“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 columns, there are already many AI-powered technologies available to legal 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 was preempted by the Federal Arbitration Act, report Reuters and 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 average on four exams at the University of Minnesota Law 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 U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at New Orleans vacated the 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 may borrow, the United States could be in default by 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 to protect “dual-purpose” documents that contain legal and nonlegal advice. 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 Appeals at New York considers three challenges, report the Washington Read more…
“The case has an air of mystery about it. Many documents have been filed under seal. A federal appeals court referred to the central entities only as “company” and “law firm.”In the U.S. Supreme Court, redacted copies of briefs reveal that that “law firm” is one specializing in international tax Read more…
“A public defender who can’t serve on a New York jury because of a 2009 felony drug conviction is a plaintiff in a lawsuit challenging the state’s ban on jurors with felony convictions as applied in Manhattan, New York City. Daudi Justin, 44, is one of two plaintiffs alleging that Read more…
“The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to decide two cases involving criminal defendants and their rights under the Sixth Amendment. In Samia v. United States, the Supreme Court will consider whether murder defendant Adam Samia’s rights under the Sixth Amendment’s confrontation clause were violated by testimony about a co-defendant’s Read more…