Articles about artificial intelligence appear daily in many legal publications — including this one. But, on May 28, U.S. Circuit Judge Kevin Newsom of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit wrote a concurring opinion in Snell v. United Specialty Insurance Co. for the specific purpose of floating an idea about how judges might use generative AI. Judge Newsom undertook this potential “heresy” — to use his word — with a light touch, as indicated…
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission surprised the crypto community on May 23, 2024, when it effectively approved the sale of spot Ether Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs). First, some historical context. In 2013, Gemini founders Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss first sought to launch a Bitcoin ETF. The SEC rejected that application and, for about 10 years, rejected all other applications to list spot Bitcoin ETPs (an Exchange Traded Fund is the most common type of…