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  • December 10, 2025

    DOJ Gets Another OK To Unseal Epstein Grand Jury Docs

    The U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday secured another Manhattan federal judge's permission to unseal grand jury and other evidentiary materials related to the investigation of late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, with the judge saying that a new law Congress passed "unequivocally" intends for the materials to be public.

  • December 10, 2025

    Feds Drop 2 FIFA Bribery Cases Despite Appellate Win

    Brooklyn federal prosecutors are dropping criminal cases against a former 21st Century Fox executive and an Argentine sports marketing company in the long-running FIFA corruption probe, just months after successfully appealing the dismissal of their honest-services fraud conspiracy convictions.

  • December 10, 2025

    Atty Fees In Meta Pixel Privacy Action Reduced In Final Deal

    A New York federal judge has reduced an attorney fees award by about $100,000 in a Video Privacy Protection Act class action settlement with Scientific American's publisher, modifying the fees to approximately $200,000 in his order granting final approval of the deal.

  • December 10, 2025

    Too Zealous? EscapeX Challenges Sanctions In Google Case

    EscapeX IP is asking the Federal Circuit to review en banc a decision upholding $255,000 in fees and sanctions for what a California federal judge found to be a frivolous patent suit against Google, arguing the decision contradicts precedent and raises questions for the whole legal profession.

  • December 10, 2025

    Civil Rights Orgs. Side-Eye Probe Of Affiliate-Network Ties

    The FCC has asked for the public's two cents on "barriers" that local TV stations face in their relationships with national networks, but a coalition of civil rights groups said the inquiry is further evidence of a pattern of "aiding and abetting ... authoritarian conduct."

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