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  Apple Hit With £2B UK Claim Over App Tracking Rules

  By Robbie Kalus

  Apple is facing a £2 billion ($2.7 billion) collective action brought on behalf of thousands of developers who c...(read more)

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  Thomson Reuters Cyberattack Hits North American Courts

  By Bonnie Eslinger

  A recent cyberattack on Thomson Reuters' court management software affected files associated with court systems ...(read more)

• FCC Denies Retaliatory Pretext In ABC License Renewal Probe

  By Christopher Cole

  The Federal Communications Commission urged a D.C. federal court Thursday to toss ABC's suit over the agency's early review of eight station licenses, denying that a discrimination probe of network parent Disney was a pretext for retaliating against ABC.

• Leon Black Says 'Intrusive' Epstein Subpoenas Are Invalid

  By Lauren Berg

  Rather than appear for a deposition about his connection to child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, Apollo Global Management co-founder Leon Black sued the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and its chairman in Washington, D.C., federal court Thursday, saying subpoenas seeking private nondisclosure agreements exceed the committee's authority.

• Kavanaugh Stays Out Of Mich. Voter ID Referendum Row

  By Katie Buehler

  U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh declined Thursday to wade into a dispute over Michigan election officials' refusal to put on ballots this November a proposed amendment to the state's constitution that would require voters to show proof of U.S. citizenship to participate in state and local elections.

• Judge Suggests Mail Ballot Rule Too Late For Midterms

  By Julie Manganis

  A Massachusetts federal judge appeared poised Thursday to extend her block on the U.S. Postal Service implementing new requirements that would allow the agency to refuse to deliver potentially thousands of mailed ballots this November, suggesting the midterm elections are too close to make such a sweeping change.

• SEC Sues LSU Over Efforts To Put Ex-NFL Players On Roster

  By Alex Lawson

  The Southeastern Conference sued Louisiana State University in Alabama federal court Thursday, asking a judge to affirm the conference's right to impose penalties against the school if it decides to place players who had previously appeared in NFL preseason games on its roster.

• Boutique Firms Emerge As Trump Admin's 'Achilles' Heel'

  By Phillip Bantz

  Less fearful of retribution than some of their BigLaw counterparts, small law firms are taking on an outsize role handling cases seen as adversarial to the Trump administration.

• IRS Moves To Strip Schools' Tax Exemptions Over DEI Policies

  By Asha Glover

  As many as 18,000 private schools that enact racially based diversity and inclusion policies could lose their federal tax exemptions under a proposed rule released by the Internal Revenue Service on Thursday.

• Nvidia Buying Open-Source AI Firm Hugging Face For $12.9B

  By Al Barbarino

  Nvidia Corp. has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for about $12.93 billion, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said Thursday, in the chipmaker's largest acquisition to date as it puts more financial weight behind the open-model ecosystem.

• Alanis Morissette Accuses 'Terrible' Tour Manager Of Extortion

  By Ben Adlin

  Rock star Alanis Morissette sued her former tour manager in California federal court Tuesday over claims she was the victim of a "calculated blackmail campaign" in which the manager threatened to falsely report her for drug trafficking unless she paid "massive compensation" and agreed to employ the worker as a tour director for 15 years.

• Online Embedders May Like 5th Circ.'s Pivot On Server Test

  By Ivan Moreno

  The Fifth Circuit last week rejected a 2007 copyright test that publishers have long criticized, but attorneys say the court's replacement may still leave news aggregators and apps that embed third-party content in a strong position while putting more pressure on rights holders to restrict content they don't want embedded elsewhere.

• House Rejects Amendment To Fix Court At 9 Justices

  By Courtney Bublé

  The House failed to pass a proposed constitutional amendment on Wednesday that would keep the number of U.S. Supreme Court justices at nine.

• States Sue To Block Medicaid Ban On Youth Gender Care

  By Dan McKay

  Twenty state attorneys general on Wednesday challenged the Trump administration's plan to halt Medicaid funding for minors' gender-affirming care, alleging the move would violate federal law and usurp congressional power over government spending.