks Todd Blanche behind-the-scenes, threatens to withhold legal fees. Again, Todd Blanche gave up a Biglaw partnership to live this whole Ransom of Orange Chief bit. [Mediaite]

* The Most Dangerous Game: Private equity firm accused of gambling on human lives. [Bloomberg Law News]

* Hugh Hewitt wrote a lengthy opinion piece about how “The left’s favorite legal ‘analysts’ are almost always wrong” which never (a) names a single left leaning analyst or (b) identifies any instance where a legal analyst was wrong about anything. Tremendous work all around over there. [Fox News]

* FTC action against affordable luxury brand merger “not in the bag.” Because when mergers break antitrust laws, courts write new rules and when the government challenges those mergers, courts say “didn’t you read those new rules we wrote?” And the cycle goes on and on. [Reuters]

* Man sentenced to 22 years for trying to give national secrets to Russian agents. Damn, where’s Judge Aileen Cannon when a defendant needs her? [Law360]

* State court ruling banning AI-enhanced video feels like a decision that’s going to undergo a lot of refining and transformation… not unlike an AI-enhanced video. [Legaltech News]