Will you get a red card if you sue FIFA?
There must have been a spike in the use of Harvey, Legora, and the other legal AI platforms late last night as thousands of American lawyers tried to figure out how to sue FIFA for the red card given to American soccer star Folarin Balogun, despite having been screaming at their televisions for hours. This morning, the front page of The Wall Street Journal practically begged for some lawyer to make a claim. In case you don’t have access to such AI legal smarts, even though they are becoming ubiquitous, instant and nearly free, here is the AI enhanced summary for you to pontificate about with a beer in your hand at the Fourth of July barbeque in the backyard of that neighbor you are so envious of that you no longer like them. The short answer is that you can sue—if you can avoid sanctions—but you probably cannot win. If you were going to sue anyway, however, here are the claims you would make, with only one having even a remote—as in you may be better off buying a lottery ticket—chance of success.
Every theory mentioned here has more holes than ****** e here will allow me to explain, but if you want to sound like both a soccer fan and a litigator, because all fans sound like litigators yelling, at your neighborhood Fourth of July party, here is your legal playbook.
The first rule of sports litigation, my twelve years old nephew tells me, is that courts almost never want to become instant replay officials. Whether the dispute involves baseball umpires, Olympic judging, horse racing stewards, or FIFA referees, judges generally recognize that sports require finality-- like that famous sporting event, Bush versus Gore . Games have winners and losers because someone has perceived authority to make decisions on the field, as in who has the best homemade salsa. If every controversial call became federal litigation, no championship would ever end, but the AI agents would be very happy because they would be helping their company’s get very rich.
That is why the first lawsuit most American lawyers would draft is also the weakest.
There must have been a spike in the use of Harvey, Legora, and the other legal AI platforms late last night as thousands of American lawyers tried to figure out how to sue FIFA for the red card given to American soccer star Folarin Balogun, despite having been screaming at their televisions for hours. This morning, the front page of The Wall Street Journal practically begged for some lawyer to make a claim. In case you don’t have access to such AI legal smarts, even though they are becoming ubiquitous, instant and nearly free, here is the AI enhanced summary for you to pontificate about with a beer in your hand at the Fourth of July barbeque in the backyard of that neighbor you are so envious of that you no longer like them. The short answer is that you can sue—if you can avoid sanctions—but you probably cannot win. If you were going to sue anyway, however, here are the claims you would make, with only one having even a remote—as in you may be better off buying a lottery ticket—chance of success.
Every theory mentioned here has more holes than ****** e here will allow me to explain, but if you want to sound like both a soccer fan and a litigator, because all fans sound like litigators yelling, at your neighborhood Fourth of July party, here is your legal playbook.
The first rule of sports litigation, my twelve years old nephew tells me, is that courts almost never want to become instant replay officials. Whether the dispute involves baseball umpires, Olympic judging, horse racing stewards, or FIFA referees, judges generally recognize that sports require finality-- like that famous sporting event, Bush versus Gore . Games have winners and losers because someone has perceived authority to make decisions on the field, as in who has the best homemade salsa. If every controversial call became federal litigation, no championship would ever end, but the AI agents would be very happy because they would be helping their company’s get very rich.
That is why the first lawsuit most American lawyers would draft is also the weakest.
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