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Good morning. Here are the big stories on tap: In a sharply-worded opinion running more than 100 pages, a D.C. federal judge struck down President Trump's executive order against Perkins Coie. Plus, the global trade war hasn't been too bad for law firms – so far, at least; and judges are wrestling with how to manage AI-generated evidence. Let's get to it. A note from Diana, Mike and Sara: After writing hundreds of Daily Dockets, the three of us are moving on to other responsibilities with the Reuters legal news team. Our colleague Caitlin Tremblay will take over as the newsletter's author starting tomorrow, and you can expect a few cool changes to follow. Stay tuned, and thank you for spending your mornings with us! Were you forwarded this email? Subscribe here. |
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In the broadest rebuke yet for the Republican president's pressure campaign against law firms, a federal judge struck down Donald Trump's executive order targeting Perkins Coie as a violation of the U.S. Constitution's protections of free speech and due process. Our colleagues Mike Scarcella, Jack Queen and David Thomas report that U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell's ruling castigated Trump for "settling personal vendettas" and barred federal agencies from enforcing Trump's March 6 order against the firm. Howell, in a sharply worded, 102-page opinion, said Trump's executive order was an attack on foundational principles of American jurisprudence and the role lawyers play in ensuring the fair and impartial administration of justice. Read the opinion here. "In a cringe-worthy twist on the theatrical phrase 'Let's kill all the lawyers,'" Trump's executive order "takes the approach of 'Let's kill the lawyers I don't like,' sending the clear message: lawyers must stick to the party line, or else," Howell wrote. |
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- Law firms had a slow start to 2025, but President Trump's global trade war fueled surging demand in March that helped prop up their first quarter, a new analysis of firm financials by the Thomson Reuters Institute has found.
- The U.S. Judicial Conference's Advisory Committee on Evidence Rules advanced a proposal to regulate the introduction of AI-generated evidence at trial, with judges expressing a need to swiftly get feedback from the public and lawyers on the draft rule to get ahead of a rapidly evolving technology.
- President Trump announced his first judicial nomination since returning to the White House as he moved to appoint Whitney Hermandorfer, a lawyer serving under Tennessee's Republican attorney general, to a seat on the 6th Circuit.
- Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner plans to cut about 8% of its professional staff in a move to streamline business operations, it said.
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That's at least how many federal judges whose families have faced threats of violence or harassment after they ruled against the new Trump administration, a Reuters investigation found. The judges include U.S. District Judge James Boasberg and U.S. District Judge John McConnell. The broadsides are part of an intimidation campaign directed at federal judges who have stood in the way of Trump's moves to dramatically expand presidential authority and slash the federal bureaucracy. Read the Reuters Special Report. |
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"They seem designed to intimidate those of us who serve in this critical capacity."
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—U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, saying attacks by President Trump and his allies on judges were "not random." U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts previously rebuked Trump for urging the impeachment of a federal judge, laying bare tensions between the country's executive and the judiciary as Trump's sweeping assertions of power encounter judicial obstacles. Read more. |
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- Jury questioning begins today in hip-hop mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs trial in Manhattan federal court on sex trafficking and racketeering charges.
- Also today, U.S. District Judge Stephanie Haines in Pennsylvania is due to hold a hearing over a possible preliminary injunction in the case of a Venezuelan man transferred to Texas for possible deportation despite her order that he remain in Pennsylvania.
- On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge William Young in Boston will hold a hearing to schedule a trial in a lawsuit by university faculty groups challenging the Trump administration's targeting of noncitizen pro-Palestinian campus activists for arrests and deportations after officials. Young previously held American Association of University Professors and its campus chapters at Harvard, Rutgers and New York University last week had plausibly alleged the administration was targeting noncitizens specifically for exercising their right to political speech.
- On Wednesday, Chief U.S. District Judge James Boasberg will hold a hearing in D.C. to consider a request by lawyers representing Venezuelan migrants for their return from El Salvador so that they can contest their deportations under the Alien Enemies Act.
- On Thursday, Alex Mashinsky, the founder of crypto lender Celsius Network, is scheduled to be sentenced in New York federal court after pleading guilty in December to fraud charges. Federal prosecutors in Manhattan said he misled customers of Celsius to persuade them to invest and artificially inflated the value of his company's proprietary crypto token.
- On Friday, Apple will ask the Federal Circuit to overturn a jury's verdict that the tech giant owes patent owner Optis Wireless Technology $300 million for infringing patents related to LTE wireless technology. Apple argues that its products do not infringe the patents, that the patents are invalid, and that the damages award was unjustified.
Court calendars are subject to last-minute docket changes.
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- The Trump administration agreed to refrain from unilaterally terminating Maine's access to federal funding used to feed school children, ending one of several legal fights stemming from the Democratic-led state's refusal to comply with the administration's demands to ban transgender athletes from girls' sports teams. The settlement with the USDA came three weeks after a federal judge issued a temporary restraining order blocking it from cutting off federal funds the state uses for nutrition programs.
- Google will face a trial in September on antitrust enforcers' proposals to make it sell off part of its advertising technology business to address the company's dominance over tools used by online publishers to sell ads.
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- Kirkland brought international trade and national security partners John Kabealo and Evan Sills from Kabealo Law. (Kirkland)
- Seward & Kissel hired corporate partner Caroline Lee in New York from Dechert. (Seward & Kissel)
- Mayer Brown added patent litigation partner Jasjit Vidwan in D.C. from ArentFox Schiff. (Mayer Brown)
- Ropes & Gray hired capital markets partner Nitin Konchady in New York from Weil. The firm also picked up private equity partner Richard Perks in Hong Kong from Freshfields.
- Greenberg Traurig added Mohammad Alturk to its franchise and distribution practice in Dallas. He previously was at Baker McKenzie. (Greenberg Traurig)
- Hogan Lovells picked up tech project development partner Fernando Margarit in Miami from Hunton Andrews Kurth. (Hogan Lovells)
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Perhaps because airports and air travel are so stressful, "air rage" is a growing problem, write Erin Mindoro Ezra, David Ezra and Robert Chan of Berger Kahn. Parties to an altercation at 30,000 feet are likely to confront some complex procedural issues. Read today's Attorney Analysis. |
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