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July 08, 2026
Though courts and federal rules are only slowly developing frameworks for assessing digital evidence that could have been created or generated by artificial intelligence, litigators should understand what steps they'll likely need to take to successfully challenge potentially deepfaked exhibits — and fight questions about the authenticity of their own, say attorneys at MoFo.
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July 08, 2026
The Board of Immigration Appeals said a fear of conscription alone was not enough to establish that a Russian man was a refugee facing persecution in his home country, overturning an immigration judge's decision that granted him asylum.
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July 08, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court recently allowed Exxon Mobil's bid for $1 billion in damages for Cuban-seized property to proceed, but the ruling's doctrinal significance is in treating the Helms-Burton Act as a later, specific and self-contained statutory displacement of the default jurisdictional immunity regime, says Josep Galvez at 4-5 Gray's Inn.
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July 08, 2026
A specialty auto policy limiting uninsured motorist coverage to accidents that occur in a covered classic car is enforceable under Alabama law because it operates in tandem with a standard auto policy that satisfies statutory coverage requirements, the Eleventh Circuit ruled on Wednesday.
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July 08, 2026
The First Circuit said a Massachusetts man convicted of possessing child sexual abuse material did not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in his activity on an anonymous peer-to-peer file-sharing network, affirming a district court's ruling.
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