Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 10.30.25

* Investigation suggests Kash Patel used FBI jet to go on a date. [New Republic] * The other half of the "shot, chaser" combo: Government shutdown stalls FBI investigations. [Reuters] * King & Spalding profile highlights community work. [Atlanta Journal-Constitution] * Bench trial begins in troop deployment challenge as Ninth Circuit reviews injunctive relief en banc. [Law360] * Snell & Wilmer tagged in another apparent AI hallucination case. [ABA Journal] * While the administration brands its extra-legal enforcement operations as targeting cartels, a Spotlight deep dive reveals... the DEA has no idea who is actually a cartel member. [Boston Globe] * DOJ indicts Democratic congressional candidate in bid to chill protest. [NBC] * Cooley joins 4-day in-office club. [American Lawyer] * Florida AG brings on Boies Schiller and Cooper & Kirk to pursue litigation against mega corporations. Given that the AG has mostly run his mouth about prosecuting anti-wokeness, maybe the firms are being brought in to pursue the mundane "actual consumer protection work" that politicians that state officials no longer care about.

By Above the Law on October 30, 2025 9:08 am

* Investigation suggests Kash Patel used FBI jet to go on a date. [New Republic]

* The other half of the “shot, chaser” combo: Government shutdown stalls FBI investigations. [Reuters]

* King & Spalding profile highlights community work. [Atlanta Journal-Constitution]

* Bench trial begins in troop deployment challenge as Ninth Circuit reviews injunctive relief en banc. [Law360]

* Snell & Wilmer tagged in another apparent AI hallucination case. [ABA Journal]

* While the administration brands its extra-legal enforcement operations as targeting cartels, a Spotlight deep dive reveals… the DEA has no idea who is actually a cartel member. [Boston Globe]

* DOJ indicts Democratic congressional candidate in bid to chill protest. [NBC]

* Cooley joins 4-day in-office club. [American Lawyer]

* Florida AG brings on Boies Schiller and Cooper & Kirk to pursue litigation against mega corporations. Given that the AG has mostly run his mouth about prosecuting anti-wokeness, maybe the firms are being brought in to pursue the mundane “actual consumer protection work” that politicians that state officials no longer care about. [Bloomberg Law]