{"id":131927,"date":"2025-08-25T05:50:53","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T13:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/08\/25\/morning-docket-08-25-25\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T05:50:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T13:50:53","slug":"morning-docket-08-25-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/08\/25\/morning-docket-08-25-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Docket: 08.25.25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>* Federal government takes roughly 10 percent stake in Intel with Skadden\u2019s help. Wonder if Skadden did it pro bono\u2026 [<a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/business-and-practice\/skadden-steers-intel-in-deal-with-us-to-boost-chipmaker\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg Law News<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Inmate moved out of low-security prison after publicly criticizing the idea of moving a convicted sex trafficker into the facility. They\u2019re going to keep Ghislaine Maxwell from talking about Donald Trump no matter how many people get in the way. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-15022435\/Inmate-Ghislaine-Maxwells-cushy-new-prison-booted-grim-lock-slamming-interview.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Mail<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Justice Gorsuch scolded lower courts for <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/08\/supreme-court-just-calvinball-jurisprudence-with-a-twist-writes-justice-jackson\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">not treating shadow docket orders as binding precedent<\/a>. In the words of the iconic commercial \u201cthat\u2019s not how any of this works.\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.stevevladeck.com\/p\/174-justice-gorsuchs-attack-on-lower\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">One First<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* JP Morgan paying $330 million over 1MDB case. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law360.com\/articles\/2380062\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg Law News<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Musk settles half billion dollar suit over wrongful Twitter terminations. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/2025\/08\/22\/500m-suit-settled-musk-reaches-agreement-with-laid-off-twitter-workers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Law.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Judge blocks White House efforts to cut off funds to cities Trump doesn\u2019t like. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/judge-blocks-trump-withholding-funds-los-angeles-other-sanctuary-cities-2025-08-23\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* D.C. Circuit denies Judge Newman\u2019s appeal of her suspension on jurisdictional grounds, but said the case raises constitutional concerns. What with it being an illegal pocket impeached of a sitting federal judge and all. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/nationallawjournal\/2025\/08\/22\/constitutional-concerns-dc-circuit-denies-newmans-suspension-appeal-but-questions-precedent\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">National Law Journal<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/08\/morning-docket-08-25-25\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Morning Docket: 08.25.25<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* Federal government takes roughly 10 percent stake in Intel with Skadden\u2019s help. Wonder if Skadden did it pro bono\u2026 [<a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/business-and-practice\/skadden-steers-intel-in-deal-with-us-to-boost-chipmaker\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg Law News<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Inmate moved out of low-security prison after publicly criticizing the idea of moving a convicted sex trafficker into the facility. They\u2019re going to keep Ghislaine Maxwell from talking about Donald Trump no matter how many people get in the way. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-15022435\/Inmate-Ghislaine-Maxwells-cushy-new-prison-booted-grim-lock-slamming-interview.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Mail<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Justice Gorsuch scolded lower courts for <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/08\/supreme-court-just-calvinball-jurisprudence-with-a-twist-writes-justice-jackson\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">not treating shadow docket orders as binding precedent<\/a>. In the words of the iconic commercial \u201cthat\u2019s not how any of this works.\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.stevevladeck.com\/p\/174-justice-gorsuchs-attack-on-lower\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">One First<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* JP Morgan paying $330 million over 1MDB case. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law360.com\/articles\/2380062\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg Law News<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Musk settles half billion dollar suit over wrongful Twitter terminations. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/2025\/08\/22\/500m-suit-settled-musk-reaches-agreement-with-laid-off-twitter-workers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Law.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Judge blocks White House efforts to cut off funds to cities Trump doesn\u2019t like. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/judge-blocks-trump-withholding-funds-los-angeles-other-sanctuary-cities-2025-08-23\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* D.C. Circuit denies Judge Newman\u2019s appeal of her suspension on jurisdictional grounds, but said the case raises constitutional concerns. What with it being an illegal pocket impeached of a sitting federal judge and all. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/nationallawjournal\/2025\/08\/22\/constitutional-concerns-dc-circuit-denies-newmans-suspension-appeal-but-questions-precedent\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">National Law Journal<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/08\/morning-docket-08-25-25\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Morning Docket: 08.25.25<\/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>* Federal government takes roughly 10 percent stake in Intel with Skadden\u2019s help. Wonder if Skadden did it pro bono\u2026 [Bloomberg Law News] * Inmate moved out of low-security prison after publicly criticizing the idea of moving a convicted sex trafficker into the facility. They\u2019re going to keep Ghislaine Maxwell from talking about Donald Trump [&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-131927","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\/131927","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=131927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}