{"id":164861,"date":"2026-10-13T05:39:04","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T13:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/10\/13\/morning-docket-10-13-26\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T05:39:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T13:39:04","slug":"morning-docket-10-13-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/10\/13\/morning-docket-10-13-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Docket: 10.13.26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Trump wants the Supreme Court to bring back his bonkers RICO suit against Hillary Clinton. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/10\/09\/politics\/trump-supreme-court-hillary-clinton-lawsuit\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CNN<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Former Sheppard Mullin paralegal launches class action over data breach. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abajournal.com\/news\/article\/ex-employee-sues-sheppard-mullin-over-cyberattack-exposing-sensitive-personal-data\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ABA Journal<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* The Trump administration\u2019s gutting of career civil service protections sets up a new challenge for the next administration: systematically identifying and firing huge swaths of key departments. [<a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/post\/216470\/trump-doj-civil-service-wingnuts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The New Republic<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Over 150 Bureau of Prisons employees and contractors charged with crimes over the last 4 years. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.courtwatch.news\/p\/the-rabbit-hole-foxes-in-the-guardhouse\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Court Watch<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Judge orders a stop to Trump campaign ads being paid for with taxpayer funds. [<a href=\"https:\/\/electionlawblog.org\/2026\/breaking-federal-judge-order-an-immediate-end-to-dhss-pro-trump-propaganda-ads\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Election Law Blog<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* DOJ considering antitrust claims against news networks for not covering Trump events following his decision to revoke White House access to reporters. [<a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/business-and-practice\/doj-probes-tv-networks-over-white-house-coverage-decisions\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg Law News<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* First Circuit rules that you can\u2019t defame an entire industry at once. [<a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/volokh\/2026\/10\/09\/statement-about-maine-lobster-industry-as-a-whole-cant-be-actionable-group-defamation\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Volokh Conspiracy<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/10\/morning-docket-10-13-26\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Morning Docket: 10.13.26<\/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 wants the Supreme Court to bring back his bonkers RICO suit against Hillary Clinton. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/10\/09\/politics\/trump-supreme-court-hillary-clinton-lawsuit\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CNN<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Former Sheppard Mullin paralegal launches class action over data breach. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abajournal.com\/news\/article\/ex-employee-sues-sheppard-mullin-over-cyberattack-exposing-sensitive-personal-data\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ABA Journal<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* The Trump administration\u2019s gutting of career civil service protections sets up a new challenge for the next administration: systematically identifying and firing huge swaths of key departments. [<a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/post\/216470\/trump-doj-civil-service-wingnuts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The New Republic<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Over 150 Bureau of Prisons employees and contractors charged with crimes over the last 4 years. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.courtwatch.news\/p\/the-rabbit-hole-foxes-in-the-guardhouse\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Court Watch<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Judge orders a stop to Trump campaign ads being paid for with taxpayer funds. [<a href=\"https:\/\/electionlawblog.org\/2026\/breaking-federal-judge-order-an-immediate-end-to-dhss-pro-trump-propaganda-ads\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Election Law Blog<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* DOJ considering antitrust claims against news networks for not covering Trump events following his decision to revoke White House access to reporters. [<a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/business-and-practice\/doj-probes-tv-networks-over-white-house-coverage-decisions\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg Law News<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* First Circuit rules that you can\u2019t defame an entire industry at once. [<a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/volokh\/2026\/10\/09\/statement-about-maine-lobster-industry-as-a-whole-cant-be-actionable-group-defamation\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Volokh Conspiracy<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/10\/morning-docket-10-13-26\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Morning Docket: 10.13.26<\/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 wants the Supreme Court to bring back his bonkers RICO suit against Hillary Clinton. [CNN] * Former Sheppard Mullin paralegal launches class action over data breach. [ABA Journal] * The Trump administration\u2019s gutting of career civil service protections sets up a new challenge for the next administration: systematically identifying and firing huge swaths [&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-164861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164861","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=164861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}