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WHAT: Speak Up for Justice Forum, “Global Threats to the Justice System: A Warning to America.” A powerful, nonpartisan international forum where judges who’ve lived through authoritarian crackdowns will share urgent warnings about what happens when courts are attacked—and how it signals a broader collapse of democracy. Featuring rare remarks by U.S. Supreme Court Justice …
Simon Willison’s Weblog – Anthropic wins a major fair use victory for AI — but it’s still in trouble for stealing books. Major USA legal news for the AI industry today. Judge William Alsup released a “summary judgement” (a legal decision that results in some parts of a case skipping a trial) in a lawsuit …
Lit Hub: “Only one library book ban case has ever been decided by the U.S. Supreme Court: Board of Education, Island Trees Union Free School District No. 26 v. Pico (1982). In 1975, the Island Trees school board in Nassau County, New York removed nearly a dozen books from the high school and junior high …
Washington Post via MSN – “The president reported making millions from cryptocurrency, his golf properties, foreign licensing deals and other sources. JD Vance also filed forms disclosing Bitcoin holdings. President Donald Trump reported over $600 million in income and $1.6 billion in assets in a public financial disclosure filed late Friday, including cryptocurrency holdings, income …
Ars Technica: “Google wasn’t around for the advent of the World Wide Web, but it successfully remade the web on its own terms. Today, any website that wants to be findable has to play by Google’s rules, and after years of search dominance, the company has lost a major antitrust case that could reshape both …
Robert B. Hubbell: “In rapid succession on Thursday evening, the following occurred in California’s lawsuit challenging the legality of Trump’s federalization of the California National Guard for deployment in Los Angeles: US District Judge Bryer granted California’s motion for a temporary restraining order, finding that Trump violated the statutory conditions for federalizing the National Guard. …
Semafor: “The Trump administration will civilly and criminally prosecute [some] companies that have employed migrant workers, White House border czar Tom Homan said in an interview with Semafor’s Ben Smith Wednesday, a new dimension of risk for executives. “Worksite enforcement operations are going to massively expand,” he said. “They’re coming here for a better life …
Avraham, Ronen and Sharan, Roded and Kricheli Katz, Tamar and Nasser, Rami, Lifting the American Supreme Court Veil: Identifying Authorship in Unsigned Opinions (March 27, 2025). U of Texas Law, Legal Studies Research Paper, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5207281 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5207281 The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) issues 10-15 % of its opinions unsigned, …
Rolling Stone no paywall – “Originalism, a framework with roots in the segregationist past and funded by right-wing oligarchs, helped lead to Donald Trump’s unconstitutional regime By Sean Wilentz, Sidney Blumenthal – June 1, 2025: “An obscure ideology most people have never heard of is dominating almost every aspect of American life. Nearly every important …
Legal Services Corporation: “President Trump’s budget [Review LSC’s FY 2026 Budget Request here], released Friday, proposes the elimination of the Legal Services Corporation (LSC), putting at risk essential legal protections for veterans, seniors and children across the country. If this budget is approved, LSC-funded aid would disappear for everyday Americans facing urgent civil legal problems like …
“The Library of Congress regularly receives digitized newspapers from contributors to the National Digital Newspaper Program. Digitized newspapers are delivered in the form of batches, where each batch can contain one to many issues, from one or more newspaper titles. Recently loaded batches can be discovered on the Chronicling America Research Guide. One of the exciting additions from …
Artificial Lawyer: “A survey by Skills of which legal AI tools law firms are actually using provides multiple insights into where we are today. For example, Kira – which is part of Litera – remains by far the most popular tool for due diligence review. But, it’s followed by Harvey’s Vault feature – a relatively …
