3 Suits Say Meta, Anthropic Pirating Books In AI 'Arms Race'

By Ivan Moreno

Book publishers and legal novelist Scott Turow hit Meta Platforms Inc. with a proposed class action in New York federal court on Tuesday, accusing it of training its Llama large language models on millions of copyrighted books and articles from pirate sites instead of licensing the material.

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EEOC Sues NY Times For Not Promoting White Editor

By Vin Gurrieri

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a suit Tuesday claiming The New York Times violated civil rights law when it passed over a white man for a promotion to a deputy editor position.

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11th Circ. Revives Annie Leibovitz 'Star Wars' Photo IP Dispute

By Gina Kim

The Eleventh Circuit vacated an early win handed to a digital outlet accused of impermissibly using renowned photographer Annie Leibovitz's images taken on the set of a new "Star Wars" film that were featured in Vanity Fair, ruling on Tuesday the lower court's "understanding of copyright law was not quite right."

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DJ Khalil Hit 'Dead End' With Ye Over Song Use, LA Jury Told

By Rae Ann Varona

DJ Khalil testified Tuesday in a California copyright infringement suit that he was initially excited Ye was using his instrumental track for what became the rapper's Grammy-winning song "Hurricane," but ultimately sought help from an artists rights company when he hit a "dead end" seeking payment from the rapper.

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Musk Sought Control Of OpenAI To Fund Mars City, Jury Told

By Dorothy Atkins

OpenAI President Greg Brockman defended OpenAI's for-profit conversion during a California federal jury trial Tuesday and accused Elon Musk of demanding "unilateral absolute control" over OpenAI to fund his plans for a city on Mars, while acknowledging under examination that Musk proposed his stake would "change quickly" with additional investors.

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OpenAI Accused Of Giving ChatGPT User Info To Meta, Google

By Hailey Konnath

A ChatGPT user Tuesday filed a proposed class action against OpenAI in California federal court, claiming the artificial intelligence company disclosed private user information to Meta Platforms and Google without users' consent.

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Va. Judge Clears Amazon On 4 Of 5 DivX Video Patents

By Adam Lidgett

A Virginia federal judge has trimmed much of the remainder of a lawsuit accusing Amazon of infringing video processing patents owned by California-based video technology company DivX, but let one of the patents remain at play.

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NCAA Insists Athletes Must Arbitrate NIL Deal, Not 'Rewrite' It

By David Steele

College athletes' attempt to go through the courts to exempt certain revenue streams from NCAA oversight is an end-run around the resolution they reached in last year's $2.78 billion class action settlement, the association has told a California federal judge.

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X, Startup Clash Over Fate Of Twitter Brand

By Jarek Rutz

X Corp. and Operation Bluebird Inc. are urging a Delaware federal judge to take sharply different views of what happened to the Twitter brand after Elon Musk renamed the social media platform X, with X saying the famous name remains protected and Bluebird saying the company gave it up.

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Apple Says Webcam IP, Antitrust Suit Belongs In Calif.

By Bonnie Eslinger

Apple Inc. has urged a New Jersey federal court to transfer a British software company's antitrust and patent infringement case over iPhone camera technology, arguing that the developer signed a license agreement consenting to litigate disputes with the tech giant in the Northern District of California.

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Brief

ABKCO, Behr Settle 'Paint It Black' Ad Copyright Suit

By Elliot Weld

Record company ABKCO Music & Records Inc. has settled a case with paint-maker Behr Paint Co. over Behr's use of the song "Paint It Black" in an advertisement without a license.

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Patient Data Tracking Suit Sent Back To Wis. State Court

By Allison Grande

A Wisconsin federal judge has thrown back to state court a putative class action accusing healthcare providers Hospital Sisters Health Systems and Prevea Health Services of deploying tracking tools that illegally transmitted patients' private information to Google and Facebook, finding that the plaintiffs hadn't alleged a sufficiently concrete injury to remain in federal court.  

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Meta Should Have Warning Label, NM Witness Says

By Cara Salvatore

New Mexico unveiled further details of safeguards it says a court should impose on Meta in a $3.7 billion bench trial, calling an expert witness Tuesday who said displaying a warning pop-up to minors is an idea that's backed by the former surgeon general and desperately needed.

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Cannabis Giants Sued Over Mental Health Marketing

By Jonathan Capriel

Recreational cannabis users hit some of the industry's largest companies — Cresco Labs, Green Thumb Industries, Verano Holdings and Curaleaf — with two sprawling lawsuits alleging the businesses overcharged for products deceptively marketed as safe and effective treatments for mental health disorders.

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FCC Asks DC Circ. To End Nexstar-Tegna Merger Challenges

By Jared Foretek

The Federal Communications Commission is calling on the D.C. Circuit to dismiss challenges to its approval of the Nexstar-Tegna deal outright, arguing that the appeals court lacks jurisdiction because approval came from its Media Bureau staff rather than the full commission, and thus wasn't a final agency action.

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Charter Asked To Pay Overdue Royalties After 5th Circ. Loss

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

A Texas family has said a Fifth Circuit ruling obligates a district judge to enforce a decades-old royalty agreement against Charter Communications and to order back payment of unpaid royalties for rights of way permits in three Texas cities.

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Ligado Satellite Plans Spur New Challenge To FCC Order

By Christopher Cole

A coalition opposed to the Federal Communications Commission approval six years ago of Ligado's plans for a terrestrial network is calling on the White House and Congress to block the network company's new plan to launch a 96-satellite constellation.

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Tower Builders Float Escrow Plan For Failed Dish Contracts

By Christopher Cole

Wireless tower builders urged the Federal Communications Commission to require EchoStar to set up an escrow account to pay them proceeds from spectrum sales to compensate for defunct contracts with its subsidiary Dish.

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FCC Chair Carr Promotes 6 In Key Legal, Policy Roles

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission's staff are playing musical chairs, and it means high-level promotions for a half-dozen legal aides of agency chief Brendan Carr.

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Duane Morris Integrates Gambling, Sports Industry Groups

By James Boyle

The growing popularity of betting in sports has prompted Duane Morris LLP to respond to the meshing of the two sectors by integrating its sports and gambling law groups.

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Opinion

Congress Should Ax Privacy Bill For Not Shielding Consumers

The SECURE Data Act should be rejected because, despite Congress' claims, it would not meaningfully rein in data practices, but instead would weaken enforcement, eliminate stronger protections and prioritize data extraction over consumer protection and accountability, say attorneys at DiCello Levitt.

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Feds Say Stolen BigLaw Deal Info Aided Huge Trading Scheme

By Chris Villani

Federal prosecutors on Wednesday unveiled indictments outlining a massive insider trading scheme that allegedly netted tens of millions of dollars using nonpublic information about mergers and acquisitions worked on by some of the nation's biggest law firms.

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McDermott Is Cutting Its Associate Ranks

By Aebra Coe

McDermott Will & Schulte is downsizing its associate ranks less than a year after the firm was created via a combination of legacy firms McDermott Will & Emery and Schulte Roth & Zabel, the law firm confirmed Wednesday.

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Roberts Says High Court's Job Is To Make Unpopular Rulings

By Katie Buehler

Chief Justice John Roberts said Wednesday that the U.S. Supreme Court often must issue "unpopular" opinions, as the high court faces widespread backlash over its recent ruling limiting the Voting Rights Act's use in challenging racial discrimination in congressional redistricting.

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The Top Law Schools For Every Career Path: Class Of 2025

Where do law school graduates end up once they dive into the job market? Find out which schools came out on top for job placements in BigLaw, federal and state court clerkships, and other legal industry sectors.

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Atty Sanctioned Over Bogus Citations In Forced Labor Case

By Jake Maher

A Maine federal judge has sanctioned an attorney for submitting court filings with fake legal citations to oppose the dismissal of a forced labor trafficking suit against a school, after using an artificial intelligence platform.

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Feds Say 4th Circ. ICE Ruling Doesn't Help Ex-Wis. Judge

By Ryan Boysen

Former Wisconsin state judge Hannah C. Dugan can't use a recent Fourth Circuit ruling to overturn her conviction for obstructing ICE officers, the federal government said Wednesday, calling that ruling "merely relevant" and not at all binding.

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NC Man Pleads Guilty To Doxxing Justice's Home Address

By Bonnie Eslinger

A North Carolina man who posted the home address of a U.S. Supreme Court justice online and suggested violence against members of the high court pled guilty Wednesday to a "doxxing" charge with the intent to "threaten, intimidate, or incite a crime of violence" against the justice.

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Judge Won't Force Hunter Biden's Foreign Agent Registration

By Jack McLoone

A Washington, D.C., federal judge won't force the U.S. Department of Justice to register Hunter Biden as a foreign agent, dismissing a suit brought by a group founded by now-Deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller because it can't establish it suffered an injury.

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