A new proposal would let wealthy foreign nationals secure an opportunity for a U.S. green card with a $1 million 'gift' to the government, sparking legal and ethical debate.
* Amended class status adds millions of new members to tech antitrust suit. Talk about taking another bite at the Apple! [Law360]
* “Democracy dies by legislatures weakening student right to protest” might not be as catchy, but it’s still true. [KWTX]
* With Chevron out of the way, pharmaceutical companies are challenging the FDA’s removal of a weight loss drug from the short list. [BioSpace]
* If only the right to payment was as strong as the right to counsel. [Bloomberg Law]
* Judge stops Trump from mass invalidation of Venezuelan immigrant's legal documents. [Reuters]
* Fewer than one-third of lawyers actually log off at all during the summer. While that sounds bleak, why would you vacation during the summer? That's when they give you free rein to take 3 hour lunches! [American Lawyer]
* Goodwin fires recruiting firm after its founder accurately described Goodwin's response to Trump's EEOC investigation. [Bloomberg Law News]
* Court of International Trade strikes down Trump's tariffs as exceeding his authority. Bittersweet pill for the conservative nondelegation doctrine fans. [NPR]
* Trump jumps over all the meticulously vetted Federal Society kids to nominate his personal attorney to the Third Circuit. Just like we told you he would. [Law360]
* New 401k rules will funnel retirement investments into crypto and private equity. In case you're wondering why so many seniors will be homeless in 20 years. [Bloomberg Law News]
* Failed Diddy. mistrial bid always on slippery foundation. [People]
* Trump administration ramps up rhetoric about banning foreign students while Harvard seeks to extend injunction against the policy. [Reuters]
* 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]
* 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]
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* 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]
* 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]
* The Times looks at Biglaw surrenders through the lens of the history of Above the Law itself. [NY Times]
* McDermott/Schulte merger will create one of the biggest New York presences of any firm (until the looming recession hits and provides a convenient opportunity to trim redundancies, of course). [American Lawyer]
* Wachtell and Latham decide that since everyone is happy with rent-seeking, monopolistic cable companies, it's time to make an even bigger one. [Law360]
* On Friday, the Supreme Court reaffirmed that, no, the government can't sell more people to prisons without due process. Alito and Thomas dissent... probably hoping for an awesome all-expense paid luxury vacation courtesy of the El Salvadoran government. [CNBC]
* Relatedly, Judge Xinnis sees the Trump administration inching ever closer to the contempt line in refusing to follow orders in Abrego Garcia case. Meanwhile, someone in the White House is saying, "Xinnis... sounds foreign to me." [Reuters]
* New York case asks if the algorithms tech companies use to steer radicalizing content to specific users have become products susceptible to the state product liability law. Essentially, does ranking and delivering content take it outside the Section 230 shield. [Bloomberg Law News]
* There's an appetite at the Supreme Court to get rid of universal injunctions, but after brutal oral argument, birthright citizenship might not be the case where they pull the trigger. [Law360]
* Giving Jeanine Pirro a temporary appointment after riding Ed Martin's doomed interim run tests temporary appointment power that should give the district court the power to fill that job temporarily. [Bloomberg Law News]
* Biglaw efforts to surrender or fight hinged upon their willingness to act collectively. [Law.com]
* Latham caught in the AI hallucination trap. [Reuters]
* ICE misled a federal judge into issuing a warrant and this should be lesson eleventy billion that judges need to be a lot more suspicious of warrants casually dumped on their desks. [The Intercept]
* Now they've dragged Taylor Swift into the Blake Lively-Justin Baldoni debacle. [Newsweek]
* Following all the attention of the Conclave, the ABA Journal offers a brief guide to canon law. [ABA Journal]
* Judge Luttig explains that we've reached the end of the rule of law. [The Atlantic]
* Abrupt removal of Librarian of Congress looked like a Musk effort to seize control of copyright law for the benefit of his AI interests... but anti-tech MAGA lawyers might have thrown a wrench in those plans. [Verge]
* Government strips Wilmer attorneys of security clearances in case DOJ will lose next. [American Lawyer]
* Chuck Grassley suddenly wants a law to stop "universal injunctions" after four years of letting Amarillo run the FDA. These are not serious people. [Law360]
* FBI ordered to divert work from white collar enforcement to immigration. [Reuters]
* Attorney with big social media following accused of providing no value to clients. Wait until they learn what happens in Biglaw "internal team meetings." [ABA Journal]
