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Law Student’s Gen AI Product, Lexplug, Makes Briefing Cases A Breeze

LawSites

It was a bathroom break that inspired Bradley Neal , a 3L at The George Washington University Law School , to develop a product that uses generative AI to help law students better understand and brief cases. Returning to class after a visit to the bathroom, he had lost the thread of the case the professor was discussing.

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Do or DEI? Federal Judge Finds DEI Policies are Mandatory and Unconstitutional in California Case

JonathanTurley

I also teach critical race theory, alongside other legal theories to my first-year torts students. Take the “indigenous land acknowledgment” created for faculty at the University of Washington. Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at the George Washington University Law School. Jonathan Turley is the J.B.

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Supreme Court Rejects Cause of Action Under Bivens Against Border Patrol Agent

Constitutional Law Reporter

Respondent Robert Boule owns a bed-and-breakfast—the Smuggler’s Inn—in Blaine, Washington. Boule filed a grievance with Agent Egbert’s supervisors and an ad- ministrative claim with Border Patrol pursuant to the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA). Facts of the Case.

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The Illusion of Action: Cuomo’s New Gun Manufacturer Liability Law is a Colossal Misfire

JonathanTurley

The question is whether New York officials will keep this renewed pledge to litigate the law all the way to the Supreme Court. Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. There are at least three justices who likely are eager to see them fulfill that pledge.

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“Take What You Can, Give Nothing Back”: The Depp Defamation Trial and the Curious Legal Position of Celebrities in Litigation

JonathanTurley

Depp is suing Heard for $50 million based largely on an 2018 Washington Post opinion piece where she described herself a survivor of domestic and sexual violence. He still lost and the judge declared that the Sun published was “substantially true.” ” He is now trying his hand with a Virginia jury.

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At a vestige of the Manhattan Project, a fight over workers’ compensation and intergovernmental immunity

SCOTUSBlog

Share Under established constitutional law, states may generally not tax or regulate property or operations of the federal government. Washington. A 1936 federal law waives federal immunity from state workers’ compensation laws on federal land and projects. Washington implicitly contemplates such situations.

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Three Martha Vineyard Migrants File Lawsuit Against DeSantis

JonathanTurley

Indeed, I teach in torts where an immigrant to the United States filed a tort action for an involuntary inoculation upon entry in O’Brien v. The most serious allegation is that Florida officials “told them they were flying to Boston or Washington, D.C., which was completely false.”

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