{"id":164403,"date":"2026-10-06T05:33:38","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T13:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/10\/06\/morning-docket-10-06-26\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T05:33:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T13:33:38","slug":"morning-docket-10-06-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/10\/06\/morning-docket-10-06-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Docket: 10.06.26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* \u201cJustices Fret Any Climate Tort Ruling Will Open Pandora\u2019s Box.\u201d Yeah, you wouldn\u2019t want to unleash some sort of compounding harm without any mechanism for controlling it\u2026 [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law360.com\/articles\/2533272\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Law360<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Judge James Ho complains about  judges being accused of using their power to audition for higher office. \u201cNo one has the power to look into another man\u2019s heart and ascertain his actual motivations or ambitions,\u201d wrote the man who authored a law review article defending birthright citizenship and then swiftly decided it was unconstitutional once it became a Donald Trump litmus test. [<a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/us-law-week\/james-ho-says-judges-cant-fight-auditioning-claims-in-opinion\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg Law News<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Disney\u2019s Chief Legal Officer has lead big fights at prior companies, and now he\u2019s fighting the administration over the First Amendment. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/business\/media\/disneys-top-lawyer-is-a-pragmatist-facing-his-biggest-fight-yet-bd3464d4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wall Street Journal<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Professor Rick Hasen explains how Trump can and cannot interfere with the midterm elections. [<a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/news-and-politics\/2026\/10\/trump-2026-midterms-sobotage-fail-mike-johnson.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Slate<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Chicago Cubs win lawsuit against neighbors for being able to see into the stadium. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abajournal.com\/news\/article\/cubs-win-cubs-win-in-federal-court-against-neighboring-bar-that-sold-tickets-to-watch-games\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ABA Journal<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* New York brings RICO suit against personal injury firm alleging staged accidents. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsday.com\/long-island\/new-york-city-rico-lawsuit-alleged-fraud-scheme-qr6mjawm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Newsday<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Catholic Church sues U.S. government over effort to block detainees from receiving religious services. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/legal\/government\/catholic-diocese-sues-us-government-seeking-clergy-access-detainees-2026-10-05\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/10\/morning-docket-10-06-26\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Morning Docket: 10.06.26<\/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\">* \u201cJustices Fret Any Climate Tort Ruling Will Open Pandora\u2019s Box.\u201d Yeah, you wouldn\u2019t want to unleash some sort of compounding harm without any mechanism for controlling it\u2026 [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law360.com\/articles\/2533272\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Law360<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Judge James Ho complains about  judges being accused of using their power to audition for higher office. \u201cNo one has the power to look into another man\u2019s heart and ascertain his actual motivations or ambitions,\u201d wrote the man who authored a law review article defending birthright citizenship and then swiftly decided it was unconstitutional once it became a Donald Trump litmus test. [<a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/us-law-week\/james-ho-says-judges-cant-fight-auditioning-claims-in-opinion\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg Law News<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Disney\u2019s Chief Legal Officer has lead big fights at prior companies, and now he\u2019s fighting the administration over the First Amendment. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/business\/media\/disneys-top-lawyer-is-a-pragmatist-facing-his-biggest-fight-yet-bd3464d4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wall Street Journal<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Professor Rick Hasen explains how Trump can and cannot interfere with the midterm elections. [<a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/news-and-politics\/2026\/10\/trump-2026-midterms-sobotage-fail-mike-johnson.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Slate<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Chicago Cubs win lawsuit against neighbors for being able to see into the stadium. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abajournal.com\/news\/article\/cubs-win-cubs-win-in-federal-court-against-neighboring-bar-that-sold-tickets-to-watch-games\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ABA Journal<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* New York brings RICO suit against personal injury firm alleging staged accidents. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsday.com\/long-island\/new-york-city-rico-lawsuit-alleged-fraud-scheme-qr6mjawm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Newsday<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Catholic Church sues U.S. government over effort to block detainees from receiving religious services. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/legal\/government\/catholic-diocese-sues-us-government-seeking-clergy-access-detainees-2026-10-05\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* \u201cJustices Fret Any Climate Tort Ruling Will Open Pandora\u2019s Box.\u201d Yeah, you wouldn\u2019t want to unleash some sort of compounding harm without any mechanism for controlling it\u2026 [Law360] * Judge James Ho complains about judges being accused of using their power to audition for higher office. \u201cNo one has the power to look into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":164404,"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-164403","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\/164403","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=164403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}