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petition

[puh-tish-uhn] / pəˈtɪʃ ən /




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In another case last month, the Supreme Court raised concerns over the trend of lawyers using AI tools to draft petitions.

From BBC

For months, the justices have been weighing other petitions involving similar policies in school districts in other states.

From The Wall Street Journal

Coming out in support of Anthropic, hundreds of engineers at Google, Amazon, Microsoft and OpenAI signed petitions and open letters urging their leaders to refuse Pentagon demands for unrestricted AI use.

From Barron's

Some residents claim East Lothian Council ignored a petition with 7,000 signatures on a "technicality," while an initial consultation attracted hundreds of objections.

From BBC

A state district court, siding with a legal challenge filed by Horning’s lawyers, dismissed the town’s petition to condemn the parcel.

From The Wall Street Journal