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Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 05.23.25

* The Trump administration told Harvard that it couldn't enroll foreign students unless it met a series of demands. Harvard sued. [NY Times]

* Judge signals that he expects to rule that it's fair use to use copyrighted works to train an AI model, but it's still infringement to not pay for the books in the first place. [Law360]

* Goodwin quits Mansfield as part of wholesale concession to Trump administration diversity witch hunt. [Bloomberg Law News]

* Prince Andrew nearly kills lawyer's dog. [Roll on Friday]

* Supreme Court will allow Trump to fire independent agency board members, but says the Federal Reserve is off limits because... [mumble mumble] reasons. [National Law Journal]

* Copyright Office director sues administration over removal too, but good luck if we all decide he can fire the NLRB. [Reuters]

Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 05.22.25

* Law firm office leasing is booming, so don't hold out much hope for working from home. [American Lawyer]

* Kim Kardashian is done with her legal training. Which the media is calling law school because it infuriates pedants. [NBC]

* Appellate lawyers expand business opportunities with boom in trial support. [Legal Intelligencer]

* Littler settles client lawsuit over bad advice. [Law360]

* Trump administration violated court order in shipping people to South Sudan. [ABA Journal]

* FOIA requests disappeared. The contractor in charge of them had two convicted hackers on staff. But, yes, we should definitely keep firing government workers and outsourcing to private contractors. [Bloomberg]

* Hacker stole information from across the government because the Trump administration keeps doing business on unsecure apps. [Reuters]

Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 05.21.25

* An open letter to Clarence Thomas. If we print it out and wrap it in luxury vacation tickets he just might read it. [The Nation]

* Supreme Court jumps in to stop Maine's state legislature from censuring its own members. Eager to hear the Originalist case for this one. [Bloomberg Law News]

* Meta tries to end its monopoly case mid-trial. Judge does not like this. [Law360]

* DOJ opens criminal probe into NYC mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo over COVID testimony to Congress, which might be the weakest possible criminal case that could hypothetically be made against Andrew Cuomo. [CNN]

* Why is every story that begins, "Prominent South Carolina lawyer..." so good? [ABA Journal]

Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 05.20.25

* Tom Goldstein rips DOJ over "breathtaking" legal theories he says biased the grand jury. [Law360]

* Deep dive into the 240 prisoners sent to El Salvador reveals at least 50 came to the United States legally and never violated any immigration laws. [CATO Institute]

* Meanwhile, the lawyer representing many of those prisoners in El Salvador was just arrested and disappeared to a secret location over "embezzlement" claims from 10 years ago. [Guardian]

* Though the Supreme Court just authorized the Trump administration to revoke legal status for roughly 300,000 Venezuelans so it can invent immigration violations that didn't exist before. [NBC News]

* Article advances narrative that regardless of in-house counsel misgivings, corporations are not going to fire outside counsel over Trump deals. Apparently Microsoft and McDonald's didn't get interviewed. [Law.com International]

* Trump is getting tired of courts telling him what the law is... and soon he might just stop asking. [The Atlantic]

* Lawsuit to reclaim artist rights against Universal Music? Salt-N-Pepa decide to Push It! [Bloomberg Law News]

* OpenAI defeats defamation suit over false claims that ChatGPT conjured up about a radio personality. [Reuters]