Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 09.11.26

* Weil corporate chair bolts for Cravath. [Bloomberg Law News]

* Sam Bankman-Fried asks Supreme Court for help getting out of jail. [Law360]

* Harvard moves up recruiting timeline to allow interviewing in 1L September. [Harvard Crimson]

* Joseph diGenova resigns from role probing Trump's enemies, acknowledging that, after years flogging conspiracy theories, there really isn't any evidence backing it up. [Reuters]

* David Lat interviews Google GC Halimah DeLaine on legal AI. [Original Jurisdiction]

* Court refuses to prosecute deep fake political ad, claiming the parody was too "ridiculous" to be real. It is certainly ridiculous, but anyone deluding themselves into thinking it's not believable needs to watch some of Ken Paxton's actual political ads. [Volokh Conspiracy]

* City files lawsuit to bar federal shock troops from polling places. One of those headlines that would have set off the "black helicopter, new world order" conspiracy theorists 20 years ago, but now those people are on the government's side. [Courthouse News Service]

* In the same vein, a new lawsuit focuses on government surveillance and harassment of civilian observers. [NPR]

* Harvey raises more money, because what's another half billion among friends? [ABA Journal]

Morning Docket: 09.10.26

* Missouri lawmakers threaten to impeach state supreme court if they hold secretary of state in contempt for using redrawn maps that violate state constitution. [KCTV]

Meanwhile, the whole thing is back at the U.S. Supreme Court -- which already blessed the Missouri supreme court decision -- after Republican judges on the Eighth Circuit approved district judge's collateral attack on state decision. [One First]

* Todd Blanche speaks at Republican midterm rally in an obvious Hatch Act violation. But the administration says it was fine because it was cleared by the DOJ's ethics people... as a reminder, the DOJ fired its ethics people last year. [The Hill]

* Senator Roger Marshall relentlessly sued his patients as an OB/GYN up to the point where new mothers were led away from their children in handcuffs. But, you know, Republicans are about family. [NY Times]

* The Trump White House has been blatantly ripping off video game trademarks for the last couple weeks. Most sat back and took it, but Tetris threatened to actually enforce its legal rights and Trump instantly backed down. [BBC]

* A deep dive into the mail-in ballot fight at the Supreme Court. [Just Security]

* Convicted sex traffickers hired Alan Dershowitz to help pursue "executive clemency" according to financial documents, [NY Times]

* Producers of The Pitt ask court to shut down Michael Crichton estate's lawsuit over similarities to ER based on... well, Noah Wyle working in an hospital. [Courthouse News Service]

* Ohio AG sues the J. Peterman company. The fallout from the urban sombrero continues. [Cincinnati Inquirer]

* A small and solo response to bar association AI policies built for Biglaw. [ABA Journal]

Morning Docket: 09.09.26

* Supreme Court refuses to overturn state supreme court ruling over Missouri's maps. Federal district judge -- sitting alone, as opposed to the three-judge panels required for this -- decides to go ahead and impose the opposite result anyway. [Guardian]

* Ogletree opening new office with poached Littler team. [Atlanta Journal-Constitution]

* Mail-in balloting order an assault on federalism. [Volokh Conspiracy]

* Court tosses $125 million award over magistrate judge's undisclosed tight personal ties to lawyer, crediting argument that party wouldn't have agreed to let the magistrate judge decide the matter had it known. [JD Journal]

* ABA accreditors vote to repeal diversity standard now that the government doesn't care about ABA accreditation anymore. [Inside Higher Ed]

* Administration asks Supreme Court to salvage its effort to haphazardly purge voter rolls based on suspected immigration status. [NOTUS]

* Appeals panel bars IRS from handing private tax records over to ICE, calling government's argument "weak sauce." [The New Republic]

Morning Docket: 09.08.26

* Federal judge addresses still available online even though we passed a law to shield those. [ABA Journal]

* New York's best dressed lawyers. [Business Insider]

* Trump's effort to use Post Office to disrupt voting reminds of Andrew Jackson censoring abolitionist mail. [Slate]

* Lawyer cites AI hallucinations to defend himself at disciplinary hearing. [Legal Cheek]

* White House announces pending ban on Bombardier jets... even though the Canadian company builds jets in Kansas. [Reuters]

* Country wrecker Kyrsten Sinema facing home wrecker lawsuit. [The Hill]

* Hacking group broke into Florida records, released Epstein's driving record. [Hackread]

* Quinn Emanuel disqualified in defamation case. [Law360]

* Senior official arrested for selling green cards. Official administration policy continues offering H-1B visas for $100,000. [Newsweek]

* A look at Seyfarth's SEYscraper research tool. [Fast Company]

Morning Docket: 09.03.26

* Skadden and Kirkland fined $2 million after judge deemed firms engaged in “a widespread, long-running cover-up.” [Atlanta Journal-Constitution]

* Clients of Pogust Goodhead and Quinn Emanuel say they're dropping their firms, but the firms argue that they can't be replaced. [Roll on Friday]

* Louisiana judge rules that LSU can play NFL players. Conference takes school to federal court. [ESPN]

* Bar exam scores on MBE dropped this July. [ABA Journal]

* ICE officer federally charged in shooting. Either the administration wants a distraction or those prosecutors aren't long for their jobs. [NPR]

* Missouri Supreme Court rejects Trump supported gerrymander, ruling that it must be approved by the electorate. [CNN]

* Multiple jurisdictions of court records exposed as Thomson Reuters C-Track got hacked. [Hacker News]

* New Orleans case over staged car accidents ends in fraud conviction for lawyer, mistrial on murder charges. [NOLA]

* Class actions firm claims Paul Hastings, K&L Gates, Clifford Chance, Quinn Emanuel, and others deserve smaller shares of the fees from the Blue Cross case. [Reuters]

Morning Docket: 09.03.26

* Wachtell report for the NBA ends up sinking the Clippers, who will lose $30 million and lose 5 first-round picks. Wachtell, according to The Athletic reporter Mike Vorkunov, charged $50 million for the investigation. [NY Times/The Athletic]

* Judge blocks Trump's revised birthright citizenship order pointing out, "The Supreme Court has spoken." [NOTUS]

* Lawyer sanctioned for sending dick pic to opposition. [Charlotte Observer]

* Report urges lawyers and bar associations to defend judges. Meanwhile, the Florida Bar tells judges that they should just get comfortable being threatened. [ABA Journal]

* Attorney accused in $1.45 million Ponzi scheme. [San Antonio Express-News]

* ABA issues new rules for advising clients with cognitive impairments. [Law360]

* Second Circuit sides with Starbucks in banning employees from wearing union pins. [Claims Journal]

Morning Docket: 09.02.26

* When Scalia died, John Roberts decided to change the rules to keep the justices' papers locked away for decades after they die. [NY Times]

* House Republicans begin inquiry into the Eleventh Circuit's probe of Judge Eleanor Ross. [Bloomberg Law News]

* Lawyer arrested for terroristic threat against teen relative. [ABA Journal]

* Recording artists sue Suno, claiming the AI provider is stealing their identities. [Rolling Stone]

* The revolving door between Jones Day and the Trump administration continues to spin. [Law360]

* Second Circuit rules public school district can ban teachers from hanging Pride flags. [Bloomberg Law]

* Former Google engineer sentenced to 12 months for stealing AI secrets. So if some cut-rate model starts giving really bad internet search summaries, you know the culprit! [Courthouse News Service]

* A&O Sherman hires judge who dominated patent cases as part of the less-socially-destructive-but-still-bad consequence of Texas federal court judge shopping. [Reuters]

Morning Docket: 09.01.26

* Supreme Court decides no one has standing to stop a president who wants to tear down a national monument and build on top of it all without congressional approval. [Balls and Strikes]

* HSF Kramer named in billion-dollar malpractice suit. [Bloomberg Law News]

* They convicted Tupac's murderer. [Reuters]

* Trump's financial aid cap didn't collapse law school admissions this cycle. Which either proves it wasn't a big deal or law students are as irresponsible with their future finances as ever. [ABA Journal]

* State AGs say Amazon pocketed $20 billion through price manipulation. [Law360]

* Should the Purcell principle apply to federal election law changes? I mean, it won't in this case because this is an election law change that Republicans want, but in theory. [One First]

* Lawsuit alleges airline outed gay couple to Saudi authorities. [Volokh Conspiracy]

Morning Docket: 08.31.26

* Why are there so many lawyer billboards? [Mental Floss]

* California legislature moves to block private equity from investing in law firms. [Law360]

* DHS using law about customs violations to spy on journalists without a warrant. [Guardian]

* Judge shopping crisis goes mainstream as the Times dissects how the Northern District of Texas games the system to make sure right-wing activists can direct their cases through hand-picked judges. [NY Times]

* Court strikes down State Department's speech-based deportation scheme. [Politico]

* Fifth Circuit rejects "server test," deepening circuit split. [Courthouse News Service]

* Trump asks Supreme Court to expedite Defense Department ban on transgender servicemembers. [CNN]

* Milo Yiannopoulos deported. [Salon]

* Indiana's Planned Parenthood suit over criminalizing cross-border treatment is the new frontline for reproductive rights. [Slate]

Morning Docket: 08.28.26

* Proskauer associates in UK appalled by firm's approach to maternity leave. 'Murica! [Roll on Friday]

* According to a lawsuit, which AI model was trained on child porn and why is it you already knew it was Grok? [Ars Technica]

* John Morgan says $30 million & a fully paid-off house is the key to financial security. Tell me about it. [Polymarket via Twitter]

* Deloitte agrees to pay $20 million to settle dubious claims raised by the administration. Surrendering to Trump... not just for law firms anymore! [ESG Today]

* The health system related to the Boomer paradise known as The Villages will pay over half a billion to clear up allegations of fraud. [Bloomberg Law News]

* Massive datacenter accused of breaking the law. If you can't trust a data center, then who can you even trust? [Guardian]

* Bank of America settling with Epstein victims for $72.5 million. [Reuters]

* Court rejects Defense Department's "maybe we can ban Anthropic's fancy autocorrect as a national security threat" argument. [Law360]

Morning Docket: 08.27.26

* ABA votes to continue allowing law schools to seek variances to admit students without standardized test scores. A big deal if law schools need to care ABA accreditation anymore. [ABA Journal]

* Court refuses DOJ bid to scrub Steve Bannon's conviction. [Daily Beast]

* Sam Alito apparently told Clarence Thomas that they weren't friends in law school because "Clarence, you were scary." So much to unpack there. [Fox News]

* Law school applications surging. [TaxProf Blog]

* KKR will fork over $250 million for breaching Hart-Scott-Rodino premerger notification rules. [Law360]

* Justin Baldoni's studio ordered to pay Blake Lively roughly $407,000 in legal costs tied to their litigation. [Courthouse News Service]

* Third Circuit allows prosecution against Rep. McIver to move forward. [Roll Call]

Morning Docket: 08.26.26

* Elon Musk won't be charged for offering $1 million dollars for people to vote in Wisconsin supreme court election. [Politico]

* Lawyer's office turned into the coolest part of a Chuck E. Cheese. [Legal Cheek]

* Man arrested for impersonating John Roberts. [ABA Journal]

* Judge orders release of witness to ICE killing. [New Republic]

* Homeland Security infiltrated churches, libraries, and even breweries in trying to round up people in Minnesota. [NPR]

* Judge freezes Ohio law that tried to rewrite the National Voter Registration Act. [Courthouse News Service]

* Following Supreme Court tossing injunction as premature in one case over the attempted Post Office ballot blocking scheme, district court in the other case finds administration violated court order by issuing the final rule. [Election Law Blog]

Morning Docket: 08.25.26

* Supreme Court uses shadow docket to lift injunction against Trump proposal to use Post Office to block votes from states that Trump doesn't approve. The majority ruled the injunction premature because the Post Office hadn't issued a final rule yet. The Post Office issued a final rule last week. [Slate]

* Wachtell reportedly forcing park bench makeout partner out of the firm. [NY Post]

* Study finds over 50 appellate opinions showing signs of AI authorship. [Volokh Conspiracy]

* More law firms moving to four days in the office. [ABA Journal]

* Former Nevada government official wants conviction tossed, pointing to the state's phony US Attorney's personal rivalry with him. [Bloomberg Law News]

* Administration moving forward with big fee for H1-B visas. [Reuters]

Morning Docket: 08.24.26

* John Roberts lets Trump continue spending millions and destroying national monuments without oversight. [NPR]

* Courts continue ping-pong game about college athletic eligibility. [ESPN]

* Second Circuit rejects fake US Attorney effort. [Courthouse News Service]

* And coupled with the Nevada situation, this fake US Attorney trick creeps toward Supreme Court showdown. [The Hill]

* Attorney sues Troutman Pepper Locke for discrimination. [ABA Journal]

* Eagle Ed Martin leaves DOJ. [Law360]

Morning Docket: 08.21.26

* Judge suspended for -- among other things -- not disclosing stepson's appearance in front of him. [ABA Journal]

* "Parking Company Apologizes to Formerly Dead Woman for $80 Ticket." [Lowering the Bar]

* Administration brings places partisan in charge of FOIA office. [Bloomberg Law News]

* New ICC sanctions pose threat to American democracy. [Just Security]

* Trump has cut off migrant children from their attorneys and suggests giving them military lawyers instead. [NBC News]

* Jay-Z asks appellate court to bring back his extortion claim against Tony Buzbee. [Bloomberg Law News]

* New York Times loses defamation suit to former Alabama basketball player. [NY Times]

* Pentagon official called in personal lawyer to handle DoD business. [American Prospect]

* Is it a problem when the judge tells you that you're "absolutely wrong" on the law? Asking for Meta. [Law360]