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* Judge Edith Jones writes a letter to the Wall Street Journal blasting the Federal Circuit's actions to sideline Judge Pauline Newman. [Wall Street Journal] * Blind Side subject Michael Oher has filed to end the conservatorship of the couple he lived with. Oher alleges that he believed he was being adopted when in reality he handed over substantial financial rights and no one checked for almost two decades. [Bloomberg Law News] * Black lawyer says he was handcuffed while a judge ordered him to produce documents or settle the case. [ABA Journal] * Lawsuit claims that state law illegally f...

* Keep track of who's who in the latest indictment. [Politico] * Meanwhile, Abbe Lowell and Winston & Strawn have stepped up their collective role in the Hunter Biden case, arguing that the original plea agreement included binding government promises that didn't evaporate just because the judge rejected the deal. [Law360] * CFPB going after data brokers selling people's personal data. Yet again, the government agency making the most direct, tangible impact for people is the one that still worries that every election might be its last. [Bloomberg Law News] * Justice Departmen...

* It took a couple of days, but Donald Trump has blown off Judge Chutkan's warning that further public attacks on the proceedings would result in accelerating the existing January trial schedule. At the rate he's going, expect the trial next week! [Politico] * Meanwhile, in Georgia, prosecutors apparently have messages directly tying Trump's legal team to voting system breach. [CNN] * Florida Bar proposes allowing law school grads to engage in limited practice before passing the bar exam. One of many emergency measures required to make sure Donald Trump and his fellow indictees ...

* Another day, another several hundred grand worth of unethical and undisclosed gifts for Clarence Thomas. [ProPublica] * ABA encouraging law firms to redouble efforts to expand diversity... before the Supreme Court makes it illegal. [Bloomberg Law News] * Lawsuit alleges private attorney took on upwards of 600 indigent client criminal cases, collecting huge sums from the city, and then not doing any work. That's not totally true... the lawsuit alleges that the lawyer was quite diligent about filing motions for fees. [ABA Journal] * Treasury announcing regulations to curb money laundering...

* Can you avoid discovery by saying, "the dog ate my homework"? Asking for a Rudy Giuliani. [Guardian] * Anti-porn legislation is "Making the Online Porn Industry Retreat." Impressed with the restraint it took not to say "pull out." [Politico] * Ohio voters reject effort to game the rules. [Courthouse News Service] * Shareholders approved fewer ESG proposals this year because they're fickle cowards. [Corporate Counsel] * Starbucks can't fire people just for being pro-union. [Law360] * Teacher refusing to use student's personal pronouns to test SCOTU...