The Daily Docket

A newsletter by Reuters and Westlaw

By Diana Novak Jones, Mike Scarcella and Sara Merken

Good morning. Here are some of the major stories driving the day. The American Bar Association adopted a resolution opposing DEI probes into bar associations. Plus, U.S. health agencies were hit with a lawsuit over the removal of websites containing public health information; Delaware’s top court eased the path for some companies to leave the state; and parts of Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI might go to trial. Let’s jump in.

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ABA opposes any DEI probes into bar associations

REUTERS/Andrew Kelly

The American Bar Association urged the Trump administration to roll back its executive order calling for federal investigations into diversity and inclusion efforts by bar associations, citing the groups' First Amendment rights, our colleague Karen Sloan reports.

The ABA resolution adopted this week marked the group’s first public stance against the White House executive order that cited bar associations along with medical associations, publicly traded companies and other private-sector entities as potential targets for federal civil investigations into diversity, equity and inclusion programs.

The ABA, which has about 150,000 paying members and is the federally recognized accreditor of U.S. law schools, has made diversity and inclusion one of its four core goals. The city of Baltimore and three other groups have sued Trump to stop the executive order, as well as a second measure also focused on ending diversity and inclusion programs.

More top news

The buzz

Pam Bondi was confirmed as the new U.S. attorney general, propelling one of President Donald Trump's staunchest political allies to the top perch of American law enforcement.
President Donald Trump nominated consulting firm McKinsey’s chief legal officer Pierre Gentin to serve as general counsel at the U.S. Commerce Department.
Longtime NLRB lawyer and one-time board member William Cowen was named as the agency's acting general counsel, filling a vacancy created by President Donald Trump's firing Biden appointee Jennifer Abruzzo. Trump named Andrew Rogers, chief counsel to EEOC Acting Chair Andrea Lucas, as the EEOC’s acting general counsel after firing Biden appointee Karla Gilbride.

$17.75

That’s the minimum wage that federal contractors must pay their employees. A 5th Circuit panel rejected claims by Texas and two other Republican-led states that former President Joe Biden in a 2021 executive order overstepped his powers to regulate federal procurement. The appeals court reversed a judge in Texas who had blocked Biden’s order.

Coming up today

A group of pregnant women and immigrant rights groups will urge a federal judge in Maryland to block President Donald Trump's administration from enforcing the Republican's executive order curtailing the right to automatic birthright citizenship in the United States.
The 5th Circuit will hear arguments in disputes over the lawfulness of the NLRB’s structure, in cases lodged by Elon Musk’s SpaceX and other companies. SpaceX won a block on a pending board case. Changes in leadership at the labor board are expected to impact arguments made in court.
Philadelphia, U.S. District Judge John Murphy will weigh data analytics giant Equifax’s bid to dismiss a lawsuit by a pair of home mortgage lenders accusing it of monopolizing the market for electronic income and employment verification services, leading to higher prices.

Court calendars are subject to last-minute docket changes.

In the courts

U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth blocked President Donald Trump's administration from implementing the Republican's executive order requiring all transgender women be housed in federal prisons for men and ending their access to gender-affirming care.
Two groups of FBI employees sued the DOJ, seeking to protect the identities of those agents and others who investigated supporters of Donald Trump for storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Parts of Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI to halt its conversion to a for-profit entity might go to trial, U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers said, adding that the Tesla chief executive will have to appear in court and testify.
U.S. District Judge Daniel Traynor in Bismarck threw out a Biden administration rule governing the U.S. environmental review process for infrastructure projects, saying the White House Council on Environmental Quality lacks authority to issue regulations.
The 2nd Circuit ruled that the family of an American killed when a Malaysian Airlines plane was shot down over Ukraine in 2014 can sue Sberbank, Russia's largest bank, for allegedly providing money transfers to a group blamed for downing the plane.