#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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/117209346171417433

In the thread at the quoted post, I focused on the status of the litigation against Trump/USPS unconstitutionally taking over the process of ballots being mailed to voters who vote from home (e.g, voters who use absentee ballots or vote-by-mail ballots). Bottom line, Trump DoJ sure is acting like they know the Roberts Six will find a way to ok this on procedural grounds, leaving the merits of the case unaddressed.

But let’s suppose for a moment that this doesn’t happen. 1/ #LawFedi

RE: https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/117209346171417433

In the thread at the quoted post, I focused on the status of the litigation against Trump/USPS unconstitutionally taking over the process of ballots being mailed to voters who vote from home (e.g, voters who use absentee ballots or vote-by-mail ballots). Bottom line, Trump DoJ sure is acting like they know the Roberts Six will find a way to ok this on procedural grounds, leaving the merits of the case unaddressed.

But let’s suppose for a moment that this doesn’t happen. 1/ #LawFedi

RE: https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/117209346171417433

In the thread at the quoted post, I focused on the status of the litigation against Trump/USPS unconstitutionally taking over the process of ballots being mailed to voters who vote from home (e.g, voters who use absentee ballots or vote-by-mail ballots). Bottom line, Trump DoJ sure is acting like they know the Roberts Six will find a way to ok this on procedural grounds, leaving the merits of the case unaddressed.

But let’s suppose for a moment that this doesn’t happen. 1/ #LawFedi

RE: https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/117209346171417433

In the thread at the quoted post, I focused on the status of the litigation against Trump/USPS unconstitutionally taking over the process of ballots being mailed to voters who vote from home (e.g, voters who use absentee ballots or vote-by-mail ballots). Bottom line, Trump DoJ sure is acting like they know the Roberts Six will find a way to ok this on procedural grounds, leaving the merits of the case unaddressed.

But let’s suppose for a moment that this doesn’t happen. 1/ #LawFedi

RE: https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/117209346171417433

In the thread at the quoted post, I focused on the status of the litigation against Trump/USPS unconstitutionally taking over the process of ballots being mailed to voters who vote from home (e.g, voters who use absentee ballots or vote-by-mail ballots). Bottom line, Trump DoJ sure is acting like they know the Roberts Six will find a way to ok this on procedural grounds, leaving the merits of the case unaddressed.

But let’s suppose for a moment that this doesn’t happen. 1/ #LawFedi

Ok, take a deep breath everyone. I’m going to try to explain what is going on in California v. Trump/League of Women Voters v. Trump, the combined cases being heard by Judge Indira Talwani in the Massachusetts District Court, challenging Trump and USPS efforts to take over vote-from-home and disrupt the general election. 1/ #LawFedi

Ok, take a deep breath everyone. I’m going to try to explain what is going on in California v. Trump/League of Women Voters v. Trump, the combined cases being heard by Judge Indira Talwani in the Massachusetts District Court, challenging Trump and USPS efforts to take over vote-from-home and disrupt the general election. 1/ #LawFedi

Ok, take a deep breath everyone. I’m going to try to explain what is going on in California v. Trump/League of Women Voters v. Trump, the combined cases being heard by Judge Indira Talwani in the Massachusetts District Court, challenging Trump and USPS efforts to take over vote-from-home and disrupt the general election. 1/ #LawFedi

Ok, take a deep breath everyone. I’m going to try to explain what is going on in California v. Trump/League of Women Voters v. Trump, the combined cases being heard by Judge Indira Talwani in the Massachusetts District Court, challenging Trump and USPS efforts to take over vote-from-home and disrupt the general election. 1/ #LawFedi

Ok, take a deep breath everyone. I’m going to try to explain what is going on in California v. Trump/League of Women Voters v. Trump, the combined cases being heard by Judge Indira Talwani in the Massachusetts District Court, challenging Trump and USPS efforts to take over vote-from-home and disrupt the general election. 1/ #LawFedi

RE: https://scicomm.xyz/@dantheclamman/116954518144682511

We’re going to need some legal word smithing on the order of the #GPL and the #CreativeCommons licenses to make a false statement an offence in as many ways and jurisdictions as possible (any ideas, #lawFedi folks?), some #EXIF and #ID3v2 and #PNG and comparable metadata tags for carrying legal statements attesting to non-use of media synthesis (mislabelled as #genAI by GPT vendors and NPU/TPU manufacturers), some apps to interview and educate the user about media provenance and add those tags iff applicable, and some #Fediverse and web browser add-ons to filter out media lacking them unless verifiably produced before a given date.

Did you know that US v. #Comey over a photo of #seashells arranged to spell out 86 47 is still a thing.

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73256624/united-states-v-comey/

18 U.S. Code § 871(a)

> Whoever knowingly and willfully deposits for conveyance in the mail or for a delivery from any post office or by any letter carrier any letter, paper, writing, print, missive, or document containing any threat to take the life of, to kidnap, or to inflict bodily harm upon the President of the United States, the President-elect, the Vice President or other officer next in the order of succession to the office of President of the United States, or the Vice President-elect, or knowingly and willfully otherwise makes any such threat against the President, President-elect, Vice President or other officer next in the order of succession to the office of President, or Vice President-elect, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.

18 U.S. Code § 875(c)

> Whoever transmits in interstate or foreign commerce any communication containing any threat to kidnap any person or any threat to injure the person of another, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.

But "86" does not mean "kill" or "kidnap" or "injure" in its most common sense — it is diner slang still in use today to get rid of something or that they are out of something so the order has to be renegotiated.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/eighty-six-meaning-origin

As per court order (Doc 15):

Pre-trial motions due 2026/07/28.
Arraignment, if it happens, is scheduled for 2026/09/30.

#LawFedi #DOJ #Weaponization

Today is a good day to remind folk about the Declaration on Free Access to Law (https://falm.info/declaration/).

It declares, among other things that: "Public legal information is digital common property and should be accessible to all on a non-profit basis and free of charge"

#LawFedi #lawyers #inhouse #lawprofs

"Ask yourself: why would society tolerate a legal profession that outsources all its professional obligations to someone else? What value does such a profession provide? Why would anyone need or even want a lawyer if this is all a lawyer is good for?" #lawprofs #LawFedi

@design-law.bsky.social https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:hvwhptk4oerwsuzau66ikwfy/post/3lqnqvi6vmk24

Looking forward to presenting my (extremely) early stage new project, "Ornamentality and Crime," today at the Mosaic IP Law & Policy Roundtable: https://iipsj.org/programs/annual-mosaic-conference/ #LawFedi #LawProfs #LegalScholarship #DesignHistory

Chicago-Kent College of law is reviving the Chicagoland IP Workshop! If you're an IP prof in "Chicagoland" (define it however you want), please come join us on 12/6.

The deadline for expressions of interest has been extended through 11/6. Here is the link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScKSzysiUSD6MuZNe4kD35NL5uTMgjZxwP4XbQDlUq-5yZmXg/viewform?usp=sf_link

#LawFedi #LawProfs #ChicagoIP

Please join us online next Friday, September 27 for the annual Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology Supreme Court IP Review.

More details (and a link to sign up for CLE credit) are available here: https://ckcle.ce21.com/item/2024-supreme-court-ip-review-655570

If you are a law student or professor who is not seeking CLE credit, please feel free to email me for instructions on how to register for free.

#LawFedi #SCIPR #ChicagoKent #LawProfs #LawStudents

Question for the law profs on here: What are the best non-Twitter ways to promote your law school center these days? As much as I personally hate using it, I think we're going to have to create an account for the center on LinkedIn. What else, if anything, should we be thinking about? #LawProfs #LawFedi

Come work with me! Chicago-Kent is hiring for multiple positions (details below). Inquiries can be sent to committee chair Greg Reilly at [email protected].

#LawFedi #LawProfs #LawHiring

Get excited: Our 2024-2025 (free) patent casebook supplement is here! https://patentlawcasebook.com/

Featuring, among other things, an all-new edit of #LKQvGM:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4544911

#LawFedi #LawProfs #PatentFedi

On my reading list: Silbey & Subotnik on Warhol: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4860245 #ArtLaw #LawFedi #LawProfs #LegalScholarship

Fellow profs (especially law profs), I'm curious:

If you wanted to find all the articles a particular scholar had written, how would you go about doing that?

#LawProfs #LegalScholarship #LawFedi

@academicchatter

Seemed like this day would never come... https://blog.law.tamu.edu/blog/texas-am-law-confirms-newest-full-professors

#LawProfs #LegalWriting #LawFedi #TeamRhetoric

I guess next steps when you review HR Policy on harassment and your manager and managers manager ( director level ) didn't follow HR Policy on harassment and tried to gaslight HR and got caught the next steps are pretty much injury lawyer, yeah?

#lawfedi #fedilaw #harassment #HighTech #hrpolicies #cointelpro #COPSprogram #investigations #Meta #FacebookFakeAccount #CiscoSystems #ZachariahCrocker #AprilPage #AmolKarole #siliconvalley ⚖️👨‍⚖️👩‍⚖️⚖️👨‍⚖️👩‍⚖️👀👀

⚠️👇⚠️👇⚠️👇⚠️👇⚠️👇
https://infosec.exchange/@infosec_jcp/111767890748490428

Fellow #LawProfs: Do you have a question you find yourself asking over and over when you are commenting on other peoples' drafts?

Mine is: Is this a patent paper or a utility patent paper?

#PatentFedi #LawFedi #IPScholarship

Big news: We'll have one more reason to celebrate at our May 15 event, the news that Cathay Smith will be joining the #ChicagoKentIP faculty this fall!

If you are (or will be) in Chicago, you can register here by May 8:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSefw3NPcAAKF5DczmEtwkUXZvLrISOXyZR2IycAIZ5v5JeK0A/viewform

#LawProfs #LawFedi #IPLawProfs #Copyright

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

Chicago-area friends: We hope you can join us for an IP event at Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology on the evening of Wednesday, May 15.

Register (for free) here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSefw3NPcAAKF5DczmEtwkUXZvLrISOXyZR2IycAIZ5v5JeK0A/viewform

#LawFedi #LawProfs #ChicagoIP #ChicagoKentIP

We have gotten the collection Classical Rhetoric & Contemporary Law: A Critical Reader over the finish line. An accessible text for scholars and students (#LawProfs, #argumentation, #LegalWriting, #TeamRhetoric)—and curious lawyers in #LawFedi. Introduces the complex relationship between ancient western thought and contemporary law and the long history of some rhetorical concepts and practices that advocates and judges are still using today (not always for the better). https://www.uapress.ua.edu/9780817361396/classical-rhetoric-and-contemporary-law/

@JMarkOckerbloom #lawfedi I’m not an education lawyer; does #FERPA not cover test scores?

“I know you’re shocked to be reading that the tax code is being exploited by some gazillionaire to avoid paying their fair share. But let’s look at how a Roth IRA has turned into the go-to vehicle for sheltering billionaires’ billions in appreciation.”

https://news.bloombergtax.com/daily-tax-report-state/roth-iras-have-transformed-into-big-tax-shelters-for-the-wealthy

#rothira #tax #lawfedi #law @law