{"id":138237,"date":"2025-12-05T10:03:57","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T18:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/12\/05\/morning-docket-12-05-25\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T10:03:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T18:03:57","slug":"morning-docket-12-05-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/12\/05\/morning-docket-12-05-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Docket: 12.05.25"},"content":{"rendered":"

* Supreme Court majority \u2014 without justification \u2014 allows Texas to gerrymander its maps<\/a>. Now the work begins for the justices to figure out some way to simultaneously claim California\u2019s maps aren\u2019t legal. [NBC News<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Justice Department\u2019s attempt to re-indict NY AG Letitia James fails as grand jury looks at evidence and says what all the career prosecutors did: \u201cnah.\u201d [Law360<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* First court appearance today for man accused of planting pipe bombs before January 6 riot. How long until Trump pardons him? [Reuters<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Apple poaches Meta\u2019s top lawyer. [Bloomberg<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Netflix announces bid to buy Warner and HBO. From an antitrust perspective, this is troubling. From an entertainment perspective, it\u2019s exciting that Netflix might put the worst managed media company in history out of its current leadership misery. [CNN<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Barrister who wrote novel about shady, rule-breaking lawyer\u2026 disbarred. [Roll on Friday<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Ghislaine Maxwell says releasing the Epstein files could jeopardize her appeal. There\u2019s a lot of chatter about Trump pardoning Maxwell, but keeping her locked up in appeals might be the only thing protecting him at this point. [Sky News<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* AI begins to reshape Biglaw training. [American Lawyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

The post Morning Docket: 12.05.25<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* Supreme Court majority \u2014 without justification \u2014 allows Texas to gerrymander its maps<\/a>. Now the work begins for the justices to figure out some way to simultaneously claim California\u2019s maps aren\u2019t legal. [NBC News<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Justice Department\u2019s attempt to re-indict NY AG Letitia James fails as grand jury looks at evidence and says what all the career prosecutors did: \u201cnah.\u201d [Law360<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* First court appearance today for man accused of planting pipe bombs before January 6 riot. How long until Trump pardons him? [Reuters<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Apple poaches Meta\u2019s top lawyer. [Bloomberg<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Netflix announces bid to buy Warner and HBO. From an antitrust perspective, this is troubling. From an entertainment perspective, it\u2019s exciting that Netflix might put the worst managed media company in history out of its current leadership misery. [CNN<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Barrister who wrote novel about shady, rule-breaking lawyer\u2026 disbarred. [Roll on Friday<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Ghislaine Maxwell says releasing the Epstein files could jeopardize her appeal. There\u2019s a lot of chatter about Trump pardoning Maxwell, but keeping her locked up in appeals might be the only thing protecting him at this point. [Sky News<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* AI begins to reshape Biglaw training. [American Lawyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

The post Morning Docket: 12.05.25<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

* Supreme Court majority \u2014 without justification \u2014 allows Texas to gerrymander its maps. Now the work begins for the justices to figure out some way to simultaneously claim California\u2019s maps aren\u2019t legal. [NBC News] * Justice Department\u2019s attempt to re-indict NY AG Letitia James fails as grand jury looks at evidence and says what […]<\/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-138237","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\/138237","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=138237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}