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SCOTUS overturns 'true threats' conviction, working in reference to New York Times v. Sullivan

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 7-2 on Tuesday that the First Amendment does not protect statements made by a defendant if they “consciously disregarded a substantial risk that his communications would be viewed as threatening violence.”



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Thomson Reuters will acquire legal tech startup Casetext for $650M

Thomson Reuters announced Monday that it had reached an agreement to buy the legal tech startup Casetext for $650 million as part of its long-term investment in generative artificial intelligence.



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Supreme Court rejects 'independent state legislature' theory, rules state courts may review congressional maps

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on Tuesday that state courts have the power to review congressional maps created by state legislatures.



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Lawyer sues Microsoft for $1.7M, says multiple calls and long waits on hold didn't fix email cutoff

A New York lawyer who uses his Microsoft email to communicate with courts and clients has said in a lawsuit he received the runaround from the company when he complained about a weekslong service interruption.



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Lawyers who 'doubled down' and defended ChatGPT's fake cases must pay $5K, judge says

A federal judge in New York City has ordered two lawyers and their law firm to pay $5,000 for submitting a brief with fake cases made up by ChatGPT and then standing by the research.



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Clerk was properly ousted for rear-end dial to magistrate, other transgressions, court says

Updated: A state appeals court has upheld the permanent removal of an elected court clerk in Franklin County, North Carolina, partly for her use of the F-word during a call that she inadvertently made to a magistrate.



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Supreme Court leaves prisoner without recourse on his statutory innocence claim

A U.S. Supreme Court decision Thursday leaves some defendants without recourse to assert that they are actually innocent of a crime because of a change in statutory interpretation.



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For some parties in LGBTQ landmark cases, June 26 is a special day

Before Roberta Kaplan read the 2013 U.S. Supreme Court opinion that struck down a law banning federal benefits to same-sex married couples, she knew that her client Edie Windsor had won because the majority was written by then-Justice Anthony Kennedy, who had authored earlier opinions supporting same-sex rights. And there was a dissent from then-Justice Antonin Scalia, who had a history of voting against same-sex rights.



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SCOTUS upholds law that bans 'encouraging or inducing' illegal immigration

A federal law that bans “encouraging or inducing” illegal immigration does not violate the First Amendment when it is properly interpreted, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a 7-2 decision Friday.



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States can't challenge Biden administration's immigration enforcement policy, Supreme Court rules

Updated: Texas and Louisiana don’t have standing to challenge immigration-enforcement guidelines that the two states believe to be too lenient, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in an 8-1 decision.



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