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Morning Docket: 08.17.23

* Fifth Circuit judges anoint themselves pharmaceutical scientists to determine that the FDA probably didn't understand mifepristone when its scientists exercised their statutory and regulatory authority. So now judges are historians, neurologists, and drug scientists. Yale and Harvard JDs really prepare you to be jackasses of all trades! [Reuters] * Speaking of judges acting as neurologists, the Federal Circuit backtracked to avoid that charge and cited Judge Pauline Newman's reticence to hand over medical records of a cardiac event as the key justification to ban her from the court. Which fails their own twisted rationale since a risk of heart attack has no bearing on a judge's faculties. But in any event, they're cardiologists now, too. [Law360] * It took a matter of hours for Trump supporters to publicly circulate the names and addresses of Georgia grand jurors. [NBC] * By nixing student loan forgiveness, the Supreme Court likely also jacked the market by robbing it of 401(k) investment. [Bloomberg Law News] * Law firms are generally uninterested in a fully remote workforce -- which is understandable in some practice areas. But somehow this is going to get conflated with hybrid work models and some dumb firm is going to think it has cover to fully end working from home -- to the delight of the firms looking to poach. [American Lawyer] * Fox News needs a new CLO after the last one presided over the company accumulating upwards of a billion in liability. Who would want this job? [Corporate Counsel] * Freshfields managing partner races in FIA bronze level events in his spare time. [LegalCheek]

By Above the Law
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 08.04.23

* Elena Kagan has entered the chat: Justice Kagan sounds off in response to Samuel Alito's self-serving thoughts on the ability to check the Supreme Court's power. [Politico] * Thanks to the ban on cameras in federal court, all we get is a sketch of Donald Trump's not-guilty plea. [Huffington Post] * The legal battle to end Wisconsin's egregious gerrymander heats up. [Vox] * The defamation case between Fox News and Smartmatic is getting spicy. [Law.com] * A look at Donald Trump's latest defense attorney. [Law360]

By Kathryn Rubino
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Morning Docket: 04.27.23

* Judge Luttig joined the chorus calling for stricter Supreme Court ethics -- a chorus that features pretty much everyone not on the Supreme Court. [Reuters] * Trump loses effort to block Pence testimony. Again. [Politico] * Biglaw firms game their partnership size to look more profitable, but there's a stat to look for to check if a firm is truly healthy. [Bloomberg Law News] * Biglaw capital market groups living in suspended animation as the whole economy continues to pretend there's a recession until the Federal Reserve gives up trying to create one. [American Lawyer] * Fox handing Smartmatic the Murdoch depositions because how much more damage can be done? Reputationally, we mean. Financially, it's about $2 billion more. [Law360] * Copyright claim against Ed Sheeran lodged by Marvin Gaye's co-writer. Look, I get that Blurred Lines was -- in addition to a bizarrely rapey song for the 21st century -- pretty much Got to Give It Up, but you don't get to own every chord progression in the universe. [ABA Journal] * Ivanka hires Jeffrey Epstein lawyer after separating counsel from her brothers. [Daily Beast]

By Above the Law
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Fox Wox

To the surprise of probably no one with a diversified portfolio of news sources, Fox lost its game of chicken against Dominion and settled.

By Jill Switzer