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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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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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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Apple Urges Full Fed. Circ. To Undo Original Watch Import Ban

By Dani Kass

A Federal Circuit panel erred when finding the U.S. International Trade Commission properly banned imports of Apple Watches with blood oxygen-monitoring features, the tech giant behind the devices said in a plea for rehearing by the full court.

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Ex-FDA Chief Testifies 100s Of J&J Docs Tie Asbestos To Talc

By Craig Clough

A former U.S. Food and Drug Administration commissioner on Tuesday testified in a Los Angeles bellwether trial over claims Johnson & Johnson's talc products caused deadly ovarian cancer in three women, saying hundreds of internal company documents reveal the company knew for decades that its talc contained asbestos.

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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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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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EMPLOYMENT & BENEFITS

4th Circ. Unsure Wells Fargo Denied Ex-Worker's WFH Request

By Hayley Fowler

A Fourth Circuit panel seemed uncertain Tuesday of whether it would uphold the entirety of a $22 million Americans with Disabilities Act verdict favoring a former Wells Fargo employee, with at least two judges questioning whether he suffered a concrete injury from the bank allegedly failing to accommodate his work-from-home request.

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Calif. Panel Won't Undo $3M SoCal Edison Verdict

By Y. Peter Kang

A California state appeals court has affirmed a more than $3.3 million jury verdict against Southern California Edison over a worker's fall at a shuttered San Diego nuclear plant, saying certain safety evidence was wrongly excluded by the trial court but the mistake did not warrant a retrial.

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CRIMINAL PRACTICE

Tax Shelter Trial Defendants Claim Promoter Misled Them

By Zach Dupont

More than a dozen lawyers and defendants packed a Colorado federal courtroom Tuesday to mark the first day of testimony in the trial against four individuals accused of using their businesses to help promote and sell abusive trust tax shelters.

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Pa. High Court Says DUI Cases Face No Special Malice Test

By Elizabeth Daley

A man sentenced to up to 39 years in prison after drunkenly killing two people and injuring two others while flying down a Pennsylvania highway at 115 miles per hour with his eyes off the road was correctly convicted by a jury of crimes requiring malice, Pennsylvania's highest court has affirmed.

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PERSONAL INJURY & MEDICAL MALPRACTICE

Connecticut Mother Says State Owes $5M For Death Of Infant

By Aaron Keller

The state of Connecticut is liable for the wrongful death of a 7-month-old boy thrown by his father from a Middletown bridge into the Connecticut River, the infant's estate and mother argued at a bench trial on Tuesday in Waterbury Superior Court after seeking at least $5 million in damages last year.

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Ga. Panel Seems Chilly To Adjusting Liability For Assault

By Chart Riggall

A Georgia appellate panel appeared skeptical Tuesday of an assault victim's bid to make the apartment complex where she was attacked shoulder more of a $5 million verdict she won, saying apportioning responsibility differently would likely lead to a reversal at the state supreme court.

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Ga. Panel Weighs Evidence Rules In Parents' Bid For New Trial

By Kelcey Caulder

The Georgia Court of Appeals considered whether a new trial is warranted in a couple's case alleging that a doctor's negligence led to the death of their infant son nine days after birth, questioning attorneys Tuesday on the appropriate standard for what is known as "habit" testimony.

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GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS

Whistleblower Attys Seek $96.5M After Fluor Fraud Verdict

By Ganesh Setty

Counsel for five False Claims Act whistleblowers have asked a South Carolina federal court for fees and costs totaling roughly $96.5 million following a jury's $15 million verdict against Fluor Corp. over its logistical support services for the U.S. military in Afghanistan.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

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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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LEGAL INDUSTRY

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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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Arnold & Porter

Beasley Allen

Bondurant Mixson

Bunsow De Mory

Cassidy Coates Price PA

Dechert LLP

DiCello Levitt

Drew Eckl

Eppes & Plumblee

Fenwick & West

GessnerLaw

Gimbel Reilly

Goodwin Procter

Gregory and Adams

Greines Martin

Haddon Morgan

Hochman Salkin

Huff Powell

Irell & Manella

Jones Day

Justice Law Collaborative

Kairys Rudovsky

Kaiser PLLC

Kaplan Marino

Kellogg Hansen

Kirkland & Ellis

Knobbe Martens

Latham & Watkins

Law Offices of Charles B. Molster III

Loevy & Loevy

Lowther Walker

Martorell Law

Maynard Nexsen

McDermott Will & Schulte

MoloLamken

Motley Rice

Penn Law LLC

Phillips & Cohen LLP

Richard A. Harpootlian PA

Robins Kaplan

Robinson Calcagnie

Russ August

Saluda Law

Sidley Austin

Singleton Schreiber

Strang Bradley

Toberoff & Associates

Verrill Dana

Wachtell Lipton

Weil Gotshal

Williams Oinonen

WilmerHale

Wisner Baum

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

APC

Actelion Ltd.

Amazon.com Inc.

American Bar Association

Anadarko Petroleum Corp.

Apple Inc.

Dell Technologies Inc.

DivX LLC

Duke University

Fluor Corp.

Friends of Animals

Google LLC

Instagram Inc.

Johnson & Johnson

Masimo Corp.

Meadow

Mercedes-Benz USA LLC

Meta Platforms Inc.

Microsoft Corp.

Netflix Inc.

Occidental Petroleum Corp.

OpenAI OpCo LLC

Permira

Southern California Edison Co.

Tesla Inc.

The New York Times Co.

TransUnion LLC

Wells Fargo & Co.

eBay Inc.

iRobot Corporation

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Connecticut Attorney General's Office

Federal Trade Commission

Food and Drug Administration

Georgia Court of Appeals

Georgia Supreme Court

Internal Revenue Service

International Trade Commission

Los Angeles Superior Court

Pennsylvania Supreme Court

U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of North Carolina

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

U.S. Customs and Border Protection

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Maine

U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Supreme Court

United States District Court for the District of Colorado

United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin