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The Daily Docket

The Daily Docket

A newsletter by Reuters and Westlaw

 

By Caitlin Tremblay

Good morning. Today the U.S. Judiciary’s evidence rules committee will hold a hearing on the first-ever rule regulating AI evidence at trial. It’s another busy day in the courts. There will be a conference in the high-stakes copyright dispute between OpenAI and a group of authors and two federal judges in Boston will tackle two different immigration cases. Plus, another litigation funding bill stalled in Congress. Scientists recovered a genome from a woolly rhino eaten by an Ice Age wolf. We made it to furs-day. Hope it’s a howl. Let’s dive in.

 

Hearing set for the federal judiciary’s first AI-generated evidence rule

 

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The U.S. Judicial Conference's Advisory Committee on Evidence Rules will hold a hearing to hear public comment on what would be the federal judiciary's first nationwide rule to regulate the introduction of AI-generated evidence at trial.

Under the proposal, AI and other machine-generated evidence offered at trial without an accompanying expert witness would be subjected to the same reliability standards as expert witnesses, who are governed by Rule 702 of the Federal Rules of Evidence. The rule would exempt "basic scientific instruments." Read more about the rule here.

Here’s a look at who is expected to speak at the hearing.

 

Coming up today

  • First Amendment: U.S. District Judge Richard Leon in D.C. will hold a hearing in U.S. Senator Mark Kelly’s lawsuit against U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, claiming that Pentagon proceedings to demote the Arizona Democrat from his retired Navy captain rank violated Kelly's free speech rights because he urged troops to reject unlawful orders. Read the complaint.
  • Copyright: U.S. Magistrate Judge Ona Wang in Manhattan will hold a status conference in a high-stakes copyright dispute between OpenAI and a group of authors over the alleged misuse of their work in its AI training.
  • Immigration: U.S. District Judge Patti Saris in Boston will consider whether to indefinitely block plans by the Trump administration to end temporary protections from deportation that had been granted to hundreds of South Sudanese nationals living in the United States.
  • Immigration: U.S. District Judge William Young in Boston will hold a hearing to address what remedies he should impose after concluding that the Trump administration had acted unconstitutionally by adopting a policy of revoking visas, arresting, detaining and deporting foreign students and faculty engaged in pro-Palestinian advocacy. Read the 161-page ruling.
  • Civil rights: The 8th Circuit will hear arguments in a lawsuit challenging Minnesota’s policy of allowing transgender students to play in female sports, which the lower court upheld. Read the appellant’s brief.
  • Health: The 8th Circuit will hear arguments over Iowa’s vaping law which is being challenged by e-cigarette manufacturers and retailers.
  • Government: The Senate Banking Committee will hold a markup of a crypto market structure bill.

Court calendars are subject to last-minute docket changes.

 

More top news

  • U.S. judge to rule Thursday on Equinor challenge to Trump offshore wind pause
  • Trump threatens funding for states over sanctuary cities as clashes intensify in Minneapolis
  • U.S. judge blocks Trump administration from cutting Minnesota's food stamp funding
  • Trump administration reinstates fired employees of DOJ race-relations agency
  • FBI searches Washington Post journalist's home in national security probe
 
 

Industry insight

  • The latest congressional push to require disclosure of outside investors’ stakes in U.S. litigation appears to have stalled after lawmakers from both parties opposed the bill.
  • Moves: Former Associate Chief Justice of the Utah Supreme Court, John Pearce, returned to Wilson Sonsini’s litigation practice … Employment law firm Littler brought on Andrew Lichtenstein from Epstein Becker Green … McGuireWoods added energy infrastructure partner Mundo de la Fuente from K&L Gates … Nicholas Jacobus joined Eisner’s entertainment practice from Venable … Morrison Foerster brought on financial services and fintech partners Ryne Miller and Trevor Levine from Lowenstein Sandler.
 

In the courts

  • Oracle was sued in New York state court by bondholders who say they suffered losses because the company failed to disclose it needed to sell significant additional debt to build out its AI infrastructure. Read the complaint.
  • The DOJ sued to block a California law requiring oil and gas drilling to be separated from schools, homes and hospitals by buffer zones of more than half a mile.
  • U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman in Austin dismissed a lawsuit claiming CrowdStrike defrauded shareholders about its quality assurance practices before a July 2024 outage that crashed over 8 million Windows computers. Read the order.
  • Boeing reached tentative settlements with a Canadian man who lost six relatives in the 2019 crash of an Ethiopian Air 737 MAX jet shortly after takeoff.