{"id":117230,"date":"2025-05-01T06:05:25","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T14:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/05\/01\/morning-docket-05-01-25\/"},"modified":"2025-05-01T06:05:25","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T14:05:25","slug":"morning-docket-05-01-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/05\/01\/morning-docket-05-01-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Docket: 05.01.25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>* Apple referred to criminal contempt investigation over refusing to follow app store court order. The opinion includes a groan-worthy \u201csecond bite at the apple\u201d moment, which is a good time to remind lawyers that the phrase makes no sense and <a href=\"https:\/\/chauvinisms.net\/2021\/03\/28\/how-lawyers-eat-apples\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">exists because we\u2019re prudes<\/a>. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c62xv43xqq5o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">BBC<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Attorney General Pam Bondi believes somewhere between 35-75 percent of all Americans would have died over the last 3 months but for her fentanyl efforts. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-news\/pam-bondi-trump-saved-americans-fentanyl-death-1235328633\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Rolling Stone<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Having just run a disastrous exam because it made radical changes on short notice, California considers responding by making new radical changes on shorter notice. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/legal\/government\/california-considers-scrapping-revamped-bar-exam-after-botched-test-rollout-2025-04-30\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Reuters<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* The legal industry as a whole may eventually return to the office, but those hired during the lockdown are bolting. [<a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/business-and-practice\/lawyers-hired-in-work-from-home-era-are-bolting-from-firms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Bloomberg Law News<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* How the fall of OCI birthed a chaotic free-for-all. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/2025\/04\/29\/free-market-free-for-all-how-the-decline-of-oci-broadened-big-laws-recruitment-pooland-added-anxiety\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Law.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Judge in trouble for faking documents to get parking discount. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abajournal.com\/news\/article\/judge-should-be-ousted-for-forging-document-to-get-parking-discount-ethics-board-says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">ABA Journal<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Elon Musk\u2019s lawyer exits Texas AG race. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/04\/30\/elon-musk-texas-attorney-general-00320427\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Politico<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/05\/morning-docket-05-01-25\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Morning Docket: 05.01.25<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* Apple referred to criminal contempt investigation over refusing to follow app store court order. The opinion includes a groan-worthy \u201csecond bite at the apple\u201d moment, which is a good time to remind lawyers that the phrase makes no sense and <a href=\"https:\/\/chauvinisms.net\/2021\/03\/28\/how-lawyers-eat-apples\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">exists because we\u2019re prudes<\/a>. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c62xv43xqq5o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">BBC<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Attorney General Pam Bondi believes somewhere between 35-75 percent of all Americans would have died over the last 3 months but for her fentanyl efforts. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-news\/pam-bondi-trump-saved-americans-fentanyl-death-1235328633\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Rolling Stone<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Having just run a disastrous exam because it made radical changes on short notice, California considers responding by making new radical changes on shorter notice. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/legal\/government\/california-considers-scrapping-revamped-bar-exam-after-botched-test-rollout-2025-04-30\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Reuters<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* The legal industry as a whole may eventually return to the office, but those hired during the lockdown are bolting. [<a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/business-and-practice\/lawyers-hired-in-work-from-home-era-are-bolting-from-firms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Bloomberg Law News<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* How the fall of OCI birthed a chaotic free-for-all. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/2025\/04\/29\/free-market-free-for-all-how-the-decline-of-oci-broadened-big-laws-recruitment-pooland-added-anxiety\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Law.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Judge in trouble for faking documents to get parking discount. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abajournal.com\/news\/article\/judge-should-be-ousted-for-forging-document-to-get-parking-discount-ethics-board-says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">ABA Journal<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Elon Musk\u2019s lawyer exits Texas AG race. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/04\/30\/elon-musk-texas-attorney-general-00320427\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Politico<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Apple referred to criminal contempt investigation over refusing to follow app store court order. The opinion includes a groan-worthy \u201csecond bite at the apple\u201d moment, which is a good time to remind lawyers that the phrase makes no sense and exists because we\u2019re prudes. [BBC] * Attorney General Pam Bondi believes somewhere between 35-75 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":117231,"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-117230","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\/05\/apple-logo-GettyImages-1027178498-ud2A3E.jpeg?fit=1024%2C683&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117230","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=117230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}