In biglaw news, Weil Gotshal filed a motion for attorneys' fees in the bankruptcy of First Brands, where the 100% owner and CEO has been criminally charged with fraud for, among other things, double-factoring receivables. They requested $58.8m for 3 months of work at an average rate of $1,470.24/hr.

There's a minor problem—your driver's license with a REAL ID "yellow star" is insufficient because it does not "indicate that [you] are a citizen of the United States." SAVE America Act § 2(a). It indicates that you had legal presence at the time of the ID's issuance. See REAL ID Act § 202(c)(2)(B).

This is inferior to the other Sergei that performed "Scream." #Dora2026

Eurovision medley for no raisin. #dora

We're watching #dora today, right?

AAG for Antitrust Gail Slater has abruptly resigned with no reason. Just a few days ago, DAAG Mark Hamer, who led litigation and civil enforcement, resigned abruptly with no reason. The latest nominee for the FTC has no apparent qualifications for the position whatsoever. What even is antitrust law?

A conversation I had with a U.S. lawyer who is learning another country's law: Them: "Under Dillon's rule for municipalities, the state can't mess with the elections." Me: "Under Dhillon's rule, though, you're required to mess with the elections."

Well, that was an anticlimactic countdown. #melfest

He's...not a good singer? What was SVT thinking? #melfest

This is a baller song. No, really, it's Baller. By Abor & Tynna. #ESC250

I didn't want to wake you up. Pretty sure I would have told you to stop. #ESC250

Yes! Pastora Soler! #ESC250

This song would be better without the repeated dissonant chord. #ESC250

Dr. Leo Spaceman? #ESC250 #30Rock

I need one of those nose things. #Luktelk #ESC250

"Only Teardrops" was...fine. Sure, it deserved its win but I don't think it holds up. #ESC250

Oh, this is one of my favorite Albanian entries. #ESC250

You can't put your middle fingers up. The EBU banned it. #ESC250

@design-law.bsky.social Interesting reason for a Schedule A appeal to get dismissed. www.cafc.uscourts.gov/opinions-ord...

Damn. Now I need coffee. #ESC250

Is this the first Russian song on the countdown? #ESC250

Eric Sadayday. #ESC250

I can forgive the failure to use the subjunctive mood because the song is a banger. #ILWAC #ESC250

We still don't know what terrible thing Mørland did in his early youth. #ESC250

I remember driving around Malta listening to this song on Maltese and Sicilian radio. (I was in Malta for Eurovision week in 2017.) #ESC250

POISON CAKE deserved to qualify. #Cakevision2025 #ESC250

Oh, back in a Swedish block. Also, this is the most "eew" song in Eurovision history. #esc250

Something about this sounds like a Christmas song. #ESC250

This is way too low for Trenulețul. How many people have been inspired to take a train from Chișinău to Bucharest? #ESC250

This is half a song. The second half is simply yelling "BEFORE THE PARTY IS OVER" into a mic over and over.

"Hey, mind if I take this chair?" #ESC250

This was a reasonable song ruined by the costumes and stage show. #ESC250

Ha. That would be why it's this low. #ESC250 cc @dudepoints.fun (I know it's not Katrina's best song, but it is her best *Eurovision* song, right?)

I'm surprised that "Love Shine a Light" is this low. It is a true Eurovision classic. I guess it sounds a bit dated these days. #ESC250

Footnote 4 in Kavanaugh's concurrence serves no purpose other than to walk back Vasquez Perdomo. The footnote itself is shoehorned in there and the statement about racial profiling is a total non sequitur.

Museums in Austria seem to want to call the Nazis by their full name, National Socialists, and refer to the period under their forcible rule as "the National Socialist era." Germany, on the other hand, seems to prefer to use the more derogatory nickname "Nazi" and "Nazi era."

The German equivalent of the kvinnaböske. It's labeled as "Berchtesgaden Dreileiep" or "Berchtesgaden Hurdy-Gurdy." Leopold Mozarthaus, Augsburg, Germany

Oddly, defense counsel elicited this. Maybe not the Nazi flag, but definitely the Confederate ("rebel" flag).

Judge Wilkinson (4th Cir.) out here, still doing his thing. United States v. Hudak, No. 24-4313 (4th Cir. Oct. 7, 2025), www.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/244....

I'm going to guess Judge Nachmanoff won't be thrilled with attorneys who don't know the idiosyncrasies of E.D. Va. trying to go without local counsel. His mentor Judge Brinkema required DOJ Antitrust to have local USAO-EDVA counsel present at all hearings in Google Adtech.

The Government seems to have decided that after its failure to secure an indictment against assault with a deadly sandwich guy, it will charge him with misdemeanor assault on a federal officer instead. D.D.C.'s CM/ECF is very broken right now, but it appears to be assigned to Judge Nichols.

The text accompanying the footnote is notable as well.

Another judge is following Judge Kness's lead in N.D. Ill.'s spate of #ScheduleA cases.

"Well, lookee here, Huck, do you want to go to heaven? If you want to go to heaven, then I'll tell you right now you better learn to read and you better learn your writin' or you'll never get to heaven 'cause you won't know how."

Assault with a deadly sandwich guy has been released on an appearance bond with conditions just to obey all laws, notify the court of any change of address, and to return to court. That tells you how dangerous Magistrate Judge Harvey thinks this guy is. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Complaint available here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...