{"id":118305,"date":"2025-05-08T05:48:35","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T13:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/05\/08\/morning-docket-05-08-25\/"},"modified":"2025-05-08T05:48:35","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T13:48:35","slug":"morning-docket-05-08-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/05\/08\/morning-docket-05-08-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Docket: 05.08.25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>* Republicans concede state supreme court case they lost six months ago. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/news\/politics-government\/article305898251.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">News &amp; Observer<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Chief Justice Roberts explains that he doesn\u2019t think it\u2019s bad to overturn precedent, which might be the most \u201cactivist judge\u201d thing a chief justice has ever said. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/05\/07\/politics\/john-roberts-event-judicial-independence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">CNN<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* \u201cIs the president not telling the truth?\u201d asks Judge Boasberg at least semi-rhetorically. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/legal\/us-judge-consider-ordering-trump-return-venezuelans-el-salvador-2025-05-07\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Reuters<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* \u201cLawyer charged with stealing beer, trying to bite officer.\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abajournal.com\/news\/article\/lawyer-is-charged-with-stealing-beer-trying-to-bite-officer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">ABA Journal<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* NCAA deal heading back to judge after parties agree to temporary roster size adjustments. [<a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/antitrust\/roster-size-restrictions-get-loosened-in-2-8-billion-ncaa-deal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Bloomberg Law News<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Microsoft-Activision deal affirmed. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law360.com\/articles\/2336965\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Law360<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* The non-equity partner trend still sucks. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/americanlawyer\/2025\/05\/06\/whats-life-like-for-a-nonequity-partner-from-duties-to-duration-to-tax-status-the-answer-is-complicated\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">American Lawyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/05\/morning-docket-05-08-25\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Morning Docket: 05.08.25<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* Republicans concede state supreme court case they lost six months ago. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/news\/politics-government\/article305898251.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">News &amp; Observer<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Chief Justice Roberts explains that he doesn\u2019t think it\u2019s bad to overturn precedent, which might be the most \u201cactivist judge\u201d thing a chief justice has ever said. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/05\/07\/politics\/john-roberts-event-judicial-independence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">CNN<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* \u201cIs the president not telling the truth?\u201d asks Judge Boasberg at least semi-rhetorically. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/legal\/us-judge-consider-ordering-trump-return-venezuelans-el-salvador-2025-05-07\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Reuters<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* \u201cLawyer charged with stealing beer, trying to bite officer.\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abajournal.com\/news\/article\/lawyer-is-charged-with-stealing-beer-trying-to-bite-officer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">ABA Journal<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* NCAA deal heading back to judge after parties agree to temporary roster size adjustments. [<a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/antitrust\/roster-size-restrictions-get-loosened-in-2-8-billion-ncaa-deal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Bloomberg Law News<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Microsoft-Activision deal affirmed. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law360.com\/articles\/2336965\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Law360<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* The non-equity partner trend still sucks. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/americanlawyer\/2025\/05\/06\/whats-life-like-for-a-nonequity-partner-from-duties-to-duration-to-tax-status-the-answer-is-complicated\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">American Lawyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/05\/morning-docket-05-08-25\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Morning Docket: 05.08.25<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Republicans concede state supreme court case they lost six months ago. [News &amp; Observer] * Chief Justice Roberts explains that he doesn\u2019t think it\u2019s bad to overturn precedent, which might be the most \u201cactivist judge\u201d thing a chief justice has ever said. [CNN] * \u201cIs the president not telling the truth?\u201d asks Judge Boasberg [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"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-118305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118305","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=118305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}