Ex-Copyright Chief Suggests Trump Fired Her Over AI Report

By Ivan Moreno

An attorney for the fired leader of the U.S. Copyright Office suggested Wednesday that President Donald Trump "sought to sideline her" to stop her from advising Congress on issues related to the use of copyrighted material for training artificial intelligence models, noting her dismissal occurred shortly after she released a pivotal report on the subject.

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8th Circ. Hands MyPillow CEO Win In 'Prove Mike Wrong' Fight

By Rae Ann Varona

The Eighth Circuit on Wednesday unwound a software developer's success in forcing Mike Lindell to pay up on the $5 million "Prove Mike Wrong Challenge" by showing the MyPillow CEO was wrong about the 2020 presidential election, saying an arbitration panel overstepped in awarding the prize money.

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2nd Circ. Orders Review Of Sealed Epstein Case Docs

By David Minsky

The Second Circuit on Wednesday vacated rulings denying requests to unseal materials in a defamation case tied to deceased financier and accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, ordering a New York district court to review certain filings after determining they're considered judicial documents and presumed to be public.

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Anthropic Judge Says Authors Can Seek OpenAI Docs In NY

By Bonnie Eslinger

A California federal judge on Wednesday told a certified class of authors claiming Anthropic stole their work to train its AI technology that they have his blessing to ask a New York court overseeing copyright litigation against OpenAI and Microsoft to produce documents and deposition testimony related to the California case.

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Operators Of Streaming Site Jetflicks Sentenced Up To 7 Years

By Elliot Weld

Five people convicted last year of running an illegal streaming website called Jetflicks have been sentenced by a Nevada federal judge, with one receiving seven years in prison and three others receiving shorter terms.

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'No Prenup': David Geffen Accused Of Exploiting Ex-Husband

By Lauren Berg

"Masquerading as a white knight," billionaire film producer David Geffen ensnared his now-estranged, decades-younger husband Donovan Michaels with promises of love, equality and life partnership, but Geffen broke all those promises when Michaels sought independence and equal footing in their marriage, according to a complaint filed in California state court.

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Paramount, Skydance Defend Merger Plan At FCC

By Jared Foretek

Paramount Global and Skydance Media continued to lobby the Federal Communications Commission for approval of their proposed $8 billion merger last week, telling the agency not to side with commenters calling for additional regulation as a condition.

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Trump Publishes AI 'Action Plan' With 90 Policy Proposals

By Steven Lerner

In an effort to secure America's leadership in artificial intelligence, the Trump administration released a blueprint Wednesday outlining ideas to accelerate innovation, modernize infrastructure and foster international collaboration while safeguarding national security.

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ACLU's Brief Rejected In Ex-Yale Student's Defamation Suit 

By Aaron Keller

The ACLU's Connecticut litigation arm and five other legal advocacy groups cannot file friend-of-the-court briefs in former Yale University student Saifullah Khan's defamation case against 16 others that filed a rejected amici brief in a separate state Supreme Court matter, a state appeals court has ruled.

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Oakley Penalized For Failing To Preserve Texts In MSG Spat

By Elaine Briseño

A New York federal judge Wednesday declined to dismiss the assault and battery lawsuit launched by former New York Knicks player Charles Oakley against Madison Square Garden and said it will not impose monetary sanctions, related to destroyed text messages, against two law firms representing him.

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False Ad Ruling Expanded Patent Law, Crocs Tells Justices

By Elliot Weld

Shoemaker Crocs Inc. has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to look at a Federal Circuit decision reviving false advertising claims that its shoes were made with "patented, proprietary, and exclusive" materials that weren't actually patented, arguing that the ruling would allow an "end run" around Congress' limitations on false marking suits.

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Full Fed. Circ. Won't Disturb Machine Learning Patent Ruling

By Hailey Konnath

The full Federal Circuit on Wednesday declined to reconsider its first-ever patent eligibility decision involving machine learning, leaving in place a panel's April findings that applying established machine learning methods to a new area cannot be patented.

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Meta Grabs Menstrual App Users' Data For Ads, Jury Told

By Bonnie Eslinger

Meta collected sensitive medical information using the Flo Health menstrual cycle app and used that information to sell targeted ads, a computer security expert told a California jury Wednesday in a multibillion-dollar privacy class action brought on behalf of 13 million women.

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US Says It's Immune In Booz Allen Worker Tax Info Leak Suit

By Anna Scott Farrell

A proposed class action seeking to hold the federal government and its contractor Booz Allen Hamilton responsible for a leak of thousands of wealthy people's tax returns, including President Donald Trump's, cannot move forward against the U.S., the government argued Wednesday, saying it's immune from the suit.

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Apple Tells 9th Circ. Birthright Ruling Scraps Epic's Injunction

By Dorothy Atkins

Apple Inc. told the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday that the U.S. Supreme Court's recent ruling in litigation challenging President Donald Trump's birthright citizenship executive order means that a nationwide injunction and civil contempt order in Epic Games Inc.'s antitrust case over Apple's App Store policies cannot stand.

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Amazon Shoppers Protest Proposed 'Mini-Trial' On Class Cert.

By Rachel Riley

Consumers are fighting Amazon's bid for an evidentiary hearing in parallel antitrust suits before a Washington federal judge decides a pending class certification motion, insisting the company has had plenty of time to vet key opinions from the plaintiffs' economics expert.

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UK Eyes Google, Apple Mandates For App Ranking, Payments

By Bryan Koenig

United Kingdom antitrust authorities on Wednesday formally proposed singling out Apple's and Google's mobile platforms for extra regulatory attention and specific mandates, proposing road maps for the Play Store and App Store that could try to stop the companies from boosting their own apps and commission-based payment systems.

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Senate Confirms Roth To Lead Federal Spectrum Agency

By Christopher Cole

The U.S. Senate on Wednesday confirmed Arielle Roth as the next chief of the U.S. Department of Commerce agency that manages federal use of the airwaves.

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8th Circ. Tosses FCC Dems' Local Media Ownership Rule

By Christopher Cole

The Eighth Circuit on Wednesday threw out local media ownership rules passed a year and a half ago by Democrats on a split Federal Communications Commission vote.

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No Coverage For Deadly Chiefs Super Bowl Rally, Insurer Says

By Hope Patti

An insurer said it has no duty to defend or indemnify the organizers of the 2024 Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl rally in a suit by the family of a woman who was fatally shot during the event, telling a Missouri federal court that an assault or battery exclusion bars coverage.

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Texas Event Venue Not Covered In Fatal Shooting Dispute

By Hope Patti

An insurer has no duty to defend or indemnify the property owner of a Dallas event space in a suit over a fatal shooting, a Texas federal court held, saying it would not alter its previous finding that the claim fell under an assault or battery exclusion.

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Mich. Panel Orders Hearing In 'Confession Tapes' Murder Case

By Carolyn Muyskens

A woman whose story was featured in a Netflix television series on false confessions has won a new hearing on the reliability of her murder confession and the methods used to investigate her daughter's 2002 death in a house fire.  

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DLA Piper Employment Atty Jumps To Davis Wright In LA

By James Mills

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP is expanding its employment law team, announcing this week that it has brought in a DLA Piper litigator as a partner in its Los Angeles office.

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Series

Law School's Missed Lessons: Skillful Persuasion

In many ways, law school teaches us how to argue, but when the ultimate goal is to get your client what they want, being persuasive through preparation and humility is the more likely key to success, says Michael Friedland at Friedland Cianfrani.

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NJ Fed. Judge Pulls Opinion Flagged With Nonexistent Quotes

By Lauren Berg

A New Jersey federal judge on Wednesday withdrew his decision declining to dismiss a securities class action against CorMedix Inc. after an attorney for the biopharmaceutical firm pointed out the opinion contained "a series of errors," including nonexistent quotes and misstated decisions.

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Analysis

Spurning Outsiders, Trump Expands Role In Picking Judges

By Cara Bayles

President Donald Trump is tightly controlling judicial nominations in his second term, eschewing guidance from mainstream groups and instead relying on close advisers and vetting candidates himself.

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Sen. Collins Opposes Bove For 3rd Circ. Over Bias Concerns

By Courtney Bublé

Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, will oppose the confirmation of Emil Bove to the Third Circuit, and Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, has also indicated her likely opposition.

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Analysis

Takeaways From The US Attorney Role Tumult In New Jersey

By Jake Maher

The U.S. Attorney's Office in New Jersey was thrown into turmoil Tuesday with a leadership dispute that remained open Wednesday, teeing up a battle between the White House and the Garden State's senators on Capitol Hill.

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Bird Marella And Bioscience Client Accused Of $87M Fraud

By Emily Sawicki

An investment group that includes a "Toy Story" screenwriter is suing a Culver City, California-headquartered bioscience company and its Bird Marella attorneys in California state court, accusing them of manipulating the valuation of a company whose acquisition they funded, in order to defraud investors of $87 million.

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Hinshaw Must Face Malpractice Suit, Fla. Panel Says

By Joyce Hanson

A Florida appeals panel overturned Wednesday a lower court decision favoring Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP in a malpractice claim brought by a pilot safety training company, ruling that the company didn't abandon its claims by settling an underlying arbitration.

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American Arbitration Assoc. Looks To Duck Monopoly Claims

By Matthew Perlman

The American Arbitration Association urged an Arizona federal court Tuesday to toss a case accusing it of monopolizing the market for consumer arbitration services, saying the proposed class action hasn't come close to pleading predatory pricing.

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Analysis

How A County's 'Holistic' Approach Reduced Violent Crime

By George Woolston

A meeting with Atlantic City business leaders at the start of Atlantic County Prosecutor William Reynolds' tenure in 2022 helped establish the guiding light to his office's community-first approach to prosecution centered on rehabilitation and reducing recidivism.

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Chicago Defense, Civil Liberties Icon Tom Durkin Dies At 78

By Brandon Lowrey

Thomas Durkin, a celebrated criminal and civil rights lawyer, has died after a brief illness with lung cancer at the age of 78. Those who knew him remembered him as a brilliant lawyer who cared deeply for his fellow human beings and battled unwaveringly against what he saw as abuses of power.

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NYLAG Union Is Latest ALAA Shop To Reach Tentative Deal

By Andrea Keckley

Another one of the several Association of Legal Advocates and Attorneys unions that went on strike in New York City last week announced on Tuesday that it has reached a tentative agreement with its managers.

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Senate Confirms Another Missouri Judge

By Courtney Bublé

The Senate voted 49-47 on Wednesday evening to confirm assistant U.S. Attorney Zachary Bluestone to serve on the Eastern District of Missouri.

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