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The Character.AI Ruling Has Opened the Door to Strict Liability for AI Systems
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The Character.AI Ruling Has Opened the Door to Strict Liability for AI Systems

A 2025 federal court ruling applying product liability principles to an AI system's harmful output — and rejecting the Section 230 defense — is the most consequential AI law development since the question was first raised. The framework it establishes will reach every AI deployment in consumer-facing contexts.

Tyler HuangMarch 18, 2026
The Antitrust Revival Is Structural, Not Political
Law

The Antitrust Revival Is Structural, Not Political

The resurgence of antitrust enforcement is being read as populist politics against Big Tech — the structural analysis reveals a genuine revision of the consumer welfare standard with implications far beyond technology.

Elena Vasquez7 min
The Antitrust Revival Has an Ambition Problem
Law

The Antitrust Revival Has an Ambition Problem

After forty years of weak enforcement, regulators have declared war on big tech. The legal victories are real. The structural change has not arrived.

Nathaniel Brooks11 min
Three Million Cases, 700 Judges
Law

Three Million Cases, 700 Judges

The US immigration court backlog has reached a point where the legal system cannot function as designed. What this signals about due process in America's most overloaded court system.

Nathaniel Brooks11 min
The First Amendment at the Crossroads
Law

The First Amendment at the Crossroads

The speech protections Americans take for granted are facing challenges from both left and right that the Supreme Court has not yet fully addressed. What happens next matters enormously.

Nathaniel Brooks13 min
The Court That Remade America
Law

The Court That Remade America

The Supreme Court's conservative supermajority has moved faster and more broadly than even its architects expected. What the past three years tell us about where it is going next.

Nathaniel Brooks12 min
Why American Corporations Are Almost Never Prosecuted
Law

Why American Corporations Are Almost Never Prosecuted

The Department of Justice has developed a system of deferred prosecution agreements that allows companies to avoid criminal convictions for conduct that would send an individual to prison. The system is working exactly as designed.

Nathaniel Brooks12 min