* States sue OpenAI, claiming the technology harms children. Presumably because those children are trying to draft briefs without caselaw hallucinations. [NBC News]
* Supreme Court issues shadow docket ruling, allowing committees to pay reduced candidate rates for TV ads. [Courthouse News Service]
* Judge signals that Los Angeles not-really-the-U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli is likely to be disqualified. [Bloomberg Law News]
* The top of the UK legal market is pulling away from the pack. A heavily stratified class system? In England? No![Financial Times]
* Harvey and Legora introduced products with the same name within hours of each other. [Legal Cheek]
* Ninth Circuit strikes down “No Vigilantes Act,” requiring federal law-enforcement agents to wear visible ID, as violating the Supremacy Clause. The law was intended to deter people claiming to be federal agents to harass people by creating a visible distinction. But, for the federal government, encouraging the harassment is a feature not a bug. [LA Times]
* Yale Law grad wins Nobel Prize in Economics. [Yale Daily News]
* Lawyer mental health survey shows stress, drinking, and gambling. [Reuters]
* State AGs move to protect user information in Character.ai bankruptcy. By the way, this is an AI company that was valued at around $2.7B and is now in bankruptcy… in case you’re wondering what a bursting bubble looks like. [Law360]
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