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Happy Tuesday and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. This week’s newsletter takes a look at some recent state-level policy…

In 2009, the Supreme Court decided Ricci v. DeStefano. The Justices reversed Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s indefensible ruling against the Frank Ricci…

An excerpt from Sunar v. Gray Local Media, Inc., decided today by Judge Kenneth Bell (W.D.N.C.): Defendants Gray Local Media,…

Imagine you start an asteroid mining company. It’s tough at first. You know that profits are uncertain and, if they…

An Ohio courtroom may soon have to determine whether a blogger should face jail time for texting an image of…

From al Ghashiyah v. Oster, decided last Thursday by Wisconsin Court of Appeals Judges JoAnne Kloppenburg, Jennifer Nashold, and Chris…

A couple of weeks ago, the litigants in the Social Media Adolescent Addiction/Personal Injury Products Liability Litigation multi-district case tried…

On the surface, Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh share much in common. They are both judicial conservatives, both self-professed…

Public backlash to data centers is growing. About 70 percent of Americans would not want a new data center built…

Gene-editing human embryos—the sci-fi scenario that many have feared and many others have cheered—may now be a reality. Columbia University…

Israel and Iran exchange first strikes since April: For the last two months, the ceasefire between Israel and Iran had mostly…

For those following litigation over AI output, here’s the consolidation order, together with the motion that led to it. (The…