Greetings, my name is David Colarusso. I'm the 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, esp. #LawFedi. So I created a bot, this digest, a podcast , and a newsletter to help folks discover great law-themed content. You can get a look at their algos/workflows here.
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AI Summaries / Podcast Transcript †
Welcome to today's news! In South Carolina, abortion access has been protected as the state's Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional a law banning abortion after six weeks. Meanwhile, Idaho's Supreme Court allowed a state law totally banning abortion and forbidding it after six weeks to stay in effect. We'll also take a look at the rise in crime across the United States, and the Federal Trade Commission's proposed rule to prohibit employers from imposing noncompete clauses on workers. Stay tuned for details! And after the news, stick around for our paper of the day!
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† Here AI is referencing a large language model tasked with summarizing 3 articles from Most-Shared Links and 1 paper from SSRN Roundup below.
Most-Shared Links
Here are yesterday's most-shared links from #Law/#LawFedi folks I follow.¹
- S. Carolina court nixes 6-week abortion ban; Idaho judges uphold restrictions | Reuters (~7 shares)
- Symbol Salad (~7 shares)
- Myths and Realities: Understanding Recent Trends in Violent Crime | Brennan Center for Justice (~6 shares)
- Antitrust regulators propose banning noncompete clauses for workers - The Washington Post (~6 shares)
- U.S. Moves to Bar Noncompete Agreements in Labor Contracts - The New York Times (~6 shares)
- FTC Proposes Rule to Ban Noncompete Clauses, Which Hurt Workers and Harm Competition | Federal Trade Commission (~5 shares)
- Disney Spat Leaves DeSantis Few Options for Reedy Creek District (~5 shares)
- Capitol Hill Siege | Program on Extremism | The George Washington University (~4 shares)
- Surgen nuevos impulsos de latinos que se oponen a la nominación de Héctor LaSalle (~4 shares)
- Twitter Hit With $228.9m Copyright Infringement / Repeat Infringer Lawsuit * TorrentFreak (~4 shares)
¹ Yesterday doesn't include the entire day as this page is created a few hours before mindnight.
SSRN Roundup
I keep an eye out for links to SSRN. Once I collect five, I share them. This is the most-recent bundle.²
- The Antibody Patent Paradox by Mark A. Lemley, Jacob S. Sherkow
- Diversity Washing by Andrew Baker, David F. Larcker, Charles McClure, Durgesh Saraph, Edward M. Watts
- Disclosing Discrimination by Stephanie Bornstein
- Should Law Subsidize Driving? by Gregory H. Shill
- Diversity as a Trade Secret by Jamillah Bowman Williams
² Depending on how much folks are sharing, there could be more or less than one bundle per day, this is just the most-recent one.