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  • July 08, 2026

    9th Circ. Says Netflix Harassment Suit Belongs In Arbitration

    A former Netflix employee must arbitrate her lawsuit alleging the streaming giant fired her for raising concerns about its sexually charged office environment, with the Ninth Circuit ruling Wednesday that her dispute began before a law banning mandatory arbitration of sexual harassment claims took effect.

  • July 08, 2026

    Trump's $5M Loss Ordered To Be Paid Out To E. Jean Carroll

    It's time for President Donald Trump to pay a $5 million jury verdict finding he sexually abused writer E. Jean Carroll in a department store dressing room, a New York federal judge ruled on Wednesday, after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to take up the case.

  • July 08, 2026

    Mich. Justices Void LSD User's Rape Confession, Order Retrial

    The Michigan Supreme Court has granted a new trial to a man convicted of sexually assaulting his friend while on LSD, saying jurors should not have heard testimony that the defendant confessed while he was still confused and intoxicated.

  • July 08, 2026

    Fighting The Evidentiary Risks Of Deepfakes In Court

    Though courts and federal rules are only slowly developing frameworks for assessing digital evidence that could have been created or generated by artificial intelligence, litigators should understand what steps they'll likely need to take to successfully challenge potentially deepfaked exhibits — and fight questions about the authenticity of their own, say attorneys at MoFo.

  • July 08, 2026

    1st Circ. Backs Gov't Probe Of Sex Offender's File Sharing

    The First Circuit said a Massachusetts man convicted of possessing child sexual abuse material did not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in his activity on an anonymous peer-to-peer file-sharing network, affirming a district court's ruling.

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