{"id":108484,"date":"2025-02-18T08:54:14","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T16:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/02\/18\/morning-docket-02-18-25\/"},"modified":"2025-02-18T08:54:14","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T16:54:14","slug":"morning-docket-02-18-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/02\/18\/morning-docket-02-18-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Docket: 02.18.25"},"content":{"rendered":"
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* Eric Adams case finally dropped and it seems like the move came after a soon-to-retire DOJ official signed off in order to give colleagues \u2014 likely planning to resign in protest over this \u2014 time to look for new jobs. Find yourself a coworker like that. [NY Times<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Time for some Unitary Executive theory as Trump takes fight to fire independent agency heads to the Supreme Court. [Bloomberg Law News<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Judgment day for J&J baby powder settlement. [Reuters<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Every firm is poachable now. [American Lawyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Trump administration exerts pressure on Romanian officials to lift restrictions on accused sex traffickers because they\u2019re Trump fans. [Sky News<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Ilya Somin pens takedown of the New York Times\u2019 \u201chey we don\u2019t actually have legal support for this, but what if the Fourteenth Amendment really didn\u2019t include birthright citizenship\u201d article. [Volokh Conspiracy<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* NLRB lawyer begins dismantling labor protections. [Law360<\/a>]<\/p>\n

The post Morning Docket: 02.18.25<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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(Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

* Eric Adams case finally dropped and it seems like the move came after a soon-to-retire DOJ official signed off in order to give colleagues \u2014 likely planning to resign in protest over this \u2014 time to look for new jobs. Find yourself a coworker like that. [NY Times<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Time for some Unitary Executive theory as Trump takes fight to fire independent agency heads to the Supreme Court. [Bloomberg Law News<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Judgment day for J&J baby powder settlement. [Reuters<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Every firm is poachable now. [American Lawyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Trump administration exerts pressure on Romanian officials to lift restrictions on accused sex traffickers because they\u2019re Trump fans. [Sky News<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Ilya Somin pens takedown of the New York Times\u2019 \u201chey we don\u2019t actually have legal support for this, but what if the Fourteenth Amendment really didn\u2019t include birthright citizenship\u201d article. [Volokh Conspiracy<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* NLRB lawyer begins dismantling labor protections. [Law360<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY\/AFP via Getty Images) * Eric Adams case finally dropped and it seems like the move came after a soon-to-retire DOJ official signed off in order to give colleagues \u2014 likely planning to resign in protest over this \u2014 time to look for new jobs. Find yourself a coworker like that. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":108475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/GettyImages-2173731333-0cM5XV.jpeg?fit=594%2C396&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}