*
Investigation
suggests
Kash
Patel
used
FBI
jet
to
go
on
a
date.
[New
Republic]
*
The
other
half
of
the
“shot,
chaser”
combo:
Government
shutdown
stalls
FBI
investigations.
[Reuters]
*
King
&
Spalding
profile
highlights
community
work.
[Atlanta
Journal-Constitution]
*
Bench
trial
begins
in
troop
deployment
challenge
as
Ninth
Circuit
reviews
injunctive
relief
en
banc.
[Law360]
*
Snell
&
Wilmer
tagged
in
another
apparent
AI
hallucination
case.
[ABA
Journal]
*
While
the
administration
brands
its
extra-legal
enforcement
operations
as
targeting
cartels,
a
Spotlight
deep
dive
reveals…
the
DEA
has
no
idea
who
is
actually
a
cartel
member.
[Boston
Globe]
*
DOJ
indicts
Democratic
congressional
candidate
in
bid
to
chill
protest.
[NBC]
*
Cooley
joins
4-day
in-office
club.
[American
Lawyer]
*
Florida
AG
brings
on
Boies
Schiller
and
Cooper
&
Kirk
to
pursue
litigation
against
mega
corporations.
Given
that
the
AG
has
mostly
run
his
mouth
about
prosecuting
anti-wokeness,
maybe
the
firms
are
being
brought
in
to
pursue
the
mundane
“actual
consumer
protection
work”
that
politicians
that
state
officials
no
longer
care
about.
[Bloomberg
Law]