New Report From Pen America: Surge of Intrusive Legislation to #Intimidate #Teachers, Drive Self-Censorship in Schools. Proliferation of Nearly 400 “Educational Intimidation Bills” Nationwide; Missouri Leads, Followed by Texas and Oklahoma. #censorship #freespeech #libraries #education #CivilLiberties #legislation #LegalResearch https://pen.org/press-release/new-report-surge-of-intrusive-legislation-to-intimidate-teachers-drive-self-censorship-in-schools/ #bookbans #fascist

The #NewYorkTimes has blocked #OpenAI’s #webcrawler, meaning that OpenAI can’t use content from the publication to train its AI models. If you check the NYT’s robots.txt page, you can see that the NYT disallows #GPTBot, the crawler that OpenAI introduced earlier this month. Based on the #InternetArchive’s #WaybackMachine, it appears NYT blocked the crawler as early as August 17th. https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/21/23840705/new-york-times-openai-web-crawler-ai-gpt #copyright #legalresearch

A day after Gov. Ron #DeSantis’ suspension of Monique Worrell, an executive staff member at the State Attorney’s Office who was on maternity leave was notified of her termination when investigators with the office accompanied by law enforcement made an unexpected visit to her home.
She has spent time in the hospital due to birth-related complications, she told the Sentinel. https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2023/08/11/after-desantis-suspends-worrell-new-leadership-fires-staffer-on-maternity-leave/ #florida #FMLA #legalresearch #discrimination #suspended #fired #maternityleave

@politicsbot this is an action that should be applied to others as well....or #nojustice and the continuation of #justicedenied #legalresearch #courts #indictments #trump and all his #codefendants

ChatGPT: US lawyer admits using AI for case research

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65735769

As someone who works in a library this article made me laugh (and also cry). I'm surprised (but maybe I shouldn't be) a legal professional would submit a document to the court without reference checking, or asking his library staff to do it on his behalf. I can only imagine the response one of my lawyers would get from the judge if they tried this.

#ChatGPT #law #research #legalresearch #libraries

Inside the #DeSantis Doc That Showtime Didn’t Want You to See. Vice put together an in-depth documentary exploring DeSantis’ time at #GuantanamoBay. Showtime suddenly shelved the documentary one day after DeSantis declared for president. The Daily Beast has obtained a #transcript of that unaired #documentary, “The Guantanamo Candidate,” which was anchored by Seb Walker, a longtime correspondent for the Emmy-winning newsmagazine. #inhumane #treatement https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-the-ron-desantis-guantanamo-bay-doc-that-showtime-didnt-want-you-to-see #legalresearch

#ClarenceThomas #SCOTUS Cited My Work In His #AffirmativeAction #Opinion. Here's What He Got Wrong. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/clarence-thomas-affirmative-action-dunbar_n_64b04512e4b0ad7b75f1b3a1 All I can do is use more words to set the record straight. Going forward I would ask Thomas that when it comes to supporting his thoughts on affirmative action, “Please,” as the kids say, “keep my name and "#Dunbar’s out of your mouth.” First Class: The Legacy of Dunbar, America’s First Black Public High School. #Facts not #lies #LegalResearch #FactChecking #HBCU #education

ProPublica - How #HarlanCrow Slashed his #TaxBill by Taking #ClarenceThomas on #Superyacht #Cruises #SCOTUS as a #TaxDeduction only #billiionaries can do this - it must #stop Where is the #IRS, #Treasury #fraud #taxes #legalresearch

How the #SupremeCourt put itself in charge of the #executivebranch. The major questions doctrine, explained. https://www.vox.com/scotus/23791610/supreme-court-major-questions-doctrine-nebraska-biden-student-loans-gorsuch-barrett #housing #education #healthcare #climate #courts #LegalResearch #constitution

Can #AI #Invent? A group of #legalexperts are pressing #patent agencies, #courts and #policymakers to address the question as #generativeAI seems on the brink of invading another uniquely human endeavor. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/15/technology/ai-inventor-patents.html #legalresearch #inventors #USPTO

We just don’t hire women’: In the #constructionIndustry #discrimination runs #rampant A recent government report documents that women and people of color are being denied jobs, harassed and subjected to other workplace abuses.U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission #EEOC documents that #women and people of color #POC are being denied jobs, being harassed and subjected to other #workplace #abuses. https://www.eeoc.gov/building-future-advancing-equal-employment-opportunity-construction-industry#Key #EmploymentDiscrimination #LegalResearch and still nothing changes

The #California #Reparations Report Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for #AfricanAmericans The final report surveys the ongoing and #compounding #harms experienced by African Americans as a result of #slavery and its lingering effects on American society today, and proposes a comprehensive reparations plan in satisfaction of the direction set forth by the Legislature in AB 3121 (2020). https://oag.ca.gov/ab3121/report#:~:text=On%20June%201%2C%202022%2C%20the%20Task%20Force%20to,and%20its%20lingering%20effects%20on%20American%20society%20today #LegalResearch #legislation

#Google Says It'll #Scrape Everything You Post #Online for #AI An update to Google's #privacypolicy suggests that the entire public #internet is fair game for it's AI projects. There is No Privacy online. https://gizmodo.com/google-says-itll-scrape-everything-you-post-online-for-1850601486 #legalresearch

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FastCase - https://www.fastcase.com/
Cost: Subscription - may be a bar perk

Recently (somewhat) bought CaseMaker – which was the darling of bar
memberships for a couple of decades

Merging with vLex – so they’re moving into the
arena of creating AI tools.

Offers case law, statutes, regs, court rules, constitutions, law review articles

They offer a way to shepardize a brief

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Decisis - https://www.decisis.com/home
Cost: Subscription - may be a bar perk (it is in Nebraska)

I believe it's only available for 1 or 2 person firms

Created by Legal InQuery Solutions Inc., a subsidiary of RELX, parent company of
LexisNexis®.

Tiered subscription – depending on the content you need.

They offer forms, dockets, and news in addition to caselaw, statutes, codes, legislative
materials

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Public Law Libraries are your best friend, if you've got one nearby.

List of public law libraries - https://publiclibraries.com/law/

California County Public Law Libraries - https://www.mylawlibrary.org/law-libraries.htm

LA County Law Library – https://www.lalawlibrary.org/
2nd largest law library in the country!

A library card will get you access to databases (within the library), and California Court of Appeals briefs

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Internet Archive Scholar - https://scholar.archive.org/
Cost: Free

25 million research articles and other scholarly documents preserved in the Internet
Archive. Includes digitized copies of 18th century journals through the latest Open
Access conference proceedings and pre-prints crawled from the World Wide Web.

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Judy Records - https://www.judyrecords.com/
Cost: Free

Boasts 100x more cases than Google Scholar and 10x more cases than PACER

Free full-text search of all United States patents from 1/1/1976 to 07/01/2022

Con: Search engine either basic, or not intuitive...haven't made up my mind on that yet.

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Harvard’s Caselaw Access Project - https://case.law/
Cost: Free

Includes all official, book-published state and federal US case law

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Google Scholar - https://scholar.google.com/
Cost: Free

Federal appellate opinions, Tax & Bankruptcy court opinions, State courts, Scholarly
articles & reports.

Click ‘Select Courts’ to refine your search

Tips for using Google Scholar for Legal Research can be found here:
https://guides.loc.gov/free-case-law/google-scholar

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