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Judge to weigh Oregon's bid to block National Guard deployment in Portland |
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- Last weekend, Trump announced plans to send troops into Portland, saying they would be used to protect federal immigration facilities against "domestic terrorists," and that he was authorizing them to use "full force, if necessary."
- Oregon AG Dan Rayfield sued Trump, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem in federal court in Portland on Sunday accusing Trump of exceeding his powers. Read the complaint here.
- The lawsuit stated that protests against ICE in Portland have been small and relatively contained since June. The city and state are seeking an emergency order to stop the troop deployment. Read the motion here.
- On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Michael Simon, an Obama appointee, recused himself from the case after the Trump administration raised concerns over comments by his wife, U.S. Representative Suzanne Bonamici, criticizing the troop deployment. Read more about that here.
- Trump's deployments of military forces into other municipalities led by Democrats, including Los Angeles and D.C., have spurred legal challenges and protests. Last month a federal judge blocked the administration from using the military to fight crime in California.
- Despite the judge's recusal, as of this morning the hearing is still scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. PT Friday.
| - U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian in Manhattan will sentence Sean "Diddy" Combs after the music mogul was convicted on charges of transporting prostitutes to engage in drug-fuelled sexual performances. Combs faces up to 20 years in prison, though the judge has a wide degree of discretion in crafting a punishment.
- Samsung will attempt to convince a federal jury in Texas that its smartphones do not violate patent owner Pictiva Displays' rights in OLED display technology. Samsung has been hit with several nine-figure patent verdicts in the same Marshall, Texas, federal court in recent years over technology in its electronic devices.
- The DOJ is due to reply to a judge's finding that the Trump administration's public statements about Luigi Mangione violated court rules meant to ensure a fair trial in his case over the killing of health insurance executive Brian Thompson.
- U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman in Greenbelt, Maryland, will sentence Sophie Roske, who attempted to assassinate U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in 2022. Prosecutors have asked for 30 years.
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Court calendars are subject to last-minute docket changes. |
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- The 9th Circuit is weighing whether law firm size should factor into attorney fee awards, after a judge refused to grant Big Law-caliber rates to a small firm for fear it could set a new benchmark for future requests. Find out more in this week's Billable Hours.
- The largest-ever buyout in the U.S. rail sector and the largest leveraged buyout in history helped propel Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz to the top of the London Stock Exchange Group's rankings of principal M&A legal advisers. Learn more.
- Moves: John Foote moved to Sidley's global arbitration, trade and advocacy practice from Kelley Drye & Warren … Norton Rose Fulbright added corporate finance partner Chip Gage from Winston & Strawn … Joseph Andolina returned to Faegre's investment management group from Aberdeen where he was chief risk officer … Jimmy McBirney, a former senior trial attorney at the DOJ, joined Scott+Scott's antitrust and competition practice … Morgan & Morgan added trial attorney Daniel DeSantis from Wilshire Law Firm.
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- A group of Democratic state AGs lost their bid to halt portions of a HHS rule that they said could lead to nearly 2 million people losing their health insurance after a federal judge said the rule's alleged harms were overblown. Read the order.
- Elon Musk failed to persuade U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan in D.C. to move a SEC lawsuit over his late disclosure of his growing Twitter stake to Texas, after saying he was too busy to defend himself in the nation's capital. Read the opinion.
- The 5th Circuit will reconsider its recent holding that the U.S. Department of Transportation has authority to write rules governing disclosures of airline fees. Read more here.
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AI fluency is becoming a requisite for lawyers — and the technology is now making its way into law school admissions and curriculum. While many schools restrict the use of AI for personal statements or essays, a handful of others this year have new optional essay questions that mandate the use of AI to answer them. "It's giving us a unique insight into applicants that we didn't have before," said Katrin Hussmann Schroll, University of Miami School of Law's associate dean of enrollment management. One of the school's essay options asks applicants to submit a detailed AI prompt designed to generate a "comprehensive analysis" to help them choose the best law school. Other schools, including the University of Michigan law school, are also exploring AI in their admissions process — find out more here. Meanwhile, at Arizona State University's Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, prospective students are explicitly allowed to use generative AI tools to help draft their applications but must certify that their submissions are truthful. Read more here. Beyond admissions, some law schools are focusing on responsible use of AI in the profession. In August, students at the orientation at Fordham Law, in a fun exercise, guessed which of the summaries presented to them was written by a human or AI. They also dissected the AI version for accuracy and nuance. Students learned how generative AI can mislead or oversimplify legal reasoning — an issue professor Chinmayi Sharma said underscores the need for responsible AI use. Learn more. |
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Haynes Boone's David McCombs and Jonathan Bowser take a look at new PTAB guidance on prior adjudications of patent claims. Read today's Attorney Analysis. |
Additional writing by Shruthi Krishnamurthy. |
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