This blog explains decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court in plain language. It is published by Etalia.ai and written with AI. Here is how a post gets from the Court's opinion to this page, so you can judge it for yourself.
Where the facts come from
Every case in a post links to its page on SCOTUS by Etalia.ai, our database of Supreme Court opinions. We take names, dates, holdings and quotes from the opinion itself, which the case page links to. We do not rely on the AI-written summary on the case page, because a summary can be wrong. If a fact cannot be checked against an opinion, we leave it out, or we say that it comes from outside the database.
How a post is written
Posts are written with Claude, an AI model from Anthropic. The AI drafts the text from the sources above. Before anything is published, an editor at Etalia reads the post and approves it, and that approval is recorded with the name of the person and the time. Nothing on this blog goes out without it.
Every post is approved by a person; some are also individually reviewed, and the label on each post says which.
New and rewritten posts carry a line at the end saying they were written or rewritten with AI, and whether an editor reviewed them individually. Posts that were rewritten from an earlier version are also tagged AI-Rewritten, and every AI-written post names the model in a tag, for example AI-Model-claude-opus-5-5.
The older posts
Many posts from 2023 to 2025 were written with earlier AI tools. We are working through them. We re-check each one against the opinions, rewrite it, and add the AI line. Some older posts still need that work. One has been taken down until it can be fixed.
Corrections
If you find a mistake, tell us on the Contact page. We will check it against the opinion and fix the post.
This blog gives general information about court decisions. It is not legal advice.