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fromLos Angeles Times
12 hours agoAttorneys used AI to write court filings, cited fake legal decisions, State Bar alleges
Three attorneys in California face discipline for submitting AI-generated court filings with nonexistent legal citations.
The fact that it took nearly nine months of litigation and a decision by the highest court of the land to obtain something as innocuous as permission for my clients to meet with a local lawyer speaks volumes about how hard the government of Eswatini is fighting to deny these men the most basic of rights.
"What's at issue is can the president rewrite the Constitution. And basically we are arguing that birthright citizenship is clearly stated in the 14th Amendment and that the Supreme Court actually already decided this issue in 1898," Kohli says.
U.S. District Judge Dena Coggins in Sacramento gave the government seven days to return Maria de Jesus Estrada Juarez, 42, and restore her protections under the Obama-era program Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, 'as if her Feb. 19, 2026 removal never occurred.'
A federal judge granted a preliminary injunction Monday, Feb. 9, allowing federal immigration officials to continue wearing masks during California operations, but upheld a law requiring law enforcement to display badges identifying themselves and their agency. U.S. District Judge Christine A. Snyder in Los Angeles granted the Trump administration's request for a temporary order halting enforcement of SB 627, the No Secret Police Act, which Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law in September amid ongoing waves of federal immigration enforcements across California.
The California Republican Party said it will ask the US Supreme Court to weigh in on the state's new congressional map that favors Democrats. A lower court in Los Angeles said last week that the new map is lawful and can be used in the 2026 midterm elections, rejecting a bid by the Trump administration and the California GOP to block the redistricting on the grounds that it was racially gerrymandered. The state party filed a notice of appeal late Thursday.
A federal judge has accused the Trump administration of terrorizing immigrants and recklessly violating the law in its efforts to deport millions of people living in the country illegally. Citing the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minnesota, the judge said that the White House had also extended its violence on its own citizens. The threats posed by the executive branch cannot be viewed in isolation, U.S. District Judge Sunshine Sykes in Riverside, California said in her scathing decision issued late Wednesday.
From 2021 until 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court did not decide one case involving traditional Fourth Amendment issues-such as what is a search, when is a warrant required and whether the exclusionary rule applies. I taught Criminal Procedure - Investigations in the fall semester and struggled to explain to my students why the justices seemingly had lost interest in the Fourth Amendment. But this term, there are two Fourth Amendment cases, one already decided and one to be argued this spring.