To have it happen once is an unfortunate accident, to have it happen twice…

AI law went from vibes to code. EU’s AI Act bars some uses. US regulators have proposed 59 AI rules. Britain decided to enact self compliance pledges into law. The hands-off stage has left the chat. #AI #law #privacy

Ah #AI tells me that speech about Muslim issues (not anti-Muslim bigotry… Muslim issues in general) is considered “high risk” and runs into “guardrails” that don’t affect other groups. With this approach, the future will be interesting. #ChatGPT

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An #AppellateSky aside, 50 Ways to Lose your Writ: Chorus: Remedy at law, Shaw Why were you late, Kate You filed way too soon, June Just get yourself screwed Res judicata, Ata You don't need to rewrite it Just get it reviewed, Dude And get yourself screwed

Ah #AI tells me that speech about Muslim issues (not anti-Muslim bigotry… Muslim issues in general) is considered “high risk” and runs into “guardrails” that don’t affect other groups. With this approach, the future will be interesting. #ChatGPT

spaceballs, the heist!

bit.ly/3JOvhG3 he would’ve said “take the deal.” #lawandorder

I don’t know any state that doesn’t. Had a related case once-apparently goes back to ye olde Europe, Montesquieu, separation of powers, and that the authority of the executive branch didn’t rest entirely in the Governor.

Not saying I once lived in this apartment, but not denying it either.

Ah, the number of times a lawyer tells a dinner or social gathering about something related to the discussion, to gasps and “they couldn’t do that! It would be against the law!” O sweet child…. #lawsky

“Navigating state #privacy statutes is rather like untangling spaghetti—one wrong move and you’ve got a sauce-stained lap and an annoyed judiciary.” #appellatesky

Has she ever been right about anything?

Been there.

“Be you ever so high, the law is above you.” (Thomas Fuller, quoted by Lord Denning in Gouriet v Union of Post Office Workers [1978] AC 435.) The one-line answer to “Don’t you know who I am?” #RuleOfLaw #appellatesky

Inconceivable!

The irony is that a century ago, the exact same kind of religious bigotry that Cuomo’s embraced down the stretch — we can’t elect someone from that faith or they’ll impose it on all of us! — was aimed squarely at Catholics like Cuomo.

“They conferred, as against the Government, the right to be let alone—the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized men.” — Brandeis, J., dissenting, Olmstead v. United States, 277 U.S. 438, 478 (1928). #privacy #appellatesky

Congratulations to old schoolmate Mosharraf Zaidi, ever a good sport in social-media dust-ups, on being named spokesperson to the Prime Minister of Pakistan; corrections now come with a crest.

Sarbanes–Oxley (SOP)

There’s no such thing as bad publicity?

Law & Order and its various spinoffs have done more to erode the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Eighth Amendments than the Supreme Court

Ah, American Airlines! 1. Insist your bag in merely delayed and you’re rushing to file a claim when flt lands. 2. Offers 7 different excuses by my count for denying compensation 3. Denies compensation bc their “records show” a claim filed when flt landed was “not timely”

Keys to Wake Forest's success: a QB who can throw a ball within 5 yards of any Wake player.

Discworld QOTD, from The Last Continent "‘Be what?’ ‘Pro-active, I think. It’s a word he’s using a lot.’ ‘What does that mean?’ ‘Well…in favour of activity, I suppose.’ ‘Really? Dangerous. In my experience, inactivity sees you through.’"

Interesting-the punishment for parking illegally in ancient Nineveh was apparently… death

“If the law supposes that,” says Mr. Bumble, “the law is a ass—a idiot.” — Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist (Ch. 51)

Where is the get out gif when you need it

In all seriousness, my then 5YO asked me in Euston station what language. Was spoken in England. She didn’t understand the Urdu, English, or Punjabi, each of which are spoken with an English twist #appellatedad

Are “pocket friends” real? I’ve lost two I only ever knew online. Never met. But I grieve their passing. So yeah, I’d say they were real “Good friends are like stars. You don’t always see them, but you know they’re always there.”

Next they’ll discover water is wet

“Our answer to the question of what police must do before searching a cell phone seized incident to an arrest is accordingly simple—get a warrant.” — Chief Justice John Roberts, Riley v. California, 573 U.S. 373, 401 (2014) #privacy #appellatesky

If #AI can do a flawless Beyoncé, who owns the encore? On the ELVIS Act, California’s deepfake laws, and why this heads to One First Street. www.linkedin.com/pulse/voice-... #Deepfakes #VoiceCloning #FirstAmendment #appellatesky #DormantCommerceClause #SCOTUS

How much time do you have comrade?

#appellatedad Dad: you can watch till 3, but then turn it off. 14YO: okay Daddy. ***at 3:20*** AD: you were supposed to turn it off at 3. 14YO: I did. But you didn’t say I couldn’t turn it on again. AD: Kids like you grow up to be lawyers.

Then cops are the only ones. Lawyers yes. But doctors are in agony-a bandage with a spot of blood on it is very very bad surgery apparently. And you apparently never ever hand an intelligence analyst a gun and say “you’re operational now.”

“There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.” —Jean Giraudoux, La Guerre de Troie n’aura pas lieu (Tiger at the Gates), 1935 (Act II) #appellatesky

“Am taking legal advice to ascertain whether strangling an idiot nephew counts as murder. If it doesn’t look out for yourself.” #wodehouse

“Am taking legal advice to ascertain whether strangling an idiot nephew counts as murder. If it doesn’t look out for yourself.” #wodehouse

No film or TV show gets the Supreme Court right either. Because it would largely consist of judges and clerks reading stacks of briefs. With specific color requirements for the covers. And drafting documents. And making changes to them. #appellatesky

Why go for cannons wben you could have … “Lasers”.

“We have taken the liberty of changing ‘hoe’ to ‘ho,’ a staple of rap music vernacular as, for example, when Ludacris raps ‘You doin’ ho activities with ho tendencies.’” United States v. Murphy, 406 F.3d 857, 859 n.1 (7th Cir. 2005) #appellatesky

And @americanair.bsky.social lives up to its behavior by claiming that my original claim was “incomplete” (their staff reluctantly filled it out after bouncing me around the airport) and any subsequent completions were “late.” They will look for the bag a few more days “if you ask”… “as a courtesy”

Scalia gave us the law of rules. My kids gave us the law of ice cream. And what exactly was supposed to happen at 3 o’clock? All persuasive. Five appellate takeaways from the home front👇 www.linkedin.com/pulse/justic...  #Litigation #BriefWriting #RuleOfLaw #textualism #appellatesky

How sweet were the days of my childhood….

And they can determine whether you make bail, and how long you go to jail. #AI

Scalia gave us the law of rules. My kids gave us the law of ice cream. And what exactly was supposed to happen at 3 o’clock? All persuasive. Five appellate takeaways from the home front👇 www.linkedin.com/pulse/justic...  #Litigation #BriefWriting #RuleOfLaw #textualism #appellatesky

His great contribution to law: Calvinball

Ah. @americanair.bsky.social When you volunteer to help them by agreeing to check a small bag when theres plenty of overhead room. 8 days, 3 trips to the airport, 7 emails, 2 online submissions, and no sign of the bag or compensation. My advice: don’t check bags. And don’t try to help