Join the Nashville Bar Association on Wednesday, July 26, from 5:30-7 p.m. CDT for the 10th Annual Brew for Backpacks. This happy hour will be held at Tennessee Brew Works, 809 Ewing Ave., Nashville 37203. Everyone who donates a new or slightly used backpack or school supplies will receive a free pint of beer! Click here for more information.

The Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and the Cumberlands is providing in-person free legal help clinics and is in need of volunteers. The Belmont Clinic will be held on Saturday, July 22, from 9:30-11:30 a.m. at 2005 12th Ave. South, Nashville 37204. The Operation Stand Down Clinic (for veterans only) will be held on Wednesday, July 26, from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. at 1125 12th Ave. South, Nashville 37203. And the Robertson County Expungement Clinic will be held on Saturday, July 29, from 9 a.m.-noon at the City of Faith Church International, 1001 Goldcrest Dr., Springfield 37172. All times central. For more information email Kendra Cheek at kcheek@las.org.

California-based Clarkson Law Firm is launching a class-action lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging the artificial-intelligence company that created popular chatbot ChatGPT violated the copyrights and privacy of countless people when it used data scraped from the internet to train its tech, reports Law.com. The 151-page complaint was filed Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California and claims that ChatGPT scrapes personal information on the internet without consent while also gathering user data. In addition to user information, the lawsuit alleges the company gathers identifying information from users’ devices, browsers and social media.

JOHN K. BUSH, Circuit Judge. This case arises from the suicide of Juan Quintana, II, a fifteen-year-old, at a facility operated by defendants Spectrum Juvenile Justice Services and Spectrum Human Services, Inc. (collectively, Spectrum) in Highland Park, Michigan. Representatives of Quintana’s estate sued Spectrum based on Monell v. Department of Social Services, 436 U.S. 658 (1978). The complaint alleges that Spectrum functioned as a state actor and violated Quintana’s Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights when its personnel failed to visually check on him as required by state contract. The district court dismissed plaintiffs’ suit on the ground that the complaint did not plausibly allege state action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. We respectfully disagree, as explained below. We therefore REVERSE and REMAND for further proceedings.

Regina Bryant, a pro se Ohio plaintiff, appeals the district court’s judgment in favor of the Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) on her federal employment-discrimination and retaliation complaint. Bryant moves the court for appointment of counsel on appeal. This case has been referred to a panel of the court that, upon examination, unanimously agrees that oral argument is not needed. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a). For the reasons that follow, we deny Bryant’s motion for appointment of counsel and affirm the district court’s judgment.

For these reasons, we AFFIRM the district court’s judgment and DENY Bryant’s motion for appointment of counsel.

The Appellant challenges the circuit court’s grant of an order of protection, asserting that the evidence preponderates against the finding that the Appellant stalked the Appellee. Because the order of protection has expired by its own terms, we dismiss the appeal as moot.

The Appellant challenges the circuit court’s grant of an order of protection, asserting that the evidence preponderates against the finding that the Appellant stalked the Appellee. Because the order of protection has expired by its own terms, we dismiss the appeal as moot.

The Tennessee Trial Lawyers Association has named Memphis attorney and TBA member Carey Acerra as the new president of the TTLA. Acerra graduated from the University of Memphis in 1997 magna cum laude and received her law degree from the Cecil C. Humphrey School of Law at the University of Memphis in 2004. Read more about Acerra and see the full TTLA Board list in this release from the group.

The Defendant, Dale Anthony Wilbourn, was convicted of the offenses of evading arrest and making an improper turn. The trial court sentenced the Defendant to a total effective term of six years to be served in custody. On appeal, the Defendant argues that the evidence is insufficient to support his conviction for evading arrest and that the trial court erred in not imposing an alternative sentence to incarceration. On our review, we respectfully disagree with the Defendant and affirm the judgments of the trial court.

A Shelby County jury convicted Defendant, Courdarrius Perkins, of first-degree felony murder and aggravated robbery. The trial court sentenced Defendant to a concurrent sentence of life imprisonment for felony murder and five years for aggravated robbery. On appeal, Defendant contends the trial court erroneously instructed the jury on the underlying felony on the felony murder charge and compounded the error by failing to require the State to elect the facts for the underlying felony. He also contends the trial court erred in denying his motion for judgment of acquittal on the felony murder charge because the evidence is insufficient. After reviewing the record, the briefs and oral arguments of the parties, and considering the applicable law, we affirm the judgments of the trial court.