{"id":146419,"date":"2026-03-19T05:21:48","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T13:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/03\/19\/morning-docket-03-19-26\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T05:21:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T13:21:48","slug":"morning-docket-03-19-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/03\/19\/morning-docket-03-19-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Docket: 03.19.26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>* Colorado aims to shield AI companies from unauthorized practice of law claims. No way this can go wrong! [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abajournal.com\/web\/article\/ai-legal-tool-developers-could-avoid-upl-in-these-states\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ABA Journal<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Luigi looks to delay trial until 2027. [<a href=\"https:\/\/courthousenews.com\/luigi-mangione-wants-to-delay-his-federal-trial-until-2027\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Courthouse News Service<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Justice Alito used to recuse himself from these cases\u2026 guess not so much anymore [<a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/news-and-politics\/2026\/03\/sam-alito-supreme-court-embarrassment.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Slate<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Microsoft considers suing over OpenAI deal with Amazon. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/e814f4c3-4fb5-4e2e-90a6-470044436b39?syn-25a6b1a6=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Financial Times<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy\u2019s son-in-law is running for Congress, and transportation lobbyists are showering him with cash. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/sean-duffy-michael-alfonso-congress-transportation\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pro Publica<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Markwayne Mullin\u2019s DHS confirmation process is off to a disastrous start courtesy of his inability to even try to be nice to Rand Paul. [<a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/news-and-politics\/2026\/03\/markwayne-mullin-secret-mission-rand-paul-john-fetterman.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Slate<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Firms and clients aren\u2019t talking to each other about AI. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thomsonreuters.com\/en-us\/posts\/technology\/great-ai-disconnect\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thomson Reuters<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/03\/morning-docket-03-19-26\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Morning Docket: 03.19.26<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* Colorado aims to shield AI companies from unauthorized practice of law claims. No way this can go wrong! [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abajournal.com\/web\/article\/ai-legal-tool-developers-could-avoid-upl-in-these-states\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ABA Journal<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Luigi looks to delay trial until 2027. [<a href=\"https:\/\/courthousenews.com\/luigi-mangione-wants-to-delay-his-federal-trial-until-2027\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Courthouse News Service<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Justice Alito used to recuse himself from these cases\u2026 guess not so much anymore [<a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/news-and-politics\/2026\/03\/sam-alito-supreme-court-embarrassment.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Slate<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Microsoft considers suing over OpenAI deal with Amazon. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/e814f4c3-4fb5-4e2e-90a6-470044436b39?syn-25a6b1a6=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Financial Times<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy\u2019s son-in-law is running for Congress, and transportation lobbyists are showering him with cash. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/sean-duffy-michael-alfonso-congress-transportation\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pro Publica<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Markwayne Mullin\u2019s DHS confirmation process is off to a disastrous start courtesy of his inability to even try to be nice to Rand Paul. [<a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/news-and-politics\/2026\/03\/markwayne-mullin-secret-mission-rand-paul-john-fetterman.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Slate<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Firms and clients aren\u2019t talking to each other about AI. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thomsonreuters.com\/en-us\/posts\/technology\/great-ai-disconnect\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thomson Reuters<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/03\/morning-docket-03-19-26\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Morning Docket: 03.19.26<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Colorado aims to shield AI companies from unauthorized practice of law claims. No way this can go wrong! [ABA Journal] * Luigi looks to delay trial until 2027. [Courthouse News Service] * Justice Alito used to recuse himself from these cases\u2026 guess not so much anymore [Slate] * Microsoft considers suing over OpenAI deal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}