Jennifer Elrod

DOJ Tells Court They Could Deport The Beatles Because It Was Called The ‘British Invasion’

There's stupid and then there's whatever the Trump Justice Department is doing.

Morning Docket: 05.18.23

* Fifth Circuit judge scolds attorney for "personal attack" because she accurately described the district court opinion as unprecedented. As Inigo Montoya would put it, "I don't think that word means what Judge Elrod thinks it means. [Slate] * After watching Disney's experience beating up on Florida lawyers, Penguin Random House is starting to sue Florida school districts for banning books. [AP] * Montana has banned TikTok in a reminder that "free speech" is now limited to punishing students for carrying mean signs during FedSoc events. [Wall Street Journal] * Deutsche Bank paying $75 million to settle claims that the bank facilitated Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking operations. Another win for Boies Schiller Flexner and Edwards Pottinger representing Epstein's victims. [Reuters] * Massachusetts US Attorney accused of abuse of power "to achieve a political goal epitomiz[ing] the type of 'political justice' that Congress intended to prohibit." Too bad she wasn't a judge taking free vacations from parties before the court... she'd be home free by now.[Law360] * WilmerHale earned 5 percent of its total revenue from Meta, the company you remember as Facebook before they completely retooled to chase a creepy VR chat room that they've since killed after costing the company about $13 billion. Which is all to say that Wilmer may want to diversify its revenue streams at this rate. [Bloomberg Law News] * A discussion of Shadow Docket by Steve Vladeck (affiliate link). [ABA Journal]