The second Uber sexual assault bellwether trial, which is currently taking place in a federal courthouse in Charlotte, has a moment that the jury is unlikely to forget anytime soon. The plaintiff, who was 23 years old when the incident occurred, came out from behind the witness box to show what her Uber driver had done to her. Her upper inner thigh in a handful. He asked if he could keep her leg. After returning home and failing to wake her boyfriend, she looked at the security cameras to make sure the driver had left before attempting to wash his…
Author: Janine Heller
A certain type of grief is associated with the quiet, legal aftermath rather than the initial shock. Press releases are how it gets there. It is concealed in expressions such as “settlement in principle.” It appears in the language of attorneys general rather than the language of families who are still wondering why six men left in the middle of the night to work on a bridge and never returned. Two years after the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed into the Patapsco River in the early morning darkness, Maryland is currently in that situation. It’s difficult not to feel as…
Like most panics in education, it began quietly. Essays that were overly polished were observed by a teacher in New York. A computer science professor observed junior-year students staring at blank screens, unable to start the assignments they had been working toward for two years. No alarm bell was rung. They have recently begun to prohibit certain things. By the end of May 2023, some of the biggest school districts in the US had blocked ChatGPT along with YouTube and Roblox. Los Angeles Unified and New York City Public Schools took the lead in removing the chatbot from school Wi-Fi…
Late at night, a certain kind of silence descends upon a law library; it’s the kind that feels earned, almost sacred. Annotated codes, floor-to-ceiling treatises, and rows of bound reporters. With a highlighter in hand, a young associate bent over a desk, searching through footnotes for a citation. That picture was the epitome of legal preparation for many years. In some places, it still occurs. However, something has moved beneath it, similar to how a floor moves before anyone notices a crack in the foundation. CategoryDetailTopicArtificial Intelligence in Law, Judiciary & Legal AcademiaCore DomainsLegal Research, Contract Analysis, Document Automation, Court…
Observing a well-crafted set of guidelines being subtly ignored is almost unsettling. UNESCO spent years developing a policy architecture for artificial intelligence in education, including guidelines for governments, ethical standards for institutions, and competency frameworks for educators. A large portion of this architecture was published between 2021 and 2024. Most of the time, the world continued on without much recognition. The results of UNESCO’s own survey provide a clear picture. Nine out of ten of the 400 respondents, who were selected from UNESCO Chairs and UNITWIN Networks in 90 countries, said they frequently used AI tools in their professional work.…
Every few years, a policy decision in Washington is made quietly enough that most people are unaware of it until businesses begin contacting their attorneys. When Attorney General Pam Bondi announced the formation of the AI Litigation Task Force in an internal memo to DOJ staff on January 9, 2026, that moment might have come. No press conference. No announcement during prime time. It’s just a memo that’s making the rounds in federal hallways, but it represents a big change in the way this nation plans to handle artificial intelligence. Key InformationDetailsInitiative NameDOJ AI Litigation Task ForceAnnounced ByAttorney General Pam…
This year, if you stroll through a public elementary school in Texas, you’ll notice a subtle change. Workbooks that start with Genesis are being opened by kindergarteners. Students in the third grade are learning that Jesus literally rose from the dead and worked miracles. Fifth graders are reading about the Last Supper from Matthew’s Gospel. This is not a Sunday school elective that is incorporated into an after-school program. Bluebonnet Learning is the official state-authored reading curriculum. CategoryDetailsCurriculum NameBluebonnet Learning (Reading & Language Arts, K–5)Developed ByTexas Education Agency (TEA)Approval Vote8–6, Texas State Board of Education (2024)Grade Levels AffectedKindergarten through 5th Grade…
Observing a stock that is trading below the price of a coffee vending machine turn into the loudest ticker in America is almost theatrical. That’s precisely what happened on Monday, when Beyond Meat’s stock shot up 41% to $1.16 while the S&P 500 and Nasdaq saw a 0.3% decline. FX Leaders Almost 220 million shares were traded, which is about six times the daily average. Somewhere in that torrent, serious institutional money and retail bravado collided for a few hours, and the outcome was genuinely difficult to ignore. CategoryDetailsCompany NameBeyond Meat, Inc.Stock TickerBYND (NASDAQ)Founded2009Founder & CEOEthan BrownHeadquartersEl Segundo, California, USAIPO…
Every major company’s story has a point at which everything begins to fit together in a way that even doubters can’t ignore. For Amazon, that moment might be occurring right now—quietly, in server farms dispersed across continents, powered by chips that the majority of consumers are unaware of, running AI models that businesses are embracing more quickly than anyone anticipated. AMZN’s stock finished a recent regular session at $248.28, down almost a full percent—a slight decline that hardly shows up on an average day. The after-hours session then began. It was revealed that Anthropic, the AI firm that Amazon has…
To do the right thing, she entered a government office. In handcuffs, she departed. On April 14, Deisy Rivera Ortega was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement during a scheduled visit to an immigration office in El Paso. The visit was related to a Parole in Place application that her husband had submitted on her behalf. There was no outstanding threat to public safety, no criminal warrant, and no dramatic pursuit, according to CBS News. Federal agents were waiting on the other side of the door, and it was just a woman going to an appointment. CategoryDetailsFull NameDeisy Rivera OrtegaNationalitySalvadoranIn…