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 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…
Bloomberg Law “Investors who seek returns by funding lawsuits are adding a new twist—they are seeking social change too. James Burnham, a former Jones Day attorney who served in President Donald Trump’s Justice Department, in July launched Vallecito Capital, a $50 million fund that will back cases supporting the conservative Read more…
ABA Journal “It’s December, and for many law firms that means it’s time to put on the party hats and try to have some fun. But a celebratory event like a holiday party can quickly devolve into drunkenness, inappropriate behavior and a litigation mess if law firm management isn’t careful, Read more…
The Texas Tribune “The Supreme Court on Friday said it would wade into the future of free speech online and decide whether laws passed in Texas and Florida can restrict social media companies from removing certain political posts or accounts. The justices’ decision to take the landmark social media cases Read more…
ABA Journal “Large language models such as ChatGPT are all the rage these days. A lot of commentators, legal professionals, lawyers and media outlets, have spent a lot of time examining this game changing technology. This isn’t the first time that a promising piece of legal technology upended the legal Read more…
” Updated: In the fall of 2022, David Wakeling, head of law firm Allen & Overy’s Markets Innovation Group in London, got a glimpse of the future. Months before the release of ChatGPT, he demoed Harvey, a platform built on OpenAI’s GPT technology and tailored for major law firms. “As Read more…
“A Florida woman has filed a federal lawsuit alleging that the Kraft Heinz Foods Co. misled consumers when it claimed that its Velveeta Shells & Cheese product is “ready in 3.5 minutes.” The Nov. 18 would-be class actionsays the 3.5 minutes represents the time to microwave the product, which is Read more…
“A conservative federal appeals judge suggested in a concurrence this week that the U.S. Supreme Court should consider whether the right to earn a living is a fundamental, unenumerated constitutional right. Judge James Ho of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at New Orleans made his argument in a Read more…
“A federal appeals court on Friday allowed Texas to enforce a law that generally bans large social media companies from restricting posts based on the viewpoint of the speaker. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at New Orleans rejected arguments that the Texas law interfered with the companies’ First Read more…