In Case You Missed It (Law)
Digest for Saturday May 16, 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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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. Boeing, Toyota Donated $1 Million Each to Transportation Secretary’s Road-Trip Show  🔥🔥🔥🔥
    A video series will feature Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and his family on a road trip to mark America’s 250th birthday and promote tourism.
  2. Tina Peters, Colorado Election Denier, Will Be Freed by Governor  🔥🔥🔥🔥
  3. 13 men killed by US military boat strikes identified: ‘These were flesh-and-blood people’  🔥🔥🔥
    All victims of US strikes in eastern Pacific and the Caribbean identified so far came from extremely poor communities ...
  4. Man hit by van in Birmingham after residents take down union flags put up by anti-migrant group  🔥🔥
    Police investigate incident on Thursday after witness claims seeing Raise the Colours logo on side of vehicle ...
  5. UK saves 'millions' of pounds by ditching Palantir for refugee system  🔥
    The government said its in-house IT system was ...
  6. Tesco boss’s pay rises by more than £1m to £10.8m after market share surge  🔥
    Ken Murphy’s pay could rise even higher following scrapping of food waste target and weakness of rivals ...
  7. The Mystery of a Congressman’s Absence Deepens  🔥

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. Five Questions with California Attorney General Rob Bonta  🔥🔥🔥
    Democratic State AGs Are Our Newest Heroes ...
  2. Why is Trump Relocating the Food and Nutrition Service?  🔥
    The data shows it is not to move services closer to those receiving benefits ...
  3. Major Deep Dive: America’s DataCenter Boom Is Fueling an Environmental Crisis, Threatening the Country's Power Grid, and Killing Americans  🔥
    The artificial intelligence revolution is being marketed to Americans as a story of innovation, economic growth and technological dominance.
  4. NEWS: Xi Jinping Calls US a 'Declining Nation' as Summit Fails, Trump Set to Give $1.7 Billion to Allies, Large '8647' Protest at Trump's Golf Club 
    Good morning, everyone.
  5. May 15, 2026 
    President Donald J.

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. A civic grammar for AI rights  🔥🔥🔥🔥
    Earlier this year, the artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic, developer of the large language model Claude, published a document it calls “Claude’s Constitution,” described by the company as ...
  2. OpenAI is reportedly preparing legal action against Apple; it wouldn't be the first partner to feel burned | TechCrunch  🔥🔥
    According to Bloomberg, OpenAI has enlisted an outside law firm to work through its options.
  3. Meta’s New Reality: Record High Profits. Record Low Morale  🔥🔥
    Next week, Meta is cutting about 10 percent of its staff. WIRED spoke with more than a dozen current and former employees about what it's like inside a company where "everyone is unhappy."
  4. The Real Losers of the Musk v. Altman Trial  🔥
    A federal jury is now deciding whether Elon Musk will win his lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman—but the trial has made everyone look bad.
  5. Lawsuit Blames ChatGPT Maker OpenAI for Helping Plan a School Shooting  🔥
    The widow of a man killed in last year’s mass shooting at Florida State University is suing OpenAI, alleging its chatbot gave advice on planning it.
  6. Musk's China trip during OpenAI trial prompts apology from his lawyer for CEO's absence  🔥
    Musk sued his OpenAI co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, alleging they had violated a promise to keep their company a nonprofit.
  7. After Deaths, Lawsuits Against A.I. Companies Test a New Strategy  🔥

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. "Slush Funds" and Congress's Power of the Purse  🔥
    If there's one point on which everyone agrees in appropriations law, it's that "slush funds" are bad. In the appropriations context, people tend to us ...
  2. Section 7 of the Charter and the Constitutional Limits on Rolling Back Supervised Consumption Services 
    This paper examines the constitutional limits imposed by section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms on government effort ...
  3. The Counterfeit Sham 
    There’s a new front in the IP rhetoric wars. Plaintiffs in “Schedule A” cases tell judges that they need to secretly seize the assets of hundreds of defendants ...
  4. The Social Costs (and Benefits) of Dual-Class Stock 
    Dual-class stock creates a two-tiered ownership structure that allows new investors to buy a piece of a fast-growing company, with just one catch: they become s ...

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. LLM hallucinations in the wild: Large-scale evidence from non-existent citations  🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
    Large language models (LLMs) are known to generate plausible but false information across a wide range of contexts, yet the real-world magnitude and consequences of this hallucination problem remain p...
  2. Preprint server arXiv will ban submitters of AI-generated hallucinations 
    One of the site's moderators described the new policy on social media.
  3. Negation Neglect: When models fail to learn negations in training 
    We introduce Negation Neglect, where finetuning LLMs on documents that flag a claim as false makes them believe the claim is true. For example, models are finetuned on documents that convey "Ed Sheera...
  4. AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Performance 
    People often optimize for long-term goals in collaboration: A mentor or companion doesn't just answer questions, but also scaffolds learning, tracks progress, and prioritizes the other person's growth...
  5. LLMs Corrupt Your Documents When You Delegate 
    Large Language Models (LLMs) are poised to disrupt knowledge work, with the emergence of delegated work as a new interaction paradigm (e.g., vibe coding). Delegation requires trust - the expectation t...

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. Law + Tech News Bot (@news.bot.suffolklitlab.org)
  2. ICYMI (Law) (@icymilaw.org)
  3. A Real Hit On Popehat (@kenwhite.bsky.social(promoted)
  4. Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app(promoted)
  5. Liz Dye (@lizdye.bsky.social(promoted)
  6. Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social(promoted)
  7. Ray Beckerman (@raybeckerman.bsky.social(promoted)
  8. Patrick De Klotz (@patdeklotz.bsky.social(promoted)
  9. 21,465 words (@legalminimum.bsky.social(promoted)
  10. Mike Sacks (@mikesacks.bsky.social(promoted)
  11. CREW (@citizensforethics.org(promoted)
  12. Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net)
  13. Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@qasimrashid.com(promoted)
  14. Mike Masnick (@masnick.com(promoted)
  15. Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social(promoted)
  16. Jacob T. Levy (@jacobtlevy.bsky.social(promoted)
  17. Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social(promoted)
  18. The Empty City (@davidallengreen.bsky.social(promoted)
  19. AG Andrea Joy Campbell (@massago.bsky.social(promoted)
  20. Jakub Jaraczewski (@jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social(promoted)
  21. Ebony Elizabeth Thomas (@ebonyteach.blacksky.app(relegated)
  22. Daniel Gilmore (@gilmored85.bsky.social(relegated)
  23. Jen Taub (@jentaub.bsky.social(relegated)
  24. Michael C. Dorf (@dorfonlaw.bsky.social(relegated)
  25. Doug Lindner (@douglindner.bsky.social(relegated)
  26. Jonathan Ladd (@jonathanmladd.com(relegated)
  27. Jo Wolff (@jowolff.bsky.social(relegated)
  28. Michael McDonald (@electproject.bsky.social(relegated)
  29. Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social(relegated)
  30. Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social(relegated)
  31. Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social(relegated)
  32. Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social(relegated)
  33. Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social(relegated)
  34. Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org(relegated)
  35. Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social(relegated)
  36. Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social(relegated)
  37. Jeffrey Vagle (@jvagle.me(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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