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Jevan Hutson, director of the Technology Law & Public Policy Clinic, on machine unlearning’s implications for privacy law.
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Megacap tech companies do sometimes commission such reports, notes Anita Ramasastry, a law professor at the University of Washington. “The question is could you structure something that both protects privacy and confidentiality but also provides meaningful information,” Ramasastry says. “I think we’ve seen companies who have tried to do so.”
Five judicial candidates will compete for a spot on the state Supreme Court in Washington, the state’s highest court, in the upcoming fall 2026 elections. Hugh Spitzer, associate dean emeritus and retired professor in the UW School of Law, is quoted.
Spitzer says it’s a very big ask of Congress to approve such a change, but “it can be done.” He says any attempt to do so would very likely result in legal challenges, which the Supreme Court may treat as a “political question,” as outlined in a 1962 SCOTUS decision.
Federal prosecutors will try to make the case this week that three activists who protested immigration enforcement last summer crossed the line from political dissent into criminal conspiracy — a legal theory that prompted the top federal prosecutor in Eastern Washington to resign rather than sign off on the charges. Mary Fan, professor of law at the UW, is quoted.
Dozens of states have sought to move away from cash bail in recent years, to reduce the burdens on poor defendants. Now public defenders are seeking to implement similar policy changes in Washington, through a proposal to the Washington Supreme Court. Their request has ignited a debate about the potential impacts of these changes, and whether the court or the Legislature is the best venue to consider them. David Garavito, assistant professor of law at the UW, is quoted.
“Maybe people didn’t know that you committed [a] crime, or they suspected but weren’t sure,” Peter Nicolas, professor of law at the University of Washington School of Law, tells A&E Crime + Investigation. “It could be conduct that is non-criminal in nature. It could be confessing to an affair during your marriage [or] that you’re the biological parent of someone.”
Meta — the Silicon Valley tech giant and parent company of social media platforms such as Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram — has recently entered a period of intense upheaval. UW Law professor Dongsheng Zang is quoted.
The state judge overseeing New Mexico’s attempt to force a safety overhaul of Instagram and Facebook said Monday that he’s worried some of the proposed changes would amount to “overreach.” Ryan Calo, professor of law and in the Information School at the UW, is quoted.
“The concern would be whether an untrained individual has the ability to check that AI-generated work in the manner in which it needs to be checked,” UW Law professor Jeff Feldman said.
Burrell’s attorney, David Owens, a partner at Loevy & Loevy and an attorney at its affiliated free legal clinic, The Exoneration Project, told the judge it’s ridiculous to claim a certificate would lead to “money coming out of the sky” and added that arguments about separate lawsuits were beside the point.
Rose Carmen Goldberg, director of the Veterans Clinic at the University of Washington School of Law, argued that incarcerated veterans should have access to VA behavioral health care, which provides expertise in combat-related mental health issues, sexual trauma or other service-specific concerns.
Five of nine seats on the Washington State Supreme Court are up for grabs: two fully open seats, two appointed incumbents and one sitting elected justice. Normally, turnover on the high court moves slowly, but on Nov. 3, Washington voters will elect five justices to the state’s highest court in what could be a defining election for the court’s future rulings, including major legal questions. Hugh Spitzer, associate dean emeritus and retired professor in the UW School of Law, is quoted.
Douglas Ross, a law professor at the University of Washington and former antitrust attorney, said there is “market power that Live Nation has over ticketing and over venues,” but divestiture could “introduce more competition on either of those or both of those,” which “should have the prices of … selling a ticket come down somewhat.”
“On Friday, the focus is laying out the problem with the Trump administration’s coordinated attacks on judges …There’s a real organized attack by the executive branch on the judicial branch at the federal level,” UW School of Law Associate Dean Emeritus Hugh Spitzer said. “And then Saturday, we’re focusing a little more on solutions; what do we do about this?”
Five state Supreme Court justice seats are up for election this November, an unusual scenario that experts say has not happened in recent memory. Hugh Spitzer, associate dean emeritus and retired professor in the UW School of Law, is quoted.
“My goals were really to help new entrants to the field, students, newer faculty, maybe even professors who've been working in the academy for a long time, but are new to technology, have a place to start,” Calo said. “Second, to hopefully provide a little more coherence and cohesion around the field because law and technology have long been simply held together by subject matter.”
