Morning Docket: 05.20.25
* Tom Goldstein rips DOJ over "breathtaking" legal theories he says biased the grand jury. [Law360] * Deep dive into the 240 prisoners sent to El Salvador reveals at least 50 came to the United States legally and never violated any immigration laws. [CATO Institute] * Meanwhile, the lawyer representing many of those prisoners in El Salvador was just arrested and disappeared to a secret location over "embezzlement" claims from 10 years ago. [Guardian] * Though the Supreme Court just authorized the Trump administration to revoke legal status for roughly 300,000 Venezuelans so it can invent immigration violations that didn't exist before. [NBC News] * Article advances narrative that regardless of in-house counsel misgivings, corporations are not going to fire outside counsel over Trump deals. Apparently Microsoft and McDonald's didn't get interviewed. [Law.com International] * Trump is getting tired of courts telling him what the law is... and soon he might just stop asking. [The Atlantic] * Lawsuit to reclaim artist rights against Universal Music? Salt-N-Pepa decide to Push It! [Bloomberg Law News] * OpenAI defeats defamation suit over false claims that ChatGPT conjured up about a radio personality. [Reuters] The post Morning Docket: 05.20.25 appeared first on Above the Law.
* Tom Goldstein rips DOJ over “breathtaking” legal theories he says biased the grand jury. [Law360]
* Judge Posner prevails in lawsuit brought by former pro se group executive director. [National Law Journal]
* Deep dive into the 240 prisoners sent to El Salvador reveals at least 50 came to the United States legally and never violated any immigration laws. [CATO Institute]
* Meanwhile, the lawyer representing many of those prisoners in El Salvador was just arrested and disappeared to a secret location over “embezzlement” claims from 10 years ago. [Guardian]
* Though the Supreme Court just authorized the Trump administration to revoke legal status for roughly 300,000 Venezuelans so it can invent immigration violations that didn’t exist before. [NBC News]
* Article advances narrative that regardless of in-house counsel misgivings, corporations are not going to fire outside counsel over Trump deals. Apparently Microsoft and McDonald’s didn’t get interviewed. [Law.com International]
* Trump is getting tired of courts telling him what the law is… and soon he might just stop asking. [The Atlantic]
* Lawsuit to reclaim artist rights against Universal Music? Salt-N-Pepa decide to Push It! [Bloomberg Law News]
* OpenAI defeats defamation suit over false claims that ChatGPT conjured up about a radio personality. [Reuters]
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