#lawfedi — Public Fediverse posts

The latest Lawyer Ex Machina is out: Cities are fleeing Flock; NY bans classroom AI use for elementary and middle schoolers; and a Chilean lawyers breaks a court's electronic system by filing over 38,000 documents in 3 days (h/t to Damien Charlotin) #lawfedi #lawlibrarians #legaltech https://buttondown.com/LawyerExMachina/archive/de-flocking/

The latest Lawyer Ex Machina is out: Cities are fleeing Flock; NY bans classroom AI use for elementary and middle schoolers; and a Chilean lawyers breaks a court's electronic system by filing over 38,000 documents in 3 days (h/t to Damien Charlotin) #lawfedi #lawlibrarians #legaltech https://buttondown.com/LawyerExMachina/archive/de-flocking/

The latest Lawyer Ex Machina is out: Cities are fleeing Flock; NY bans classroom AI use for elementary and middle schoolers; and a Chilean lawyers breaks a court's electronic system by filing over 38,000 documents in 3 days (h/t to Damien Charlotin) #lawfedi #lawlibrarians #legaltech https://buttondown.com/LawyerExMachina/archive/de-flocking/

The latest Lawyer Ex Machina is out: Cities are fleeing Flock; NY bans classroom AI use for elementary and middle schoolers; and a Chilean lawyers breaks a court's electronic system by filing over 38,000 documents in 3 days (h/t to Damien Charlotin) #lawfedi #lawlibrarians #legaltech https://buttondown.com/LawyerExMachina/archive/de-flocking/

The latest Lawyer Ex Machina is out: Cities are fleeing Flock; NY bans classroom AI use for elementary and middle schoolers; and a Chilean lawyers breaks a court's electronic system by filing over 38,000 documents in 3 days (h/t to Damien Charlotin) #lawfedi #lawlibrarians #legaltech https://buttondown.com/LawyerExMachina/archive/de-flocking/

#LegalEthics Tidbit: If I tell my client to lie to the court and she refuses, have I engaged in deceptive conduct?

A VA lawyer told his client their case would benefit from a continuance, so he advised her to feign an illness and lie to the court about it in order to get a continuance. The lawyer advised her also to lie to her doctor: “say ‘I’ve been pooping my butt off and I’ve been throwing up… and they’ll give you some nausea ... (cont.)

https://vsb.org/Site/Site/news/summary/20251223-ayers.aspx
#law #lawfedi

#LegalEthics Tidbit: If I tell my client to lie to the court and she refuses, have I engaged in deceptive conduct?

A VA lawyer told his client their case would benefit from a continuance, so he advised her to feign an illness and lie to the court about it in order to get a continuance. The lawyer advised her also to lie to her doctor: “say ‘I’ve been pooping my butt off and I’ve been throwing up… and they’ll give you some nausea ... (cont.)

https://vsb.org/Site/Site/news/summary/20251223-ayers.aspx
#law #lawfedi

#LegalEthics Tidbit: If I tell my client to lie to the court and she refuses, have I engaged in deceptive conduct?

A VA lawyer told his client their case would benefit from a continuance, so he advised her to feign an illness and lie to the court about it in order to get a continuance. The lawyer advised her also to lie to her doctor: “say ‘I’ve been pooping my butt off and I’ve been throwing up… and they’ll give you some nausea ... (cont.)

https://vsb.org/Site/Site/news/summary/20251223-ayers.aspx
#law #lawfedi

#LegalEthics Tidbit: If I tell my client to lie to the court and she refuses, have I engaged in deceptive conduct?

A VA lawyer told his client their case would benefit from a continuance, so he advised her to feign an illness and lie to the court about it in order to get a continuance. The lawyer advised her also to lie to her doctor: “say ‘I’ve been pooping my butt off and I’ve been throwing up… and they’ll give you some nausea ... (cont.)

https://vsb.org/Site/Site/news/summary/20251223-ayers.aspx
#law #lawfedi

#LegalEthics Tidbit: If I tell my client to lie to the court and she refuses, have I engaged in deceptive conduct?

A VA lawyer told his client their case would benefit from a continuance, so he advised her to feign an illness and lie to the court about it in order to get a continuance. The lawyer advised her also to lie to her doctor: “say ‘I’ve been pooping my butt off and I’ve been throwing up… and they’ll give you some nausea ... (cont.)

https://vsb.org/Site/Site/news/summary/20251223-ayers.aspx
#law #lawfedi

#LegalEthics Tidbit: How can I make my #AI hallucinations sanctions worse, without even using #AI again?

A FL lawyer submitted a cert. petition to the District Court of Appeal that “cited a non-existent case allegedly from this Court and cited other cases that do not support this proposition.” In response to an order to show cause the lawyer acknowledged that “his normal process is to have artificial intelligence (“AI”) software research ... (cont.)

https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/10945803/jmor-properties-llc-v-artist-alley-townhomes-llc/?type=o&type=o&q=JMOR+PROPERTIES%2C+LLC%2C+Petitioner%2C+v.+ARTIST+ALLEY+TOWNHOMES%2C+LLC%2C+SAM+KIRZNER%2C+and&order_by=score+desc&stat_Published=on
#law #lawfedi

#LegalEthics Tidbit: How can I make my #AI hallucinations sanctions worse, without even using #AI again?

A FL lawyer submitted a cert. petition to the District Court of Appeal that “cited a non-existent case allegedly from this Court and cited other cases that do not support this proposition.” In response to an order to show cause the lawyer acknowledged that “his normal process is to have artificial intelligence (“AI”) software research ... (cont.)

https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/10945803/jmor-properties-llc-v-artist-alley-townhomes-llc/?type=o&type=o&q=JMOR+PROPERTIES%2C+LLC%2C+Petitioner%2C+v.+ARTIST+ALLEY+TOWNHOMES%2C+LLC%2C+SAM+KIRZNER%2C+and&order_by=score+desc&stat_Published=on
#law #lawfedi

#LegalEthics Tidbit: How can I make my #AI hallucinations sanctions worse, without even using #AI again?

A FL lawyer submitted a cert. petition to the District Court of Appeal that “cited a non-existent case allegedly from this Court and cited other cases that do not support this proposition.” In response to an order to show cause the lawyer acknowledged that “his normal process is to have artificial intelligence (“AI”) software research ... (cont.)

https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/10945803/jmor-properties-llc-v-artist-alley-townhomes-llc/?type=o&type=o&q=JMOR+PROPERTIES%2C+LLC%2C+Petitioner%2C+v.+ARTIST+ALLEY+TOWNHOMES%2C+LLC%2C+SAM+KIRZNER%2C+and&order_by=score+desc&stat_Published=on
#law #lawfedi

#LegalEthics Tidbit: How can I make my #AI hallucinations sanctions worse, without even using #AI again?

A FL lawyer submitted a cert. petition to the District Court of Appeal that “cited a non-existent case allegedly from this Court and cited other cases that do not support this proposition.” In response to an order to show cause the lawyer acknowledged that “his normal process is to have artificial intelligence (“AI”) software research ... (cont.)

https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/10945803/jmor-properties-llc-v-artist-alley-townhomes-llc/?type=o&type=o&q=JMOR+PROPERTIES%2C+LLC%2C+Petitioner%2C+v.+ARTIST+ALLEY+TOWNHOMES%2C+LLC%2C+SAM+KIRZNER%2C+and&order_by=score+desc&stat_Published=on
#law #lawfedi

#LegalEthics Tidbit: How can I make my #AI hallucinations sanctions worse, without even using #AI again?

A FL lawyer submitted a cert. petition to the District Court of Appeal that “cited a non-existent case allegedly from this Court and cited other cases that do not support this proposition.” In response to an order to show cause the lawyer acknowledged that “his normal process is to have artificial intelligence (“AI”) software research ... (cont.)

https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/10945803/jmor-properties-llc-v-artist-alley-townhomes-llc/?type=o&type=o&q=JMOR+PROPERTIES%2C+LLC%2C+Petitioner%2C+v.+ARTIST+ALLEY+TOWNHOMES%2C+LLC%2C+SAM+KIRZNER%2C+and&order_by=score+desc&stat_Published=on
#law #lawfedi

Trump fired Roger Rogoff, the new top U.S. prosecutor in Seattle, less than an hour after the attorney was unanimously appointed by the federal judges in the district, highlighting tensions between the courts and the president.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/trump-immediately-fires-the-new-court-appointed-top-prosecutor-in-seattle/ar-AA280kmf?ocid=BingNewsSerp

#USPol #law #USconstitution #lawfedi

@sheddi @pluralistic I think there'd be quite a market for retrofits of this sort: open hardware appliance controllers running open-source software, to rip and replace the stock controllers. Ask #lawfedi to be sure, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't count as DRM circumvention to remove and discard the DRM-containing electronics and install de novo replacements.

I imagine the retrofit kits could be sold either as boxed kits or pre-assembled, like @frameworkcomputer products.

I imagine there'd also be a significant secondary market for installation services, and perhaps also for retrofit design: reverse engineering non-computerized wiring; scanning and quantitatively modelling appliance cavity geometries; designing compatible adapter circuits between a PLC, programmable microcontroller, or SBC and the operational hardware (e.g., motors, fans, and heaters or compressors).

And I imagine there'd be a need for an (ideally federated) community repository of retrofit spec files: detailed internal physical dimensions of cavities in appliances with their stock controllers removed; wiring diagrams and documentation of residual non-computerized electronics; connector specifications (e.g. which type of wire end to use); instructions like on @iFixit for opening, removing stock controllers, installing replacements, and closing; and #3Dprinting files for controller mounting brackets and the like. This would best be community funded like most of the rest of the #fediverse.

I imagine there'd also be room to community fund development of firmware or software for the replacement controllers.

There could also be a tertiary service market in safety testing and re-certification of retrofit appliances, in case anyone wants to resell their retrofits with insurance and all.

And I second favouring "Unauthorized Bread." Unlike the poor migrants in the book, though, enough of us can currently afford to hack the hardware rather than the firmware, by removing and replacing all but the passive and operational components, discarding and replacing every programmable but not (intentionally) owner-reprogrammable component. Indeed, I'm sure it's best those who can, start working on this immediately, before #GreatDepression2 kicks in.

As many of you know already, I am especially interested in the use of #consumerProtection statutes to ground suits against irresponsible sales and marketing by member of the gun industry. In #WashingtonState, the state legislature and state AG #BobFerguson have been using this approach to deal with large capacity magazines. 1/2 #LawFedi #gunViolence #ConsumerProtection

I'm enjoying the addition of the history segment at the start.

"We have an important history entry for today. On this day in 1954 #SCOTUS held, in Brown v. Board of Education, that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional. The case overturned the previous doctrine of ‘separate but equal’ established by Plessy v. Ferguson. … History segregation is, ancient history it is not. “

#lawfedi #law @law #brownvboardofed #plessyvferguson #podcast

https://www.minimumcomp.com/p/517-irs-public-e-file-judicial-fitness