Gil Ross: Ask A Lawyer

06/17/2026

With Google’s expanded AI capabilities, people can upload images to Google Lens, and use live audio and video recordings to ask the search engine questions. And now, Google said it plans to save the images, files, audio and video you upload under its new “Search Services History” setting. To find this setting, sign in to your Google account, look up your current activity settings at https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity. Check to see if your “Search Services History” setting is on or select the “Turn off” box. You can also delete certain individual activity from your history

A privacy lawyer says the new Google search feature has risks for users. Here’s what you need to know.

06/11/2026

The Type of Work I do
Doctors implanted teen’s heart valve upside down
Amazingly, this child is still alive

A lawsuit claims a 13-year-old girl's heart valve was implanted upside-down at an Oregon hospital, putting her "very near death."

05/20/2026

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It Just Don't Work This Way !

04/20/2026

Abracadabra ... 'Junk Science' does not belong in our judicial system. Penn & Teller filed a Supreme Court brief questioning the use of “investigative hypnosis” in a death-penalty case

Penn Jillette, the talkative member of the magic act Penn & Teller, knows that people will find the duo's new project a little surprising. It is a U.S. Supreme Court brief filed last month urging the justices to hear an appeal from Charles Don Flores, a death row inmate in Texas.

04/19/2026

Need a will? Need a trust? Need a Power of Attorney?
I gotta guy

04/15/2026

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This is called "A NEVER EVENT!"

Dr. Thomas Shaknovsky tried to persuade his colleagues in the operating room that the liver he removed from a 70-year-old patient was a spleen, according to Florida’s Health Department.

04/14/2026

It Seems That Uber Has A Problem
If this rings close to home, give me a call

After a key setback in the first trial of its kind before a federal jury, Uber ​is expected to return to court on Tuesday to face a second woman's claims that she was sexually assaulted by ‌a driver she booked through the app.

04/01/2026

It’s an epidemic: Powerful antipsychotic drugs being misused in nursing homes just to manage the residents, for the convenience of the staff . If this has happened to one of yours, call me

Nursing homes misuse antipsychotic drugs for dementia patients, disguise practice as schizophrenia treatment, watchdog finds.

03/31/2026

#1) Let's Do Our Part & Get Those Streets Clean
#2) Avoid Those Expensive Tickets

Watch where you park on Chicago’s streets starting April 1 or risk a fine.

03/31/2026

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Innocent Americans are being sent to jail on drug charges because of false positives

False positive results lead to nearly 30,000 people arrested on drug charges.