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  • Commentary | What AI learns from us, and why that could be a legal problem

    Daily Journal
    July 7, 2025

    (Subscription required) If an attorney delegates routine document analysis to an AI tool, and that system consistently flags contracts from certain demographic groups for "additional review" based on historical patterns, the attorney, oblivious to this algorithmic bias, could face allegations of discriminatory business practices.

  • Public Employees in California Have Qualified Right to Strike

    Metropolitan News-Enterprise
    July 7, 2025

    Teachers in public schools in California and other government employees have a right to go on strike, where the work action does not create an imminent threat to the public welfare, Div. Five of the First District Court of Appeal has held.

  • Ex-State Bar Executive Director Joseph Dunn Should Incur 30-Day Actual Suspension

    Metropolitan News-Enterprise
    July 7, 2025

    The State Bar Review Department has indicated its disagreement with a hearing judge that former state Sen. Joseph L. Dunn should simply be placed on one year of probation based on lying to the Board of Trustees in 2013, while he was executive director, that no funds from the agency’s coffers would be used to fund his trip to Mongolia, but recommended that the penalty be boosted to a still lenient one of a 30-day suspension.

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  • Daily fantasy sports betting is illegal in California, AG says

    San Francisco Chronicle
    July 4, 2025

    Gambling on sports events is illegal in California, except for betting on horses at racetracks. And gambling on fantasy sports games is just as illegal, Attorney General Rob Bonta said Thursday.

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