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Newly released documents shed light on how a privately funded White House ballroom is moving forward, and why it’s drawing legal and ethical scrutiny.
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- The Trump administration quietly approved a legal framework allowing hundreds of millions in anonymous private donations to fund a roughly $400 million White House ballroom, one of the biggest changes to the complex in decades.
- The agreement limits conflict-of-interest reviews to federal agencies like the Park Service, while excluding the White House and the president from similar scrutiny.
- Watchdog group Public Citizen obtained the documents through a lawsuit, arguing the administration unlawfully withheld details about the project and its donors.
- The plan has sparked legal challenges and criticism from ethics experts, even as an appeals court has allowed construction to proceed for now. Read more here.
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- Government: The D.C. Circuit will hear two cases challenging the Trump administration’s closure of the USAID office.
- Government: The D.C. Circuit will also take up a case challenging the Trump administration’s effective shutdown of Voice of America and its grantee networks. Read the lower court order.
- LGBTQ+: The DOJ will urge U.S. District Judge Angel Kelley in Boston to dismiss a lawsuit by a coalition of Democratic-led states that seeks to block policies adopted under President Trump to crack down on providers of medical gender-affirming care for transgender youth. Read the complaint.
- Environment: U.S. District Judge Amir Ali in D.C. will hold a motion hearing in a lawsuit brought by an environmental group alleging the federal government’s approval of Vineyard Wind’s offshore projects threatens marine life and radar systems. Read the complaint.
- Judiciary: The Senate Judiciary Committee will consider whether to advance four of President Trump's judicial nominees, including Katie Lane, his pick to become a federal judge in Montana who the ABA recently rated as "not qualified" on the grounds that she has practiced law for less than nine years. Also up for consideration is White House associate counsel Kara Westercamp, who advised on tariff policy and is now up for a seat on the U.S. Court of International Trade.
- Judiciary: U.S. District Judge Esther Salas, a New Jersey-based federal judge whose son was killed by a disgruntled lawyer who came to her home, is slated to speak at an ABA litigation conference in Boston.
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Court calendars are subject to last-minute docket changes.
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- U.S. District Judge Alan Albright, who before relocating to Austin, Texas last year helped transform a tiny courthouse in Waco into a hub for much of the patent litigation in the United States, plans to resign, a person familiar with the matter said.
- A defunct data management company has sued law firm Norton Rose Fulbright in Illinois state court, accusing its lawyers of mishandling a patent application and neglecting to inform the company about it for years. Read the complaint.
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That's the percentage of 2025 Juris Doctor graduates who landed jobs that require passing the bar exam, a new record high.
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- SCOTUS: The U.S. Supreme Court rejected Enbridge’s bid to change the venue of an environmental lawsuit by Michigan seeking to force the Canadian energy company to stop operating an oil pipeline between two of the Great Lakes. Read the opinion.
- Fraud: Goldman Sachs agreed to settle a lawsuit accusing the Wall Street bank of defrauding shareholders about its work for 1MDB, a Malaysian fund that became embroiled in a corruption scandal.
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Troutman Pepper Locke’s Clayton Friedman, Ashley Taylor and Namrata Kang examine the continued enforcement against “junk fees” in 2026. Read today’s Attorney Analysis.
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