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  YouTube Creators Say Amazon Scrapes Videos To Train AI

  By Lauren Berg

  A group of YouTube creators say Amazon.com Inc. has been scraping millions of copyrighted videos to feed, train ...(read more)

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  Judge Stands By Block Of DOJ Subpoenas In Powell Probe

  By Jon Hill

  A Washington, D.C., federal judge on Friday rejected a U.S. Department of Justice attempt to revive subpoenas fr...(read more)

• Top Court Paves Way To Wipe Out Pol's Bribery Conviction

  By Cara Salvatore

  The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday vacated an appeals court's decision to uphold the conviction of a pardoned former Cincinnati council member for bribery and attempted extortion, effectively greenlighting federal prosecutors' motion to toss the case.

• Justices Clear Path For DOJ To Dismiss Bannon's Conviction

  By Cara Salvatore

  The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday vacated an appeals court's order upholding Steve Bannon's conviction over his nonresponse to a congressional subpoena investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection, clearing the way for the Justice Department to dismiss his indictment.

• Justices Remand State Secrets Dispute In FBI Spying Case

  By Allison Grande

  The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday sent back to the lower court a long-running putative class action over the FBI's alleged surveillance of Muslims in Southern California, a dispute the federal government has argued threatens to undermine vital protections for state secrets. 

• Justices Vacate Grande ISP Case After Cox Copyright Ruling

  By Ivan Moreno

  The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday directed the Fifth Circuit to reconsider a copyright verdict against Grande Communications Networks, vacating the lower court's ruling and sending the case back for further review following the justices' decision last month sparing another internet service provider from liability for its customers' music piracy.

• Mass. Judge Blocks Trump's 'Chaotic' College Data Collection

  By Chris Villani

  A Massachusetts federal judge blocked the Trump administration's bid to collect seven years' worth of race and gender admissions data at colleges and universities, ruling that the "rushed and chaotic manner" in which the government's order unfolded violated the law.

• ABA, Ex-Judges And Many More Back BigLaw In EO Appeal

  By Dorothy Atkins

  Numerous bar associations, 239 former judges, 21 states, lawmakers and dozens of other amici curiae have thrown their weight behind BigLaw firms in the Trump administration's consolidated D.C. Circuit appeal seeking to revive executive orders targeting the firms, broadly arguing that the orders are an affront to foundational constitutional rights.

• 9th Circ. Upholds Biden Ariz. National Monument Proclamation

  By Crystal Owens

  A Ninth Circuit panel has upheld a lower court's dismissal of a challenge to former President Joe Biden's proclamation that established an Indigenous site in the Grand Canyon region as a national monument, saying that any claims of economic harm stemming from future higher energy costs are too speculative.

• Progressive Org. Rolls Out $3M Anti-Trump High Court Push

  By Courtney Bublé

  President Donald Trump does not have any vacancies on the U.S. Supreme Court, but a progressive court advocacy organization is not waiting for a justice's departure to launch a multimillion-dollar campaign opposing a possible Trump pick.

• Justice Alito Treated For Dehydration After Federalist Event

  By Courtney Buble

  U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito felt ill during a Federalist Society event last month and was seen by a doctor "out of an abundance of caution," the high court announced on Friday.

• Former Air Force Sgt. Cops To Charges In $37M Fraud Scheme

  By Tom Lotshaw

  A former U.S. Air Force master sergeant pled guilty to three criminal charges tied to a bid-rigging scheme that duped the government out of at least $37 million, according to federal prosecutors.

• Feds Say Rapper Rescinded Gucci Mane Contract At Gunpoint

  By Lauren Berg

  Dallas federal prosecutors announced Thursday that they have charged Memphis rapper Pooh Shiesty and eight others with holding three music industry executives at gunpoint — reportedly including Atlanta rapper Gucci Mane — to steal valuables and force Pooh Shiesty's release from his contract with Gucci Mane's record label.

• Judicial Scrutiny Of Counterfeit Suits Forces Brands To Adapt

  By Ivan Moreno

  Federal judges are placing new restrictions on so-called Schedule A lawsuits that brand owners initiate to sue dozens and sometimes hundreds of online sellers allegedly peddling counterfeit products at once, demanding more than shopping-cart screenshots to establish jurisdiction and pressing plaintiffs to justify mass joinder and damages claims.