{"id":127593,"date":"2025-07-22T05:02:02","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T13:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/07\/22\/morning-docket-07-22-25\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T05:02:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T13:02:02","slug":"morning-docket-07-22-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/07\/22\/morning-docket-07-22-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Docket: 07.22.25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>* DOJ trying to unseal Epstein grand jury records knowing those won\u2019t add anything but hoping it sounds official enough to get their own followers off their backs. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/newyorklawjournal\/2025\/07\/21\/extensive-public-interest-a-possible-path-to-unsealing-grand-jury-minutes-in-epstein-case\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Law Journal<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* John Roberts is responsible for every bit of this. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2025\/07\/supreme-court-roberts-trump-dictator\/683576\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Atlantic<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Breonna Taylor killer sentenced to 3 years after Trump DOJ asks for\u2026 nothing. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/07\/21\/us\/brett-hankison-sentencing-breonna-taylor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CNN<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Trump administration invents zombie U.S. Attorney role. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abajournal.com\/web\/article\/interim-us-attorney-gets-new-title-after-rejection\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ABA Journal<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* FTC commissioner\u2019s reinstatement following illegal firing put on hold. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/legal\/government\/us-appeals-court-temporarily-blocks-order-reinstating-ftc-commissioner-slaughter-2025-07-21\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Etan Patz case results in new trial. [<a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/litigation\/etan-patzs-convicted-killer-to-receive-new-trial\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg Law News<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Effort to break up the Ninth Circuit heads to Senate. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law360.com\/articles\/2367499\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Law360<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Partners are holding back firm tech?!?! No way. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/legaltechnews\/2025\/07\/21\/-law-firm-leaders-see-partners-standing-in-the-way-of-tech-upgrades\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Legaltech News<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/07\/morning-docket-07-22-25\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Morning Docket: 07.22.25<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* DOJ trying to unseal Epstein grand jury records knowing those won\u2019t add anything but hoping it sounds official enough to get their own followers off their backs. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/newyorklawjournal\/2025\/07\/21\/extensive-public-interest-a-possible-path-to-unsealing-grand-jury-minutes-in-epstein-case\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Law Journal<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* John Roberts is responsible for every bit of this. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2025\/07\/supreme-court-roberts-trump-dictator\/683576\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Atlantic<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Breonna Taylor killer sentenced to 3 years after Trump DOJ asks for\u2026 nothing. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/07\/21\/us\/brett-hankison-sentencing-breonna-taylor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CNN<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Trump administration invents zombie U.S. Attorney role. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abajournal.com\/web\/article\/interim-us-attorney-gets-new-title-after-rejection\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ABA Journal<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* FTC commissioner\u2019s reinstatement following illegal firing put on hold. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/legal\/government\/us-appeals-court-temporarily-blocks-order-reinstating-ftc-commissioner-slaughter-2025-07-21\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Etan Patz case results in new trial. [<a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/litigation\/etan-patzs-convicted-killer-to-receive-new-trial\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg Law News<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Effort to break up the Ninth Circuit heads to Senate. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law360.com\/articles\/2367499\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Law360<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Partners are holding back firm tech?!?! No way. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/legaltechnews\/2025\/07\/21\/-law-firm-leaders-see-partners-standing-in-the-way-of-tech-upgrades\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Legaltech News<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* DOJ trying to unseal Epstein grand jury records knowing those won\u2019t add anything but hoping it sounds official enough to get their own followers off their backs. [New York Law Journal] * John Roberts is responsible for every bit of this. [The Atlantic] * Breonna Taylor killer sentenced to 3 years after Trump DOJ [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":127594,"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-127593","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-P5gnPT.jpeg?fit=414%2C594&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127593","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=127593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}