Bloomberg Law A company specializing in providing businesses with diversity, equity, and inclusion consulting is suing a rival for allegedly infringing its trademark in connection with providing “nearly identical services.” Catalyst Inc., a global advisory and research not-for-profit organization focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion consulting, alleges Empathy Catalyst Consulting, Read more
ABA Journal In 2013, the small Oregon city of Grants Pass debated how to deal with what public officials and others perceived to be a sharp increase in vagrancy and homelessness. The community of more than 38,000 in southern Oregon had an unhoused population of at least 600 people who Read more
ABA Journal Existing methods of accessing knowledge will coexist with generative As generative artificial intelligence stormed the scene over the past year with its snazzy Q&A interface, it was fair to ask whether existing ways of accessing knowledge, such as keyword search or templates, would become redundant. After all, why Read more
ABA Journal Inmates in New York are suing to be allowed to see the solar eclipse New York inmates are suing the state over its plan to lockdown prisons during next week’s solar eclipse, alleging that in barring them from viewing the rare phenomenon, the corrections department is stripping them Read more
ABA Journal Titanic law helps ship owner limit liability in Baltimore bridge collapse The owner of the ship that rammed into a Baltimore bridge could face hundreds of millions of dollars in damage claims after the accident sent vehicles plunging into the water and threw the eastern US transportation network Read more
ABA Journal A Florida driver alleges in a lawsuit that the sale of misleading driving data to insurers without his knowledge or permission violated consumer laws and his right to privacy. The would-be class action suit filed by Romeo Chicco says LexisNexis Risk Solutions violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act, Read more
Bloomberg Law Pfizer Inc.‘s recent victory over a conservative group’s legal challenge to the pharmaceutical giant’s diversity fellowship has the potential to undercut a legal strategy often used by organizations attacking such programs in court. The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that Do No Harm, an Read more
Reuters WASHINGTON, Feb 21 (Reuters) – U.S. Supreme Court justices signaled on Wednesday they may dismiss a legal fight between a Miami music producer and Warner Music (WMG.O)opens new tab over a song by rapper Flo Rida. Some of the justices during arguments in the case questioned whether they should decide the Read more
ABA Journal During oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court last term—in one of two thorny cases about whether social media companies could be held liable for aiding and abetting terrorist groups—Justice Elena Kagan observed, “We’re a court. We really don’t know about these things.” “You know,” she continued, looking Read more
ABA Journal “Generative artificial intelligence—which can generate new content based on a prompt—has the potential to “dramatically improve the efficiency of a lawyer’s practice,” but it also can pose ethical concerns, according to a Florida Bar ethics opinion approved Jan. 19. One of the pitfalls is that generative AI can “hallucinate” or Read more