CJ Roberts' Annual Report

Chief Justice Roberts Issues 2023 Year-End Report -- Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., has issued his 2023 Year-End Report on the Federal Judiciary.

Appellate judges ... perform quintessentially human functions. Many appellate decisions turn on whether a lower court has abused its discretion, a standard that by its nature involves fact-specific gray areas. Others focus on open questions about how the law should develop in new areas. AI is based largely on existing information, which can inform but not make such decisions.

In October Term 2022, the number of cases filed in the Supreme Court fell by 15 percent compared to the prior year. For the 12-month period ending September 30, 2023, the number of cases filed in the U.S. courts of appeals declined by four percent.

NLJ has Chief Justice Roberts: AI Won't Replace Human Judges -- "As 2023 draws to a close with breathless predictions about the future of Artificial Intelligence, some may wonder whether judges are about to become obsolete," Roberts wrote in his annual year-end report. "I am sure we are not — but equally confident that technological changes will continue to transform our work."

Closer to home, don't miss the dissent in this 2/5 anti-slapp unpub here.