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JULY 2, 2025

By automating time-consuming tasks and surfacing insights from complex data, AI-powered litigation tools support a more streamlined approach to case preparation and evaluation. Tight deadlines. Stacks of documents. High-stakes decisions. Litigation isn’t just demanding—it’s a race against time and complexity. What if there were a better way to approach case preparation without getting bogged down in manual tasks?

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The Volokh Conspiracy

JULY 2, 2025

If you suspect that many Americans prize their partisan affiliations above their common status as U.S. citizens, the evidence keeps rolling in to support your position. Pride in being an American has reached an all-time low even as we prepare to celebrate Independence Day. More telling is that Americans' pride—or lack thereof—in the one big thing they have in common seems increasingly linked to whether their preferred politicians are in power.

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JURIST

JULY 2, 2025

A court in Algeria has sentenced French sports journalist Christophe Gleizes to seven years in prison on charges of “glorifying terrorism” and “possessing propaganda publications harmful to the national interest,” the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said on Tuesday. Gleizes, who has written for French publications So Foot and Society , was arrested on May 28, 2024, in Tizi Ouzou, Algeria, after interviewing the president of football club JS Kabylie.

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The Volokh Conspiracy

JULY 2, 2025

NA On Monday, California enacted an important new law breaking down a key regulatory barrier to new housing construction. The CalMatters website has a helpful summar y: A decade-spanning political battle between housing developers and defenders of California's preeminent environmental law likely came to an end this afternoon with only a smattering of "no" votes.

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JURIST

JULY 2, 2025

Human Rights Watch (HRW) warned in a new report released Wednesday of dire consequences from Guatemala’s water crisis, which it stressed endangers the health and fundamental rights of millions of Guatemalans, particularly Indigenous communities and women. The 88-page report, titled “Without Water, We Are Nothing: The Urgent Need for a Water Law in Guatemala,” highlights how decades of government neglect, weak infrastructure, and a lack of legal framework have left nearly half t

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EvidenceProf Blog

JULY 2, 2025

Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b)(1) & (2) provide as follows: (1) Prohibited Uses. Evidence of any other crime, wrong, or act is not admissible to prove a person’s character in order to show that on a particular occasion the person.

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JURIST

JULY 2, 2025

An Algerian court upheld a verdict against French-Algerian writer and critic Boualem Sansal on Tuesday, sentencing him to five years in prison and a fine of 500,000 Algerian dinars (approximately $3,851). The Algiers Court of Appeal upheld the sentence issued by the Criminal Court of First Instance of Dar El Beïda on March 27. In upholding the ruling, the Court denied a request to extend Sansal’s prison sentence to 10 years, which was made by prosecutors during an appeal hearing on June 24

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Above The Law

JULY 2, 2025

In today’s world, the vast majority of students attending law school have been saddled with seemingly insurmountable six-figure debt loads. Many law students are under the mistaken impression that they’ll be able to pay off that debt quickly; after all, they believe their starting salaries after graduation will be in line with the now-standard starting salary of up to $225,000 at Biglaw firms across the country (depending on office location).

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JURIST

JULY 2, 2025

Human Rights Watch (HRW) voiced concern on Tuesday that some European Union (EU) member states may be retreating from their human rights and environmental commitments, following an agreement on a proposal that could weaken an EU directive aimed at safeguarding rights in supply chains by easing sustainability requirements. The Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD), which came into force in 2024 as part of the European Green Deal , aims to protect human rights and the environmen

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Above The Law

JULY 2, 2025

With the rapid development of Gen AI and AI tools, there is also the ongoing hand-wringing over what these tools may mean for lawyers. Often, the consternation isn’t about how these tools might change the practice of law (where it should be), but on how much work (aka billable hours) AI might replace. The reality, of course, is, as with most every other disruptive technology, the fears ignore that new work will be generated by the technology; work that doesn’t exist now or can’t be done.

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JURIST

JULY 2, 2025

Amnesty International called on Chinese authorities Wednesday to cease their interference in Tibetan religious practices. The rights group criticized the Chinese government for attempting to control the selection process of the future Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader. The statement urged China to comply with international human rights law. Amnesty International’s China director, Sarah Brooks, said, “The Chinese authorities must immediately end political interference in Tibet

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HowAppealing

JULY 2, 2025

“Appeals court backs Florida’s teacher pronoun law in challenge by transgender Hillsborough teacher”: Jim Saunders of News Service of Florida has this report on a decision that a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit issued today.

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Above The Law

JULY 2, 2025

"We recognize this is a time of heightened risk,” Pentagon cyber official Katie Arrington told Breaking Defense. “DoD encourages the DIB [Defense Industry Base] to raise their cybersecurity posture.

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JULY 2, 2025

“This Is the Real Impact of the Supreme Court’s Planned Parenthood Decision”: Linda Greenhouse has this guest essay online at The New York Times.

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Above The Law

JULY 2, 2025

Play free-association with an attorney and the word “BARBRI” likely draws a Pavlovian wince and a bad joke about the UCC. During that window between law school and practice, bar prep courses become your only window onto the world. After it’s over, you remember the key takeaways about “hearsay exceptions,” or “adverse possession,” or “the history of Penne alla Vodka,” but we more or less move on from our relationship with the company that put all that int

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JULY 2, 2025

“The Supreme Court has created an endless summer of work for itself”: Nina Totenberg recently had this audio segment on NPR’s “All Things Considered.

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The Volokh Conspiracy

JULY 2, 2025

A Staten Island family has been fighting the city tooth and nail for the right to keep "Lucy," a beloved pet pygmy pig. Now the government has relented. For almost 15 years, Lucy has resided with the Gannones, her adopted family, in peaceful harmony. But in June, "the pig was subject to an anonymous 311 complaint," which said the Gannone family "had been illegally keeping her as a pet" (owning a pig is illegal within city limits), according to reporting from CBS News New York.

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JULY 2, 2025

“Abrego Garcia Was Beaten and Tortured in El Salvador Prison, Lawyers Say; Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia was made to kneel overnight, denied bathroom access and confined in an overcrowded cell with bright lights and no windows, his lawyers say”: Alan Feuer of The New York Times has this report.

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Above The Law

JULY 2, 2025

When it comes to adopting generative artificial intelligence, lawyers are faced with competing incentives. On the one hand, clients are demanding that their firms become more efficient — and a lawyer’s competitors are already delivering on this goal. On the other hand, evolving ethical concerns continue to dog the industry and present challenges to innovation.

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HowAppealing

JULY 2, 2025

“Appellate court affirms conviction of Katie Magbanua in 2014 Dan Markel murder-for-hire”: Jeff Burlew of The Tallahassee Democrat has this report. You can access today’s ruling of Florida’s First District Court of Appeal at this link.

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Above The Law

JULY 2, 2025

The momentum for a four-day, in-office mandate is picking up steam in Biglaw. Just this week, A&O Shearman announced that, beginning on September 2nd, attorneys will have a face time requirement of four days a week, up from the in-office three-days a week rule that the firm previously employed. As per the firm’s statement on the matter: This update recognizes the vital role in-person interaction plays in the professional development, mentorship, training, and teamwork of our people, an

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JULY 2, 2025

“Amy Coney Barrett Is the Most Interesting Justice on the Court”: David Lat has this new installment of his “Exclusive Jurisdiction” column online at Bloomberg Law.

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The Volokh Conspiracy

JULY 2, 2025

The decision, by Judge Roy Altman (S.D. Fla.) is Monday's Block v. Matesic ; for more on the plaintiff judge (Judge Frederick Block (E.D.N.Y.)), see this N.Y. Times article , also from Monday. The original libel claim has to do with the plaintiff judge's battles related to his Florida condominium association board, of all things. A few excerpts, from the discussion of plaintiff's arguments that defendant must have known that the statements about plaintiff were false or at least likely false (the

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 2, 2025

As the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) prepares to release its advisory opinion on climate change on July 3, 2025 —joining earlier decisions from the International Tribunal for the Law of the Seas ( ITLOS ) and the European Court of Human Rights ( ECtHR ), and in anticipation of the International Court of Justice (ICJ)’s advisory opinion— The Role of Advisory Opinions in International Law in the Context of the Climate Crisis arrives at precisely the right moment.

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Law 360

JULY 2, 2025

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to take up at least one shareholder's lawsuit when it reopens its doors in October, and securities attorneys from both the plaintiff and defense bars will be watching that appeal and several others as the year moves forward.

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