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A quiet but consequential legal movement is gaining momentum across U.S. state legislatures, aimed at preemptively denying artificial intelligence systems any form of legal personhood. Idaho and Utah have already enacted statutes declaring that AI is not a legal person, while Ohio's House Bill 469 seeks to formally def...
While a wave of state laws forces Americans to submit government IDs or biometric scans to access adult content online, Wisconsin has become a notable exception. Governor Tony Evers vetoed Assembly Bill 105, a state-level age verification mandate, allowing residents to continue accessing pornographic and other adult-or...
A coordinated legislative campaign is systematically dismantling the public's ability to hold oil and gas companies accountable for climate damages. Across 11 Republican-led states, 15 laws have been passed or are advancing to shield the fossil fuel industry from lawsuits alleging responsibility for climate destruction...
Maine is on the verge of enacting one of the first statewide moratoriums in the United States on the construction of new, large-scale datacenters. The state's House and Senate have both passed LD 307, a bill that would halt the construction of new datacenters with a capacity of 20 megawatts or more until November 1, 20...
Colorado is cementing its reputation as a primary battleground for free speech, with its Democratic-controlled legislature and governor advancing a new wave of measures that critics argue directly target core First Amendment and associational rights. The state's aggressive legal posture, framed by its tourism slogan 'i...
Virginia has enacted a legal firewall for unclaimed cryptocurrency, preventing the state from immediately seizing and selling digital assets it deems abandoned. Governor Glenn Youngkin signed legislation that mandates the state must hold dormant crypto in its native form for a minimum of one year before any forced liqu...