Attys For Alleged Fox Hacker 'Deeply Regret' Fake AI Citations

By Matt Perez

Two attorneys apologized to a Florida federal judge on Monday for filing a motion to dismiss charges against their client — alleged Fox News video hacker Timothy Burke — that contained fake legal citations generated by artificial intelligence.

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SAG-AFTRA Battles Use Of Fortnite's AI Darth Vader At NLRB

By Beverly Banks

The developer behind the video game Fortnite violated federal labor law by not negotiating with SAG-AFTRA before using artificial intelligence to voice Darth Vader, the union alleged in an unfair labor practice charge, claiming the company's AI use takes away work from bargaining unit members.

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MLBPA, Underdog Sports End Suit Over Using Player Images

By David Steele

The Major League Baseball Players Association and sports betting platform Underdog Sports have agreed to end the union's suit alleging unauthorized use of players' names, images and likenesses to promote its services, a complaint that originally also accused FanDuel of the same usage.

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Ye Must Answer Discovery Requests In 'Donda' IP Suit

By Isaac Monterose

A California federal magistrate judge has largely granted a company's request for documents related to its copyright infringement suit against Ye — the artist formerly known as Kanye West — his entities, UMG Recordings Inc. and Universal Music Corp. over two tracks in Ye's August 2021 "Donda" album.

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TikTok's Bid To Get NY Docs From AG Sunk By New State Law

By Frank G. Runyeon

A New York state judge on Tuesday denied TikTok's bid to force the New York attorney general to turn over agency documents related to claims the app harms children's mental health, relying on an amendment tucked into the state's budget that was signed into law this month.

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Netflix Hit With TM Suit Over Tyler Perry's 'She The People'

By Gina Kim

The founder of a leadership organization focused on women of color alleged in California federal court Monday that Tyler Perry's fictional Netflix comedy series "She the People" about a female Black politician infringes her registered trademark.

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Carnegie Hall Group Targets Hospitality Biz In TM Suit

By Isaac Monterose

The nonprofit behind New York City's famous Carnegie Hall accused a hospitality company in a federal lawsuit Tuesday of infringing the concert venue's trademarks by using them for the company's diners and cafés.

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Ex-NCAA Basketball Players Appealing NIL Denial To 2nd Circ.

By Elaine Briseño

A group of 16 former men's basketball players suing the NCAA for unrealized name, image and likeness compensation filed notice Monday that they plan to appeal to the Second Circuit a New York federal court's decision to toss their lawsuit.

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Meta Asks To Toss Claim That Illegal Tool Scraped Tax Info

By Anna Scott Farrell

Meta's tracking tool did not violate state privacy law, the company argued, urging a California federal court to toss a claim calling the tool an unauthorized recording device that collected sensitive information from tax filing websites H&R Block, TaxAct and Tax Slayer.

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Judge Denies Meta's Mid-Trial Bid To End FTC Monopoly Case

By Bryan Koenig

A D.C. federal judge refused Tuesday to cut short the trial in the Federal Trade Commission's monopolization lawsuit against Meta Platforms Inc., not finding the clear evidentiary failure necessary to nix the government's case over the company's purchases of WhatsApp and Instagram.

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Apple Can't Get Quick Pause Of App Store Order At 9th Circ.

By Dorothy Atkins

The Ninth Circuit agreed Monday to expedite briefing in Apple's appeal challenging a lower court's new injunction mandating certain App Store policy changes, but the panel declined to rule on Apple's emergency request to pause the injunction as Apple and Epic Games brief the hotly contested dispute.

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Amazon, Apple Get Atty Fees Over Dropped Antitrust Plaintiff

By Bonnie Eslinger

A Washington federal judge on Tuesday ordered an ousted lead plaintiff's counsel in a proposed antitrust class action against Amazon and Apple to pay a combined $223,000 in attorney fees to the defendants after finding last month that the lawyers had failed to tell the court that their client had abandoned the case.

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Meta Says Too Late For 'Dramatic Shift' In Antitrust Argument

By Craig Clough

Consumers who claim Meta monopolized the social media advertising market are attempting to make a late "dramatic shift" from their years-long argument that all of its users should have been paid a "made-up figure" of $5 a month for their data, the company told a California federal court Monday.

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Nextdoor Beats Investor Suit Over Post-SPAC Profitability

By Katryna Perera

A California federal judge has tossed a shareholder class action that alleges hyperlocal social networking service Nextdoor Holdings Inc. misled investors about its projected profitability when combining with a special purpose acquisition company, saying the suit's plaintiff never owned or sold the company's securities before the merger, among other things. 

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Tech Co. AppLovin's Brass Face 'Shadow Downloads' Claims

By Emilie Ruscoe

Executives and directors of technology company AppLovin face a shareholder derivative suit alleging they breached their fiduciary duties after the company allegedly inflated its download numbers, a key performance metric, by means of manipulative practices.

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Senate Dems Protest Broadband Deployment Delays

By Christopher Cole

A dozen Senate Democrats urged President Donald Trump to curtail the U.S. Department of Commerce's potential overhaul of a $42.5 billion broadband deployment program created during the Biden administration.

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State AGs Say No To Nixing Wireless Site NHPA Reviews

By Nadia Dreid

Eight states are calling on the Federal Communications Commission not to listen to a major wireless trade group's petition encouraging it to cut "burdensome ... red tape," which the states say are actually mandates of the National Historic Preservation Act.

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FCC Warned To Not Overreach In Undersea Cable Rules

By Christopher Cole

Network providers cautioned the Federal Communications Commission to stick to its legal authority when crafting new rules to beef up the security of undersea telecom cables, saying the FCC can't regulate beyond cable owners and operators under existing law.

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Trump Calls For FCC Spectrum Auctions In Budget Bill

By Christopher Cole

President Donald Trump on Tuesday jumped into the ongoing debate about federal auctions of the airwaves by calling for inclusion of spectrum sales in the budget reconciliation bill pending in Congress.

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DC Circ. Won't Revive Okla. Tribe's Creek Land Dispute

By Craig Clough

The D.C. Circuit on Tuesday affirmed the dismissal of an Oklahoma tribe's challenge to a decision that rejected its proposed liquor ordinance in a dispute over shared jurisdiction with the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, agreeing with the district court that the complaint failed to identify a valid cause of action that entitles relief.

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Patenting AI And Machine Learning In The Wake Of Recentive

Though the Federal Circuit's recent decision in Recentive Analytics v. Fox Corp. initially appears to doom patents related to artificial intelligence and machine learning, a closer look shows that strategies for successfully drafting and prosecuting such patents offer hope despite increased pushback from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, say attorneys at Banner Witcoff.

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How Mass Arbitration Defense Strategies Have Fared In Court

As businesses face consumers who leverage arbitration agreements to compel mass arbitration, companies are trying defense strategies like batching arbitration cases to reduce costs, and escaping specific mass arbitrations without rejecting the process completely, with varying results in the courtroom, say attorneys at Montgomery McCracken.

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The Alien Enemies Act Cases: A Roundup

By Britain Eakin

Litigation over President Donald Trump’s March 14 proclamation invoking the 1798 Alien Enemies Act has moved at breakneck speed, spurring two U.S. Supreme Court decisions already while at least five different districts weigh his authority to invoke the wartime law. Here, Law360 catches you up on major developments in the litigation.

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Injunction On Trump Order Limited To Perkins, Judge Clarifies

By Dorothy Atkins

A D.C. federal judge on Tuesday clarified the scope of her injunction blocking President Donald Trump's executive order targeting Perkins Coie LLP, explaining that her ruling prohibits the president from directing government agencies to investigate only Perkins Coie's employment practices and not the other BigLaw firms.

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'Not A Denny's': 5th Circ. Judge Chides High Court Stopwatch

By Lauren Berg

The Fifth Circuit on Tuesday expedited a case brought by Venezuelans who are accused of being gang members and who are challenging the use of a 1798 wartime law to deport them to an El Salvador prison, with one judge chastising the U.S. Supreme Court's majority for allowing the appeal to move forward.

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SEC Chair Says Staff Exits Have Left Holes In Agency

By Jessica Corso

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Paul Atkins told Congress Tuesday that the agency has lost hundreds of employees in recent months due to voluntary buyouts and early retirement incentives, and that some now-missing expertise will need to be replaced. 

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Trump Case May Bolster Wis. Judge's Pitch For Immunity

By Jack Karp

The Wisconsin judge accused of obstructing federal immigration authorities' arrest of an unauthorized migrant in her courtroom has a strong argument that judicial immunity protects her after the U.S. Supreme Court's presidential immunity ruling, some experts say, while others say judicial immunity does not extend to criminal prosecutions.

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Analysis

CFPB's Guidance Purge May Have Limited Impact For Industry

By Jon Hill

The Trump administration's recent culling of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau guidance may help advance the agency's pivot to lighter-touch regulation, but consumer advocates and even some financial services attorneys say the rescinded policies could still shape litigation and leave companies guessing about the agency's current views.

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Insurers Say Legal Malpractice Costs Keep Outpacing Inflation

By Emily Sawicki

The frequency at which major law firms faced malpractice claims held relatively steady in 2024, but payouts on claims continued to boom at a rate outpacing general inflation, according to this year's legal professional liability insurance survey, with nearly half of insurers surveyed reporting having paid at least one claim over $150 million.

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GSA Official Gives Mea Culpa On 'Non-Core' Federal Property

By Courtney Bublé

A top official of the federal government's real estate overseer testified on Tuesday that the administration was a bit rash in publishing a list two months ago with more than 400 "non-core" government properties, including federal courthouses, that it was considering disposing of.

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DOJ Watchdog Asked To Probe AG's Trump Media Stock Sales

By Craig Clough

Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland, the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, on Tuesday urged the U.S. Department of Justice's inspector general to investigate Attorney General Pam Bondi's sale of millions of dollars' worth of shares in Trump Media just ahead of the stock market plunging.

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Dem Lawmakers Reintroduce Supreme Court Ethics Bill

By Lauren Berg

Two Democratic lawmakers on Tuesday reintroduced bills in the House and Senate that would require the U.S. Supreme Court to adopt a binding ethics code and create new recusal and disclosure standards for the nine justices.

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State AGs Back NJ Judicial Privacy Law At 3rd Circ.

By Jack Karp

Most states' attorneys general, along with law enforcement organizations and a data privacy group, have encouraged the Third Circuit to uphold a New Jersey judicial privacy measure, saying states have sovereignty to enact such laws in a time of increased threats against judges.

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