{"id":162604,"date":"2026-09-11T05:18:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T13:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/09\/11\/morning-docket-09-11-26\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T05:18:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T13:18:29","slug":"morning-docket-09-11-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/09\/11\/morning-docket-09-11-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Docket: 09.11.26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Weil corporate chair bolts for Cravath. [<a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/business-and-practice\/weil-gotshal-corporate-chair-mike-aiello-to-join-cravath\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg Law News<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Sam Bankman-Fried asks Supreme Court for help getting out of jail. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law360.com\/articles\/2523953\/bankman-fried-asks-justices-to-review-his-fraud-conviction\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Law360<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Harvard moves up recruiting timeline to allow interviewing in 1L September. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecrimson.com\/article\/2026\/9\/9\/harvard-law-earlier-recruiting\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harvard Crimson<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Joseph diGenova resigns from role probing Trump\u2019s enemies, acknowledging that, after years flogging conspiracy theories, there really isn\u2019t any evidence backing it up. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/legal\/government\/us-prosecutor-overseeing-probe-trump-foes-resigns-2026-09-10\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* David Lat interviews Google GC Halimah DeLaine on legal AI. [<a href=\"https:\/\/davidlat.substack.com\/p\/google-general-counsel-gc-halimah-delaine-prado-podcast-interview-gemini-enterprise-for-legal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Original Jurisdiction<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Court refuses to prosecute deep fake political ad, claiming the parody was too \u201cridiculous\u201d to be real. It is certainly ridiculous, but anyone deluding themselves into thinking it\u2019s not believable needs to watch some of Ken Paxton\u2019s actual political ads. [<a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/volokh\/2026\/09\/10\/court-blocks-investigation-of-ai-generated-video-about-vermont-political-candidates-because-video-is-obviously-ridiculous\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Volokh Conspiracy<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* City files lawsuit to bar federal shock troops from polling places. One of those headlines that would have set off the \u201cblack helicopter, new world order\u201d conspiracy theorists 20 years ago, but now those people are on the government\u2019s side. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.courthousenews.com\/denver-sues-trump-to-block-ice-patrols-at-polling-sites\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Courthouse News Service<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* In the same vein, a new lawsuit focuses on government surveillance and harassment of civilian observers. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/09\/10\/nx-s1-5961220\/dhs-ice-observers-surveillance-lawsuit\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NPR<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Harvey raises more money, because what\u2019s another half billion among friends? [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abajournal.com\/news\/article\/harvey-raises-550-million-in-latest-round-of-funding\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ABA Journal<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/09\/morning-docket-09-11-26\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Morning Docket: 09.11.26<\/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\">* Weil corporate chair bolts for Cravath. [<a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/business-and-practice\/weil-gotshal-corporate-chair-mike-aiello-to-join-cravath\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg Law News<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Sam Bankman-Fried asks Supreme Court for help getting out of jail. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law360.com\/articles\/2523953\/bankman-fried-asks-justices-to-review-his-fraud-conviction\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Law360<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Harvard moves up recruiting timeline to allow interviewing in 1L September. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecrimson.com\/article\/2026\/9\/9\/harvard-law-earlier-recruiting\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harvard Crimson<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Joseph diGenova resigns from role probing Trump\u2019s enemies, acknowledging that, after years flogging conspiracy theories, there really isn\u2019t any evidence backing it up. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/legal\/government\/us-prosecutor-overseeing-probe-trump-foes-resigns-2026-09-10\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* David Lat interviews Google GC Halimah DeLaine on legal AI. [<a href=\"https:\/\/davidlat.substack.com\/p\/google-general-counsel-gc-halimah-delaine-prado-podcast-interview-gemini-enterprise-for-legal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Original Jurisdiction<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Court refuses to prosecute deep fake political ad, claiming the parody was too \u201cridiculous\u201d to be real. It is certainly ridiculous, but anyone deluding themselves into thinking it\u2019s not believable needs to watch some of Ken Paxton\u2019s actual political ads. [<a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/volokh\/2026\/09\/10\/court-blocks-investigation-of-ai-generated-video-about-vermont-political-candidates-because-video-is-obviously-ridiculous\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Volokh Conspiracy<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* City files lawsuit to bar federal shock troops from polling places. One of those headlines that would have set off the \u201cblack helicopter, new world order\u201d conspiracy theorists 20 years ago, but now those people are on the government\u2019s side. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.courthousenews.com\/denver-sues-trump-to-block-ice-patrols-at-polling-sites\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Courthouse News Service<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* In the same vein, a new lawsuit focuses on government surveillance and harassment of civilian observers. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/09\/10\/nx-s1-5961220\/dhs-ice-observers-surveillance-lawsuit\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NPR<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Harvey raises more money, because what\u2019s another half billion among friends? [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abajournal.com\/news\/article\/harvey-raises-550-million-in-latest-round-of-funding\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ABA Journal<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* 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\u2019s enemies, acknowledging that, after years flogging conspiracy theories, there really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":162605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162604","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=162604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}