*
Almost
200
former
federal
judges
sign
amicus
brief
arguing
that
unexplained
shadow
docket
orders
aren’t
binding
in
effort
to
stop
the
Supreme
Court’s
vibelawyering.
[National
Law
Journal]
*
“Google’s
AI
Sent
an
Armed
Man
to
Steal
a
Robot
Body
for
It
to
Inhabit,
Then
Encouraged
Him
to
Kill
Himself,
Lawsuit
Alleges”
This
case
is
basically
the
Florida
Man
Turing
Test.
[Futurism]
*
Trump
administration
officially
declares
Anthropic
a
supply
chain
risk,
arguing
that
the
company
they
gave
access
to
all
their
classified
information
is
now
a
spy
because
it
wouldn’t
agree
to
build
murder
bots.
Anthropic
is
going
to
sue.
[Law360]
*
“A
number
of
senior
associates,
partners
and
paralegals”
laid
off
at
UK
firm.
[Roll
on
Friday]
*
ICE
arrested
a
journalist
without
a
warrant
in
least
surprising
headline
of
the
day.
[Reuters]
*
Indicted
judge
loses
reelection.
[ABA
Journal]
*
NY
lawmakers
consider
banning
AI
from
dispensing
legal
advice.
Which
is
all
well
and
good
until
you
remember
that
much
of
the
“legal
advice”
it
would
dispense
would
be
drafts
for
lawyers.
[StateScoop]