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  No Jury Yet In Goldstein Trial, But Celeb Witnesses Possible

  By Jared Foretek

  Day two of jury selection in Tom Goldstein's tax and mortgage fraud case wrapped without a jury being seated Tue...(read more)

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  Halligan Blasts Court's 'Inquisition' Over US Atty Status

  By Ryan Boysen

  Lindsey Halligan said Tuesday that she is still the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia despite a...(read more)

• Calif. Bill Would Ban AI From Replacing Arbitrators' Analysis

  By Emily Sawicki

  A bill introduced in the California state Senate seeks to regulate attorneys' use of generative artificial intelligence statewide, including banning lawyers from entering private client information into public AI systems and prohibiting arbitrators from utilizing AI in decision-making.

• Boeing Settles Latest 737 Max Ethiopian Air Case Before Trial

  By Celeste Bott

  Boeing has agreed to settle the wrongful death case of a man who lost his parents and sister in the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8 crash of 2019, striking a deal following the selection of a jury and just ahead of planned opening arguments in the Chicago trial on Wednesday morning.

• Justices Affirm Candidate's Standing In Ill. Vote-Counting Suit

  By Celeste Bott

  The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday revived an Illinois congressman's suit challenging the state's policy of counting certain ballots after Election Day, finding that candidates for public office have standing to bring prospective challenges to election laws.

• Justices Decline To Double-Punish Gun Defendant

  By Phillip Bantz

  The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that subjecting defendants to separate sentences stemming from a single deadly federal firearm offense is a constitutional violation, settling a seven-circuit split and clarifying the scope of the Fifth Amendment's double jeopardy clause.

• Justices Unanimously Uphold Warrantless Entry Standard

  By Brandon Lowrey

  The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday unanimously upheld the objective reasonableness standard police must meet to enter a home without a warrant during a potential emergency, declining a petitioner's request to raise the bar.

• Meta Shakes App Users' Location Data Privacy Suit, For Now

  By Allison Grande

  A California federal judge has shut down a proposed class action accusing Meta Platforms Inc. of illegally collecting location data from users of third-party apps that installed the company's tracking software, finding that the plaintiffs hadn't plausibly alleged that Meta knew it didn't have permission to access this data.

• Google Engineer Cut-And-Pasted To Evade Security, Jury Told

  By Bonnie Eslinger

  A Google security manager took the stand Tuesday in the criminal trial of an engineer accused of stealing artificial intelligence trade secrets, testifying that his investigation showed that Linwei Ding evaded Google's internal security systems by cutting and pasting the data in a way that stripped information identifying Google's authorship.

• The Atlantic Sues Google In Latest Ad Tech Antitrust Suit

  By Rae Ann Varona

  The Atlantic became the latest publisher Tuesday to launch an ad tech antitrust suit against Google LLC, accusing the search engine giant in New York federal court of cutting the publisher and ad-tech companies out of billions of dollars in revenue by monopolizing the publisher ad server and ad exchange markets.

• Ex-Duane Morris Tax Partner Charged With Murdering Wife

  By Hailey Konnath

  A former tax partner at Duane Morris LLP's Chicago office has been charged with killing his wife a little more than a year ago, according to an announcement made Tuesday by Illinois prosecutors.

• OpenAI Chatbot Coached Man To Suicide, Calif. Suit Claims

  By Craig Clough

  A Colorado man who confided in ChatGPT about his mental health struggles died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound after the chatbot turned into a "frighteningly effective suicide coach" and even composed a "suicide lullaby" for him shortly before his death, according to a lawsuit filed in California state court Monday.

• CEO Of Auto Mat Maker WeatherTech Tapped For FTC Spot

  By Craig Clough

  The founder and CEO of automobile accessories-maker WeatherTech, David MacNeil, was nominated to a seat on the U.S. Federal Trade Commission by President Donald Trump, the White House announced Tuesday. 

• 9th Circ. Says Loggers' Suit Does Not Show A Monopoly

  By Elaine Briseño

  The Ninth Circuit declined Tuesday to revive a lawsuit by a coalition of logging groups that accused a U.S. Forest Service contractor of monopolizing the industry in the Pacific Northwest, finding the plaintiffs' antitrust claims lacked adequate details.