It’s hard to believe we’re almost at the end of Q3. As you can tell, I’m quite behind with this Q2 Legal Advocacy update…

I love speaking about these topics! For press / speaking inquiries, I can be reached at jess@progresschamber.org

Publications

• Minnesota’s Attempt to Copy California’s Constitutionally Defective Age Appropriate Design Code is an Utter Fail (Guest Blog Post) (Technology & Marketing Law Blog); 
• Why Connecticut’s Age Verification Law Could be the Next Target for Constitutional Challenge (CHOP Blog);

Amicus Briefs

• Amicus Brief in Support of No Party: Lindke v. Freed (June 30, 2023, SCOTUS)
• Amicus Brief in Support of No Party: O’Connor-Ratcliff v. Garnier (June 30, 2023, SCOTUS)
• Amicus Brief in Support of Apple: Epic v. Apple 9th Circuit Rehearing (June 20, 2023, CA9)
• Amicus Brief in Support of Google: Carr v. Google (June 15, 2023, CA9)

Letters

• Letter to Senator Tom Umberg, Chair of the California Senate Standing Committee on Judiciary. Re: OPPOSE – AB 886 (Wicks): California Journalism Preservation Act (CJPA) (June 26, 2023, California Senate Judiciary Committee)

Press

• Hawley, Blumenthal Team Up To Push Nonsensical AI/230 Bill (June 16, 2023, Above The Law)
• A.I. Needs Section 230 To Flourish (June 14, 2023, Reason)
• First ChatGPT Defamation Lawsuit to Test AI’s Legal Liability (June 12, 2023, Bloomberg Law)
• Live with Dale Cooper – Jeff Jenkins, Jess Miers (June 8, 2023, 580 LIVE! 104.5 | 96.5 | 580 WCHS)
• The A.I. Defamation Cases Are Here: ChatGPT Sued for Spreading Misinformation (June 7, 2023, Reason)
• Supreme Court Declines to Hold Tech Companies Liable for Hosted Content (May 26, 2023, First Amendment Watch At New York University)
• Generative AI tools like ChatGPT could test bounds of tech liability shield (May 23, 2023, The Hill)
• The Supreme Court Handed Google and Twitter a New Line of Defense (May 22, 2023, Bloomberg Law)
• Court: 2 tech platforms not liable for posts (May 19, 2023, Arkansas Democrat Gazette)
• Supreme Court rules for Google, Twitter on terror-related content (May 18, 2023, The Washington Post)
• Supreme Court hands Twitter, Google wins in internet liability cases (May 18, 2023, PIX11)
• Twitter and Google survived a Supreme Court challenge—and so did Section 230 (May 18, 2023, Quartz)
• Supreme Court Won’t Hold Tech Companies Liable for User Posts (May 18, 2023, The New York Times)
• Jess Miers on Gonzalez v. Google and the Supreme Court’s plans for Section 230 (April 14, 2023, Everything in Moderation Viewpoint)
• Thomas Berry, Nicole Saad Bembridge and Jess Miers on how SCOTUS responded to Gonzalez v. Google (April 6, 2023, CATO)

Panels & Other Speaking Opportunities

• Webinar: Liability Considerations in Enterprise Use of Generative AI (The Copyright Society)
• Governance in Online Speech Leadership Series (June 26, 2023, Yale Law School)
• Duke GPAI Workshop (Duke Law)
• Guest Lecture on Section 230 For Andrew Martin’s Intro to Programming Class (June 19, 2023, Andrew Martin)
• Guest Lecture on Section 230 For Sonya Chalaka’s Advocacy Class (June 8, 2023, Santa Clara Law)
• Conference on State Policy at University of Nebraska Lincoln – spoke about age verification laws (University of Nebraska Lincoln)
• Creator Economy Law: Understanding Emerging Issues for Creators (2023 ABA Intellectual Property Law Annual Conference)
• Internet Law Year in Review (April 4, 2023, Santa Clara Law, Internet Law Student Organization)

Podcasts

• #223 Are Chatbots Protected? Analyzing Whether Section 230 Should Apply to Generative AI (May 30, 2023, ABA’s Our Curious Amalgam)