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  Publishers Sue 'Shadow Library' For 'Staggering' Book Piracy

  By Ivan Moreno

  Thirteen of the biggest book publishers in the U.S. filed a copyright lawsuit against Anna's Archive on Friday, ...(read more)

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  Companies In Limbo Over Calif. Climate Disclosure Laws' Fate

  By Keith Goldberg

  Companies that do business in California are stuck in no-man's-land as the Golden State implements sweeping laws...(read more)

• Chance The Rapper Owes For TV, Other Deals Too, Jury Hears

  By Lauraann Wood

  Disagreement over public reception of Chance the Rapper's debut album caused an irreparable rift that ultimately left the artist's former manager unpaid for previously agreed commissions alongside a Netflix show and certain other opportunities he helped secure before their relationship ended, Illinois jurors heard Friday.

• Breyer Urges Attys In Heated Twitter Investor Trial To Cool Off

  By Bonnie Eslinger

  The judge overseeing a California federal trial over Twitter investors' allegations that Elon Musk intentionally tanked the company's stock urged lawyers to cool down over the weekend and "gain composure," after a heated fight in which a lawyer for the investors called a Musk attorney's conduct disgraceful.

• Meta, Google Begin Defense As Mental Harm Plaintiff Rests

  By Craig Clough

  Attorneys for the plaintiff in a landmark bellwether California trial in a suit accusing Instagram and YouTube of harming children's mental health rested their case Friday, opting not to call the plaintiff's mother to testify live despite the defense portraying her as the potential cause of the plaintiff's mental health struggles.

• In Deepfake Era, NY High Court Probes Evidence Standards

  By Elizabeth Daley

  A recent New York state high court decision hammering home the importance of video evidence authentication has been coined a "clarion call" for verification in the age of deepfakes by defense attorneys who say the ruling demands a change in tactics.

• FDA Vaccine Chief Prasad To Exit Agency For 2nd Time

  By Mark Payne

  Dr. Vinay Prasad, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's top vaccine regulator, will leave the agency in the coming weeks, FDA Commissioner Marty Makary said Friday.

• Inventor Calls On Justices To End Prosecution Laches

  By Adam Lidgett

  Prolific inventor Gilbert Hyatt wants the U.S. Supreme Court to take up his challenge to a doctrine that can render a patent unenforceable based on delays by the owner during prosecution, saying the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is wrongly using the principle to kill applications.

• Customs Faces Hurdles In $166B Tariff Refund Order

  By Kevin Pinner

  U.S. Customs and Border Protection no longer needs to immediately refund Trump administration tariffs that were struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court after the U.S. Court of International Trade loosened a previous order Friday in response to the agency warning compliance was impossible.

• Kalshi Sued Over 'Death Carveout' For Khamenei Trades

  By Katryna Perera

  Prediction market Kalshi defrauded traders who bet that Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei would leave office before March 1, 2026, by invoking an improperly disclosed "death carveout" and refusing to pay full winnings to traders when Khamenei was killed in recent U.S. and Israeli military strikes, according to a suit in California federal court.

• Cyntec Gets Calif. Jury To Uphold Patents In Infringement Suit

  By Adam Lidgett

  A California federal jury has upheld claims in a pair of Cyntec Co. patents for electrical circuit technology, years after Chilisin Electronics Corp. was put on the hook for infringing the patents.

• Fed. Circ. Revives Damages Dispute In Exafer Case

  By Elliot Weld

  The Federal Circuit reopened the damages amount issue in a patent infringement case brought by Israeli company Exafer Ltd. against Microsoft Corp. on Friday, saying a district judge was wrong to exclude the opinions of an Exafer damages expert.

• Duke Energy Settles Monopoly Suit On Eve Of Jury Trial

  By Hayley Fowler

  Duke Energy has settled a Florida-based power provider's monopoly suit on the eve of a jury trial in North Carolina, just two months after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to review a Fourth Circuit ruling that revived the antitrust claims, according to a notice filed Friday.

• Fed. Circ. Won't Reinstate $2M Sepsis-Testing Patent Verdict

  By Adam Lidgett

  The Federal Circuit on Friday refused to revive the $2 million jury verdict Magnolia Medical Technologies Inc. won in its sepsis-testing patent infringement suit against Kurin Inc., affirming a Delaware federal judge's decision to throw out the verdict after trial.