{"id":130808,"date":"2025-08-19T05:32:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/08\/19\/morning-docket-08-19-25\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T05:32:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:32:21","slug":"morning-docket-08-19-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/08\/19\/morning-docket-08-19-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Docket: 08.19.25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>* DLA Piper bringing everyone back to the office 4 days a week, leaving attorneys an extra day of the week to schedule all their interviews.[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/americanlawyer\/2025\/08\/18\/dla-piper-increases-in-office-requirement-for-us-corporate-lawyers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">American Lawyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* White House sending its social media teams with on FBI arrests. \u201cYo, it\u2019s ya boy Steve, here at the qualified immunity channel\u2026\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/legal\/government\/white-house-sending-social-media-teams-with-fbi-some-arrests-dc-sources-say-2025-08-18\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Alina Habba is legally the U.S. Attorney of New Jersey according to Alina Habba. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law360.com\/articles\/2378445\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Law360<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Judge slims down Ozempic suit. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/thelegalintelligencer\/2025\/08\/18\/judge-strikes-some-claims-plaintiffs-experts-in-ozempic-lawsuits\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Legal Intelligencer<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Paul Weiss and Reed Smith accused of multimillion dollar coverup. [<a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/litigation\/paul-weiss-reed-smith-accused-of-coverup-by-sec-whistleblower\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg Law News<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Newsmax coughs up $67 million for lying about the 2020 election. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/08\/18\/nx-s1-5506062\/newsmax-pays-67-million-to-settle-defamation-case-linked-to-2020-election-coverage\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NPR<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Fifth Circuit resuscitates student group\u2019s lawsuit against college over banning drag show citing First Amendment, thus overturning Kacsmaryk opinion that had been based on\u2026 vibes. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.courthousenews.com\/fifth-circuit-revives-faceoff-over-west-texas-am-drag-show\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Courthouse News Service<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/08\/morning-docket-08-19-25\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Morning Docket: 08.19.25<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* DLA Piper bringing everyone back to the office 4 days a week, leaving attorneys an extra day of the week to schedule all their interviews.[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/americanlawyer\/2025\/08\/18\/dla-piper-increases-in-office-requirement-for-us-corporate-lawyers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">American Lawyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* White House sending its social media teams with on FBI arrests. \u201cYo, it\u2019s ya boy Steve, here at the qualified immunity channel\u2026\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/legal\/government\/white-house-sending-social-media-teams-with-fbi-some-arrests-dc-sources-say-2025-08-18\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Alina Habba is legally the U.S. Attorney of New Jersey according to Alina Habba. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law360.com\/articles\/2378445\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Law360<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Judge slims down Ozempic suit. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/thelegalintelligencer\/2025\/08\/18\/judge-strikes-some-claims-plaintiffs-experts-in-ozempic-lawsuits\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Legal Intelligencer<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Paul Weiss and Reed Smith accused of multimillion dollar coverup. [<a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/litigation\/paul-weiss-reed-smith-accused-of-coverup-by-sec-whistleblower\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg Law News<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Newsmax coughs up $67 million for lying about the 2020 election. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/08\/18\/nx-s1-5506062\/newsmax-pays-67-million-to-settle-defamation-case-linked-to-2020-election-coverage\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NPR<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Fifth Circuit resuscitates student group\u2019s lawsuit against college over banning drag show citing First Amendment, thus overturning Kacsmaryk opinion that had been based on\u2026 vibes. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.courthousenews.com\/fifth-circuit-revives-faceoff-over-west-texas-am-drag-show\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Courthouse News Service<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* DLA Piper bringing everyone back to the office 4 days a week, leaving attorneys an extra day of the week to schedule all their interviews.[American Lawyer] * White House sending its social media teams with on FBI arrests. \u201cYo, it\u2019s ya boy Steve, here at the qualified immunity channel\u2026\u201d [Reuters] * Alina Habba is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":130809,"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-130808","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\/08\/GettyImages-1355417163-M8jaYt.jpg?fit=591%2C591&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130808","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=130808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}