The state Supreme Court, in a Bay Area case, has set aside a ruling that would have given judges broad authority to set bail at high levels for defendants awaiting trial and says it will decide when, or whether, bail can be set in an amount that an accused person cannot afford.

On March 14, when the much-anticipated news broke that OpenAI had released GPT-4, its most powerful AI model to date, with it came the news that GPT-4 had passed the Uniform Bar Exam (UBE) with scores that would place it in the 90th percentile of test-takers.

Margulies has written several published and unpublished decisions involving high profile issues or parties in recent years, including whether ride-share drivers can be held liable for harm that may occur when their passengers exit a vehicle and whether social media platforms are immune from lawsuits challenging their decision to block content or suspend accounts.

The 8-0 decision was passed after a public member of the board, Mark W. Toney, executive director of the Utility Reform Network in San Francisco, asked why neither of the proposals require the bar to take any action if an attorney reports a colleague. He didn’t get an answer.