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* Public confidence in the Supreme Court falls, which is significant because it didn’t seem like it could go lower. [ABA Journal]
* Losing key appellate lawyers unlikely to impact firm profits. [American Lawyer]
* DOJ asks plaintiffs to drop the ballroom construction challenge in light of Correspondence Dinner. [WSJ]
* AI is taking over ERISA cases. [Bloomberg Law News]
* CFTC sues New York for attempting to regulate gambling websites that Trump’s son collects money from. [Law360]
* US agrees to allow Venezuela to pay for Maduro’s lawyer. [Reuters]
* Federal authorities still haven’t returned the car that they murdered Renee Good in. [Courthouse News Service]
Legal and operational leaders are gathering May 6–7 in Fort Lauderdale to confront the questions the industry hasn't answered—with a keynote from Amanda Knox setting the tone.
The Streisand Effect Finds Its Spirit Animal: The Atlantic published an article based on multiple insider accounts of Kash Patel’s drinking prompting the FBI Director to promise swift legal retaliation. He made good on that pledge with a flimsy $250 million defamation complaint (possibly drafted by AI), that only managed to look weaker the more he talked about it.
DOJ Does A Solid For The KKK: Acting AG Todd Blanche and FBI Director (for the moment…) Kash Patel announced criminal charges against the Southern Poverty Law Center for its work gathering intelligence on known hate groups. But apparently no one bothered to double-check the charging documents, because the indictment fails to allege a whole element.
S&C’s Letter To The Court, Translated: ‘Please’: Sullivan & Cromwell submitted an emergency filing asking a federal court not to sanction the firm after discovering their filings were riddled with AI hallucinations.
Powell Pwns Pirro: Adding to the DOJ’s woes this week, Jeanine Pirro tried to quietly extricate the Justice Department from its phony case against Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.
Freedom Of Religion Means Everyone Is Free To Worship The Way The Fifth Circuit Tells You: The Fifth Circuit embarked on some quirky mental gymnastics to explain why Texas can demand public schools post the Ten Commandments in every classroom is not “establishment of religion.”
When The Law Is On Your Side, Pound The Law; When The Facts Are On Your Side, Pound The Facts; When You Have Neither, Pound The Leak: Uncovered memos reveal Chief Justice Roberts’s deeply cynical role in inventing the Supreme Court’s new hyperactive shadow docket as a policy instrument.
Ranking Law Schools: By buildings, real estate, practical training, and Biglaw job prospects.
Law Professor’s Love Letter To Hungarian Authoritarianism: Jonathan Turley is just a Republican talking points pullstring toy at this point, but his lament over the fall of Viktor Orban is conspiracy theory stuff.
It’s 10 p.m. Do You Know Where Your Partners Are?: Because the lateral market keeps churning, with Paul Weiss losing prominent appellate partner to Davis Polk.
Corporate Clients Memory Hole DEI: Corporate legal departments, which once loudly demanded diversity commitments from outside counsel, are now quietly letting those commitments expire, in what we in the journalism business call “a pattern.”
The Federalist Society’s Extremely Normal Evening: A Federalist Society event intended to present the legal case for DHS immigration operations as something other than what they are encountered mild friction when the protesters outside declined to pretend otherwise.
Kannon Shanmugam Is Headed To Davis Polk & Wardwell: Best of luck to the firm’s new Supreme Court and appellate practice!
Wave Goodbye To The ICE/IRS Firewall: One small step toward losing billions in taxable income at a time.
The Government’s Poor Case Against The Southern Poverty Law Center: They didn’t even include the elements of the crime!
Protestors Protest DHS Lead Counsel’s Talk At UCLA: Make the most of free speech on campus while you can.
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We’re Calling A 2-1: The Biglaw EO cases are headed to the D.C. Circuit.
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