Supreme Court
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Artificial Intelligence Lets Us All Be Flies On The Wall For Brown v. Board Of Education
Outlines can be that much more immersive!
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Generating Predictions For Grants Pass v. Johnson Using Artificial Intelligence
Optimized Legal Audio is an artificial intelligence engine in its infancy that tries to hear what judges say, read the language they use, and through this to infer their relative preference for one attorney’s argument over another’s.
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Remember Nick Sandmann? He was the dude who became something of a Rorschach Test for how much your political beliefs (in any direction) influence your views of a short video, when EVERYONE HAD OPINIONS on his MAGA-hat wearing encounter with a Native American demonstrator, Nathan Phillips. Also, everyone magically became experts in reading body language and facial expressions. […]
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From the ‘reconnecting’ department.
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Biglaw’s Parental Leave Backslide
Parental leave and a bumbling Supreme Court highlight the week.
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Supreme Court Accidentally Forgets To Delete Basic Metadata In Trump Ballot Ruling
It looks like Sotomayor intended to author a dissent.
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John Roberts Once Again Uses Judiciary’s Annual Report To Express His Utmost Contempt For The Public
The Chief’s federal judiciary’s year-end report may as well have been generated by ChatGPT.
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Justice O’Connor’s Important Contribution To Copyright Law: Copyright Must Serve The Public First
From the no sweat of the brow dept.
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Harvard Law School Professor Finds ChatGPT Invents Fake Law Less Than The Supreme Court
ChatGPT can figure out how broken Citizens United was, but then it’s not actively on the take.
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* If Senator Whitehouse thinks John Roberts will take action after Sam Alito straight up admitted to breaching ethics rules, then he doesn’t know John Roberts! [Law360]
* Oregon Supreme Court voting on whether to become the first state in the modern era to offer a full apprenticeship path to the bar. [Reuters]
* GPT-4 wins a lawyering contest featuring various AI options, but still isn’t as good as humans. Kinda supercharges why states might want to find licensing pathways that don’t involve an algorithm gaming a test, huh? [New Scientist]
* Nationwide says it is not on your side if you’re accused of aiding in an abduction. [Law.com]
* John Eastman has failed to get out of his disciplinary proceeding on Fifth Amendment grounds. That was the obvious outcome, but if John Eastman accepted the obvious dictates of the law he wouldn’t be in this mess in the first place. [Bloomberg Law News]
* An interview with super agent Leigh Steinberg. [ABA Journal]
* CiteRight and Jurisage to merge as Canadian legal tech providers eye expansion. [Law.com International]
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* Depressed about how awful the Supreme Court is right now? Maybe it’s not the worst. I mean it’s still bad, but there’s room for hope. [Vox]
* AI is not an artist. Judge reject copyright for AI generated artwork. [Law360]
* Biden administration wants to be able to block you. The Solicitor General will argue to the Supreme Court that government officials that blocker social media users on their own personal accounts do not violate the First Amendment. [Law.com]
* So, this is how Hunter Biden’s plea deal fell apart. [Politico]
* Asa Hutchinson understands the 14th Amendment, think Donald Trump is likely disqualified from running for president. [The Hill]
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* White House Counsel Stuart Delery is leaving the job next month. Where will the revolving door land? Probably Gibson Dunn. [Law360]
* State judge blocks Texas law that barred Houston — and only Houston — from running its local elections after the city started electing Black women. [AP]
* NY Times mulls suing OpenAI to prevent GPT from learning how to compose whataboutism takes that put David Brooks out of a job. [NPR]
* We knew Thomson Reuters planned to buy Casetext for $650 million. It’s now official. [Legaltech News]
* Yes, you can lose your job for posting about committing vehicular manslaughter against Black people. [Reuters]
* Supreme Court could improve its legitimacy by hewing closer to rigorous policy analysis. They can’t even do rigorous historical analysis, how are they supposed to do rigorous policy analysis? [Milken Institute Review]
* Before getting indicted for joining criminal coup-spiracy, Ken Chesebro was a Larry Tribe research assistant. [ABA Journal]
* EEOC considers renewing race and gender pay reports. Raising concerns about litigation from anti-affirmative action forces who are so sure that discrimination doesn’t exist that they don’t want anyone checking their work. [Bloomberg Law News]
* Fired attorney calls cops on partner. [Roll on Friday]
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* Keep track of who’s who in the latest indictment. [Politico]
* Meanwhile, Abbe Lowell and Winston & Strawn have stepped up their collective role in the Hunter Biden case, arguing that the original plea agreement included binding government promises that didn’t evaporate just because the judge rejected the deal. [Law360]
* CFPB going after data brokers selling people’s personal data. Yet again, the government agency making the most direct, tangible impact for people is the one that still worries that every election might be its last. [Bloomberg Law News]
* Justice Department urges Supreme Court to deal with unconstitutional social media laws out of Texas and Florida. [Reuters]
* Has “flexibility” lost all meaning when it comes to law firm office scheduling? No. Just because some law firms try to engage in flexibility newspeak, doesn’t actually change its meaning. [American Lawyer]
* AI may not be ready to replace lawyers, but the California Innocence Project is leveraging the tool to assist in pursuit of justice. [ABA Journal]
* London Kirkland team headed to Paul Weiss resigned on a Sunday in a power move. [LegalCheek]
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* Supreme Court steps in to block opioid settlement that would’ve immunized the Sacklers. Looks like someone needs to start buying some luxury vacations for Clarence! [CNN]
* FEC looking into campaign deepfakes. Not to offer Donald Trump free advice, but he might want to embrace AI and argue that all those election calls were just malicious AI phonies. [Bloomberg Law News]
* Law firm closing up shop after nearly a century in business. [Law.com]
* Ed Blum is taking his effort to stamp out diversity from the classroom to the boardroom, going after a venture capital firm that invests in Black-owned businesses. [Reuters]
* University of California drawing back from Lewis Brisbois over the email scandal. Though those guys aren’t there anymore so this is more of a “how did you let this happen?” penalty. [Law360]
* Caltech and Apple have settled lawsuit over Wifi. With that kind of money, maybe they can join the Big Ten too. [9to5Mac]
* Is an LLM worth putting off a Biglaw job? [LegalCheek]
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Elon Musk Is Having A Very Litigious Week
Between threatening Facebook and suing Wachtell, the Chief Twit is pretty active. We also talk about the end of the Supreme Court Term and the struggles in bar prep.
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* Federal judge wants the dysfunctional Federal Circuit to go to couples therapy — or mediation as he called it. [Bloomberg Law News]
* California decides it’s far too difficult to hold employers liable for exposing employees to COVID so it just… won’t. [Law360]
* Judge in trouble for lip synching. Like you’d WANT to hear a judge’s singing voice? [ABA Journal]
* Supreme Court looks to make it safe for violent domestic abusers to stockpile guns again. Maybe they’ll bother to read the cases they cite… unlike the circuit court. [Reuters]
* Top ten highest paid CEO list reveals it’s good to be in legal tech. [CNBC]