Daily Morning Briefing — 2026-05-20

Importance: High. Tasks: pending (3 open questions for Sam).

Generated 7:00 AM ET. Full local file: /Users/samaguiar/Documents/Codex/Daily-Briefing_2026-05-20.md

1. TL;DR

Day 2 of the NTSB investigative hearing for the UPS Flight 2976 cargo crash, 8:00 AM to 3:00 PM ET in Washington, DC. Multi-day block ends today at 5:00 PM ET.
Hard deadline today: proposed changes to the Sterusky/Cooper jury questionnaire go to the case manager.
Schedule overlap: the NTSB hearing runs over the 10:00 AM Payton/Proctor counsel call and the 11:30 AM Dare to Care volunteering slot in Louisville.
Litify shows 1,163 open matters. Treatment (404) and Negotiation (257) carry the largest load.
Google Ads spent $1,018.88 yesterday on 1 recorded conversion (attribution lags; preliminary).
Added 5 negative keywords from yesterday's wasted spend, blocking roughly $139/day. Change ids 88317 to 88321.
Referral reply owed to Jonathan at MVM Law on the Bethany Maynard KSP matter.
8 American Express purchase alerts overnight on Craig Aguiar cards, including one card-not-present notice.
No Google Ads hack indicators.

Time	Event	Organizer
All day	Sterusky/Cooper jury questionnaire changes to case manager (DEADLINE)	lit_events@
8:00 AM – 3:00 PM	NTSB Investigative Hearing, UPS Flight 2976 (Washington DC)	Janelle
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM	Payton (Proctor) call with counsel re limits split (phone, tentative)	pklatt@
11:30 AM – 1:30 PM	Volunteering at Dare to Care (Louisville)	amy@demandsam.com
7:15 PM – 8:15 PM	Owen soccer tournament vs. St. Michael	Janelle

Stale events (former staff): none.

Overnight coverage: 75 messages, May 19 9:04 PM ET through May 20 8:02 AM ET.

Action-required

Referral reply owed — Jonathan, MVM Law. Case no. 23-CI-00453, Franklin County, Bethany Maynard retaliation/discrimination claim vs KSP. He wants a referral name.
American Express alerts: 8 overnight notices on Craig Aguiar cards (7 Large Purchase Approved, 1 card-not-present). Verify they were authorized.