The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday held that a District Court judge erred in granting summary judgment against three plaintiffs who asserted that Circle K Stores Inc. passed them over for a promotion due to their ages, saying that the jurist wrongly concluded that they could not establish a prima facie case of discrimination because they never applied for the post.

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The justices will hear challenges to transgender rights, voting rights and Trump tariffs. A Louisiana redistricting case could outlaw all use of race in drawing district lines.

(Subscription required) An attorney used AI tools to cross-check his brief. The result: 21 fabricated citations, a $10,000 sanction, and California's warning that AI exploits lawyers' cognitive biases when they're most vulnerable.