Despite judges recently finding that attorneys in two San Diego cases filed motions containing fake citations and quotes, attorneys say AI used with guardrails can help improve their work. 

(Subscription required) In a case that interrogates the scope of the federal Ending Forced Arbitration Act and the definition of sexual harassment under state laws, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit considered whether to uphold the denial of a motion to compel arbitration in a sex discrimination and harassment suit brought against a biopharmaceutical company by its ex-chief financial officer.

A federal judge on Monday struck down President Donald Trump’s executive order blocking wind energy projects, saying the effort to halt virtually all leasing of wind farms on federal lands and waters was “arbitrary and capricious” and violates U.S. law.

(Subscription required) The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is weighing if and under what circumstances a high-level business executive can avoid sitting for a deposition by invoking the so-called “apex doctrine,” a legal principal that has divided lower courts.