Author: nick

[ad_1] Every few years, the same cycle quietly repeats itself. A research paper appears in a respected scientific journal, a handful of headlines promise that humanity has moved one step closer to cloning itself, politicians issue carefully rehearsed statements about ethics, and within days the story disappears beneath the weight of newer controversies. The science never actually vanishes. It simply retreats back into laboratories where progress is measured in microscopic changes instead of dramatic breakthroughs. For nearly three decades, human cloning has occupied this strange space between documented biology and public imagination, becoming one of the few scientific subjects capable…

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[ad_1] In Doe v. Jones, decided yesterday by Judge Thomas Durkin (N.D. Ill.), Doe sued her ex-boyfriend Jones for surreptitiously videorecording their sexual acts, and some friends of Jones’ for soliciting and further distributing the videos. The court allowed those claims to go forward, but it rejected Doe’s further claims against Jones’s parents as owners of the home where some of the behavior took place. Here’s the court’s analysis as to intentional infliction of emotional distress claim: Doe does not allege that the Homeowners engaged in any conduct that could feasibly be considered extreme and outrageous. In fact, the only…

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[ad_1] The FBI intervened to prevent U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents from questioning “virus hunter” Peter Daszak, Ph.D., on a return trip from Wuhan, China, according to documents released this week by Sen. Rand Paul. Three days before Daszak was scheduled to arrive in New York, a CBP Joint Terrorism Task Force liaison wrote, “Please be advised FBI New York requested we do not stop the subject.” The FBI intervened to prevent U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents from questioning “virus hunter” Peter Daszak, Ph.D., on a return trip from Wuhan, China, according to documents released this week by Sen. Rand…

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[ad_1] From Friday’s Connecticut Supreme Court decision in Tov Realty LLC v. Suarez: The record and the representations to this court at the show cause hearing explain the facts concerning the relevant filings. Attorney Gottlieb initially used LexisNexis to conduct the legal research necessary to draft his public interest appeal applications and the briefs that followed. He verified the accuracy of the quotations and citations in the initial rough drafts using the Shepard’s Citations Service on LexisNexis. He then copied and pasted those drafts into ChatGPT, a generative AI program, to make his brief writing process more efficient and to improve…

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