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Credit: CC0 Public Domain Supreme Court deliberations happen behind closed doors. Can we peek behind them using the voting record? Employing techniques from statistical physics and complexity science, Eddie Lee, a postdoctoral researcher at the Complexity Science Hub, along with his colleague George Cantwell of Cambridge University, analyzed U.S. Supreme Court voting data from 1946 to 2021. …

E. Jean Carroll’s defamation trial against Donald Trump resumed on Thursday, and this time it was the president himself who was in the hot seat. The former president took the witness stand in Manhattan civil court for a brief testimony largely devoid of the theatrics seen in his previous court outbursts.  Trump’s questioning was short. His attorney, Alina Habba, asked him if he stood by his deposition for the case, in which he denied Caroll’s allegations against him multiple times. He responded “100 percent yes.”…

Spirit and JetBlue planes at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport (FLL) in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, US, on Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023. Eva Marie Uzcategui | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesJetBlue Airways and Spirit Airlines on Friday appealed a federal judge's ruling issued earlier this week that blocks the two carriers' planned merger on antitrust grounds.JetBlue had planned to buy Spirit for $3.8 billion in a deal struck in the summer of 2022. A federal judge on Tuesday, however, barred that combination, saying it…

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Updated Jan. 8, 2024 5:37 pm ETRobin Hayes will step down as CEO of JetBlue Airways after about nine years at the helm, citing a doctor’s advice, as the company waits to find out whether a federal judge will block the merger with Spirit Airlines that he championed. Joanna Geraghty, a longtime JetBlue executive and the airline’s current president, will take his place as chief executive when Hayes steps down in February. She will become the only woman at the helm of a major U.S. airline. Copyright ©2024Dow Jones &…

England’s 1,000-year-old legal system—still steeped in traditions that include wearing wigs and robes—has taken a cautious step into the future by giving judges permission to use artificial intelligence to help produce rulings.The Courts and Tribunals Judiciary last month said AI could help write opinions but stressed it shouldn’t be used for research or legal analyses because the technology can fabricate information and provide misleading, inaccurate and biased information.“Judges do not need to shun the careful use of…

Judges in England and Wales have been given a cautious approval to embrace AI for legal opinions; Big Tech's AI leaves businesses exposed to copyright claims; Layered Reality's AI hologram of Elvis offers time-travel-like experience; Deloitte implements AI chatbot 'PairD' to boost employee productivity- this and more in our daily roundup. Let us take a look. 1. Judges in England and Wales cautiously embrace AI for legal opinionsEngland and Wales permit judges have been allowed to cautiously employ AI for crafting legal…

Too Long; Didn't Readit’s a good time to look back at previous rulings, judgments, orders and verdicts in legal cases where Craig Wright was involved. There were quite a few, and put together they give an eye-opening overview of the character that is Craig Wright, and his antics that he shows in and outside courtrooms Too Long; Didn't Readit’s a good time to look back at previous rulings, judgments, orders and verdicts in legal cases where Craig Wright was involved. There were quite a few, and put together they give an…

Following the revelation that our mobile push notification records can be handed over to law enforcements, Apple put the blame on the Department of Justice (DOJ) for preventing tech companies from revealing such process. Meanwhile, the company also updated its Legal Process Guidelines document to state that "a subpoena or greater legal process" was required to obtain the relevant records. However, Reuters spotted that a week later, Apple quietly tweaked this particular line to match Google's stricter policy on this…

Apple has said it now requires a judge's order to hand over information about its customers' push notification to law enforcement, putting the iPhone maker's policy in line with rival Google and raising the hurdle officials must clear to get app data about users.The new policy was not formally announced but appeared sometime over the past few days on Apple's publicly available law enforcement guidelines. It follows the revelation from Oregon Senator Ron Wyden that officials were requesting such data from Apple as well as…