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FTC Says Amazon Seeks 'Impossible' Standard For Sanctions
By Bryan Koenig
The Federal Trade Commission pressed a Washington federal judge Tuesday to sanction Amazon.com for using autodeleting Signal chats and deleting raw meeting notes to hide evidence of company policies that created an artificial pricing floor across online retail stores, arguing Amazon is fighting the motion by inventing an "impossible-to-meet standard" for imposing sanctions.
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Nippon Permanently Ducks Consumers' US Steel Merger Suit
By Bryan Koenig
A California federal judge has given Nippon Steel a permanent reprieve from consumers challenging its now-completed purchase of U.S. Steel Corp., concluding the lawsuit still hasn't made the connection from the merger's potential impacts on steel to the prices consumers spend buying steel-containing products and riding in steel-containing vehicles.
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LITIGATION
Judge Preserves CBD Co.'s Contract Breach Spat
By Jonathan Capriel
A hemp and CBD company run by North Carolina State Rep. John Bell won't get a default win on its $1.6 million counterclaim against Texas-based ex-business partners who accused it of stealing trade secrets and using political connections to threaten their executives with jail time, a North Carolina federal judge has ruled.
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LEGAL INDUSTRY
Anatomy Of A Citation Hallucination: AI Edit, Associate Review
By Rachel Riley
Counsel for consumers in a supplement labeling lawsuit against Amazon responded Wednesday to a Seattle federal judge's order to explain an AI-hallucinated citation, saying the error was introduced by a generative artificial intelligence tool used to "harmonize" drafts of a brief, then missed by a fifth-year Boies Schiller associate tasked with checking the citations.
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Judge Quashes Subpoena Of 5 Firms That Repped Twitter
By Rae Ann Varona
A Delaware federal court ruled Thursday that six former Twitter employees cannot subpoena five law firms that represented the social media company in connection with its acquisition by Elon Musk, rejecting the employees' "conclusory allegations" that the company and Musk used the firms to make false promises of severance benefits.
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