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  NY High Court Upholds Mandatory Judge Retirement Age

  By Dorothy Atkins

  New York's highest court Thursday affirmed a ruling that rejected jurists' challenges to the Empire State's mand...(read more)

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  Judiciary Cites AI Deepfakes In Opposing Courtroom Cameras

  By Courtney Bublé

  Two bipartisan bills to bring cameras into federal courtrooms advanced Thursday, but the policymaking body for t...(read more)

• High Court Won't Hear Dolby's PTAB Interested Party Case

  By Ryan Davis

  The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal in which Dolby sought to require Unified Patents to name the interested parties in an unsuccessful patent challenge, leaving intact a Federal Circuit decision that Dolby cannot appeal a validity decision in its favor.

• Justices Decline To Hear 'More Than An Athlete' TM Fight

  By Ivan Moreno

  The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to review a Federal Circuit ruling that allowed a company affiliated with LeBron James to cancel a Maryland youth nonprofit's "I Am More Than An Athlete" trademark registration based on common law rights acquired during the dispute.

• Justices Seek Input On NJ State Bar Diversity Challenge

  By George Woolston

  The U.S. Supreme Court has asked the federal government to weigh in on a Garden State appellate court's decision that approved a New Jersey State Bar Association system for fostering diversity in its leadership that was accused of being discriminatory.

• DC Circ. Sends CFPB Layoff Fight Back To District Court

  By Jon Hill

  The D.C. Circuit has declined to give the Trump administration an immediate green light for a plan to lay off around half of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's remaining workforce, instead handing it off for a Washington, D.C., federal judge to review first.

• Split 6th Circ. Revives Ohio's Social Media Age Limit Law

  By Hailey Konnath

  A divided Sixth Circuit panel Thursday wiped out a lower court's order blocking an Ohio law barring social media companies from allowing children under 16 to create accounts without parental consent, ruling that the measure does not run afoul of the Constitution.

• Meta Can't Undo $35M Political Ad Penalty, Wash. Justices Say

  By Rachel Riley

  Most of the Washington State Supreme Court justices rejected Meta's First Amendment challenge to a state political advertising disclosure law in a divided opinion, while also spurning the social media giant's argument that a $35 million penalty against it violates the Constitution's prohibition on excessive fines.

• Musk Fights Uphill To Toss Fraud Verdict Of Twitter Buyout

  By Bonnie Eslinger

  A California federal judge considering Elon Musk's bid to toss a jury's verdict that he defrauded Twitter investors during his $44 billion buyout said it's "readily apparent to the court that Mr. Musk is liable" for making two false statements that were material to the trading public.

• Fed. Circ. Again Revives Valve Bid To Ax Patent In $4M Verdict

  By Ryan Davis

  The Federal Circuit on Thursday gave Valve Corp. yet another chance to try to invalidate rival SCUF's video game controller patent underlying a $4 million verdict, ruling that, after the appeals court revived the effort, the trial judge wrongly said Valve's arguments are barred by a prior challenge.

• FTC, Amazon Must Answer Attorney-Client Privilege Questions

  By Emily Sawicki

  The Washington federal judge handling the Federal Trade Commission's antitrust case against Amazon asked both parties to provide more information about how he should consider attorney-client privilege when reviewing documents to resolve discovery disputes in the case.

• Blackstone's LivCor Cuts $7M Rent-Fixing Deal With 9 States

  By Dorothy Atkins

  Blackstone subsidiary LivCor LLC has agreed to pay North Carolina, California and seven other states $7 million in penalties to resolve allegations against it in a sprawling antitrust lawsuit alleging major landlords used software company RealPage to fix rent prices, according to documents filed in North Carolina federal court Thursday.

• DEA Picks Only Pot Foes To Join Rescheduling Hearings

  By Sam Reisman

  The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration on Thursday announced its selection of interested parties to participate in upcoming administrative hearings on a proposal to reclassify marijuana to a less restrictive status, each of whom is understood to oppose marijuana rescheduling.

• Law Students Undeterred Under Trump's Immigration Climate

  By Britain Eakin

  In a climate where immigration lawyers are coming under the Trump administration’s scrutiny to tamp down on asylum fraud, law students are being ignited to enter the workforce early and rectify the injustices they see.