Morning Docket: 05.24.22

* Could these abortion bans be just the thing needed to spur environmentalism with teeth? [Daily Beast] * The 11th Circuit just found the Florida law that prevents social media sites from moderating political speech to be unconstitutional. [Yahoo!] * Harvard just uhh... sued the government for discriminating against one of its students? Am I reading this right? [The Crimson] * Colorado just made it a little easier to be a parent. [Chieftain] * We don't like your kind around here: Inventions originating from artificial intelligence are butting up against patent law in interesting ways. [Nature]

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* Could these abortion bans be just the thing needed to spur environmentalism with teeth? [Daily Beast]

* The 11th Circuit just found the Florida law that prevents social media sites from moderating political speech to be unconstitutional. [Yahoo!]

* Harvard just uhh… sued the government for discriminating against one of its students? Am I reading this right? [The Crimson]

* Colorado just made it a little easier to be a parent. [Chieftain]

* We don’t like your kind around here: Inventions originating from artificial intelligence are butting up against patent law in interesting ways. [Nature]


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