{"id":164066,"date":"2026-10-01T05:34:25","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T13:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/10\/01\/morning-docket-10-01-26\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T05:34:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T13:34:25","slug":"morning-docket-10-01-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/10\/01\/morning-docket-10-01-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Docket: 10.01.26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* The DOJ filed a misconduct complaint against all but one of the judges in the District of Minnesota. [<a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/post\/216043\/justice-department-investigate-complaint-nearly-every-federal-judge-blue-state-minnesota\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The New Republic<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity rules that it cannot figure out how to rule on whether the ABA should continue to accredit law schools. [<a href=\"https:\/\/taxprofblog.aals.org\/2026\/09\/30\/coverage-of-naciqi-hearing-re-the-aba-council-and-national-accreditation\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TaxProf Blog<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Breaking down Justice Alito\u2019s weird, unfounded fears about election fraud. [<a href=\"https:\/\/democracyproject.org\/posts\/exorcising-justice-alito%E2%80%99s-voter-fraud-boogeyman\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Democracy Project<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Sentence tossed as court decides <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/05\/dead-victims-ai-deepfake-brought-in-to-speak-at-sentencing-oh-hell-no\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">deepfake video of dead victim<\/a> shouldn\u2019t have been shown. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/legal\/government\/arizona-court-says-judge-wrongly-allowed-ai-generated-victim-video-2026-09-30\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* DLA Piper backing Trump\u2019s bid to sell exclusive early access to his market-moving announcements. [<a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/business-and-practice\/dla-piper-expands-trump-ties-with-filing-in-truth-social-case\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg Law News<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Republican AGs bring Supreme Court challenge against states with shield laws to protect abortion providers. [<a href=\"https:\/\/stateline.org\/2026\/09\/30\/republican-ags-sue-abortion-shield-law-states-in-u-s-supreme-court\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stateline<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Someone used incarceration logs and then impersonated defense attorneys to scam families. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abajournal.com\/news\/article\/scammers-call-families-of-jailed-loved-ones-impersonating-washington-lawyer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ABA Journal<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Ninth Circuit isn\u2019t buying Twitter\u2019s attempt to sue non-profits for pointing out how racist things have gotten on Twitter. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law360.com\/articles\/2532153\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Law360<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/10\/morning-docket-10-01-26\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Morning Docket: 10.01.26<\/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\">* The DOJ filed a misconduct complaint against all but one of the judges in the District of Minnesota. [<a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/post\/216043\/justice-department-investigate-complaint-nearly-every-federal-judge-blue-state-minnesota\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The New Republic<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity rules that it cannot figure out how to rule on whether the ABA should continue to accredit law schools. [<a href=\"https:\/\/taxprofblog.aals.org\/2026\/09\/30\/coverage-of-naciqi-hearing-re-the-aba-council-and-national-accreditation\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TaxProf Blog<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Breaking down Justice Alito\u2019s weird, unfounded fears about election fraud. [<a href=\"https:\/\/democracyproject.org\/posts\/exorcising-justice-alito%E2%80%99s-voter-fraud-boogeyman\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Democracy Project<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Sentence tossed as court decides <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/05\/dead-victims-ai-deepfake-brought-in-to-speak-at-sentencing-oh-hell-no\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">deepfake video of dead victim<\/a> shouldn\u2019t have been shown. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/legal\/government\/arizona-court-says-judge-wrongly-allowed-ai-generated-victim-video-2026-09-30\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* DLA Piper backing Trump\u2019s bid to sell exclusive early access to his market-moving announcements. [<a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/business-and-practice\/dla-piper-expands-trump-ties-with-filing-in-truth-social-case\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg Law News<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Republican AGs bring Supreme Court challenge against states with shield laws to protect abortion providers. [<a href=\"https:\/\/stateline.org\/2026\/09\/30\/republican-ags-sue-abortion-shield-law-states-in-u-s-supreme-court\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stateline<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Someone used incarceration logs and then impersonated defense attorneys to scam families. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abajournal.com\/news\/article\/scammers-call-families-of-jailed-loved-ones-impersonating-washington-lawyer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ABA Journal<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Ninth Circuit isn\u2019t buying Twitter\u2019s attempt to sue non-profits for pointing out how racist things have gotten on Twitter. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law360.com\/articles\/2532153\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Law360<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/10\/morning-docket-10-01-26\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Morning Docket: 10.01.26<\/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>* The DOJ filed a misconduct complaint against all but one of the judges in the District of Minnesota. [The New Republic] * National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity rules that it cannot figure out how to rule on whether the ABA should continue to accredit law schools. [TaxProf Blog] * Breaking down [&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-164066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164066","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=164066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}