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Ars Technica: “AI industry groups are urging an appeals court to block what they say is the largest copyright class action ever certified. They’ve warned that a single lawsuit raised by three authors over Anthropic’s AI training now threatens to “financially ruin” the entire AI industry if up to 7 million claimants end up joining …
MIT Technology Review – As the line between helping and judging blurs, the cost of errors is steep. “The propensity for AI systems to make mistakes and for humans to miss those mistakes has been on full display in the US legal system as of late. The follies began when lawyers—including some at prestigious firms—submitted …
The New York Times no paywall: “A federal appeals court on Tuesday allowed teams affiliated with the Department of Government Efficiency to gain access to potentially sensitive data on millions of Americans, overruling a lower court that had blocked that access in February. By a 2-1 vote, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of …
Follow up to Federal court filing system hit in sweeping hack see the New York Times – Russia Is Suspected to Be Behind Breach of Federal Court Filing System. “Federal officials are scrambling to assess the damage and address flaws in a sprawling, heavily used computer system long known to have vulnerabilities. Investigators have uncovered …
CNN – no paywall: “They flew together on a private jet, partied side by side at Mar-a-Lago, appeared at Victoria’s Secret runway shows, and reportedly dined with royalty at a luxury Upper East Side townhouse. Their names appear together in flight logs, legal filings, phone messages—and in photo after photo in the moneyed world of …
The New Yorker [no paywall] – Immigrants showing up for court dates in Manhattan must now navigate past rows of masked federal agents. Since the spring, at the federal courthouses in downtown Manhattan, hundreds of officers from ICE and other government agencies have lined the hallways and lobbies, waiting to detain some migrants as they …
The New York Times gift article: “Spikes in the number and influence of briefs filed by historians have prompted questions about the role scholars should play in litigation Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. studied history in college and wanted to become a historian. A taxi ride changed his mind. “I was being driven back …
Legal challenges to President Trump’s executive order attempting to end birthright citizenship are ongoing. A Brennan Center explainer breaks down what to know as the court cases unfold, including why the Constitution has a Citizenship Clause, what it says, and what ending birthright citizenship could mean for all Americans. Birthright Citizenship Under the U.S. Constitution …
Politico: “The electronic case filing system used by the federal judiciary has been breached in a sweeping cyber intrusion that is believed to have exposed sensitive court data across multiple U.S. states, according to two people with knowledge of the incident. The hack, which has not been previously reported, is feared to have compromised the …
The Brennan Center – “In 2020, 2022, and 2024, our nation held federal elections. Despite the pandemic, threats of violence, denial of results, and extraordinary pressure, these were secure and accurate. Election officials worked together across party lines. The system held. How trump is plotting to disrupt the next election. This year, however, a new …
Austin Kocher – Substack: “Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) released updated detention statistics on Thursday, and we’ve already updated Detention Reports accordingly. The website now includes 184 facility reports based on ICE data from June 23, 2025, and July 21, 2025. Thanks to the valuable feedback of many users, we have already made improvements in …
Free Law Project: “We’re thrilled to introduce the latest upgrade to CourtListener: transcripts for oral arguments! CourtListener already hosts the largest collection of oral argument audio online—over 3.2 million minutes (and counting). Now, thanks to our partnership with OpenAI, we’re making these recordings even more powerful. With today’s release, you can now search them, set …
