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• April 21, 2026

  Capital One Clients Seek Cert. Over Info Sent To Meta, Google

  Counsel for Capital One customers urged a California federal judge Tuesday to certify a class over claims their personal financial information was illegally disclosed to Meta Platforms Inc., Google LLC and others, saying the customers' claims share a common question — whether the financial giant obtained consent based on its privacy disclosures.

• April 21, 2026

  Armistice Capital Head Calls COVID Stock Rise 'Fun,' 'Lucky'

  Armistice Capital's founder defended his hedge fund Tuesday from claims it pump-and-dumped $250 million in Vaxart stock during the COVID-19 pandemic, telling a California federal jury that he and his fund got "lucky" and that the stock's rapid surge was "fun."

• April 21, 2026

  Anthropic Pushes Fair Use Defense In Music Cos.' IP Fight

  Anthropic PBC has asked a California federal judge to find that its use of copyrighted materials to train its tool Claude is "transformative" fair use under copyright law, comparing Claude's learning to how humans learn from reading and internalizing the themes of various works.

• April 21, 2026

  Deposition Sinks Social Media Bellwether Case, Judge Told

  Social media companies urged a California federal judge at a hearing Tuesday to toss a bellwether case in sprawling litigation accusing the companies of harming children's mental health, arguing that the plaintiff admitted during his deposition that he was not harmed by the platform's features, sinking his claims.

• April 21, 2026

  Mariah Carey's Atty Fee Bid For IP Win 'Absurd,' Judge Told

  Singer Mariah Carey's bid for $600,000 in attorney fees after her Davis Wright Tremaine LLP attorneys defeated a copyright infringement ahead of trial is "absurd," the plaintiff's counsel told a California federal judge Tuesday, arguing that the amount is excessive for a successful summary judgment motion.

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