{"id":166955,"date":"2026-11-09T06:53:56","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T14:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/11\/09\/morning-docket-11-09-26\/"},"modified":"2026-11-09T06:53:56","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T14:53:56","slug":"morning-docket-11-09-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/11\/09\/morning-docket-11-09-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Docket: 11.09.26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Weil\u2019s almost-chief Ramona Nee finally decides on landing spot, headlining a 40-lawyer pull for Kirkland. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.legalcheek.com\/2026\/11\/top-weil-lawyers-eye-lucrative-moves-as-trainees-face-uncertain-future\/amp\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Legal Cheek<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Judge Reyes looking to appoint one of Trump\u2019s first term U.S. Attorneys to probe whether the second term administration\u2019s attorneys lied to the court. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/11\/07\/trump-special-master-investigation-jessie-liu-golf-01155175\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Politico<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* DOJ\u2019s \u201cgrand conspiracy\u201d prosecutor and a National Security Division chief both resign as midterms convince Trump lawyers that it might be time to distance themselves. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/11\/06\/politics\/jason-reding-quinones-resigns-doj-grand-conspiracy-florida\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CNN<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* University of Alabama professors banned from saying \u201cGulf of Mexico.\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/news-and-politics\/2026\/11\/alabama-gulf-of-mexico-america-ban.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Slate Jurisprudence<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Now where will the drones live? Judge blocks construction of Trump\u2019s gaudy arch, which he\u2019s claiming is necessary for national security. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/11\/06\/nx-s1-6031990\/trump-arch-planning-commission-injunction\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NPR<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Judge slashes attorney fee award in half over hallucinated cite. [<a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/volokh\/2026\/11\/07\/attorney-fee-award-cut-from-100k-to-50k-partly-as-sanction-for-hallucinated-citations\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Volokh Conspiracy<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/11\/morning-docket-11-09-26\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Morning Docket: 11.09.26<\/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\">* Weil\u2019s almost-chief Ramona Nee finally decides on landing spot, headlining a 40-lawyer pull for Kirkland. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.legalcheek.com\/2026\/11\/top-weil-lawyers-eye-lucrative-moves-as-trainees-face-uncertain-future\/amp\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Legal Cheek<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Judge Reyes looking to appoint one of Trump\u2019s first term U.S. Attorneys to probe whether the second term administration\u2019s attorneys lied to the court. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/11\/07\/trump-special-master-investigation-jessie-liu-golf-01155175\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Politico<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* DOJ\u2019s \u201cgrand conspiracy\u201d prosecutor and a National Security Division chief both resign as midterms convince Trump lawyers that it might be time to distance themselves. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/11\/06\/politics\/jason-reding-quinones-resigns-doj-grand-conspiracy-florida\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CNN<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* University of Alabama professors banned from saying \u201cGulf of Mexico.\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/news-and-politics\/2026\/11\/alabama-gulf-of-mexico-america-ban.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Slate Jurisprudence<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Now where will the drones live? Judge blocks construction of Trump\u2019s gaudy arch, which he\u2019s claiming is necessary for national security. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/11\/06\/nx-s1-6031990\/trump-arch-planning-commission-injunction\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NPR<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Judge slashes attorney fee award in half over hallucinated cite. [<a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/volokh\/2026\/11\/07\/attorney-fee-award-cut-from-100k-to-50k-partly-as-sanction-for-hallucinated-citations\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Volokh Conspiracy<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Weil\u2019s almost-chief Ramona Nee finally decides on landing spot, headlining a 40-lawyer pull for Kirkland. [Legal Cheek] * Judge Reyes looking to appoint one of Trump\u2019s first term U.S. Attorneys to probe whether the second term administration\u2019s attorneys lied to the court. [Politico] * DOJ\u2019s \u201cgrand conspiracy\u201d prosecutor and a National Security Division chief [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":166956,"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-166955","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\/166955","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=166955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}