{"id":165402,"date":"2026-10-21T05:15:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T13:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/10\/21\/morning-docket-10-21-26\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T05:15:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T13:15:18","slug":"morning-docket-10-21-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/10\/21\/morning-docket-10-21-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Docket: 10.21.26"},"content":{"rendered":"

* Judge Ada Brown saga gets more bizarre as she emails sealed court papers to 140 people. [Bloomberg Law News<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* The fight over the Hastings name ends, as Supreme Court refuses to take up challenge to law school\u2019s name change. [Reuters<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Court imposes bounty system to stop AI hallucinations \u2014 attorney fined $38,877 payable to opposing counsel who found the errors. [National Law Review<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* D.C. Circuit revives churches\u2019 challenge to ICE using houses of worship to hunt people. Neomi Rao dissented, as conservatives continue anti-religious turn now that Jesus is inconvenient to policy goals. [Courthouse News Service<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Court finds that DOGE illegally accessed OPM data, with Judge Cote observing, \u201cThe defendants barely defend its legality.\u201d [Bloomberg Law News<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Since we\u2019re talking about clerkship bonuses<\/a>, Robins Kaplan upped the stakes to $150K and $175K. [Robins Kaplan<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Law firm receptionist allegedly convinced clients to pay her instead of the firm. [ABA Journal<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Ric Grenell \u2014 whose non-profit Katie Zacharia claimed to be the GC of \u2014 \u201callegedly outlined a stunning pay-for-influence offer to a Turkish billionaire last year.\u201d Maybe he should\u2019ve checked with his non-lawyer first. [Axios<\/a>]<\/p>\n

The post Morning Docket: 10.21.26<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* Judge Ada Brown saga gets more bizarre as she emails sealed court papers to 140 people. [Bloomberg Law News<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* The fight over the Hastings name ends, as Supreme Court refuses to take up challenge to law school\u2019s name change. [Reuters<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Court imposes bounty system to stop AI hallucinations \u2014 attorney fined $38,877 payable to opposing counsel who found the errors. [National Law Review<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* D.C. Circuit revives churches\u2019 challenge to ICE using houses of worship to hunt people. Neomi Rao dissented, as conservatives continue anti-religious turn now that Jesus is inconvenient to policy goals. [Courthouse News Service<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Court finds that DOGE illegally accessed OPM data, with Judge Cote observing, \u201cThe defendants barely defend its legality.\u201d [Bloomberg Law News<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Since we\u2019re talking about clerkship bonuses<\/a>, Robins Kaplan upped the stakes to $150K and $175K. [Robins Kaplan<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Law firm receptionist allegedly convinced clients to pay her instead of the firm. [ABA Journal<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Ric Grenell \u2014 whose non-profit Katie Zacharia claimed to be the GC of \u2014 \u201callegedly outlined a stunning pay-for-influence offer to a Turkish billionaire last year.\u201d Maybe he should\u2019ve checked with his non-lawyer first. [Axios<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

* Judge Ada Brown saga gets more bizarre as she emails sealed court papers to 140 people. [Bloomberg Law News] * The fight over the Hastings name ends, as Supreme Court refuses to take up challenge to law school\u2019s name change. [Reuters] * Court imposes bounty system to stop AI hallucinations \u2014 attorney fined $38,877 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":165403,"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-165402","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\/165402","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=165402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}