In its capacity as executor to a deceased woman, a bank filed suit against the maker of ChatGPT on Thursday, saying the artificial intelligence was responsible for inducing a mentally unstable son to kill his elderly mother and then die by suicide.
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California in 2026 will become the first U.S. state to require its attorneys to take an annual civility oath to “conduct themselves with dignity, courtesy, and integrity” — the latest attempt to rein in obnoxious lawyers.
Pugnacious and sharp-elbowed attorneys make for compelling movies and television, but off the screen academics and judges say incivility is contributing to high rates of anxiety and depression among lawyers, exacerbating the public’s low opinion of them and eroding trust in the justice system.
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Say you're traveling over the river and through the woods and get really drowsy, is it OK to pull off into one of Michigan's 61 highway rest areas for a nap.
Yes, it is.
The Michigan Department of Transportation, which runs the rest stops, has guidelines concerning how long you may stay — no more than 48 hours and no camping.
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Northwest Ohio residents have made the trek into Michigan for years to buy recreational marijuana.
But soon, it could be illegal in Ohio to have or smoke marijuana that wasn’t legally grown in the state.
If enacted, Ohioans will only be allowed to possess and use marijuana legally grown or purchased in Ohio. The bill says marijuana purchased from other states, including Michigan, will be be treated as contraband.
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In two unanimous rulings on Monday, the Supreme Court rebutted trial court decisions where the justices determined that judges had strayed too far from precedent.
“To put it plainly, courts ‘call balls and strikes’; they don’t get a turn at bat,” the court wrote in a per curiam ruling — using a metaphor that Chief Justice John Roberts famously made during his confirmation hearings.
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