States, DC Urge 10th Circ. To OK Colo. Social Media Law

By Mike Curley

A group of 43 states and the District of Columbia are asking the Tenth Circuit to reverse a trial court order blocking enforcement of a new Colorado law requiring warning labels for social media used by minors, saying that even under strict scrutiny, the law is justified to protect minors' mental health.

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Trump-IRS Settlement A 'Corrupt Sham,' Capitol Cops Say

By Jack McLoone

The settlement of President Donald Trump's $10 billion tax leak suit against the Internal Revenue Service — creating a $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization fund" — is a "corrupt sham," a pair of police officers present during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot told a D.C. federal court Wednesday.

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Social Media Not Proven To Harm Mental Health, Judge Told

By Cara Salvatore

A statistics expert for Meta sought Wednesday to undermine the claim that social media has driven a rise in mental health conditions among teens, saying the New Mexico attorney general's key witness on the topic didn't consider alternative factors like widening access to mental health care.

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AGs Seek Crackdown On Customized Food Pricing

By Nadia Dreid

Online food delivery platforms are charging people differently based on the personal data they glean from their smartphones, and the Federal Trade Commission ought to force companies to be upfront about it, say 16 state attorneys general.

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FCC Advances Anti-Robocall Plan To 'Know' Call Providers

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday proposed new rules that would require phone network operators to "know" the other network operators they do business with as a way of stemming the flow of scam and unwanted calls.

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FTC Targets AI 'Nudify' Apps Under Revenge Porn Law

By Allison Grande

The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday sent warning letters to a dozen companies that offer artificial intelligence tools that allow people to "nudify" images, marking some of its first regulatory actions under a revenge porn law that went into force the day prior.

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FCC Clears Nokia Routers After DOD Security Review

By Nadia Dreid

Nokia will still be able to import some of its foreign made routers after receiving the Federal Communications Commission's blessing and conditional approval and exemption from the agency's covered list of equipment the agency has deemed a national security risk.

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Feds Announce First 'Deepfake' Law Arrests In Brooklyn

By Parker Quinlan

Federal prosecutors on Wednesday announced the arrest of two men on charges that they used artificial intelligence software to create pornographic images depicting real people without their consent, in violation of a recently enacted federal law.

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Tiversa Escapes LabMD's Final Defamation Claims

By Matthew Santoni

A defunct cancer screening lab cannot show that a cybersecurity firm CEO had "actual malice" when he made allegedly defamatory statements about a file of private health info being "exposed," "leaked" and "publicly available" nearly 20 years ago, a federal magistrate ruled in dismissing a long-running lawsuit Tuesday.

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Infoblox Faces Server Security Patent Suit In Virginia

By Adam Lidgett

Network security firm Infoblox Inc. has been hit with a lawsuit in Virginia federal court accusing the company of infringing a patent covering a way of better protecting domain name servers against network security threats.

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Hagens Berman Says Apple Smear Job Can't Stop Withdrawal

By Bonnie Eslinger

Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP urged a California federal judge to allow one of its named plaintiffs to withdraw from an Apple iCloud antitrust case, saying Apple Inc.'s filed opposition is rife with "misdirection and ad hominem" attacks and not about the merits of the dispute but "smearing opposing counsel."

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Carmaker Beats Suit Over Christmas Data Breach Claims

By Joyce Hanson

An Illinois couple who sued Stellantis North America over the carmaker's allegedly lax data security practices that caused a cyberattack on Christmas Day 2025 have decided to voluntarily drop their lawsuit, according to a Wednesday notice in Michigan federal court.

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How Anthropic's Mythos May Upend Defense Cyber Rules

Anthropic’s recent announcement that Claude Mythos, an AI general-purpose language model, could soon enable virtually anyone to exploit vulnerabilities in major web browsers and operating systems marks an imminent increase in threat levels that current defense cybersecurity regulations were not designed to navigate, say attorneys at Fluet.

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Tracking Tech Suit Is A Risk Management Reminder For Cos.

The Fifth Circuit recently heard oral argument in Rand v. Eyemart Express — an appeal that could reshape the legal landscape for businesses that deploy tracking tech on their websites — underscoring the importance of proactive risk management for companies across multiple industries, say attorneys at Blank Rome.

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Submitting Ideas To AI Platforms May Affect Patent Rights

Recent judicial developments suggest that disclosing an invention to a consumer artificial intelligence platform constitutes public disclosure, making disciplined use of such tools and early filing strategies essential to preserving patent rights, say attorneys at Day Pitney.

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Law School's Missed Lesson: Diagnose Before Arguing

Law school often skips over explicitly teaching students how to determine what kind of problem a case presents before they commit to a particular doctrinal path, which risks building arguments that are internally coherent but externally misaligned, says Melanie Oxhorn at Kobre & Kim.

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OpenAI Says ChatGPT Misuse Is Users' Responsibility

By Emily Sawicki

OpenAI has asked a federal judge in Chicago to end an insurance company's suit alleging it practices law without a license, arguing the complaint should be directed toward individuals who misuse the company's ChatGPT bot to file faulty motions, and not the generative AI platform itself.

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2nd Circ. Pick Questioned At Hearing On Role As Trump Lawyer

By Courtney Bublé

Matthew Schwartz, a nominee for the Second Circuit, was questioned by Democratic senators Wednesday about whether his current job as the president's personal attorney while his nomination process is underway poses a conflict of interest.

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Bad AI Citation Sanction Slashed Amid 7th Circ. Guidance

By Hailey Konnath

An Indiana federal judge Wednesday rejected a magistrate judge's recommendation that an attorney be sanctioned $7,500 for including faulty, artificial intelligence-generated legal citations in a discovery brief, pointing to recent Seventh Circuit guidance and sanctioning him $2,000 instead.

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2 Fla. County Courts Requiring AI Disclosure In Court Filings

By Sarah Martinson

Two Florida circuit courts in Miami-Dade and Broward counties are requiring attorneys and self-represented litigants to disclose when they use generative text tools to prepare their court filings and to certify they checked the generated content for accuracy.

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Atty Withdrawals Not Limited To Fee Conflicts, ABA Says

By Emily Sawicki

Lawyers whose clients fail to hold up their end of valid engagement agreements are clear to cease their representation, so long as certain criteria are met, according to the American Bar Association's ethics committee's latest guidance, published Wednesday.

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Comey Wants Arraignment Pushed For Dismissal Bid

By Phillip Bantz

Former FBI Director James Comey asked a North Carolina federal court Wednesday to postpone his arraignment on charges alleging he threatened President Donald Trump, telling a judge that he is preparing to seek to have the case thrown out on constitutional grounds.

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Mich. Supreme Court Mulls Remote Court Access Rules

By Susan Smiley

The Michigan Supreme Court held administrative hearings on Wednesday concerning several proposed amendments to Michigan court rules, including adding more specific guidelines for remote hearings, making language services free for civil cases, and allowing law students and recent law graduates to appear on behalf of indigent people in all Michigan courts.

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