A Change Of Heart: Matthew Cali says Troutman Pepper Locke told him “the goalposts to make Partner” had moved after he survived a devastating heart attack.
Emergency Contact: The conservative majority reached for the emergency docket to let Trump’s mail-in ballot executive order proceed over the dissents of all three liberals, with Justice Jackson writing separately about the standing trap the Court keeps building for election challengers.
The Best Defense Is Repealing The Offense: The DOJ’s appeal to revive the dismissed Abrego Garcia indictment asks the Sixth Circuit to limit the vindictive prosecution presumption to cases where a prosecutor “ups the ante,” which would retire the doctrine currently being pressed against the administration by James Comey, Letitia James, and the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Scared Straight Stupid: Judicial immunity does not cover handcuffing a student who dozed off during a courthouse field trip, putting her in a jumpsuit and a holding cell for hours, and then staging a mock trial livestreamed on the court’s own YouTube channel.
Penny Wise, Token Foolish: NetDocuments benchmarked what accuracy actually costs and found frontier tier models adding big costs for smaller benefits and that good context can deliver quality for less.
Sometimes The Jam Is The Feature: QWERTY — according to popular legend — exists to keep typists from outrunning the hammers. Agentic workflows raise a similar challenge.
‘One Of The Darkest Days In Our Office’s History’: Andrew Haden, a longtime federal prosecutor who twice served as acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California, was found dead at 48 in a vacant office inside the downtown San Diego federal building.
