It’s a question that most Supreme Court watchers are all-too-familiar with: What should we call the court’s expanded practice of ruling on cases in an unusually expedited fashion? We confronted this question a few months ago when organizing a panel on the topic. Available names abounded: the leading contenders are now shadow docket, emergency docket, and interim docket, but others in circulation include the equity, stay, lightning, non-merits, or irregular docket. Ever equanimous, we settled on: “The Docket That Shall Not Be Named.”
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"Disgusting on every single level" - a quote taken from the article, is an appropriate commentary on what AI is being (mis)used for and the way that women and girls are being taken advantage of on a increasing trend.
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Two of the world’s most famous magicians have filed a brief in the U.S. Supreme Court arguing that using "investigative hypnosis" to help a witness identify a man convicted of murder is nothing but an illusion.
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U.S. judges have sanctioned lawyers in dozens of cases after attorneys used AI for legal research and drafting without fully vetting the results. Lawyers are not prohibited from using AI but are ethically bound to ensure the accuracy of court submissions.
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It's not the first time smart glasses have come up in reports about the DHS. An investigation by The Independent last month found that ICE and Border Patrol agents in six states were using Meta's AI smart glasses of their own accord, in possible violation of DHS rules. Congress has reportedly been notified of the DHS's Ice Glasses project but has yet to comment publicly.
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