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The Afternoon Docket

The Afternoon Docket

A newsletter by Reuters and Westlaw

 

By Sara Merken

What's going on today?

  • A U.S. judge denied the DOJ's bid to unseal records from the grand jury that indicted the late financier Jeffrey Epstein on sex trafficking charges, saying the material paled in comparison to the trove of records the government has about the case but is not releasing.
  • The FTC sued the operators of gym chain LA Fitness and other gyms, saying they have made it exceedingly difficult to cancel memberships.
  • A federal judge has ordered Mississippi to redraw its election map used in voting for state supreme court justices after finding the current one dilutes the power of Black voters in violation of a landmark federal voting rights law.
 

Explainer: Can Trump send the National Guard to cities around the US?

 

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President Trump has called upon governors from several Republican states to deploy their states' National Guard to D.C., which Trump has claimed is ridden with crime. As troops poured into D.C., Trump on Tuesday also suggested that he might send the National Guard to other cities.

My colleagues take a look at the authority Trump has to deploy troops in D.C. and cities around the U.S. Read the story here.

 

More top news

  • Federal prosecutors in Washington will no longer seek charges for rifle, shotgun possession
  • CVS unit must pay $290 million in drug whistleblower lawsuit, judge rules
  • Bankrupt jewelry retailer Claire's to sell its North America business
  • US trans woman challenges Dutch asylum rejection
  • Jeffrey Epstein grand jury records to remain sealed, judge rules
  • Mississippi Supreme Court election map dilutes Black voters' power, judge rules
  • US FTC sues LA Fitness for making it exceedingly hard to cancel gym memberships
 
 

Career Tracker ... 

In New York: Seyfarth Shaw hired real estate partner Varuna Bhattacharyya from Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner … Nutter added tax partner Kenneth Yoon from Fox Horan & Camerini … DLA Piper tapped investment funds partner Alec Campbell from Kirkland.

In D.C.: Weil brought on Eric Namrow as global chair of ITC and cross-border IP enforcement from Morgan Lewis … Government investigations and white-collar partner Joe Walker returned to Squire Patton Boggs from Orrick … McGuireWoods added litigator Andrew Knudsen from the DOJ’s environmental defense section … Adam Greenfield rejoined Latham as an IP litigation partner from White & Case … King & Spalding hired IP and technology litigator Amadou Kilkenny Diaw from Goodwin … Alston & Bird added antitrust partner Alexis Gilman from Crowell.

In San Francisco: Axinn hired Jacklin Chou Lem, the former civil chief of the DOJ antitrust division’s San Francisco office … DLA Piper brought on emerging growth and venture capital partner Brady Berg in San Francisco and Palo Alto from Wilson Sonsini … Former Goodwin IP and technology litigator Andrew Ong joined King & Spalding … Loeb & Loeb added employment and labor partner Alexander Nestor from Allen Matkins. 

Across other cities: Buchalter added IP partner James Abe, also part of the firm’s Japan group, in Los Angeles from Alston & Bird … Bradley Arant hired Dallas-based corporate partner Jeffrey Harvey from Clark Hill … CMS brought on a seven-lawyer team in Hong Kong, including former Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner partners Glenn Haley and Wayne Ma … Littler opened an office in Montreal and separately hired Kansas City-based partner Daniel Johnson from Ogletree Deakins.

 

In other news ...

China is considering allowing the usage of yuan-backed stablecoins for the first time to boost wider adoption of its currency globally, sources familiar with the matter said … Israel approved a settlement plan to “erase” the idea of a Palestinian state … Texas Republicans were set to approve a Trump-backed congressional map to protect the party's majority … Wegovy-maker Novo Nordisk has implemented a global hiring freeze covering job roles that are not critical for its business … President Trump called on Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook to resign over mortgage allegations.