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Article: Uneven Ground: a New Mexico Case Study of Rural Estate Planning and Probate Inequity
Sergio Pareja (New Mexico School of Law) and Sophie Rane recently published Uneven Ground: a New Mexico Case Study of Rural Estate Planning and Probate Inequity, 2026. Provided below is the Abstract: While existing scholarship has explored the general...
Coast Guard shifts cutter squadron from Middle East to Pacific
Six Coast Guard fast-response cutters are now operating in the western Pacific after more than two decades in the Middle East, in the latest shift of forces to that theater. Last week the Coast Guard announced that the six Sentinel-class cutters that made up Patrol...
Little girl left in scorching hot car at Walmart used mallet to break window and escape while her grandpa shopped inside, interior temps skyrocketed to over 150 degrees: Cops
The car that Eddie Espinoza's granddaughter broke out of after he allegedly left her inside while shopping at a Colorado Walmart (Thornton Police Department). A little girl in Colorado left in a hot car at Walmart — with interior temperatures exceeding 150 degrees —...
Man drives past bicyclists, stops his vehicle and hits reverse before slamming into 1 of them, killing the fire safety inspector and boxer: Cops
Left: Hannah Rapp (Instagram). Right: Charles Medina (Brazos County Sheriff's Office). Background: The 23000 block of FM 159 in Texas where Medina allegedly hit Rapp with his car, killing her (Google Maps). A Texas motorist allegedly targeted a pair of bicyclists when...
The Emerging “Workforce Trigger” Clause in Prenuptials
Perhaps because couples are marrying later and perhaps because of the times, we are reading lots these days about demand for prenups. As we have noted, the classic prenuptial is “Yours is yours and mine is mine unless we make assets joint.” But most modern...
Comparing AI Chatbots, AI Agents and Agentic AI
What are AI agents and how do they differ from AI apps most of us have been using for the past few years?AI Chatbots like Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini are built on large language models. They respond to prompts and provide answers. They give us information, but...
'Stop, please!': College student's boyfriend called her stupid, told her she needed to be in 'mental institution' before she died by suicide with his gun
Inset: Rena Nguyen (The Salt Lake Tribune). Background: Caleb Rees during his sentencing hearing after his manslaughter conviction in Nguyen's suicide (KTVX). A Utah man could spend two decades behind bars after he caused the death of his 20-year-old girlfriend when...
Abuse: Damages assessment & Cross claim by State against schoolteacher.
NS v State of New South Wales (Department of Education) [2026] NSWDC 254 (Link to JADE).The plaintiff NS claimed for abuse by a teacher while at a primary school. The tortious conduct then allegedly continued after she had left that school at the end of 2000, in the...
Medical: Further appeal regarding ECT determination for an involuntary patient with treatment resistant schizophrenia.
KLH v Northern NSW Local Health District [2026] NSWCA 136 (Link to Caselaw).Leave was granted by the appeal dismissed in this matter, where the appellant was self represented. Reproduced below is the court headnote.HEADNOTEJTR is an involuntary patient at the Lismore...