{"id":126738,"date":"2025-07-15T06:02:57","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T14:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/07\/15\/morning-docket-07-15-25\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T06:02:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T14:02:57","slug":"morning-docket-07-15-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/07\/15\/morning-docket-07-15-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Docket: 07.15.25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>* Supreme Court allows Trump to move forward with plan to eliminate the Department of Education. Why? Well, that might require writing an opinion and they\u2019re not going to do something like that. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.stevevladeck.com\/p\/167-the-inconsistent-court-strikes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">One First<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Plaintiff side firms can be just as lucrative for associates as Biglaw\u2026 and people are just now figuring that out. [<a href=\"https:\/\/leftsideofthev.substack.com\/p\/pay-transparency-comes-to-plaintiffs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Left Side of the V<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Government argues that it should not have to reveal its agency reorganization plans, even though the only basis for last week\u2019s Supreme Court order was that the government had to reveal its plans and the courts can evaluate this issue then. It\u2019s almost as though <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/07\/forget-it-ketanji-its-chinatown\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">one justice knew this was all a lie<\/a>. [<a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/daily-labor-report\/trump-attorneys-resist-revealing-agency-reorganization-plans\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg Law News<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Sixth Circuit nominee confirmed. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law360.com\/articles\/2364006\/6th-circ-nom-is-1st-senate-confirmation-of-trump-s-2nd-term\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Law360<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Administration installing more nationwide abortion advocates in key positions. Surely nothing to worry about at a time when the Supreme Court has deferred absolute authority to the executive. [<a href=\"https:\/\/ballsandstrikes.org\/law-politics\/trump-abortion-olc-lawyers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Balls and Strikes<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* DOJ announces it\u2019s mainstreaming the theory that media outlets refusing to be compelled to publish misinformation is ACTUALLY an antitrust violation. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/705802\/doj-antitrust-childrens-health-defense-covid-fact-checking-misinformation\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Verge<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* A look at Nevada\u2019s decision to reject the NextGen bar exam and what comes next. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/2025\/07\/14\/nevada-rejects-nextgen-ube-creates-3-part-bar-exam-\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Law.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/07\/morning-docket-07-15-25\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Morning Docket: 07.15.25<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* Supreme Court allows Trump to move forward with plan to eliminate the Department of Education. Why? Well, that might require writing an opinion and they\u2019re not going to do something like that. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.stevevladeck.com\/p\/167-the-inconsistent-court-strikes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">One First<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Plaintiff side firms can be just as lucrative for associates as Biglaw\u2026 and people are just now figuring that out. [<a href=\"https:\/\/leftsideofthev.substack.com\/p\/pay-transparency-comes-to-plaintiffs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Left Side of the V<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Government argues that it should not have to reveal its agency reorganization plans, even though the only basis for last week\u2019s Supreme Court order was that the government had to reveal its plans and the courts can evaluate this issue then. It\u2019s almost as though <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/07\/forget-it-ketanji-its-chinatown\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">one justice knew this was all a lie<\/a>. [<a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/daily-labor-report\/trump-attorneys-resist-revealing-agency-reorganization-plans\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg Law News<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Sixth Circuit nominee confirmed. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law360.com\/articles\/2364006\/6th-circ-nom-is-1st-senate-confirmation-of-trump-s-2nd-term\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Law360<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Administration installing more nationwide abortion advocates in key positions. Surely nothing to worry about at a time when the Supreme Court has deferred absolute authority to the executive. [<a href=\"https:\/\/ballsandstrikes.org\/law-politics\/trump-abortion-olc-lawyers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Balls and Strikes<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* DOJ announces it\u2019s mainstreaming the theory that media outlets refusing to be compelled to publish misinformation is ACTUALLY an antitrust violation. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/705802\/doj-antitrust-childrens-health-defense-covid-fact-checking-misinformation\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Verge<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* A look at Nevada\u2019s decision to reject the NextGen bar exam and what comes next. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/2025\/07\/14\/nevada-rejects-nextgen-ube-creates-3-part-bar-exam-\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Law.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Supreme Court allows Trump to move forward with plan to eliminate the Department of Education. Why? Well, that might require writing an opinion and they\u2019re not going to do something like that. [One First] * Plaintiff side firms can be just as lucrative for associates as Biglaw\u2026 and people are just now figuring that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":126739,"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-126738","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\/07\/GettyImages-2177938885-ur3gBq.jpeg?fit=724%2C483&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126738","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=126738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}