By: Fikayo Walter-Johnson and Nathan Freed Wessler

New records obtained by the ACLU shed light on the scope of a mass surveillance program keeping tabs on Americans’ financial data.

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By: Max Matza

Justin Roiland, co-creator of TV programme Rick and Morty, is facing domestic violence charges stemming from an incident with a girlfriend in 2020.

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By: Robert Puente

While artificial intelligence and robotics are appearing in almost every aspect of our lives, one company now willing to pay $1 million to put their AI in front of the nation’s highest court.

Founded by Joshua Browder, DoNotPay launched a simple chatbot in 2015 designed to assist users with legal and administrative issues. Since then, the company claims it has helped tens of thousands of people get parking tickets dismissed and win other simple legal matters.

Now, DoNotPay is willing to pay any lawyer $1 million to use its AI in an argument before the United States Supreme Court.

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By: Teri Figueroa

May “Maya” Millete’s phone call unnerved the family law firm staffer to whom she spoke. Millete wanted an appointment to talk with a divorce attorney, but over the phone, not in person. She told the staffer she feared her husband might find out.

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By: Jenna Jordan

A Cleveland attorney has been dropped by his law firm following allegations he harassed a former employee when she quit her job shortly after returning from maternity leave. 

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By: Diana Dasrath

Lawyers for rap legend Dr. Dre are demanding that Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene stop using his music, after the controversial politician used the hit “Still D.R.E.”

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By: Bailey Schulz

Startup DoNotPay, which bills itself as "the world's first robot lawyer," plans to take on two speeding ticket cases in court next month, with its AI instructing the defendants how to respond to their assigned judges.

"The law is almost like code and language combined, so it's the perfect use case for AI," CEO and founder Joshua Browder told USA TODAY. "I think that this is the biggest potential for GPT and large language model technology."

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By: Alex Weprin

The attorney, who represented actor Johnny Depp in his defamation trial against Amber Heard, has inked a deal as a legal analyst for the news division. Vasquez made her first appearance for NBC on Monday morning, discussing the Idaho college student murders.

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By: AP News

The U.S has accused a former military pilot of illegally training Chinese military pilots, and is trying to extradite him from Australia.

But the pilot’s lawyer says his client has been unfairly singled out because of the current geopolitical struggle between the U.S. and China.

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By: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Today, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and the New York State Office of the Attorney General sued a predatory auto lender, Credit Acceptance Corporation, for misrepresenting the cost of credit and tricking its customers into high-cost loans on used cars. The car-buying experience turns into a nightmare for many of Credit Acceptance’s borrowers, who face unaffordable monthly payments, vehicle repossessions, and debt collection lawsuits. The joint complaint alleges that, among other things, Credit Acceptance hides costs in loan agreements and sets consumers up to fail. The complaint also alleges that Credit Acceptance violated New York usury limits and other consumer and investor protection laws. The lawsuit seeks to force Credit Acceptance to stop its illegal practices, reimburse harmed consumers, pay back wrongfully earned gains, and pay a penalty.

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