DOJ’s Defense Of Trump’s Biglaw Executive Orders: Look How Many Firms We Scared Into Compliance!
Turning Biglaw's capitulation into a legal argument.
Morning Docket: 03.13.26
* CFTC considers prediction market regulation. “CFTC failing” already a solid bet. [Law360]
* Government says tariff refund system 40 percent to 80 percent complete which is… quite the spread. Almost a “they’re just making stuff up” kind of estimate. [Reuters]
* In a reminder that everything is discoverable, Live Nation employees messaged each other over Slack to talk about robbing fans. [New York Post]
* Generative AI still occupies legal gray zones. [Legaltech News]
* Judge Pauline Newman appeals to the Supreme Court over her colleagues’ “pocket impeachment” effort to strip her of her life tenured job. [The Hill]
* DOJ spent months repeatedly emailing the wrong address asking for state election data. [Democracy Docket]
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Costco Customers Fight For Savings!: There’s a class action suit for customers to get their share of the potential tariff refund.
Bot’s Not Nice
Exhausted, overwhelmed, and frustrated is the new bewitched, bothered, and bewildered.
AI Legal Research Startup Descrybe Launches ‘Legal Reasoning’ Tool; Says It Outperforms ChatGPT, Claude, And Gemini On Bar Exam Benchmark
DescrybeLM answered all 200 bar exam questions correctly. The general-purpose models each missed between 13 and 23 questions.
Costco Member Starts Class Action To Make Sure Customers Get Their Share Of Tariff Refunds
Gotta fight for those savings!