{"id":165021,"date":"2026-10-15T05:15:32","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T13:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/10\/15\/morning-docket-10-15-26\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T05:15:32","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T13:15:32","slug":"morning-docket-10-15-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/10\/15\/morning-docket-10-15-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Docket: 10.15.26"},"content":{"rendered":"

* States sue OpenAI, claiming the technology harms children. Presumably because those children are trying to draft briefs without caselaw hallucinations. [NBC News<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Supreme Court issues shadow docket ruling, allowing committees to pay reduced candidate rates for TV ads. [Courthouse News Service<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Judge signals that Los Angeles not-really-the-U.S. Attorney<\/em> Bill Essayli is likely to be disqualified. [Bloomberg Law News<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* The top of the UK legal market is pulling away from the pack. A heavily stratified class system? In England? No![Financial Times<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Harvey and Legora introduced products with the same name within hours of each other. [Legal Cheek<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Ninth Circuit strikes down \u201cNo Vigilantes Act,\u201d requiring federal law-enforcement agents to wear visible ID, as violating the Supremacy Clause. The law was intended to deter people claiming to be federal agents to harass people by creating a visible distinction. But, for the federal government, encouraging the harassment is a feature not a bug. [LA Times<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Yale Law grad wins Nobel Prize in Economics. [Yale Daily News<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Lawyer mental health survey shows stress, drinking, and gambling. [Reuters<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* State AGs move to protect user information in Character.ai bankruptcy. By the way, this is an AI company that was valued at around $2.7B and is now in bankruptcy\u2026 in case you\u2019re wondering what a bursting bubble looks like. [Law360<\/a>]<\/p>\n

The post Morning Docket: 10.15.26<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* States sue OpenAI, claiming the technology harms children. Presumably because those children are trying to draft briefs without caselaw hallucinations. [NBC News<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Supreme Court issues shadow docket ruling, allowing committees to pay reduced candidate rates for TV ads. [Courthouse News Service<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Judge signals that Los Angeles not-really-the-U.S. Attorney<\/em> Bill Essayli is likely to be disqualified. [Bloomberg Law News<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* The top of the UK legal market is pulling away from the pack. A heavily stratified class system? In England? No![Financial Times<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Harvey and Legora introduced products with the same name within hours of each other. [Legal Cheek<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Ninth Circuit strikes down \u201cNo Vigilantes Act,\u201d requiring federal law-enforcement agents to wear visible ID, as violating the Supremacy Clause. The law was intended to deter people claiming to be federal agents to harass people by creating a visible distinction. But, for the federal government, encouraging the harassment is a feature not a bug. [LA Times<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Yale Law grad wins Nobel Prize in Economics. [Yale Daily News<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Lawyer mental health survey shows stress, drinking, and gambling. [Reuters<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* State AGs move to protect user information in Character.ai bankruptcy. By the way, this is an AI company that was valued at around $2.7B and is now in bankruptcy\u2026 in case you\u2019re wondering what a bursting bubble looks like. [Law360<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

* States sue OpenAI, claiming the technology harms children. Presumably because those children are trying to draft briefs without caselaw hallucinations. [NBC News] * Supreme Court issues shadow docket ruling, allowing committees to pay reduced candidate rates for TV ads. [Courthouse News Service] * Judge signals that Los Angeles not-really-the-U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli is likely […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":165022,"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-165021","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\/165021","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=165021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}