AI & Law: Shadow Docket Lessons

SCOTUS expanding the shadow docket, which relates to AI and the law

by Dr. Lance B. Eliot

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Key briefing points about this article:

• The U.S. Supreme Court has increasingly been producing so-called shadow decisions
• These are legal cases that were placed onto a shadow docket of SCOTUS
• Angst arises that the shadow case rulings are terse and without any judicial explanation
• This is said to be done for sake of expediency, though some say this is being outstretched
• AI-based legal reasoning systems are expected to be fast, so will they be shadowy too?

Introduction

You are likely aware of a famous radio show that arose in the 1930s that was called the Detective Story Hour. Just in case that doesn’t ring a familiar bell, I’m sure this will: The Shadow knows!

At the rapt conclusion of each episode for the popular radio show, the narrator made us aware that The Shadow is seemingly all-knowing and omniscient. What the rest of us don’t know is altogether known by this mysterious character.