Morning Docket: 07.29.24

* Biden set to announce significant court reform proposals. It’s a few years late, but it sets the new baseline for the conversation. [Bloomberg Law News]

* But UNTIL the country installs judicial term limits, judges serve for life. Unless it’s the Federal Circuit, where the other judges have invented an end run around the Constitution to kick one of their colleagues off the bench by suspending her over and over. [ABA Journal]

* Biglaw just keeps getting bigger-er. [Law.com International]

* New bill would extend copyright protection to U.S. laws to the extent they codify industry standards. This is a very dumb proposal. [Forbes]

* The latest social media outrage asks if a first grader has a First Amendment right to not be corrected by the school for unintentionally making racially insensitive remarks. We used to just call that “teaching” but now it’s a free speech fight. [Reuters]

* Timberlake’s lawyer says his client wasn’t drunk the day they ruined the tour… the world tour. [USA Today]

* Judge accuses Quinn Emanuel of “low-grade lawyering.” [Law360]

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