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Rough Week To Be A Federal Judge — See Generally

Meet In The Parking Lot After School: Ninth Circuit Judge Ryan Nelson is catastrophically bad at parking. Also in keeping his hands to himself, as he’s charged with misdemeanor battery and malicious injury to property.

Maroon 1: The 14th annual ATL Top 50 Law School Rankings are here, with the University of Chicago back on top for the first time since 2021 and the formula still rewarding the outcomes — jobs, bar passage, cost — that actually pay the loans.

Sorry Excuse: Judge Eleanor Ross sent her former clerks apology letters so deliberately vague they named neither the affair nor the lying about it — exactly the toothless wrist-slap her colleagues blessed when they tried to keep the whole thing confidential.

Face The Music: A DC judge tossed the Trump-rebranded Kennedy Center’s breach-of-contract suit and then lost its name.

Just Good Friends: Chapman’s former dean Paul Paton, the law school’s first openly gay dean, sued for discrimination, alleging the university fired him for marrying his husband and dressed it up as a pretextual scholarship-budget dispute — in a complaint that pointedly notes Chapman treated John Eastman better.

All Quiet On The Cravath Front: The 2026 salary wars are underway, but the firms matching Milbank’s new scale are almost all litigation boutiques while traditional Biglaw sits on its hands, waiting for Cravath to bless the raise before anyone breaks lockstep.

Cite Unseen: A Mississippi federal judge disqualified all the lawyers in a case after both sides caught with hallucinated cases.

The post Rough Week To Be A Federal Judge — See Generally appeared first on Above the Law.

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