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June 24, 2026

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America June 18, 2026

The End of PACER Paywalls? Bipartisan Senate Bill Targets Federal Court Fees, Transparency, and Public Access

WHAT’S INSIDE THIS REPORT Senators John Kennedy and Ron Wyden have reintroduced the Open Courts Act of 2026, a bipartisan…

By Samuel Lopez

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America May 20, 2026

OpenAI Fires Back In Explosive Lawsuit Over ChatGPT’s Alleged Unauthorized Practice of Law

By Samuel López | USA Herald The legal world may have just crossed a line that many attorneys, judges, insurers,…

By Samuel Lopez

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America May 18, 2026

Pro Se Litigants Turn To ChatGPT As Courts Confront The Promise And Peril Of AI-Powered Justice

By Samuel López | USA Herald The courtroom doors have always been open to self-represented litigants in theory. In reality,…

By Samuel Lopez

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America May 3, 2026

Self-Represented Litigants: Haines v. Kerner Becomes Lifeline For Americans Priced Out of Justice

By Samuel López | USA Herald – In Haines v. Kerner, the Supreme Court of the United States delivered a deceptively simple ruling…

By Samuel Lopez

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America February 27, 2026

California’s Separate Justice System: How One Man’s Fight With the State Bar Raises Questions That Still Matter Today

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – In America, we are taught that justice is blind — and uniform. One court system. One…

By Samuel Lopez

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America October 20, 2025

California Court Filings at Risk After AWS Outage Exposes Fragility of Digital Deadlines

What Matters Now The recent Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage that crippled California’s eFileCA and Odyssey court-filing systems has raised…

By Samuel Lopez

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