Texas Chief Justice Open to Banning AI Across State Courts
Banning the use of artificial intelligence in legal proceedings will be discussed by the Texas Supreme Court, Chief Justice Jimmy Blacklock (R) said during an exclusive interview Thursday.
US accountants and lawyers are mounting a furious lobbying effort on Capitol Hill to head off a tax rise targeted at professional services firms, which is buried in Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.”
Former celebrity lawyer Michael Avenatti asked the Ninth Circuit to review his revised 11-year criminal sentence, after a federal judge turned down his request for a significantly more lenient sentence.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) no longer faces felony securities fraud charges after prosecutors say he paid $271,000 in restitution to the victims and completed other requirements of a pretrial diversion program.
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Banning the use of artificial intelligence in legal proceedings will be discussed by the Texas Supreme Court, Chief Justice Jimmy Blacklock (R) said during an exclusive interview Thursday.
A federal judge in Georgia on Wednesday threw out claims from a former Mercer University law professor who said the school retaliated against her for requesting accommodations and leave due to long-term Covid complications.
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A legal group opposed to racial and gender preferences in academia sued the University of Michigan’s law review and leadership, alleging the journal’s selection process is based on a discriminatory scheme favoring women, racial minorities, gay, and transgender contributors.
President Donald Trump intends to nominate former Kentucky Solicitor General Chad Meredith to a district court judgeship in the state, three years after a deal fell apart to nominate him to the same court.
Texas’ nine-month-old business court system handed down its first final judgment in a case this week, resolving a dispute it took on in the fall and signaling that the nascent court could prove an efficient alternative to others.
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