{"id":127133,"date":"2025-07-18T06:03:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T14:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/07\/18\/morning-docket-07-18-25\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T06:03:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T14:03:06","slug":"morning-docket-07-18-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/07\/18\/morning-docket-07-18-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Docket: 07.18.25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>* Wall Street Journal found a Trump birthday message for his buddy Jeffrey Epstein. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/politics\/trump-jeffrey-epstein-birthday-letter-we-have-certain-things-in-common-f918d796?mod=hp_lead_pos7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WSJ<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* In response, Bondi will now release a vague assortment of additional Epstein documents. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c9w1014rlq9o\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BBC<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Bove advances out of committee as Republicans suppress whistleblower inquiry. [<a href=\"https:\/\/rollcall.com\/2025\/07\/17\/trump-lawyer-bove-gets-3rd-circuit-backing-as-democrats-walk-out\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Roll Call<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Author class certified in suit against AI manufacturer over material downloaded from piracy sites. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law360.com\/articles\/2366036\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Law360<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* \u201cWhen Business and Culture Collide, Guess the Winner.\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/2025\/07\/17\/the-law-firm-disrupted-when-business-and-culture-collide-guess-the-winner\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Law.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Judge rules FTC commissioner fired illegally. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/legal\/litigation\/judge-rules-trumps-firing-ftc-commissioner-was-illegal-2025-07-17\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Trump creates new category of federal worker with fewer protections\u2026 which seems unnecessary since the Supreme Court is letting him blow past the protections that already exist. [<a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/daily-labor-report\/trump-executive-order-creates-new-federal-workforce-category\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg Law News<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Geragos hit with $100k fine. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2025-07-17\/mark-geragos-celebrity-attorney-must-pay-100k-to-l-a-coach-in-legal-malpractice-case\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LA Times<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/07\/morning-docket-07-18-25\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Morning Docket: 07.18.25<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* Wall Street Journal found a Trump birthday message for his buddy Jeffrey Epstein. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/politics\/trump-jeffrey-epstein-birthday-letter-we-have-certain-things-in-common-f918d796?mod=hp_lead_pos7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WSJ<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* In response, Bondi will now release a vague assortment of additional Epstein documents. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c9w1014rlq9o\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BBC<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Bove advances out of committee as Republicans suppress whistleblower inquiry. [<a href=\"https:\/\/rollcall.com\/2025\/07\/17\/trump-lawyer-bove-gets-3rd-circuit-backing-as-democrats-walk-out\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Roll Call<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Author class certified in suit against AI manufacturer over material downloaded from piracy sites. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law360.com\/articles\/2366036\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Law360<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* \u201cWhen Business and Culture Collide, Guess the Winner.\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/2025\/07\/17\/the-law-firm-disrupted-when-business-and-culture-collide-guess-the-winner\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Law.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Judge rules FTC commissioner fired illegally. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/legal\/litigation\/judge-rules-trumps-firing-ftc-commissioner-was-illegal-2025-07-17\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Trump creates new category of federal worker with fewer protections\u2026 which seems unnecessary since the Supreme Court is letting him blow past the protections that already exist. [<a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/daily-labor-report\/trump-executive-order-creates-new-federal-workforce-category\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg Law News<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Geragos hit with $100k fine. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2025-07-17\/mark-geragos-celebrity-attorney-must-pay-100k-to-l-a-coach-in-legal-malpractice-case\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LA Times<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Wall Street Journal found a Trump birthday message for his buddy Jeffrey Epstein. [WSJ] * In response, Bondi will now release a vague assortment of additional Epstein documents. [BBC] * Bove advances out of committee as Republicans suppress whistleblower inquiry. [Roll Call] * Author class certified in suit against AI manufacturer over material downloaded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":127134,"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-127133","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-681946574-DYgyVD.jpeg?fit=414%2C594&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127133","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=127133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}