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The American Bar Association’s legal education arm is slated to consider a request today by alternative law school admissions program JD-Next to join ranks with the LSAT and the GRE as a “valid and reliable” predictor of an applicant’s law school grades, our colleague Karen Sloan reports.
That designation would enable law school admissions offices to use JD-Next without special ABA permission, as they do with both the LSAT and GRE. The JD-Next program is an eight-week series of online legal courses that culminates in an exam.
Supporters say it is an important new tool for law schools because it captures participants’ law school aptitude without reproducing the racial score disparities seen on other standardized tests. That message is resonating with law schools, particularly since the U.S. Supreme Court in June significantly curtailed the consideration of race in college admissions. Nearly 50 law schools have received special ABA permission to admit new students with JD-Next scores since the court’s decision.
The ABA’s council could extend full recognition of JD-Next at its meeting today, putting it on par with the LSAT and the GRE, or it could stick with the status quo in which schools that want to admit students with JD-Next scores must obtain a variance from the ABA, said William Adams, the ABA’s managing director of accreditation and legal education. The council could also opt to stop sanctioning any use of JD-Next by admissions offices.
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- The DOJ today named its first official focused on artificial intelligence as the department grapples with the potentially transformative affects of AI on federal law enforcement and the criminal justice system, Andrew Goudsward writes. Princeton University professor Jonathan Mayer, who researches technology and law, will serve as chief science and technology adviser and chief AI officer, the department said.
- President Joe Biden announced five new judicial nominees, including U.S. District Judge Nancy Maldonado, who if confirmed would become the first Hispanic judge on the 7th Circuit. For trial court judge positions, he nominated Sparkle Sooknanan in D.C., Georgia Alexakis in Illinois, and Angela Martinez and Krissa Lanham in Arizona.
- Jailed crypto exchange founder Sam Bankman-Fried at a court hearing in Manhattan confirmed he wanted to stick with new lawyers despite a possible conflict of interest. Bankman-Fried hired defense lawyers Marc Mukasey and Torrey Young to represent him through his March 28 sentencing. They also represent the founder of bankrupt cryptocurrency lender Celsius Networks, which had business interactions with Bankman-Fried’s FTX.
- Donald Trump ally Mike Lindell lost his fight to void an arbitration award requiring him to pay $5 million to a cyber expert who debunked Lindell’s false claims of election fraud at the “Prove Mike Wrong Challenge.” Read the ruling from Minnesota U.S. District Judge John Tunheim.
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That’s the amount in fees that JPMorgan Chase customers accused the largest U.S. bank of unfairly charging when they deposit checks that, through no fault of their own, bounce. Five customers said in the proposed class action that New York-based Chase docked “deposited item returned fees” from their accounts when checks they tried to deposit were returned unpaid. Chase declined to comment on the lawsuit, but said it stopped charging the fees in December 2022. The customers said they were charged between November 2021 and October 2022.
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If Tesla CEO Elon Musk is serious about moving the electric car company out of Delaware and reincorporating in Texas, he got good news yesterday from a judge in Delaware Chancery Court. The new ruling, in a shareholder suit challenging TripAdvisor’s move to Nevada, leaves no doubt that companies controlled by one shareholder can take advantage of a two-step “cleansing” process to ditch Delaware without exposing themselves to claims by other shareholders, writes Alison Frankel. The trickier question, Frankel writes, is whether Musk has already poisoned the process for Tesla.
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“We wish we were launching our business instead of filing a lawsuit, but here we are.”
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— Mike Wawszczak, co-founder of the Texas cryptocurrency company Lejilex , in a statement about the lawsuit he filed accusing the SEC of overstepping its regulatory authority on digital assets. Lejilex sued the agency in Fort Worth, Texas, federal court, asking a judge there to rule that digital assets traded on exchanges are not securities. Lejilex and lobbying group Crypto Freedom Alliance of Texas claim the SEC has asserted power over the industry without a “clear statutory mandate.” Veteran appellate litigator Paul Clement represents the plaintiffs.
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- Former President Donald Trump faces a deadline to ask U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon in Florida to dismiss the criminal case accusing him of illegally holding on to classified documents after leaving office. Trump has pleaded not guilty. The case is one of several legal woes Trump faces as he campaigns for 2024.
- In Chicago federal court, U.S. District Judge Matthew Kennelly will hold a status hearing in a student-led class action accusing major U.S. colleges and universities of favoring wealthy applicants for admission. The price-fixing lawsuit has spurred more than $118 million in settlements so far. Kennelly recently preliminarily approved plaintiffs’ deals resolving claims against Brown, Columbia, Yale and other schools. The universities have all denied any wrongdoing.
- Litigation over a 2023 data breach at Tesla heads before U.S. District Judge James Donato in San Francisco for a status hearing. Donato is weighing whether to consolidate several Tesla employee cases seeking damages over the disclosure of personal information. Lawyers from Morgan Lewis and Freshfields represent Tesla.
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Court calendars are subject to last-minute docket changes.
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- U.S. Supreme Court justices signaled they may dismiss a legal fight between a Miami music producer and Warner Music over a song by rapper Flo Rida. Some of the justices during arguments in the case questioned whether they should decide the monetary damages issue raised in plaintiff Sherman Nealy’s lawsuit against Warner before resolving, in separate litigation, the proper time limit for filing copyright suits.
- Commercial real estate information giant CoStar was hit with a proposed consumer class action accusing it and a group of luxury hotel operators, including Hilton, Hyatt and Marriott of conspiring to keep room rental prices artificially high. Plaintiffs firm Hagens Berman filed the suit in Seattle federal court.
- National vision insurer VSP lost a bid to dismiss most of a lawsuit in California federal court accusing it of unlawfully trying to dominate optometry markets. Eye care provider Total Vision, represented by Quinn Emanuel, can move ahead with its antitrust claims against VSP, the country’s largest vision insurer, U.S. District Judge Cormac Carney ruled.
- A California environmental group San Francisco Baykeeper alleged in a new complaint against Radius Recycling that the recycled steel company’s operations are polluting the San Francisco Bay and its tributaries with dirty stormwater runoff. Radius Recycling, formerly known as Schnitzer Steel, did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the lawsuit.
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Debates are ongoing about future legal and societal implications of artificial intelligence. Like every tool, AI can be used for good or bad, either intentionally or unknowingly. Also worrisome is that AI could be used as a crutch that short circuits learning, writes John Bandler of Bandler Law Firm.
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