Musk Wants Altman Out, Not To Boost 'Himself Personally'

By Hailey Konnath

Elon Musk said Tuesday he wants OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stripped of his title and "all equity and other personal financial benefits" to be awarded to OpenAI's nonprofit if Musk wins his case claiming OpenAI duped him, saying he isn't after "a remedy directed to benefiting himself personally."

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Delaware Chancery OKs $190M Meta Privacy Settlement

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court on Tuesday approved a $190 million settlement resolving long-running stockholder claims that Meta Platforms Inc. mishandled user privacy and board oversight in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, closing out a case that had stretched more than seven years and reached the second day of trial.

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Data Breach Counsel Chided For Flouting NC Court Rules

By Abigail Harrison

Two attorneys looking to temporarily helm a series of putative data breach class actions targeting a radiology firm have failed to become interim co-lead class counsel, as a North Carolina Business Court judge chided them for not following rules and filing a procedurally deficient motion.

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Cisco's Win After Sunk 10-Figure Judgment Eyed By Fed. Circ.

By Ryan Davis

A Federal Circuit panel on Tuesday grappled with whether a Virginia federal judge got it right when she found that Cisco did not infringe three Centripetal Networks cybersecurity patents, after the appeals court discarded a multibillion-dollar judgment against Cisco due to another judge's stock conflict.

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DOD Opposes DJI's Push To Undo FCC Product Ban

By Ganesh Setty

The U.S. Department of Defense urged the Federal Communications Commission to reject DJI's reconsideration petition after the FCC restricted much of the China-based drone maker's business in the U.S., saying the government's underlying national security determination is correct.

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John Deere Inks $99M Deal In Farmers' Right-To-Repair Suit

By Celeste Bott

John Deere has agreed to pay $99 million to a putative class of farmers to resolve claims that it limits competition for farm equipment repairs by preventing unaffiliated shops from acquiring the necessary tools, and will also provide injunctive relief that would allow those independent repair providers to be able to diagnose and fix John Deere-brand agricultural equipment.

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USA Today Escapes Website User Tracking Suit, For Now

By Allison Grande

A California judge has shut down a proposed class action accusing USA Today of deploying tracking technology that illegally transmits information about website visitors' browsing activities to third parties, finding that the plaintiffs had failed to allege the type of concrete injury necessary to sustain their claims, while leaving the door open for their pleadings to be amended.

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Feds Say Iranian Hackers Are Targeting 'Critical' Infrastructure

By Hailey Konnath

A handful of federal agencies issued a joint cybersecurity advisory Tuesday warning that Iranian-affiliated hackers are taking aim at "critical infrastructure," including drinking water and wastewater systems, leading to multiple disruptions across various sectors.

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TD Bank Says It's Not To Blame For $1.1M Sent To Scammer

By Emilie Ruscoe

TD Bank has asked a Connecticut state court judge to strike a contracting company's claims that the bank should face liability after the company sent $1.1 million to a scammer, pointing out in its filings that the company's own representative handed over TD Bank login credentials to the fraudster.

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Security Guard's Suit Alleging Gender Bias Fails At 10th Circ.

By Patrick Hoff

The Tenth Circuit refused Tuesday to revive a former security guard's lawsuit alleging he was fired for complaining that his supervisor gave female employees preferential treatment, finding he failed to show that managers knew about his report to human resources.

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LinkedIn Users Sue Over Secret Browser Extension Tracking

By Lauren Berg

LinkedIn is facing two proposed class actions in California federal court alleging the networking platform has touted its anti-fraud and anti-data scraping efforts as cover for its surreptitious scanning of users' browser extensions, which often contain sensitive information, before sharing that data with third parties.

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BakerHostetler Adds Davis Wright Privacy Pro In LA

By Gina Kim

BakerHostetler announced Tuesday it has welcomed data privacy litigator Spencer Persson from Davis Wright Tremaine to its digital assets and data management practice group as partner, bringing in years of experience handling high-stakes privacy matters that will beef up the firm's privacy and digital risk class action and litigation team. 

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AI Recruiting Suit Shows Old Laws May Implicate New Tools

The Fair Credit Reporting Act allegations recently filed in Kistler v. Eightfold AI, are the latest example of broad definitional language in legacy statutes proving far more dangerous to companies deploying artificial intelligence – particularly in hiring – than any purpose-built artificial intelligence regulation, say attorneys at Ogletree.

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Legal Theories In Social Media Verdicts Hold Clues On Impact

Although the two verdicts in cases in New Mexico and California involving Meta and Google are being lumped together, they rest on fundamentally different legal theories, and that distinction determines how their effects may be felt in other jurisdictions, says Mark Morgan at Day Pitney.

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Pregnant DLA Piper Atty Recounts Firing: 'This Feels Wrong'

By Pete Brush

A former associate who claims DLA Piper unlawfully fired her after she announced she was pregnant told a Manhattan federal jury Tuesday that she got positive feedback as she worked with large corporate clients and was "shocked" when she was terminated.

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Blanche Says Only Trump Knows Why Bondi's Leaving DOJ

By Courtney Bublé

Todd Blanche said on Tuesday he is now acting attorney general and no one, beyond the president, knows why Pam Bondi is out and he is in.

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Calif. Lawmakers Advance Bill To Curtail PE Role In Litigation

By Emily Sawicki

A California bill to ban corporate investors from influencing litigation strategy is heading to the state Senate, backed by bipartisan support from the Assembly.

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Top DOJ Immigration Atty Faces Ethics Complaint

By Jack Karp

The head of the U.S. Department of Justice's immigration litigation office has lied to judges, disobeyed court orders and failed to stop attorneys he supervises from engaging in misconduct in high-profile immigration cases, according to an ethics complaint filed Tuesday.

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Habeas Orders Sharpen As Due Process Concerns Mount

By Britain Eakin

Federal judges are issuing increasingly detailed, critical and decisive orders for habeas relief in immigration cases, stepping in as what immigration experts say is a last resort check on a system viewed as having crumbling due process safeguards.

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DOJ Pushes To End Former Immigration Judge's Bias Suit

By Jake Maher

The U.S. Department of Justice moved to dismiss a former Ohio immigration judge's discrimination suit in D.C. federal court this week, calling the complaint "heavy on conclusory statements and speculation and light on allegations of fact."

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Calif. Atty Apologizes, Blames OpenCase For False Citations

By Matt Perez

A California attorney has filed a response to an order for potential sanctions over his alleged use of artificial intelligence, which resulted in false citations, saying the hallucinations appeared in a later draft after using OpenCase to perform a cite check.

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Approach The Bench: Judge Robinson On Community Court

By Cara Bayles and Steven Trader

Judge Devin Robinson's courtroom at the Red Hook Community Justice Center in Brooklyn looks and feels very different from the courthouse archetype.

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States, DC Back NY AG James In DOJ Probe Appeal

By Emily Sawicki

Backed by amici including the attorneys general of 20 states and the District of Columbia, New York Attorney General Letitia James is fighting the U.S. Department of Justice's bid to reopen an investigation into her office launched by a federal prosecutor found to have been serving unlawfully.

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