Lane Kiffin Is EXACTLY The Guy Who Uses ChatGPT For Legal Advice
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Morning Docket: 09.18.26
* Missouri’s Republican leadership have given up on their gerrymandered map following two explicit benchslaps from the U.S. Supreme Court. The Eighth Circuit, however, says “hold my beer.” [Politico]
* Second Circuit rules that the Fourth Amendment does not cover warrantless cell phone searches at customs, which seems… not what the Framers intended. [Law & Crime]
* LSU’s near disastrous legal conflict with the SEC was driven, in part, by head coach Lane Kiffin using ChatGPT to make legal strategy decisions. [ESPN]
* Sonia Sotomayor flags unitary executive theory as an attack on checks and balances. [Bloomberg Law News]
* Death penalty carried out despite jury explicitly voting for a life sentence. [EJI]
* Lawsuit against Donald Trump reveals that he might not actually own properties he claims to own. This is… not actually shocking. [BBC]
* Judge orders administration to give 30 days notice before tearing down the Kennedy Center, which the president plans to do if it’s not renamed after him. That’s a real sentence we had to write. [NPR]
* And, apparently, Robert Kraft is secretly making sure the Kennedy Center story doesn’t get a happy ending. [Boston Globe]
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