Category «Legal Research»

The Cookware Industry Has a Major Fight Brewing Over PFAS Claims

Wired: “The war over forever chemicals in cookware has seen celebrity chefs, major cookware makers, and state legislatures enter into battle. Now, a new front has opened over advertising claims. Cookware company Caraway is alleging that “Big Cookware” is using a lawsuit to try to “silence” the company, which rose to prominence making forever-chemical-free pans. …

Subjects: Courts, Food and Nutrition, Government Documents, Health Care, Legal Research

Local prosecutors warn Trump: “If you send ICE to the polls, we’ll put them in jail.”

Defiance News: “Today, a coalition of locally elected district attorneys and prosecutors from across the United States have officially put the Trump administration on notice: any federal agent who shows up at a polling place in violation of state or federal law will be investigated and prosecuted under the laws of the jurisdiction in which …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Free Speech, Freedom of Information, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Ever Been a Member of the Federalist Society or Endorsed Unitary Executive Theory

A serious claim requiring serious consideration. Christopher Armitage – “The Federalist Society spent forty years building a captured federal judiciary, and we are now living inside the result. The doctrine they built it around has a name, unitary executive theory, and the doctrine has a method. The method is to read every Democratic exercise of …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Free Speech, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

SolarWinds Hack Was More Humiliating for the Government Than We Thought

Gizmodo: “The SolarWinds attack in 2020 was a humiliating all-out assault on U.S. government cybersecurity, and it’s likely that one key reason it’s not more famous is that we still know very little about what the hackers achieved. But we now have a few more crumbs to work with, because new revelations from Bloomberg have …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Mail, E-Records, Freedom of Information, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy

An Automatic Personalized End-to-End Legal Summarization System

An Automatic Personalized End-to-End Legal Summarization System. Xu, Huihui. University of Pittsburgh ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2026. 32672122. Personalized legal summarization for individuals’ interests allows legal professionals and the general public to understand the complex legal reasoning. The lengthy legal case opinions can be hard for readers to peruse and find information of interest. Summarizing legal opinions …

Subjects: AI, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

DOJ Scrubbed its Website of Documents Related to January 6th Crimes

Follow up to $1.8 Billion Fund Could Funnel Money to Trump Allies, Decoding Fox News – The DOJ website now shows a blank page. Links to documents have been eliminated. I posted real time reporting throughout January 6, 2021 and identified a number of sources to access government documents specific to the event. These documents are …

Subjects: Censorship, Copyright, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Legislation

Access to Justice in the Age of AI: Evidence from U.S. Federal Courts

Shah, Anand and Levy, Joshua, Access to Justice in the Age of AI: Evidence from U.S. Federal Courts (March 20, 2026). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6766859 – This paper studies how generative AI has reshaped entry into the federal civil court system. Drawing on administrative records covering more than 4.5 million non-prisoner federal civil court cases from …

Subjects: AI, Courts, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

How the Library of Congress is using both AI and volunteers to unlock public broadcasting history

NextGov/FCW: “Public broadcasting has a long history of capturing important moments in American life. It preserved voices from the civil rights movement, debates over war and foreign policy, regional arts coverage and local public affairs programs that reflected the people and places shaping the nation. But many of those moments have also been hard to …

Subjects: Congress, E-Government, E-Records, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries

Minters breaks the big law silence: AI is eating graduate jobs

Financial Review: “MinterEllison has become the first major Australian law firm to admit out loud a growing fear across the world: artificial intelligence-led automation may hurt lawyer numbers, and graduates will be hit first. Minters has cut its graduate cohort for 2025-26 by almost a third from the previous year, to 72, partly because artificial …

Subjects: AI, Education, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Marketing

Judge rules Trump White House must comply with Presidential Records Act

Citizens for Ethics: “A federal judge granted a preliminary injunction today requiring Trump administration officials to follow the Presidential Records Act and preserve text messages, including Signal messages, pertaining to its work, in response to a motion filed and argued by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington on behalf of the Freedom of the …

Subjects: Censorship, Courts, E-Government, E-Mail, E-Records, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Legal Research

The Pope just released a major manifesto on AI

NOTICE News: “Pope Leo XIV issued his first encyclical Monday — an 83-page document titled Magnifica Humanitas (Magnificent Humanity) — and it reads less like a church document and more like a progressive policy agenda for the digital age. The pope called on governments to regulate AI, warned that companies invoking ethics “in the abstract” …

Subjects: AI, Civil Liberties, Economy, Education, Energy, Environmental Law, Internet, Legal Research

Auschwitz Started in a Warehouse Too

Glass Empires: “This article is the historical companion to yesterday’s investigation of the WEXMAC TITUS warehouse buildout. Read this before they build the next camp. “If they did not know, they did not know because they did not want to know.” — Primo Levi, Afterword to If This Is a Man / The Truce, 1987.  …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Congress, Economy, Financial System, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Legal Research, Legislation