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  News Orgs Fight OpenAI, Microsoft's Fair Use Arguments

  By Elliot Weld

  News organizations locked in a sweeping fight with OpenAI and Microsoft over whether artificial intelligence dev...(read more)

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  SEC To Check Firms' Preparedness For AI Cyberattacks

  By Jessica Corso

  The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said Friday that it plans to scrutinize financial firms' use of arti...(read more)

• NetChoice Seeks To Halt Calif. Social Media Warning Law

  By Allison Grande

  Tech trade group NetChoice is pressing a California federal court to strike down a state law that will soon require social media platforms to display mental health warning labels, arguing that the mandate violates the "bedrock" constitutional prohibition on forcing services to "act as a mouthpiece" for the government.

• 5th Circ. Revives Facebook Users' Eyemart Wiretap Suit

  By Rae Ann Varona

  The Fifth Circuit on Friday revived a group of Facebook users' proposed class action accusing Eyemart Express LLC of disclosing their HIPAA-protected information to Meta without their consent, saying in a published opinion that Eyemart and a district court had read the statutory definition of individually identifiable health information too narrowly.

• 9th Circ. Judge Hints Trump US Atty Firing OK Despite 'Chaos'

  By Rachel Riley

  A Ninth Circuit judge remarked on Friday that President Donald Trump's ouster of court-appointed Seattle U.S. Attorney Roger Rogoff has sown "chaos," but pushed back against Rogoff's contention that the move amounted to executive overreach, noting that the president already controls the office via the attorney general.

• SEC Fights LSU Claim That Case Citations Were 'Hallucinated'

  By Alex Lawson

  The Southeastern Conference is disputing claims that it submitted "hallucinated" case citations in its lawsuit challenging Louisiana State University's efforts to add former professional players to its sports teams, urging an Alabama federal judge to strike the allegations.

• Copyright Ruling Leaves Worldwide Rights In Legal Limbo

  By Ivan Moreno

  The U.S. Supreme Court left music publishers, creators and catalog buyers facing potentially different rules for worldwide copyright termination after an unusual quorum failure ended the entertainment industry's bid to overturn a Fifth Circuit ruling allowing authors to recapture foreign rights included in worldwide grants.

• Texas Sues OpenAI, Altman Over ChatGPT Safety Claims

  By Spencer Brewer

  The Texas attorney general's office sued OpenAI and its chief executive Sam Altman in state court Friday, alleging the company breached consumer protection laws by unleashing a chatbot that often gives harmful advice and is addictive to children.

• Weil Merger Talks With Willkie End, Another Partner To Leave

  By Daniel Moritz-Rabson

  Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP and Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP have ended merger discussions and another top Weil partner is set to depart the firm, sources with knowledge on the matters told Law360 Pulse on Friday.

• Verisk Must Pursue $2.35B AccuLynx Deal, Del. Court Says

  By Jarek Rutz

  The Delaware Supreme Court on Friday upheld a ruling that Verisk Analytics Inc. improperly abandoned its $2.35 billion acquisition of roofing software company AccuLynx, leaving the data analytics company obligated to keep pursuing federal antitrust clearance and close the deal if regulators approve it.

• Economy Top Of Mind As M&A Optimism Falls, Survey Shows

  By Al Barbarino

  A new survey from Dykema Gossett PLLC found that roughly half of dealmakers expect U.S. mergers and acquisitions activity to increase over the next 12 months, down from 74% last year, but there is notable enthusiasm about the middle market strengthening and artificial intelligence speeding up deal processes.

• Feds Say Ex-FBI Brass Lies To Congress About Hunter Biden

  By Stewart Bishop

  Two former FBI senior officials who oversaw the agency's Foreign Influence Task Force were arrested Friday, accused of lying to Congress about their involvement and knowledge of the FBI's investigations into Hunter Biden.

• 'Grave Errors': 5th Circ. Boots Judge After AI 'Botch Job'

  By Jeff Overley

  A Mississippi federal judge's careless use of artificial intelligence tools led to "sloppy edicts" riddled with "falsehoods and fabrications," the Fifth Circuit held in a Thursday night opinion removing the judge from litigation over an anti-DEI law in the Magnolia State because of his "extraordinarily grave errors."

• Reed Smith Seeks 2nd Circ. Emergency Stay In Eletson Row

  By Bonnie Eslinger

  Reed Smith urged the Second Circuit in an emergency motion to pause lower court decisions requiring the firm to turn over client files related to shipping company Eletson, saying the courts have "presumed the outcome" of a bankruptcy appeal before scheduled December oral arguments.