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  • October 05, 2026

    Jones Day Expands IP Team In San Francisco, Amsterdam

    Jones Day has brought on an Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP partner and NautaDutilh's former technology group leader as partners in its intellectual property practice, the firm told Law360.

  • October 05, 2026

    Crypto 'Godfather' Who Hired Cops To Extort Gets 6.5 Years

    A Los Angeles-based cryptocurrency businessman who called himself "The Godfather" was sentenced Monday to more than six years in prison and ordered to pay more than $23 million in restitution for getting Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies to harass his enemies and for separately stealing from Meta, federal prosecutors announced.

  • October 05, 2026

    AppLovin Skirts Controls To Show Kids Explicit Ads, Suit Says

    The county of San Diego lodged a lawsuit Monday alleging digital advertising platform AppLovin Corp. strips away parental controls meant to shield children from sexual and violent material in order to steer graphic ads to children and harvest their sensitive information to train its artificial intelligence.

  • October 05, 2026

    ByteDance Can't Shake YouTubers' AI Video Copyright Suit

    A California federal judge refused Friday to throw out copyright litigation alleging TikTok owner ByteDance Inc. illegally scraped millions of YouTube videos to train its text-to-video AI products, finding that the content creators plausibly allege they've been harmed and that ByteDance circumvented at least some of YouTube's technological protections.

  • October 05, 2026

    9th Circ. Says PREP Act Bars Pasadena COVID Policy Suit

    The Ninth Circuit on Monday refused to revive a Pasadena employee's suit challenging the city's COVID-19 safety policy for unvaccinated city employees, ruling that the city is immune from his claims under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act.

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