Crowdsourced Funds Help Cover Legal Costs: Luigi has a lot of supporters! Bill It To The NFL: Did you know this fun fact about the Super Bowl’s referee? Following The Rules Is Unfair!: The snowflakes in office hate being restrained by the law. Goldstein Strikes Again!: Those secret crypto transactions weren’t all that secret! Milbank […]
Late last week, we noted that K&L Gates made some edits to the firm website over the last month. Specifically, removing several references to diversity, the firm’s Mansfield pledge, and key stats about firm demographics. The firm’s Diversity and Inclusion committee even got a rebrand as the Opportunity and Inclusion committee. It’s the sort of […]
Is this a tyranny? (Photo by Apu Gomes/Getty Images) Judge Paul Engelmayer issued a Saturday temporary restraining order blocking Elon Musk’s band of teen tech bro interns from siphoning Treasury Department data onto private hard drives next to their BitTorrent Hobbit porn. Anyone taking the time to actually READ the opinion would see that it […]
(Photo via Getty Images) Another day, another courtroom smackdown for the Trump administration. Today’s hiding comes courtesy of Judge John McConnell in Rhode Island, who is not impressed with the government’s claim to have violated his prior TRO by accident. The case is part of the struggle to wrest power over federal spending from Congress, […]
(Photo by Chris Graythen/Getty Images) Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. As the Official Law Firm of the Kansas City Chiefs, we are a little biased but excited to celebrate this year’s game with our new colleagues in Philadelphia with a variety of in-office events and a friendly wager between […]
Last month, SCOTUSblog co-founder and veteran Supreme Court litigator Tom Goldstein was arrested on a 22-count indictment alleging tax crimes and making false statement to lenders. According to the government, Goldstein participated in high-stakes poker games and failed to disclose his winnings (in tax filings) and losings (in loan applications). Goldstein secured his release with […]
When I wrote earlier today that government attorneys suspected Tom Goldstein, co-founder of SCOTUSblog and Supreme Court litigator, was lying about his financial condition, I didn’t expect this would happen. Goldstein was arrested again today for violating the terms of his pretrial release. According to reporting by Law360, the government alleges since Goldstein’s release he’s […]
Share The Supreme Court’s March argument session will include a dispute over a congressional voting map that created a second majority-Black district in Louisiana, a challenge to an accessibility program by the Federal Communications Commission in which the justices have been asked to revive the so-called “nondelegation doctrine,” and the review of a decision by […]
(Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images) Imagine a press conference during which President Donald Trump makes this surprising announcement: “If the situation in the Gaza Strip isn’t resolved by March 15, the United States will drop a nuclear bomb on Gaza City.” There would naturally be horror on the left: “That would be 2 million dead! He can’t […]
In news that will shock absolutely no one, Milbank absolutely killed it in 2024, hitting record financial results across the board. As noted by the American Lawyer, the firm posted some pretty unbelievable gains in gross revenue, profits per equity partner, and revenue per lawyer. Here are some additional details on Milbank’s money moves: […]
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