{"id":163885,"date":"2026-09-29T05:41:06","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T13:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/09\/29\/morning-docket-09-29-26\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T05:41:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T13:41:06","slug":"morning-docket-09-29-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/09\/29\/morning-docket-09-29-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Docket: 09.29.26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Alito finally recuses from the climate case where <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/08\/sam-alito-delayed-financials-reveal-still-betting-big-on-oil-companies-as-he-hears-climate-change-case\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">we always knew<\/a> he had a conflict. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law360.com\/articles\/2530936\/alito-makes-last-minute-recusal-from-colo-climate-case\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Law360<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Sullivan &amp; Cromwell partnership with OpenAI develops contract analyzer. [<a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/business-and-practice\/sullivan-cromwells-openai-gambit-delivers-tech-talent-access\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg Law News<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Touching: Father and son both get disbarred. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abajournal.com\/news\/article\/father-and-son-personal-injury-lawyers-both-end-up-disbarred-in-florida\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ABA Journal<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Probe into illegal voting by immigrants turns up empty. [<a href=\"https:\/\/stateline.org\/2026\/09\/28\/repub\/trump-thwarted-in-hunt-for-rare-noncitizen-voters-as-midterms-near\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stateline<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Jack Smith prepares for hearings claiming he abused his power by investigating crime. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/former-trump-prosecutor-jack-smith-faces-senate-hearing-over-abuse-authority-2026-09-29\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Lawyer fined for joining hearing from train. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.legalcheek.com\/2026\/09\/barrister-hit-with-7k-costs-bill-after-joining-hearing-from-train\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Legal Cheek<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* What\u2019s up with SCOTUSBlog? [<a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/news-and-politics\/2026\/09\/supreme-court-news-what-happened-to-scotusblog.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Slate<\/a>] <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Harvey starts making its own commercials. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.artificiallawyer.com\/2026\/09\/28\/harvey-launches-its-first-ever-tv-commercials\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Artificial Lawyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/09\/morning-docket-09-29-26\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Morning Docket: 09.29.26<\/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\">* Alito finally recuses from the climate case where <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/08\/sam-alito-delayed-financials-reveal-still-betting-big-on-oil-companies-as-he-hears-climate-change-case\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">we always knew<\/a> he had a conflict. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law360.com\/articles\/2530936\/alito-makes-last-minute-recusal-from-colo-climate-case\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Law360<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Sullivan &amp; Cromwell partnership with OpenAI develops contract analyzer. [<a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/business-and-practice\/sullivan-cromwells-openai-gambit-delivers-tech-talent-access\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg Law News<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Touching: Father and son both get disbarred. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abajournal.com\/news\/article\/father-and-son-personal-injury-lawyers-both-end-up-disbarred-in-florida\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ABA Journal<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Probe into illegal voting by immigrants turns up empty. [<a href=\"https:\/\/stateline.org\/2026\/09\/28\/repub\/trump-thwarted-in-hunt-for-rare-noncitizen-voters-as-midterms-near\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stateline<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Jack Smith prepares for hearings claiming he abused his power by investigating crime. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/former-trump-prosecutor-jack-smith-faces-senate-hearing-over-abuse-authority-2026-09-29\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Lawyer fined for joining hearing from train. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.legalcheek.com\/2026\/09\/barrister-hit-with-7k-costs-bill-after-joining-hearing-from-train\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Legal Cheek<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* What\u2019s up with SCOTUSBlog? [<a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/news-and-politics\/2026\/09\/supreme-court-news-what-happened-to-scotusblog.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Slate<\/a>] <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Harvey starts making its own commercials. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.artificiallawyer.com\/2026\/09\/28\/harvey-launches-its-first-ever-tv-commercials\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Artificial Lawyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/09\/morning-docket-09-29-26\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Morning Docket: 09.29.26<\/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>* Alito finally recuses from the climate case where we always knew he had a conflict. [Law360] * Sullivan &amp; Cromwell partnership with OpenAI develops contract analyzer. [Bloomberg Law News] * Touching: Father and son both get disbarred. [ABA Journal] * Probe into illegal voting by immigrants turns up empty. [Stateline] * Jack Smith prepares [&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":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163885","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=163885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}