"Judge Learns #Lawyers on Both Sides of Case Used #AI, Cancels Trial, Kicks Everyone Off the Case."
https://www.404media.co/judge-learns-lawyers-on-both-sides-of-case-used-ai-cancels-trial-kicks-everyone-off-the-case/
There was no AI (as we know it today) when I was in law school. But we had a name for this kind of case: 𝘈𝘴𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘦 𝘷. 𝘈𝘴𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘦.
Escalation of anti-trans legal coercion in the USA - proposed rule not yet enacted.
"If finalized, the rule would reach every hospital, university, school district, state government, nonprofit, and homeless shelter that receives federal funding, effectively requiring much of American institutional life to discriminate against transgender people as a condition of receiving federal money. And unlike an executive order, the rule would require significant work by a future administration to reverse. ...
"An institution that acknowledges transgender people exist—through its policies, its training, its healthcare, its bathroom access, its HR procedures, its name-change processes—could be deemed to "deny the sex binary" or to “support the notion that sex is mutable” and have its federal funding blocked.
"... hospitals could be targeted not just for providing care to minors but for providing gender-affirming care to adults, because prescribing hormone therapy to a transgender patient of any age could be deemed promoting the belief that "sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic.""
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/fascismnew-federal-rule-would-require
When I see this kind of thing, I often think with some curiosity of anti-trans feminists in the UK: Helen Joyce, Kathleen Stock, Maya Forstater, a few people from my own backstory with whom I would generally agree on other topics. Like, do you perceive these proposed new US laws as your own ideas taken to their logical conclusions, or where are your plans different? Does this framework seem to you to have any down sides? (Does it seem to you to have any similarities with anti-abortion laws?)
A mastercut of shitty lawyers trying to fool the Court with their automated laziness.
https://www.404media.co/new-york-court-ai-citations-landberg-case/
“It's striking, concerning, disappointing, and saddening to think that members of the bar would forward cases to a court that don't exist, and to think that the lawyers on the other side of that didn’t read it for whatever reason, didn’t check it.”
Update. "Feds failing in bid to take a supercomputer from a climate research center."
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/06/judge-blocks-part-of-trump-admins-effort-to-hurt-colorado-research-center/
The judge ruled that the Trump admin failed "to articulate any rationale" for its action (violating the Administrative Procedures Act) and was "meant to pressure Colorado’s Democratic governor about an unrelated matter."
#Climate #DefendResearch #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics
It seems that unless you wish to sign up for Trump's criminal enterprise then doing his bidding is career death in US Law.
I hope some Simple Sabotage is being applied to the demands of the corrupt DoJ, a good lawyer should know how to do that...
"While the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008, or GINA, protects workers from being fired over their genetic test results, and the Americans With Disabilities Act protects those with active disabilities, neither law compels an employer to provide accommodations to help mitigate a person’s future health risk."
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/health/polygenic-risk-scores-workplace.html
Nearly a year ago, nine people from Spokane, Wash., were arrested for conspiracy to impede or injure federal officers after they participated in a protest at the city's ICE building. Six took plea deals. Today, three were found guilty, facing maximum sentences of six years in federal prison and/or $250,000 in fines. @RANGEMedia, which has been extensively covering the trial, has more.
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