(Subscription required) As courts increasingly warn against the misuse of AI in legal filings, high-profile plaintiffs' attorney and Lancaster Mayor R. Rex Parris is embracing it--proudly crediting ChatGPT with drafting his response to a recall lawsuit. Parris says generative AI is saving him time, money, and staffing costs, and he predicts it will soon reshape the entire litigation process. While others face sanctions for AI-generated errors, Parris argues that smart, supervised use of the technology is the future of law.

(Subscription required) A federal judge ordered authors to provide email addresses to Google to verify licensing agreements in a copyright lawsuit over AI models powering Chrome, Gmail and other products.

The ruling, which covers 22 agencies and also prohibits shutting down programs or offices, effectively pauses the president’s plans for reshaping much of the government while the case plays out.

(Subscription required) “This order, like the others, seeks to chill legal representation the administration doesn’t like, thereby insulating the Executive Branch from the judicial check fundamental to the separation of powers. It thus violates the Constitution and the Court will enjoin its operation in full,” Bates wrote.