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☆ Norfolk Southern proxy fight draws heavyweight politicians and regulatory scrutiny a year after derailment
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-27 | by ( Rohan Goswami | In Rohangoswamicnbc | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +12 min

Norfolk Southern' has underperformed both its peers and the broader market over the last year. Norfolk Southern responded on Monday, rejecting that slate and announcing it would nominate former Amtrak CEO Richard Anderson and former U.S. For Ancora, which has a successful track record as an activist investor, the proxy fight at Norfolk Southern would be its largest ever. EdgePoint controlled 3.4 million Norfolk Southern shares as of Dec. 31, or about 1.5% of shares outstanding. Norfolk Southern has yet to set a date for the annual shareholder meeting.

Persons: Alan Shaw, Norfolk Southern Scott Mlyn, John Kasich, Donald Trump, Ancora, Shaw, Jim Barber, Jamie Boychuk, Richard Anderson, North Dakota Heidi Heitkamp, Heitkamp, Anderson, Frank Blake, Matt Freed, Joe Biden, Biden, Trump, it's, there's, Ancora's, Hunter Harrison, Norfolk Southern, Martin Oberman, Oberman, Amit Bose, Bose, Jim Chadwick, Chadwick, Ancora beneficially, Barber, Boychuk, Harrison, Mandel Ngan, Ancora's Chadwick, Amy Miles, Miles, Claude Mongeau, CNBC's Leslie Picker, Heidi Heitkamp Organizations: Norfolk Southern, CNBC, Norfolk, Ancora Advisors, EdgePoint Investment Group, Republican, Amtrak, Delta Airlines, Cargill, Home Depot, U.S, Energy, Workers, East, Trump, Biden, Southern, PSR, Federal Railroad Administration, Surface Transportation, Federal, UPS, Teamsters, Canadian, . Norfolk Southern, CSX, Deutsche Bank, AFP, Getty Locations: Norfolk Southern, East Palestine , Ohio, Ohio, Norfolk, North Dakota, Medtronic, East Palestine, Cleveland, Ancora

As advocates push this year for ballot measure initiatives aiming to protect abortion rights, key differences have emerged in the language of proposed measures. Among them is the inclusion of mental health exceptions. Meanwhile, proposed ballot measure language in Arkansas only says “physical health,” excluding a mental health exception. “We don’t as a society have a great track record of treating mental health the same way we do physical health.”Policies that dismiss mental health as less important than physical health put lives at risk, said Columbia University psychiatrist Paul Appelbaum. We felt it was unlikely for a version that explicitly names mental health to pass.”Arkansas advocates were also worried the opposition campaign would target a mental health exception, Diaz said.

Persons: Kaniya Harris, Harris, don’t, “, ”, Roe, Wade, Michelle Oberman, ” Oberman, Paul Appelbaum, Appelbaum, ” Jayme Trevino, Mallory Schwarz, —, Gennie Diaz, ” Diaz, Diaz, Ingrid Duran, Duran Organizations: CHICAGO, Alabama, U.S, Supreme, U.S . Centers for Disease Control, Santa Clara University, Columbia University, American Psychiatric Association, OB, Physicians for Reproductive Health, Republican, Associated Press, AP Locations: Bethesda , Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri, Arizona, Michigan, Arkansas, Florida , Montana and Nebraska, — Florida, Georgia , Idaho , Iowa , Kentucky, Louisiana , Ohio , Tennessee, West Virginia, Wyoming, Alabama, ” Arkansas, Santa

Many companies have complained about poor railroad service over the past couple years as the industry worked to recover from the depths of the pandemic. It, however, welcomed regulators establishing some clear minimum service standards for railroads that never existed before and requiring railroads to report more details about their performance. Getting the rule right is important because roughly 75% of refineries and petrochemical manufacturers are only served by a single railroad. Canadian regulators have long had similar rules that allow companies to hire other railroads to deliver their goods. The Canadian rules don't require companies to prove they are getting poor service like the proposed new U.S. rules.

Persons: Scott Jensen, Martin Oberman, ” Oberman, Rob Benedict, Benedict, Ian Jefferies, ” Jefferies, Jeremy Ferguson, ” Ferguson Organizations: — Companies, Surface Transportation, American Chemistry Council, Chemistry, American, and Petrochemical Manufacturers, Association of American Railroads, Transportation Division, International Association of, Rail, Transportation Workers Locations: OMAHA, Neb, U.S, North America, Canada, Mexico

☆ A law firm was fined $5,000 after one of its lawyers used ChatGPT to write a court brief riddled with fake case references
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-23 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A law firm was fined $5,000 after one of its lawyers used ChatGPT to write a court brief. Schwartz included references to a number of fake cases and opinions ChatGPT generated in an affirmation in opposition filed on March 1 this year, the court documents show. Although fellow Levidow, Levidow & Oberman attorney Peter LoDuca had signed and filed the affirmation in opposition, Schwartz said that he had been the one to research and write the brief. Castel, the judge, criticized Levidow, Levidow & Oberman for not "coming clean about their actions" quickly enough. Castel fined Levidow, Levidow & Oberman $5,000, and ordered the law firm to send letters to each judge falsely identified as an author of one of the fake opinions.

Persons: —, Steven Schwartz, Levidow, Schwartz, Peter LoDuca, Kevin Castel, ChatGPT, OpenAI, Castel, Oberman, Avianca Organizations: Service, New, Southern, of, LoDuca, & $ Locations: New York, of New York

NEW YORK, June 22 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Thursday imposed sanctions on two New York lawyers who submitted a legal brief that included six fictitious case citations generated by an artificial intelligence chatbot, ChatGPT. U.S. District Judge P. Kevin Castel in Manhattan ordered lawyers Steven Schwartz, Peter LoDuca and their law firm Levidow, Levidow & Oberman to pay a $5,000 fine in total. Levidow, Levidow & Oberman said in a statement on Thursday that its lawyers "respectfully" disagreed with the court that they acted in bad faith. Lawyers for Avianca first alerted the court in March that they could not locate some cases cited in the brief. His order also said the lawyers must notify the judges, all of them real, who were identified as authors of the fake cases of the sanction.

Persons: District Judge P, Kevin Castel, Steven Schwartz, Peter LoDuca, Levidow, Oberman, Schwartz, LoDuca, Avianca, Bart Banino, Sara Merken, Leigh Jones, Jamie Freed Organizations: YORK, District Judge, Colombian, Avianca, Thomson, & $ Locations: U.S, York, ChatGPT . U.S, Manhattan

☆ Judge sanctions lawyers for brief written by A.I. with fake citations
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-22 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Steven Schwartz, who used ChatGPT to write a legal brief, is pictured outside federal court in Manhattan on Thursday, June 8, 2023, in New York. A New York federal judge on Thursday sanctioned lawyers who submitted a legal brief written by the artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT, which included citations of non-existent court opinions and fake quotes. But Castel said the lawyers exhibited "bad faith" by making false and misleading statements about the brief and its contents after Avianca's lawyers raised concerns that the legal citations in the brief were from court cases did not exist. "In researching and drafting court submissions, good lawyers appropriately obtain assistance from junior lawyers, law students, contract lawyers, legal encyclopedias and databases such as Westlaw and LexisNexis," Castel wrote in his order. "Technological advances are commonplace and there is nothing inherently improper about using a reliable artificial intelligence tool for assistance," Castel wrote.

Persons: Steven Schwartz, Judge P, Kevin Castel, Peter LoDuca, Castel, Schwartz, Levidow, Roberto Mata, Mata's Organizations: New, Montreal Convention, LexisNexis Locations: Manhattan, New York, U.S, El Salvador, Montreal

☆ The lawyer who used ChatGPT's fake legal cases in court said he was 'duped' by the AI, but a judge questioned how he didn't spot the 'legal gibberish'
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-08 | by ( Paul Squire | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A lawyer used ChatGPT to help search for legal cases to write an affidavit backing his lawsuit. The AI hallucinated six fake cases, per a federal judge, which the lawyer included in the filing. US District Court Judge P. Kevin Castel asked lawyer Steven Schwartz of personal injury law firm Levidow, Levidow & Oberman, according to Inner City Press. The court filing included six court cases that were "bogus judicial decisions with bogus quotes and bogus internal citations," Castel wrote in a previous court order. "I have worked with Mr. Schwartz for 27 years," LoDuca said in court, Inner City Press reported.

Persons: —, didn't, Matthew Russell Lee, P, Kevin Castel, Steven Schwartz, Levidow, Schwartz, Peter LoDuca, Castel, Varghese, LoDuca Organizations: Service, Inner City Press, Google, City Press, Mr Locations: New York

☆ ChatGPT cited 'bogus' cases for a New York federal court filing. The attorneys involved may face sanctions.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-30 | by ( Rohan Goswami | In Rohangoswamicnbc | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Roberto Mata's lawsuit against Avianca Airlines wasn't so different from many other personal-injury suits filed in New York federal court. Mata's lawyers predictably opposed the motion and cited a variety of legal decisions, as is typical in courtroom spats. Avianca's attorneys told the court that it couldn't find numerous legal cases that LoDuca had cited in his response. Federal Judge P. Kevin Castel demanded that LoDuca provide copies of nine judicial decisions that were apparently used. In response, LoDuca filed the full text of eight cases in federal court.

☆ Here’s What Happens When Your Lawyer Uses ChatGPT
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-27 | by ( Benjamin Weiser | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The lawsuit began like so many others: A man named Roberto Mata sued the airline Avianca, saying he was injured when a metal serving cart struck his knee during a flight to Kennedy International Airport in New York. When Avianca asked a Manhattan federal judge to toss out the case, Mr. Mata’s lawyers vehemently objected, submitting a 10-page brief that cited more than half a dozen relevant court decisions. There was Martinez v. Delta Air Lines, Zicherman v. Korean Air Lines and, of course, Varghese v. China Southern Airlines, with its learned discussion of federal law and “the tolling effect of the automatic stay on a statute of limitations.”There was just one hitch: No one — not the airline’s lawyers, not even the judge himself — could find the decisions or the quotations cited and summarized in the brief. That was because ChatGPT had invented everything. The lawyer who created the brief, Steven A. Schwartz of the firm Levidow, Levidow & Oberman, threw himself on the mercy of the court on Thursday, saying in an affidavit that he had used the artificial intelligence program to do his legal research — “a source that has revealed itself to be unreliable.”

☆ A lawyer apologized after ChatGPT made up case law in an affidavit he submitted
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-27 | by ( Sarah Al-Arshani | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A lawyer used ChatGPT to write an affidavit in a personal injury lawsuit against an airline. However, the tool is at the heart of a case to discipline a New York lawyer. Steven Schwartz, a personal injury lawyer with Levidow, Levidow & Oberman, faces a sanctions hearing on June 8, after it was revealed that he used ChatGPT to write up an affidavit. The affidavit that used ChatGPT was for a lawsuit involving a man who alleged he was injured by a serving cart aboard an Avianca flight, and featured several made up court decisions. "Six of the submitted cases appear to be bogus judicial decisions with bogus quotes and bogus internal citations," Castel wrote.

☆ Lawyer apologizes for fake court citations from ChatGPT
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-27 | by ( Ramishah Maruf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

New York CNN —The meteoric rise of ChatGPT is shaking up multiple industries – including law, as one attorney recently found out. Steven Schwartz, an attorney with Levidow, Levidow & Oberman and licensed in New York for over three decades, handled Mata’s representation. Schwart’s affidavit Wednesday contained screenshots of the attorney appearing to confirm the authenticity of the case with ChatGPT. “is varghese a real case,” Schwartz asked the chatbot. 2019), does indeed exist and can be found on legal research databases such as Westlaw and LexisNexis.

☆ After back-to-back train disasters, regulators approve the largest rail merger in decades creating a line that would stretch from Canada to Mexico
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-16 | by ( Ethan Dodd | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Regulators approved a railroad merger that would create a single route stretching from Canada to Mexico. The rail industry has seen train accidents and labor disputes in recent months. "30-40% of the United States economy depends on a well-functioning railroad," Oberman said in the Wednesday press conference. That's why the STB has been "railing about some of the rail service problems and issues affecting the rail industry," he said. Oberman also argued shippers would not lose any existing rail competition from the merger.

☆ Union Pacific pauses use of controversial freight rail embargoes
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-16 | by ( Lori Ann Larocco | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

In a letter addressed to STB chairman Martin Oberman and sent to the STB on Friday by Fritz, the Union Pacific CEO stated, "We are taking a hard look at our use of congestion-related embargoes. Union Pacific carries nearly 27% of freight served by rail and nearly 11% of all long-distance freight volume. Unions have said that even as major freight rail companies add workers, the data supplied to STB on hiring is masking a longer-term trend of labor attrition. According to a Union Pacific spokesperson, total craft hiring was 27,753 in October 2022 compared to 32,315 in October 2019. Union membership data shows employment on all of the Class I rails, including Union Pacific, is down from just before the start of the pandemic and even down between October 2021 and October 2022.

☆ Rail workers at biggest unions split on contract, strike potential unclear
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-21 | by ( Eli M. Rosenberg | Eli Rosenberg Is An Investigative Tech Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +6 min

Workers at two of the country's biggest rail unions split over a tentative contract their leaders had hashed out with freight rail companies — leaving open the possibility of a debilitating rail strike in the middle of the holiday season. The 28,000-member SMART-TD union, which represents rail conductors, voted no on the contract, after one of their divisions voted it down. A strike could also impact the country’s commuter rail system, with the potential to halt service entirely on some lines serviced by freight rail workers and cause backlogs and traffic snarls on others. The National Carriers’ Conference Committee, which represents rail companies in the bargaining process warned about the economic threats of a strike. The Association of American Railroads, the trade group which represents the rail companies, estimates losses of $2 billion a day.

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