Melanie Kalmanson and Emily Plakon Author Article for 11th Circuit Historical Newsletter 2025 About Articles Published by University of Miami Law Review

Melanie Kalmanson and Emily Plakon, both members of the Quarles & Brady Litigation & Dispute Resolution Practice Group in Tampa, wrote an article for the 11^th Circuit Historical Newsletter 2025 about the various articles published by The University of Miami Law Review in the annual Eleventh Circuit Issue last summer. They review all four articles in the issue and assess how they relate to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.

An excerpt:

In this article, Professor Sites explores Eleventh Circuit authority addressing the use of artificial intelligence tools in legal practice.⁷ The discussion includes the Eleventh Circuit’s decisions in Walters v. OpenAI (a Georgia defamation case involving ChatGPT) and United States v. Lamons (a Confrontation Clause case related to AI that was “one of the first major cases of its kind”).⁸ The author also addresses key questions involving machine speech,⁹ defamation,¹⁰ copyright issues,¹¹ and forensic evidence.¹²

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The final article, Secrecy on Steroids: How Overzealous State Confident ial ity Laws Expose Leakers and Whistleblowers to Retaliatory Prosecution, was written by Frank D. LoMonte (University of Florida’s Joseph L. Brechner Center for Freedom of Information) and Anne Mar ie Tamburro (Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression).¹⁹ In this article, the authors explore Florida’s broad state confidentiality laws and the overuse of “classified” and “confidential” labels nationwide.²⁰

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