YouTube, Google Near OK On $6M BIPA Deal With 21K Users

By Bonnie Eslinger

A California federal judge indicated Thursday that he'll give preliminary approval to Google and YouTube's $6 million deal to end a proposed class action alleging the companies unlawfully collected the biometric data of around 21,000 Illinois YouTube users through the platform's video editing tools, saying he believes it to be "a very sound settlement."

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Combs Used Business 'Kingdom' For Crime Spree, Feds Say

By Pete Brush

Sean "Diddy" Combs used his power, wealth and a "small army" of employees to commit crimes including sex trafficking for 20 years, a prosecutor told a Manhattan federal jury Thursday as the hip-hop mogul's trial neared an end.

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Trump DOJ Eyes Algorithmic Collusion, Welcomes 'Little Tech'

By Rae Ann Varona

Tackling algorithmic pricing collusion in the healthcare and housing markets and welcoming pro-competitive mergers of "Little Tech" are among the U.S. Department of Justice's plans for protecting consumers in today's digital markets, the top deputy for the DOJ's antitrust division told privacy professionals on Thursday.

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Judge 'Cannot Justify' Ga.'s Social Media Age Limit Law

By Chart Riggall

A federal judge on Thursday declared unconstitutional Georgia's new restrictions on minors' use of social media, halting enforcement of the measures on First Amendment grounds just weeks before they were to take effect.

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OpenAI Loses Data Hold Round In News Orgs' Copyright Fight

By Stewart Bishop

A Manhattan federal judge on Thursday refused to overturn a ruling that directed OpenAI to preserve ChatGPT logs in ongoing copyright infringement litigation brought by news organizations against the company and Microsoft, after hearing an hourslong "tutorial" about the ins and outs of generative artifical intelligence.

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Maine To Hike Sales Tax On Cannabis, Add Streaming To Base

By Zak Kostro

Maine will raise its sales tax rate on adult-use cannabis and lower its excise tax rate on cannabis flower and add streaming services such as Netflix and Hulu to the sales tax base under budget legislation signed by the governor.

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Marketing Co. Fights For TM Case As X Corp. Seeks Sanctions

By Elliot Weld

Legal marketing firm X Social Media LLC told a Florida federal judge that its claims that Elon Musk's decision to rebrand the social media platform he owns from Twitter to X poses a risk of consumer confusion should be left to a jury, while Musk's company accused the marketing firm of case delays worthy of sanctions.

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Craft Co. Brings IP, Defamation Suit After Facebook Comment

By Ryan Harroff

A Wisconsin crafting company filed infringement claims against a competing firm over three patents on magnetic hoops used to hold fabric taut while it is being embroidered and accused its owner of defamation after he allegedly told people those patents had not actually been granted.

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Volvo's US Unit Escapes Film Producer's Hearing Loss Suit

By Jonathan Capriel

The co-founder of Armory Films — the production company behind "The Peanut Butter Falcon" and "Fool's Paradise" — can't sue Volvo Car USA LLC for hearing loss suffered due to a purported defect in his vehicle's speakers, a Nashville federal judge ruled, saying the domestic company didn't manufacture the SUV so it can't be found liable under state law.

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Teladoc Can't Shake Most Of Suit Over Meta Pixel Data Sharing

By Allison Grande

A New York federal judge refused to toss a proposed class action accusing Teladoc of unlawfully disclosing website visitors' personal health information to Meta, preserving eight wiretapping and consumer protecting claims under federal and several state laws while giving the plaintiffs a chance to amend negligence and three other allegations.

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Court Allows NASCAR To Subpoena Nonparty Financial Docs

By Elaine Brise帽o

A North Carolina federal judge will allow NASCAR to subpoena the financial records of 12 chartered racing teams to defend itself in a lawsuit that accuses the organization of antitrust violations, but left safeguards in place.

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Movie Cos. Ask 10th Circ. To Redo 'Inconsistent' Labor Ruling

By Zach Dupont

Two Hallmark-contracted movie studios asked the Tenth Circuit to rehear a claim from the National Labor Relations Board that the studios violated federal labor laws by refusing to rehire striking employees, calling the previous panel opinion both "inconsistent" and "confusing at best."

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FCC Votes To Slash Rules At June Meeting

By Nadia Dreid

Most of what the Federal Communications Commission did at its monthly meeting Thursday was vote away rules that it no longer deems useful to keeping the agency and the various telecommunications sectors under its purview running smoothly.

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Cable Biz Wants Notice Before FCC Waives Top-4 Rule

By Christopher Cole

The cable industry criticized the Federal Communications Commission's handling of a recent waiver of its rule blocking broadcasters from owning more than one top-four TV station in a single market, telling FCC officials they should ask for the public's views before making any exceptions.

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Wireless Cos. Ask FCC To Overturn Subsidy Rulings

By Christopher Cole

Two wireless companies have asked the Federal Communications Commission to reverse the Universal Service Administrative Co.'s decisions denying some of the federal subsidies the companies received for providing low-income households with broadband discounts.

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'50 Cent' Liquor Biz Can Target Ex-Boss's Home In Ch. 7

By Ryan Harroff

A Connecticut bankruptcy judge ruled that famous rapper Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson's liquor company Sire Spirits LLC can enforce its lien on its former brand manager Mitchell Green's home in Westport to get some recovery for a $7 million fraud judgment against him, even as Green goes through Chapter 7 proceedings.

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Ex-Mich. Coach Hires 'Real Housewives' Atty In Hacking Case

By Danielle Ferguson

A former University of Michigan assistant football coach accused of hacking college students' digital accounts enlisted a D.C. criminal defender who represented a former "Real Housewives" cast member convicted of luring people into fake investments and represented a man convicted of threatening a judge overseeing the criminal case of a former Trump adviser.

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New FCC Republican Names Key Legal Staff

By Christopher Cole

Commissioner Olivia Trusty, who was sworn in this week as the newest member of the Federal Communications Commission, announced the hiring of several top aides Thursday.

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Fed. Circ. In May: Evaluating Opportunistic Trademark Filings

The Federal Circuit's decision last month in the "US Space Force" trademark case gives the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board additional clarity when working through opportunistic trademark filings, particularly when the mark's value is primarily due to the potential value of a false connection, say attorneys at Knobbe Martens.

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Opinion

Senate's 41% Litigation Finance Tax Would Hurt Legal System

The Senate’s latest version of the Big Beautiful Bill Act would impose a 41% tax on the litigation finance industry, but the tax is totally disconnected from the concerns it purports to address, and it would set the country back to a time when small plaintiffs had little recourse against big defendants, says Anthony Sebok at Cardozo School of Law.

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Performing As A Clown Makes Me A Better Lawyer

To say that being a clown in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade has changed my legal career would truly be an understatement — by creating an opening to converse on a unique topic, it has allowed me to connect with clients, counsel and even judges on a deeper level, says Charles Tatelbaum at Tripp Scott.

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McDermott, Schulte Roth Vote To Approve $2.8B Merger

By Kevin Penton

Partners at Schulte Roth & Zabel and McDermott Will & Emery have voted in favor of merging to create the combined firm of McDermott Will & Schulte, the firms announced Thursday.

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10 Years Later: Obergefell Attorneys, In Their Own Words

By Steven Trader

Marking the decade anniversary of the Obergefell opinion, Law360 asked the attorneys who argued the case at the Supreme Court what it was like being at the center of such a monumental case, how a ruling favoring same-sex marriage changed the legal landscape over the past decade, and the remaining legal appetite to overturn it.

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Kirkland Stops Repping Novartis After Regeneron Sought DQ

By Bryan Koenig

A New York federal judge accepted the withdrawal Thursday of the entire Kirkland & Ellis LLP team that recently joined Novartis Pharma's legal team battling antitrust allegations over the eye medication Eylea, just a week after plaintiff Regeneron Pharmaceuticals sought their disqualification over an "unthinkable" conflict of interest by the lawyers, whose firm previously represented Regeneron.

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Justices Say SC Medicaid Patient Can't Sue To Pick Provider

By Dan McKay and Mark Payne

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that a patient can't challenge South Carolina's decision to kick Planned Parenthood from the state Medicaid program because it includes abortions among its services.

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Justices Allow Texas Death Row Inmate's DNA Suit

By Marco Poggio

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday said a Texas death row inmate can sue state officials in federal court to try to obtain post-conviction DNA testing, a decision that could open the door to broader challenges to how Texas provides access to forensic evidence after conviction.

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Trump 2.0's First Group Of Judicial Noms Goes To Full Senate

By Courtney Bubl茅

The first batch of judicial nominations from President Donald Trump's second term were sent to the Senate floor on Thursday, as they were voted out of committee along party lines.

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Justices Say DHS Orders Final In Withholding-Removal Cases

By Britain Eakin

The U.S. Supreme Court held Thursday that the 30-day statutory deadline for challenging deportation orders in withholding of removal cases starts when the U.S. Department of Homeland Security issues a final administrative review order, not when Board of Immigration Appeals proceedings conclude.

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Ex-Trump Atty Chesebro Disbarred In NY For Fake Elector Plot

By Gina Kim

President Donald Trump's former attorney Kenneth Chesebro, the so-called "architect" in the plot to use fake electors to overturn Georgia's 2020 election results, has been disbarred from practicing law in the state of New York, according to a unanimous decision issued on Thursday.

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Fla. Lawyers Suspended For Online Criticism Of Judge

By David Minsky

Florida's high court on Thursday approved a one-month suspension for a father-daughter team of attorneys for their online comments criticizing a judge who reversed a $2.75 million jury verdict in favor of a doctor who sued for discrimination, finding that there were also mitigating factors in the attorneys' cases.

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Judge Known For Financial Education Advocacy To Retire

By Madison Arnold

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Laurel M. Isicoff, who has spent her career promoting financial literacy as a way to avoid financial insolvency, will retire next May after 20 years on the bench in the Southern District of Florida, the Eleventh Circuit confirmed Thursday.

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