faceh
8hr ago
If SCOTUS makes a major decision, interested litigators will move very rapidly to bring cases under that new decision. Look at how many shots gun rights groups have taken at SCOTUS recently.
I don't disagree with this overall, but I want to make it clear that I think they'll be even faster.
Bruen was handed down in 2022 and it took a couple years for states to get really creative rules and rulings on the books... and of course SCOTUS has been agonizingly slow to address these matters.
I'm suggesting that in this new world, SCOTUS could hand down a decision, and by the next week various state legislatures could be passing bills that are competently written specifically to thwart/loophole those decisions.
So my definition of "reacts very quickly" assumes speedier
SORT OF.
In the more emotionally-driven areas (so yeah, outside of commercial), like divorce and contested probate, sometimes people genuinely just want to inflict the process as a punishment on the other side... and sometimes emotions flip and what looked like a surefire drawn-out fight gets resolved in a weekend.
Lawyers are still bound to do what their clients want, after all. But if a lawyer can pull up their AI Case Analyzer and say "Look, its not just my opinion, the Computer is telling you that even if we drag this out for two years your best outcome is an additional 10-15k over the offer that's on the table now."
(one can hope that clients can see reason, this might be a fool's bet)
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