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Judge reprimanded after detainee fled the court

BOSTON — Massachusetts’ high court adopted the Commission on Judicial Conduct’s recommendation to impose a sanction of public remand against Judge Shelley Richmond Joseph for creating the appearance of impropriety and failing to comply with the law. The judge failed to adequately explain why she asked to go off the record, or what she said while she was off the record, in proceedings involving a detainee. A court officer helped the detainee escape through a sallyport and, while the judge argues she did not know of this escape plan, it is unclear because she went off the record.

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No 9th Circuit rehearing in Amazon-Perplexity case

SAN FRANCISCO — The Ninth Circuit declined Amazon’s motion to rehear, en banc, its decision to vacate a district court order that enjoined Perplexity from sending its Comet AI Assistant “into password-protected areas of the Amazon store.” The court reports that not one judge “requested a vote on whether to rehear the matter.” In August, the court found that Amazon is not likely to succeed in showing that Perplexity violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act or the California Comprehensive Computer Data Access and Fraud Act.

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No in-state tuition for Kansas’ undocumented students

KANSAS CITY, Kan. — A federal court in Kansas granted the federal government and Kansas’s consent judgment holding a state law is preempted by federal law because it gives in-state tuition to some unlawfully present aliens based on Kansas high school attendance without making the same benefit available to out-of-state U.S. citizens. Motions to intervene are denied as futile and the governor’s motion to dismiss as moot.

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