“I never even thought about whether or not they understand what I’m doing…” — John Coltrane
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The following are 10 interesting articles from the previous week. These articles were pulled from either the: ABA Newsletter, AALL Newsletter, vLex Newsletter, Law360, Law Practice Magazine Newsletter, LexisNexis’ Practical Guidance Newsletter, Bloomberg Law Filings of Note and/or Frontiers Newsletter. Enjoy!
Introduction: “The Supreme Court will kick off its November argument session with the highest-profile cases of that session: challenges to the consideration of race in the admissions process at Harvard and the University of North Carolina. That news came with the release of the November argument calendar (as well as an updated October argument calendar) on Wednesday.”
“Alex Jones' company, which operates his media outlet InfoWars, filed for bankruptcy in Texas federal court on Friday while Jones' trial in the first of three Sandy Hook defamation suits continued in Texas state court.”
“Client convenience isn’t the only reason to settle accounts with a mouse click”
“The attorney representing Alex Jones in the first of three Sandy Hook defamation suits in Texas has been warned by the judge to dial down his behavior toward plaintiffs' counsel and was scolded after forgetting to tell Jones and another defendant not to discuss the case.”
“In mediation, as in everything else we do, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. The optimal lineup is not likely to show up all by itself; it may take ...”
Excerpt: “During its 2022 annual meeting, the American Law Institute approved proposed Amendments5 to the Uniform Commercial Code that address application of the Code to Emerging Technologies (the ‘2022 Amendments’).6 During its annual meeting July 8-14, the Uniform Laws Commission also approved the same proposed amendments.7 The 2022 Amendments include extensive amendments to existing articles as well as the creation of a new Article 12.8 The original study committee that became the drafting committee for the 2022 Amendments was charged with considering amendments to the UCC to accommodate “emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence, distributed ledger technology, and virtual currency.’9”
“Summary: Gizmodo identified 32 different brokers across the U.S. selling access to the unique mobile IDs from some 2.9 billion profiles of people pegged as "actively pregnant" or "shopping for maternity products." In all cases, these datasets were sold on a cost per mile basis—which essentially means that whoever buys them only pays for the number of end-users that are reached with a given ad. Depending on who was offering up a dataset, the price per user ranged from 49 cents per user reached to a whopping $2.25.”
“A Texas bankruptcy judge ruled Monday that the Chapter 11 filing of the parent company of right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' InfoWars website would not halt the ongoing state court damages trial that followed a default judgment finding him liable for defaming the families of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting.”
Introduction: “The Pentagon has joined the Department of Homeland Security in destroying potential evidence related to the January 6 Capitol attack. Open government organization American Oversight posted court records related to its FOIA lawsuit for DoD January 6 records on its website, and the records indicate that the Pentagon “wiped” government-issued phones for senior officials that were in charge of mobilizing the National Guard’s response to the insurrection. The Washington Post reports that the erasure impacts the phone records of numerous senior officials, including then-acting defense secretary Christopher C. Miller and then-Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy."
“A Russian court sentenced American basketball star Brittney Griner Thursday to nine years in a penal colony for trafficking and possessing hashish oil, according to multiple media reports.”