{"id":150928,"date":"2026-05-12T05:13:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T13:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/05\/12\/morning-docket-05-12-26\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T05:13:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T13:13:57","slug":"morning-docket-05-12-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/05\/12\/morning-docket-05-12-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Docket: 05.12.26"},"content":{"rendered":"

* Supreme Court lifts order barring Alabama from redistricting away Black voting power, three years after rejecting the same proposed redistricting. [Washington Post<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* ABA Committee recommends dropping law school diversity rules in order to protect accreditation status from Trump administration. [Reuters<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Ye argues that his use of another person\u2019s song was \u201ctest drive\u201d and not infringement. Pretty sure that\u2019s not in the hornbook. [Law360<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Trump continues to pay his personal lawyers in federal appointments as opposed to cash<\/a>. [National Law Journal<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Virginia asks U.S. Supreme Court to overturn state supreme court decision. Which is crazy because the Supreme Court doesn\u2019t rule on exclusive state constitutional issues\u2026 unless it\u2019s Bush v. Gore<\/em>. [Bloomberg Law News<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Federal judge applauds Susman Godfrey for trusting young associate with high stakes copyright argument. [Litigation Daily<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Lawyer spends evenings as extra on hit soap opera. [CBS<\/a>]<\/p>\n

The post Morning Docket: 05.12.26<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* Supreme Court lifts order barring Alabama from redistricting away Black voting power, three years after rejecting the same proposed redistricting. [Washington Post<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* ABA Committee recommends dropping law school diversity rules in order to protect accreditation status from Trump administration. [Reuters<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Ye argues that his use of another person\u2019s song was \u201ctest drive\u201d and not infringement. Pretty sure that\u2019s not in the hornbook. [Law360<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Trump continues to pay his personal lawyers in federal appointments as opposed to cash<\/a>. [National Law Journal<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Virginia asks U.S. Supreme Court to overturn state supreme court decision. Which is crazy because the Supreme Court doesn\u2019t rule on exclusive state constitutional issues\u2026 unless it\u2019s Bush v. Gore<\/em>. [Bloomberg Law News<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Federal judge applauds Susman Godfrey for trusting young associate with high stakes copyright argument. [Litigation Daily<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Lawyer spends evenings as extra on hit soap opera. [CBS<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

* Supreme Court lifts order barring Alabama from redistricting away Black voting power, three years after rejecting the same proposed redistricting. [Washington Post] * ABA Committee recommends dropping law school diversity rules in order to protect accreditation status from Trump administration. [Reuters] * Ye argues that his use of another person\u2019s song was \u201ctest drive\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":150929,"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-150928","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\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-1386229149-IOTyiL.jpg?fit=724%2C483&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150928","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=150928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}