Morning Docket: 07.21.23
* FTC will drop its opposition to the Microsoft-Activision merger. While it's going to go down as a loss, the agency secured some key concessions from Microsoft over cross-platform access. [Yahoo] * Everything you need to know about Elon Musk's complaint over Wachtell's success fee. [Legal Eagle-YouTube] * It's the Women's World Cup and that means Bethany England will miss her law degree graduation... for a second time. [LegalCheek] * Federal public defenders likely victims of a congressional budgeting error. As a reminder, the Department of Defense has failed five consecutive audits and can't find hundreds of millions of dollars. But, yeah, cutbacks at the public defenders. [ABA Journal] * The importance of the DOJ joining the fight over Mississippi's whites-only court regime. [Reuters] * AI companies offer up guardrails in bid to quell growing government scrutiny. Because that always works well when industries self-regulate. [Bloomberg Law News] * FTX wants hundreds of millions back from SBF. Will they take it in bored ape NFTs? [Law360]
* FTC will drop its opposition to the Microsoft-Activision merger. While it’s going to go down as a loss, the agency secured some key concessions from Microsoft over cross-platform access. [Yahoo]
* Everything you need to know about Elon Musk’s complaint over Wachtell’s success fee. [Legal Eagle-YouTube]
* It’s the Women’s World Cup and that means Bethany England will miss her law degree graduation… for a second time. [LegalCheek]
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* Federal public defenders likely victims of a congressional budgeting error. As a reminder, the Department of Defense has failed five consecutive audits and can’t find hundreds of millions of dollars. But, yeah, cutbacks at the public defenders. [ABA Journal]
* The importance of the DOJ joining the fight over Mississippi’s whites-only court regime. [Reuters]
* AI companies offer up guardrails in bid to quell growing government scrutiny. Because that always works well when industries self-regulate. [Bloomberg Law News]
* FTX wants hundreds of millions back from SBF. Will they take it in bored ape NFTs? [Law360]
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