Morning Docket: 05.16.25

* There's an appetite at the Supreme Court to get rid of universal injunctions, but after brutal oral argument, birthright citizenship might not be the case where they pull the trigger. [Law360] * Giving Jeanine Pirro a temporary appointment after riding Ed Martin's doomed interim run tests temporary appointment power that should give the district court the power to fill that job temporarily. [Bloomberg Law News] * Biglaw efforts to surrender or fight hinged upon their willingness to act collectively. [Law.com] * Latham caught in the AI hallucination trap. [Reuters] * ICE misled a federal judge into issuing a warrant and this should be lesson eleventy billion that judges need to be a lot more suspicious of warrants casually dumped on their desks. [The Intercept] * Now they've dragged Taylor Swift into the Blake Lively-Justin Baldoni debacle. [Newsweek] * Following all the attention of the Conclave, the ABA Journal offers a brief guide to canon law. [ABA Journal] The post Morning Docket: 05.16.25 appeared first on Above the Law.

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Morning Docket: 05.16.25

* There’s an appetite at the Supreme Court to get rid of universal injunctions, but after brutal oral argument, birthright citizenship might not be the case where they pull the trigger. [Law360]

* Giving Jeanine Pirro a temporary appointment after riding Ed Martin’s doomed interim run tests temporary appointment power that should give the district court the power to fill that job temporarily. [Bloomberg Law News]

* Biglaw efforts to surrender or fight hinged upon their willingness to act collectively. [Law.com]

* Latham caught in the AI hallucination trap. [Reuters]

* ICE misled a federal judge into issuing a warrant and this should be lesson eleventy billion that judges need to be a lot more suspicious of warrants casually dumped on their desks. [The Intercept]

* Now they’ve dragged Taylor Swift into the Blake Lively-Justin Baldoni debacle. [Newsweek]

* Following all the attention of the Conclave, the ABA Journal offers a brief guide to canon law. [ABA Journal]

The post Morning Docket: 05.16.25 appeared first on Above the Law.