For most Americans, 2023 Tax Day (to file 2022 taxes) is April 18. But most people in California, and many in Georgia and Alabama as well, don’t have to file OR pay their 2022 taxes until October 16, 2023. This is because the IRS has granted an automatic 6-month extension to these taxpayers to provide some relief from hardship due
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The New AI Chatbot is the Legal Robot I Always Dreamed of Building (And That’s Just a Small Part of Its Capabilities) In case you haven’t heard, the newest, hottest AI is ChatGPT. And it’s not just hype. It is by far the most capable chatbot I’ve ever used. Ask it almost any question, on almost any topic, and you
Read moreNote: Law Soup aims to be a resource for unbiased factual information. This is an opinion piece, and solely reflects the opinions of the author. I’m truly feeling love in a time of Coronavirus. My passion has grown over the last few years, and in the last several weeks it has reached a fever pitch (and no, I don’t have
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Read moreCorporate America Says It Will Now Consider the Community in its Actions (What Took Them So Long?) A group of some of the largest companies in the country recently declared for the first time that they will consider the effects of their decisions on workers, customers, suppliers, and communities, in addition to shareholders. This announcement by the Business Roundtable could
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Big news today about the internet! It’s now going to stay pretty much the same. Um, what? Quick backstory. Since the internet became a thing, users have generally been able to access most websites without much interference from Internet Service Providers (or ISPs, like Verizon, AT&T, TimeWarner, etc). ISPs were providing their customers (you) with equal access and speed to
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Around the country, parents are increasingly being targeted by law enforcement and child services for purposely allowing their kids to wander off on their own to play or ride public transit, sometimes for hours at a time. Many of these parental choices are part of the so-called “Free-Range Kids” movement, which believes parents today are overprotective, inhibiting their kids’ emotional
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An elected official in Maryland recently threatened legal action against a reporter simply for trying to write an article about him. The official apparently thinks (wrongly) that anyone who wants to write about him must get his permission, even just to use his name! Who does this guy think he is? Kirby Delauter, a member of the Frederick County Council, wrote
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Thanks to a law taking effect January 1, farm animals in California will now get to live luxuriously. Well, not exactly. But farmers in the forward-thinking state must now give certain animals enough space to fully extend their limbs and turn around freely. Imagine that! The law mostly targets chickens, as many (if not most) farms have been keeping chickens in cages so
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The death penalty appears to be heading towards its own death. This past year (2014), states across the country executed 35 people, the lowest number in 20 years, according to the Death Penalty Information Center, and as reported in the Wall Street Journal. This year marked an even larger drop in the number of people sentenced to death, down to 72, the lowest
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