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The lawyers submitted a documented with fake, AI-generated case law, so the judge gave them a humble pie-eating ultimatum.

Artificial Intelligence

Judge Gives Humiliating Punishment to Lawyers Caught Using AI in Court

By Frank Landymore

A judge fined two law firms tens of thousands of dollars after lawyers submitted a brief containing sloppy AI errors.

Artificial Intelligence

Law Firms Caught and Punished for Passing Around “Bogus” AI Slop in Court

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Lawyers are already creating so-called "revival trusts" for cryogenically frozen rich people — even though resurrection is not yet possible.

Rich People Who Get Cryogenically Frozen Are Hoarding Their Money for When They Get Thawed Out

By Noor Al-Sibai

Some legal experts believe that there could be grounds to sue Elon Musk and SpaceX for the rocket crash — though it likely won’t happen

SpaceX Could Get Sued When Its Derelict Rocket Crashes Into the Moon, Experts Say

By Tony Ho Tran

After being arrested in late 2019 for attempting to take biological samples with him to China, cancer researcher Zaosong Zheng was sentenced to time served.

Cancer Researcher Sentenced for Stealing Biological Samples

By Dan Robitzski

AI tech composed a Britney Spears song in the style of Frank Sinatra. It was struck down by copyright claims, launching an unprecedented legal case.

A Bot Made Frank Sinatra Cover Britney Spears. YouTube Removed It Over Copyright Claims.

By Dan Robitzski

A Texas courtroom is experimenting with the videoconferencing software Zoom, which it's using to hold a jury trial this week.

A Texas Court Is Holding The First-Ever Jury Trial Over Zoom

By Dan Robitzski

NASA's new Artemis Accords serve as a set of guidelines for both governments and private companies to peacefully operate in space.

NASA: Please Follow These Space Rules We Can’t Enforce

By Dan Robitzski

New research shows that marijuana use makes people more susceptible to believing a false memory, a troubling development for the legal system.

Neuroscience and Brain

New Research: Marijuana Can Lead to False Memory Formation

By Dan Robitzski

T-Mobile's parent comapny, Deutsche Telekom, is suing the insurance company Lemonade for using the color magenta in its advertisements.

T-Mobile Says It Has Legal Rights to That Obnoxious Pink Color

By Dan Robitzski

Right now, AI algorithms can't be granted patents. The restriction originally served as a worker protection, but now it's creating a problem for engineers.

Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Are Trying to List AI as the Inventor on a New Patent

By Dan Robitzski

A new law in Alabama will require that inmaes convicted of sexual crimes against a minor seeking parole will need to be chemically castrated.

Health & Medicine

New Law: Alabama Will Chemically Castrate Pedophiles

By Dan Robitzski

Cannabis legalization is picking up steam across the nation. Here are seven ways the future stands to benefit from ending the war on weed.

Seven Ways Cannabis Legalization Will Make the Future Better

By Kristin Houser

Air and Space Law professor Michelle Hanlon argues that if we don't draft new laws, the destruction of landmarks that happens on Earth will repeat in space.

Lawyer: People Could Try to Sell the Apollo Moon Footprints

By Dan Robitzski

QuadrigaCX has about two weeks left to its stay to raise the money it owes before anyone can sue, but a judge just appointed law firms to its customers.

Users of Crypto Site Where Dead CEO Lost $196M Are Preparing Suit

By Dan Robitzski

A team of four universities is working on the comprehensive guide to all existing space law, a field they argue is currently too jumbled to make sense of.

These Four Universities Are Trying to Figure Out Space Law

By Dan Robitzski