The act known as “bills of attainder” is old. It goes back to pre-1776 England. A bill of attainder occurred when Parliament would pass a bill that settled a legal dispute. A bill of attainder could find that certain creditors were not in fact owed money, or that certain heirs cannot in fact inherit. It
In the aftermath of the 2020 election, the MyPillow CEO, Michael Lindell lodged claims of fraud against Eric Coomer, former executive at Domino Voting Systems. Mr. Lindell was a very vocal supporter of Donald Trump’s claims that the 2020 election had been stolen. Cooper Then sued Lindell for defamation. In June, a jury agreed with
A U.S. District Court in Illinois has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a small Illinois law firm. The small firm sued DoNotPay, an online site that provides contracts, offers legal advice for appealing traffic tickets and procedures for property tax appeals. It is an artificial intelligence website. According to the law firm, MillerKing, the website
So, the lawyers who took much of their briefing from ChatGPT have been sanctioned. ChatGPT created case law out of whole cloth. It created non-existent holdings from those cases that simply did not exist. I previously wrote about that brief here. This is not a surprising result. Whatever the source, every lawyer has a
We are all intrigued by the possibilities of Artificial Intelligence. But, what happens when AI goes crazy? One lawyer in New York City will soon find out. The lawyer who represents the plaintiff in Roberto Mata v. Avianca, Inc, Steve A, Schwartz, a lawyer with 30 years experience, submitted a brief that was partly