Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 08.25.25

* Federal government takes roughly 10 percent stake in Intel with Skadden's help. Wonder if Skadden did it pro bono... [Bloomberg Law News] * Inmate moved out of low-security prison after publicly criticizing the idea of moving a convicted sex trafficker into the facility. They're going to keep Ghislaine Maxwell from talking about Donald Trump no matter how many people get in the way. [Daily Mail] * Justice Gorsuch scolded lower courts for not treating shadow docket orders as binding precedent. In the words of the iconic commercial "that's not how any of this works." [One First] * JP Morgan paying $330 million over 1MDB case. [Bloomberg Law News] * Musk settles half billion dollar suit over wrongful Twitter terminations. [Law.com] * Judge blocks White House efforts to cut off funds to cities Trump doesn't like. [Reuters] * D.C. Circuit denies Judge Newman's appeal of her suspension on jurisdictional grounds, but said the case raises constitutional concerns. What with it being an illegal pocket impeached of a sitting federal judge and all. [National Law Journal]

By Above the Law on August 25, 2025 8:59 am

* Federal government takes roughly 10 percent stake in Intel with Skadden’s help. Wonder if Skadden did it pro bono… [Bloomberg Law News]

* Inmate moved out of low-security prison after publicly criticizing the idea of moving a convicted sex trafficker into the facility. They’re going to keep Ghislaine Maxwell from talking about Donald Trump no matter how many people get in the way. [Daily Mail]

* Justice Gorsuch scolded lower courts for not treating shadow docket orders as binding precedent. In the words of the iconic commercial “that’s not how any of this works.” [One First]

* JP Morgan paying $330 million over 1MDB case. [Bloomberg Law News]

* Musk settles half billion dollar suit over wrongful Twitter terminations. [Law.com]

* Judge blocks White House efforts to cut off funds to cities Trump doesn’t like. [Reuters]

* D.C. Circuit denies Judge Newman’s appeal of her suspension on jurisdictional grounds, but said the case raises constitutional concerns. What with it being an illegal pocket impeached of a sitting federal judge and all. [National Law Journal]