Day archives: October 1st, 2025

18 Lawyers Caught Using AI Explain Why They Did It

404 Media: “Earlier this month, an appeals court in California issued a blistering decision and record $10,000 fine against a lawyer who submitted a brief in which “nearly all of the legal quotations in plaintiff’s opening brief, and many of the quotations in plaintiff’s reply brief, are fabricated” through the use of ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, …

Subjects: AI, Courts, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Trump administration hands over Medicaid recipients’ personal data, including addresses, to ICE

AP – “Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials will be given access to the personal data of the nation’s 79 million Medicaid enrollees, including home addresses and ethnicities, to track down immigrants who may not be living legally in the United States, according to an agreement obtained by The Associated Press. The information will give ICE …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, E-Records, Government Documents, Health Care, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

2025 Fall Foliage Map

The 2025 Fall Foliage Map is the ultimate visual planning guide to the annual progressive changing of the leaves. While no tool can be 100% accurate, this tool is meant to help travelers better time their trips to have the best opportunity of catching peak color each year. Over the next few weeks, the Mid-Atlantic …

Subjects: Climate Change, Environmental Law

Banned in the USA, 2024-2025

PEN America – The Normalization of Book Banning: “In 2025, book censorship in the United States is rampant and common. Never before in the life of any living American have so many books been systematically removed from school libraries across the country. Never before have so many states passed laws or regulations to facilitate the …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Education, Free Speech, Freedom of Information, Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries

Disarming Disinformation Research: United States Case Study

“In the second country case study published under the Disarming Disinformation project, we examine the critical role played by the ethnic and Indigenous press in countering disinformation in the U.S. We highlight unique challenges ethnic and Indigenous outlets face related to disinformation during the 2024 U.S. presidential election.The findings come from a far-reaching, mixed methods …

Subjects: AI, Censorship, Education, Internet, Legal Research

Nazi Looted Art Identified in Ohio

JTA: Ohio auction house halts sale of paintings looted during the Holocaust and billed as ‘unclaimed property. “The Monuments Men and Women Foundation linked the 17th-century works to Adolphe Schloss, a German Jew whose collection was seized by the Nazis. Two 17th-century paintings have been taken off the auction block after a Holocaust art restitution …

Subjects: Legal Research