The Legal Aid Society will host a free legal clinic for Davidson County residents on Wednesday at the downtown Nashville Public Library, 615 Church St., Nashville 37219 4-6 p.m. CDT. Volunteer attorneys are needed to help provide legal advice. This legal clinic will help people with civil legal issues such as family law, consumer law, debt collections, power of attorney, employment law, health law, public benefits, housing, probate/estate, wills and bankruptcy. If you’re interested in volunteering, please email Kendra Cheek.

The American Bar Association Standing Committee on the Law Library of Congress is launching a new traveling exhibit, “100 Years After the Indian Citizenship Act: The Continuing Struggle to Guarantee Voting Rights to Native Americans,” in celebration of Native American Heritage Month in November. The exhibit explores Native American Voting Rights before the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 and will build off the success of its predecessors that reached more than 225 venues nationwide: Magna Carta (2015-18), 19th Amendment (2019-22) and Mayflower Compact (2022-23). The new exhibit will be on display nationwide at law schools, state capitol buildings, state and local bar associations, courthouses, law firms and national and local conferences. Visit the ABA website for the full press release and current exhibit locations.

President Biden issued a new executive order Monday on AI requiring new safety assessments, equity and civil rights guidance and research on AI’s impact on the labor market, reports The Hill. The order directs federal agencies to take steps to prevent AI algorithms from being used to exacerbate discrimination in housing, federal benefits programs and the criminal justice system. In addition, the order directs the Commerce Department to create guidance for watermarking AI-generated content to mitigate the spread of AI-generated misinformation. Read the full executive order.

Authorities in Dickson County have settled a First Amendment lawsuit for $125,000 filed by a man who said he was arrested over a disparaging social media post about a law enforcement officer killed in the line of duty, News Channel 9 reports. Joshua Andrew Garton was arrested in 2021 after posting a meme depicting two people urinating on a gravestone with a photo of a Dickson County sheriff’s officer who was fatally shot in 2018. The officer's face was pasted into the image. Garton was charged with harassment and jailed for almost two weeks until a Dickson County judge dismissed the charges. Garton's attorneys, who filed a federal lawsuit in Nashville, said Monday the settlement compensated Garton for malicious prosecution, false arrest, and violations of his First Amendment rights.

A judge in Kansas blocked a state law Monday requiring healthcare providers to tell patients that medication abortion can be reversed and that abortion is linked to breast cancer, reports Reuters. Judge K. Christopher Jayaram of the District Court of Johnson County said the law, which passed in April, violated doctors' right to free speech and patients' right to abortion, which the state's highest court recognized in 2019. Jayaram's order is a preliminary injunction and will remain in place while he considers a lawsuit by abortion providers and Planned Parenthood.

The widow of audio engineer Mark Capps is suing Metro Nashville and the police officer who shot and killed Capps at his home in January, reports the Tennessean. The lawsuit contends the Nashville Police Department fostered a "culture of fear, violence and impunity" among its officers and failed to adequately reform its policies and practices to prevent mental health-related police shootings. In January, three Nashville SWAT officers responded after Capps threatened to kill himself and his family. Capps was shot after he opened the front door once the officers were on his porch. The lawsuit challenges MNPD's narrative that Capps was armed.

United Auto Workers (UAW) President Shawn Fain announced today a new contract between autoworkers and GM and suspended the stand-up strike in effect for the three largest U.S. automakers, reports the Tennessean. UAW reached a tentative agreement with Ford on Wednesday and another with Stellantis on Saturday. If ratified, Fain said GM salaried workers will be given a 25% general wage increase and the return of cost of living adjustments. Ford, G.M. and Stellantis have announced car prices would increase to maintain their profits. The GM assembly plant in Spring Hill is GM's largest in North America with nearly 4,000. According to the Tennessee Economic and Community Development department, the state is the number one auto employer in the southeast.

A three-judge panel of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled unanimously that a group of health care providers can sue the state of Arizona over a law banning abortions from being performed solely because the fetus has a genetic abnormality. Reuters reports the panel did not address the merits of the challenge, finding only that the providers are entitled to pursue it in court. The providers, two doctors and medical associations, said the law was so vague they did not know when it applied. The panel found that the economic loss of not performing abortions that they otherwise would perform was enough to go forward with the lawsuit. The law was signed by Republican then-Gov. Doug Doucey in 2021 and makes nearly all abortions a crime punishable by prison. Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes, a Democrat elected in 2022, has said she would not enforce it.

Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and the Cumberlands (LAS), announced last week that it is partnering with the Lawyers' Association for Women (LAW) for a fundraising campaign aimed at assisting survivors of domestic violence. The fundraising effort, which will last through the end of 2023, is being launched as part of National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Funds raised will go toward vital educational materials. “We’re proud to partner with the Lawyers’ Association for Women for this important fundraising campaign,” said DarKenya W. Waller, executive director of LAS. “It requires enormous bravery for domestic violence survivors to extract themselves from the situations they’re in.” Contributions are being accepted through Give Lively. Read the full press release from LAS.

Volunteer attorneys, notaries and witnesses are needed for the TBA Young Lawyers Division Essential Documents for Essential Workers Clinic to be held Nov. 29, 3-7 p.m. CST at the White County Public Library, 11 North Church St., Sparta 38583. The program will offer free wills, powers of attorney and advanced health care directives to essential workers such as teachers, first responders and their spouses. No prior experience is needed. To volunteer or for more info, email Amber Vargas.