{"id":156109,"date":"2026-07-09T10:52:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T18:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/07\/09\/morning-docket-07-09-26\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T10:52:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T18:52:54","slug":"morning-docket-07-09-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/07\/09\/morning-docket-07-09-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Docket: 07.09.26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Trump asks Supreme Court to rehear birthright citizenship case, in case the English language has changed since last week. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/07\/08\/trump-supreme-court-birthright-citizenship-rehearing.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CNBC<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Judge Ross denies recusal request in civil case based on the claim that she barely supervised clerks on her civil docket. Or maybe her clerk denied the request. [<a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/us-law-week\/atlanta-judge-ross-denies-bid-to-step-back-from-civil-lawsuit?taid=6a4ee2c2d7fb6000010aa6f7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg Law News<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* State AGs finalize antitrust suit over Paramount-Warner Bros. merger. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/07\/08\/media\/paramount-warner-bros-discovery-state-antitrust-lawsuit\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CNN<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* ABA wants to see more Trump admin documents surrounding Biglaw intimidation campaign. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law360.com\/articles\/2498633\/aba-seeks-trump-docs-in-suit-alleging-law-firm-intimidation\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Law360<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Judge refers to Smartmatic case as \u201cThe Most Whack-a-Mole of All of My Cases,\u201d which is true to the extent Whack-a-Mole is a game about malicious prosecution. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/dailybusinessreview\/2026\/07\/08\/the-most-whack-a-mole-of-all-of-my-cases-miami-judge-grapples-with-ballooning-smartmatic-docket\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Business Review<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* AI founder admits role in the big Biglaw insider trading scheme. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abajournal.com\/news\/article\/ai-startup-founder-pleaded-guilty-to-receiving-insider-tips-from-biglaw-lawyers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ABA Journal<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Judge Dugan fined but not sentenced to any prison time over conviction for not allowing ICE to nab people from her courtroom. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/07\/08\/us\/hannah-dugan-judge-sentencing-milwaukee.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/07\/morning-docket-07-09-26\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Morning Docket: 07.09.26<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Trump asks Supreme Court to rehear birthright citizenship case, in case the English language has changed since last week. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/07\/08\/trump-supreme-court-birthright-citizenship-rehearing.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CNBC<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Judge Ross denies recusal request in civil case based on the claim that she barely supervised clerks on her civil docket. Or maybe her clerk denied the request. [<a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/us-law-week\/atlanta-judge-ross-denies-bid-to-step-back-from-civil-lawsuit?taid=6a4ee2c2d7fb6000010aa6f7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg Law News<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* State AGs finalize antitrust suit over Paramount-Warner Bros. merger. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/07\/08\/media\/paramount-warner-bros-discovery-state-antitrust-lawsuit\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CNN<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* ABA wants to see more Trump admin documents surrounding Biglaw intimidation campaign. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law360.com\/articles\/2498633\/aba-seeks-trump-docs-in-suit-alleging-law-firm-intimidation\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Law360<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Judge refers to Smartmatic case as \u201cThe Most Whack-a-Mole of All of My Cases,\u201d which is true to the extent Whack-a-Mole is a game about malicious prosecution. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/dailybusinessreview\/2026\/07\/08\/the-most-whack-a-mole-of-all-of-my-cases-miami-judge-grapples-with-ballooning-smartmatic-docket\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Business Review<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* AI founder admits role in the big Biglaw insider trading scheme. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abajournal.com\/news\/article\/ai-startup-founder-pleaded-guilty-to-receiving-insider-tips-from-biglaw-lawyers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ABA Journal<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Judge Dugan fined but not sentenced to any prison time over conviction for not allowing ICE to nab people from her courtroom. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/07\/08\/us\/hannah-dugan-judge-sentencing-milwaukee.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/07\/morning-docket-07-09-26\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Morning Docket: 07.09.26<\/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>* Trump asks Supreme Court to rehear birthright citizenship case, in case the English language has changed since last week. [CNBC] * Judge Ross denies recusal request in civil case based on the claim that she barely supervised clerks on her civil docket. Or maybe her clerk denied the request. [Bloomberg Law News] * State [&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-156109","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\/156109","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=156109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}