In Case You Missed It (Law)
Digest for Friday July 17, 2026

Greetings, my name is David Colarusso. I'm the co-director of Suffolk University Law School's Legal Innovation & Technology (LIT) Lab. With one foot in law and the other in tech, I really want the open web to thrive. So I created a bot (@icymilaw.org) and this site to help folks discover great law-themed content while showing off what one can do with sufficiently open protocols.

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In addition to the RSS feeds below, here's the legal tech feed powering @news.bot.suffolklitlab.org (another bot of mine).

Note, the number of fire emoji represent how many standard deviations more popular a link is than the average link observed in its category.

News-like Links

A collection of links shared recently¹ by legal-type folks² with URLs that look like they point to news articles,³ sorted by popularity.

  1. Kalshi Will Offer Sports-Style Betting on Drug Trial Results  🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
    Kalshi Inc. is expanding in biotechnology by offering wagers on the outcomes of clinical trials and regulatory decisions, giving traders a more direct way to bet on key industry catalysts.
  2. Intel Officials Predict the Pentagon’s Bill for the Iran War Will Exceed $100 Billion  🔥
    The Trump administration has not disclosed its cost estimates for the Iran war.
  3. ‘I’m His Lawyer’: Blanche Told the Truth About Trump’s DOJ  🔥
    Perhaps the most revealing moment of Todd Blanche’s confirmation hearing for attorney general came when he misspoke. “I’m his lawyer,” the acting attorney general said, when asked whether he was Presi...
  4. National Academies Report Backs Climate Change Attribution Science (Gift Article)  🔥
    Attribution science is advancing quickly, researchers said. That could support lawsuits seeking damages for severe events worsened by global warming.
  5. Opinion | How Worried Should You Be About Cyclospora? 
    We didn’t need an outbreak of a nightmare stomach bug. But here we are.

Blog-like Links

A collection of links shared recently⁴ by legal-type folks⁵ with URLs that look like they point to blogs/newsletters,⁶ sorted by popularity.

  1. Trump's New Election Conspiracy Isn't About 2020. It's About November.  🔥🔥🔥
    Donald Trump has only just discovered that foreign countries—well, actually, just China—try to influence our elections.
  2. Can Illinoisans Fight Back Against ICE's Increased Violence?  🔥
    ICE increased their violence once again this past week, murdering multiple people in cold blood. What can we do to fight back?
  3. Today in Politics, Bulletin 420. 7/16/26  🔥
    … Navy Blue Angels pilots performed another reckless and dangerous flyover at extremely low altitude over a crowed beach in Pensacola, FL.
  4. Supreme Court, 9-0, says Colorado can't kick Trump off ballot 
    Underlying the unanimous ruling, a 5-4 dispute about the majority limiting federal power to enforce the 14th Amendment's "insurrection" disqualification clause.
  5. Andrew Weissmann (@weissmann) 
    Trump’s press conference—-If it were a crime for politicians to lie to us — or could lead to disqualification from holding office — an evening primetime TV show to promote an election lie would have r...

AI & The Law Links

A collection of links shared recently⁷ on Bluesky that look like they talk about AI & the law,⁸ sorted by popularity.

  1. Bernie and AOC Are Taking On AI. Only One of Them Is Doing It Right.  🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
    Sanders is responding to the deceptive narratives floated by the industry. AOC is talking to experts who really understand how AI works.
  2. Musk's xAI sues Grok user over sexualized 'deepfakes'  🔥
    Elon Musk's artificial-intelligence startup xAI has sued a South Carolina man arrested earlier this year on charges of sexually exploiting ​minors, alleging he misused the company's AI system Grok to ...
  3. Lawsuit claims Meta's layoff decisions were made by AI, not humans  🔥
    Meta denies using AI to terminate workers with disabilities and medical problems.
  4. Supreme Court's Cox Ruling Reshapes Copyright Fight, With AI Cases Next in Line  🔥
    The high court's 9-0 Cox v. Sony ruling hands AI developers a ready-made defense against claims that their models are built for infringement.
  5. Early Edition: July 15, 2026 
    A curated guide to major news and developments over the weekend.

Law Review-like Links

A collection of links shared recently⁹ on Bluesky that look like they point to papers in law journals or the like,¹⁰ sorted by popularity.

  1. The Supreme Court, October 2025 Term Foreword: The Court Against the Courts  🔥🔥
    The Supreme Court sits atop a judicial system on which it is deeply dependent. It lacks the capacity to superintend more than a fraction of the cases filed e ...
  2. Trump's Lies: The Unconstitutionality of Government Propaganda 
    Government propaganda—the government’s deliberate dissemination of false claims on matters of public interest—has increasingly become a source of concern in the ...
  3. A Narrow Path Out of Gerrymandergeddon 
    What would it take to end the present downward spiral of partisan gerrymandering in the United States?  This essay, a revised and expanded version of a key ...
  4. The Art Critics Won't Save You from the Robots: Confronting A.I. as Misappropriation 
    Artificial intelligence (A.I.) systems require a wealth of training data, which is often harvested from creators without their consent, and then used to train s ...
  5. A Contingent Case for Negligence in Agentic AI 
    At the turn of the 19th century, American courts held hot air balloon operators strictly liable while subjecting railroads only to negligence, shaping the tr ...

AI Paper-like Links

A collection of links shared recently¹¹ on Bluesky that look like they point to papers on AI,¹² sorted by popularity. Wondering why this section is on a site about the law? Well, I teach a course on AI & the Law, and it turns out that understanding this stuff is super important to figuring out what the law might have to say. So, I figured since I was sharing lists, I might as well share this one too.

  1. Paradoxes of Game Theoretic Equilibria and Price of Anarchy  🔥🔥🔥🔥
    For decades, static solution concepts (Nash, Correlated, and Coarse Correlated Equilibria) and the Price of Anarchy (PoA) have formed the bedrock of algorithmic game theory, with no-regret learning pr...
  2. Amplitude-Only FFN Intervention for Tool-Structured LLM Inference Method: Gated Evaluation Protocol, and Cross-Model Empirical Results 
    ArXiv link for Amplitude-Only FFN Intervention for Tool-Structured LLM Inference Method: Gated Evaluation Protocol, and Cross-Model Empirical Results ...
  3. LLM-Driven Approach to Modeling Tool Interoperability in Automotive Domain 
    Interoperability between heterogeneous modeling tools remains a significant challenge in Model-Driven Engineering (MDE), particularly in the automotive domain where multiple modeling languages, as well as defacto standard proprietary and open-source tools coexist. This paper presents an LLM-driven …
  4. MCPEvol-Bench: Benchmarking LLM Agent Performance Across Dynamic Evolutions of MCP Servers 
    As Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers emerge as the core infrastructure for connecting LLMs with external tools, existing benchmarks leverage real-world MCP servers to evaluate LLM agents' tool-using capabilities. However, these benchmarks overlook the continuous evolution of tool interfaces and …
  5. Evaluating Frontier AI Agents as Autonomous Clinical Security Auditors 
    Clinical AI models can expose patients to harm when adversarial vulnerabilities go undetected, yet formal security auditing requires statistical expertise, specialized tools, and significant time. We present an open evaluation task, built on METR Task Standard v0.3.0, that tests whether frontier AI…

The High Score

The 20 accounts most reposted by @icymilaw.org over the past week¹³ (the list below is updated every Sunday). High Score, get it? One Score = 20, as in, "four score and seven years ago." ;)

  1. ICYMI (Law) (@icymilaw.org)
  2. Law + Tech News Bot (@news.bot.suffolklitlab.org)
  3. Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social(promoted)
  4. Leon English (@leonenglish.bsky.social(promoted)
  5. Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social)
  6. Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social(promoted)
  7. Legal C (@legalclaret.bsky.social(promoted)
  8. Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) (@axidentaliberal.bsky.social)
  9. Fionna O’Leary (@fascinatorfun.bsky.social(promoted)
  10. Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social(promoted)
  11. Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social)
  12. David Noll (@david.noll.org(promoted)
  13. Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social)
  14. Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social)
  15. Omri Marian (@omrimarian.bsky.social(promoted)
  16. Sam Bagenstos (@sbagen.bsky.social(promoted)
  17. Dan Kaszeta FRHistS (@dankaszeta.bsky.social)
  18. Corey Rayburn Yung (@coreyryung.bsky.social(promoted)
  19. Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social(promoted)
  20. Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social)
  21. Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social(relegated)
  22. Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social(relegated)
  23. Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social(relegated)
  24. Asha Rangappa (@asharangappa.bsky.social(relegated)
  25. Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social(relegated)
  26. Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app(relegated)
  27. Jonathan Ladd (@jonathanmladd.com(relegated)
  28. Anna O. Law (@unlawfulentries.bsky.social(relegated)
  29. Dan Sohege (@danielsohege.bsky.social(relegated)
  30. Heba Gowayed هبة جويد (@hebagowayed.bsky.social(relegated)
  31. Jenny Cohn (@jennycohn.bsky.social(relegated)

This link was also in yesterday's digest.
¹ Approx. 1 day lookback.
² Attorneys, law profs, et al.
³ News-like links (law)
Supra note 1.
Supra note 2.
Blog-like links (law)
⁷ Approx. 3.5 days lookback.
AI & the Law
⁹ Approx. 1 week lookback.
¹⁰ Law Review-like
¹¹ Supra note 9.
¹² AI Papers et al.
¹³ High Score

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