Morning Docket 11.13.08

* SCOTUS hearts the Navy, hates the whales. National security trumps environmental concerns in Winter v. Natural Resources Defense Council. [New York Times]

* Obama plans to give the Department of Justice a makeover. Wilmer Hale partner David Ogden and Jenner & Block partner Thomas J. Perrelli are heading up Obama’s DOJ transition team. [Washington Post]

* … Meanwhile, O’Melveny and Myers partner Thomas Donilon will oversee Obama’s State Department transition team. [Associated Press]

* Lawyers are getting busy in the Minnesota Senate race between Al Franken and Norm Coleman. Let the recount begin. [Star Tribune via Drudge]

* Raffaello Follieri, Anne Hathaway’s conman ex, doesn’t like living in Brooklyn. His lawyer requests that Follieri be transferred to a Manhattan prison, as his Brooklyn jail cell digs are “unspeakably unsanitary” and have an “intolerable stench.” [The Smoking Gun]

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