“The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether a parody dog toy called “Bad Spaniels” is entitled to protection from trademark infringement and dilution-by-tarnishment claims by Jack Daniel’s Properties Inc. The Supreme Court agreed Nov. 21 to review a...
Read more“A policy allowing only “respectful and courteous” public comments at town meetings violates the state constitution, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has ruled. The Massachusetts town of Southborough’s comment policy violated protections for freedom of assembly and freedom of speech...
Read more“Artificial intelligence has the potential to change the world in which we work and live. If you’ve been paying attention, you know that AI-related transformation is already happening, and the legal industry is not immune. As I’ve discussed in past...
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“If 40 states have implemented an ethical duty of competence in technology, why aren’t lawyers completely technologically competent? That’s a question Kenton Brice, the director of technology innovation at the University of Oklahoma College of Law, posed to the audience Read more…
“A federal appeals court on Wednesday blocked a California law that makes it a crime to require employees to sign agreements for arbitration of workplace disputes. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at San Francisco ruled that the law Read more…
“SCOTUSblog has no worries that its coverage of the Supreme Court will be displaced by the artificial intelligence program known as ChatGPT. The program had passing scores on two sections of a practice bar exam. And it had a C-plus Read more…
“A federal appeals court has struck down a ban on gun possession by people subject to domestic-violence restraining orders, citing the historical approach required by the U.S. Supreme Court’s latest Second Amendment precedent. In a Feb. 2 opinion, the 5th Read more…
“The possibility that the United States will default on its bills has resurrected arguments that the debt limit is unconstitutional under the 14th Amendment. If Congress doesn’t suspend or raise the limit on the amount of money that the nation Read more…
“The U.S. Supreme Court has dismissed an attorney-client privilege case two weeks after hearing oral arguments. The high court dismissed In Re Grand Jury as improvidently granted Monday, SCOTUSblogreports. At issue was what test courts should apply when considering whether Read more…
New York’s new concealed-carry restrictions remain in place during appeals as a result of an order Wednesday by the U.S. Supreme Court. The Supreme Court rejected an emergency request to block the law, while the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Read more…