{"id":167151,"date":"2026-11-11T06:42:35","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T14:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/11\/11\/morning-docket-11-11-26\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T06:42:35","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T14:42:35","slug":"morning-docket-11-11-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/11\/11\/morning-docket-11-11-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Docket: 11.11.26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Nvidia brings on Wachtell to probe CEO\u2019s affair with Chinese intelligence asset. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/11\/10\/business\/nvidia-wachtell-lipton-jensen-huang.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Ethics officials hit Alina Habba with charges over <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2023\/12\/alina-habba-you-got-some-splainin-to-do\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NDA debacle<\/a>. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonsun.com\/legal\/new-jersey-judiciary-complaint-alina-habba-mildon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Sun<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Judge kicks DOJ attorney off case after \u201cdeliberate attempt to mislead the court.\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justsecurity.org\/163989\/judge-bars-doj-attorney-thomas-price\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Just Security<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Supreme Court might be subtly shifting toward the center as it absorbs implications of midterm blowout. [<a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/news-and-politics\/2026\/11\/supreme-court-2026-election-kavanaugh-shuffle.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Slate<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* DOJ enters bunker mentality, telling U.S. Attorneys to resign if they\u2019re \u201cnot prepared for full-on battle and to obey the administration\u2019s orders.\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/us-law-week\/doj-official-urges-wartime-footing-warns-of-us-attorney-firings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg Law News<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* SEC reports 22 percent fewer enforcement actions last year, which approaches the \u201cstart stuffing cash in your mattress\u201d zone. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law360.com\/articles\/2548672\/sec-reports-continued-decline-in-enforcement-actions\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Law360<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Trump\u2019s defamation suit against the BBC can proceed\u2026 to the delight of anyone interested in what discovery looks like. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/legal\/government\/us-judge-says-trumps-10-billion-bbc-defamation-case-can-proceed-2026-11-10\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Jury hangs on whether man\u2019s emails to Judge Breyer amounted to a true threat. What\u2019s a little talk about skinning a human being among friends? [<a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/us-law-week\/mistrial-declared-for-man-accused-of-threatening-in-judge-breyer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg Law<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* County government wants refund of the money it gave to law school. Welcome to the experience of being a law graduate. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abajournal.com\/web\/article\/virginia-county-wants-3.4-million-back-that-it-gave-appalachian-school-of-law\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ABA Journal<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* More fallout from the midterms: incoming Texas chief justice wants to bring back ABA accreditation requirement. [<a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/litigation\/texas-next-top-justice-wants-to-return-to-aba-accreditation\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg Law News<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/11\/morning-docket-11-11-26\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Morning Docket: 11.11.26<\/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\">* Nvidia brings on Wachtell to probe CEO\u2019s affair with Chinese intelligence asset. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/11\/10\/business\/nvidia-wachtell-lipton-jensen-huang.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Ethics officials hit Alina Habba with charges over <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2023\/12\/alina-habba-you-got-some-splainin-to-do\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NDA debacle<\/a>. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonsun.com\/legal\/new-jersey-judiciary-complaint-alina-habba-mildon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Sun<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Judge kicks DOJ attorney off case after \u201cdeliberate attempt to mislead the court.\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justsecurity.org\/163989\/judge-bars-doj-attorney-thomas-price\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Just Security<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Supreme Court might be subtly shifting toward the center as it absorbs implications of midterm blowout. [<a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/news-and-politics\/2026\/11\/supreme-court-2026-election-kavanaugh-shuffle.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Slate<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* DOJ enters bunker mentality, telling U.S. Attorneys to resign if they\u2019re \u201cnot prepared for full-on battle and to obey the administration\u2019s orders.\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/us-law-week\/doj-official-urges-wartime-footing-warns-of-us-attorney-firings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg Law News<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* SEC reports 22 percent fewer enforcement actions last year, which approaches the \u201cstart stuffing cash in your mattress\u201d zone. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law360.com\/articles\/2548672\/sec-reports-continued-decline-in-enforcement-actions\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Law360<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Trump\u2019s defamation suit against the BBC can proceed\u2026 to the delight of anyone interested in what discovery looks like. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/legal\/government\/us-judge-says-trumps-10-billion-bbc-defamation-case-can-proceed-2026-11-10\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Jury hangs on whether man\u2019s emails to Judge Breyer amounted to a true threat. What\u2019s a little talk about skinning a human being among friends? [<a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/us-law-week\/mistrial-declared-for-man-accused-of-threatening-in-judge-breyer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg Law<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* County government wants refund of the money it gave to law school. Welcome to the experience of being a law graduate. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abajournal.com\/web\/article\/virginia-county-wants-3.4-million-back-that-it-gave-appalachian-school-of-law\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ABA Journal<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* More fallout from the midterms: incoming Texas chief justice wants to bring back ABA accreditation requirement. [<a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/litigation\/texas-next-top-justice-wants-to-return-to-aba-accreditation\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg Law News<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Nvidia brings on Wachtell to probe CEO\u2019s affair with Chinese intelligence asset. [NY Times] * Ethics officials hit Alina Habba with charges over NDA debacle. [Washington Sun] * Judge kicks DOJ attorney off case after \u201cdeliberate attempt to mislead the court.\u201d [Just Security] * Supreme Court might be subtly shifting toward the center as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":167152,"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-167151","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\/167151","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=167151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}