Cat Cover Story In Ginsburg Health Hack Gives Judge Pause

By Hayley Fowler

A Fourth Circuit jurist on Wednesday seemed fixated on the feline excuse a former hospital transplant coordinator gave FBI agents when he was questioned in 2019 about accessing U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's healthcare records.

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Nvidia Says YouTubers' AI Scraping Suit Undermines Fair Use

By Gina Kim

Nvidia urged a California federal judge to nix a lawsuit alleging it circumvented measures to scrape data from YouTube videos to train its AI model, arguing Monday the Digital Millennium Copyright Act doesn't prohibit circumvention of measures that prevent copying — which allows the public to make fair use of copyrighted works. 

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FTC Backs Age Verification Use With New Enforcement Stance

By Allison Grande

The Federal Trade Commission said Wednesday that it won't use its enforcement authority under the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act to bring actions against certain websites and services that collect kids' personal information without parental consent for the sole purpose of verifying users' ages. 

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Senate Bill Would Make Gov't Admit It Perused Your Emails

By Nadia Dreid

Courts issue hundreds of thousands of criminal surveillance orders each year, allowing law enforcement to spy on suspects beyond the bounds of what is normally legal, but a bill reintroduced Wednesday in the U.S. Senate aims to shed light on the process by informing someone when the government wanted their digital information.

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T-Mobile Tells Justices FCC's Fines On 'Unsound' Footing

By Christopher Cole

T-Mobile waded Wednesday into a high-stakes U.S. Supreme Court fight between its rivals AT&T and Verizon and the Federal Communications Commission, telling the justices that an FCC theory that companies facing penalties can eventually get a jury trial was "unsound."

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Social Media Contributed To Mental Health Issues, Jury Hears

By Craig Clough

A therapist who treated the plaintiff in a landmark bellwether trial alleging Instagram and YouTube harm children's mental health told a California jury Wednesday that social media use contributed to the plaintiff's struggles, while acknowledging that social media addiction is not a diagnosis formally recognized in her field.

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FCC Yanks Another Chinese Lab From Equipment Program

By Nadia Dreid

The Federal Communications Commission continues to plow forward with its plan to ban Chinese test labs and telecommunications certification bodies from being used on devices destined for the United States by pulling the accreditation of yet another Chinese test lab.

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EBay Settles Bloggers' Stalking Suit Before Trial 

By Julie Manganis

Auction site eBay and several former executives on Wednesday reported settling a lawsuit brought by a Massachusetts couple who say they were subjected to a campaign of stalking and harassment after publishing articles critical of the company's leadership on their blog.

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Weight Loss Clinic Hit With Data Breach Class Claims

By P.J. D'Annunzio

A Philadelphia-area weight loss clinic has been hit with proposed class claims in Pennsylvania state court alleging that the clinic failed to properly safeguard sensitive information that fell into the hands of hackers during a data breach earlier this month.

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Winston & Strawn-Led SPAC Mozayyx Prices Upsized $261M IPO

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Special purpose acquisition company Mozayyx Acquisition Corp. began trading publicly on Wednesday after raising $261 million in its upsized initial public offering.

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NY RAISE Act Raises The Bar For Frontier AI Developers

For organizations developing or substantially modifying highly capable artificial intelligence models, the New York Responsible AI Safety and Education Act represents a meaningful escalation beyond California's S.B. 53, even though it applies to a narrower group of developers, so companies should expect additional obligations, particularly around accelerated incident reporting, say attorneys at Kilpatrick.

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AI Trade Secret Conviction Highlights Espionage Risks

A California federal court's conviction last month of an ex-Google engineer who stole artificial intelligence trade secrets for the benefit of China is the latest in a series of foreign economic espionage cases and illustrates the urgent need for U.S. companies to implement robust security measures, says attorney Peter Toren.

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Tom Goldstein Guilty On Tax Evasion, 11 Other Counts

By Jared Foretek

SCOTUSblog founder and famed U.S. Supreme Court advocate Thomas Goldstein was found guilty of tax evasion, as well as aiding in the filing of false tax returns and lying on loan applications, by a Maryland federal jury Wednesday. 

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Patterson Belknap Adds Ex-SDNY Prosecutor Maurene Comey

By Alison Knezevich

Former Manhattan federal prosecutor Maurene Comey, who handled some of the nation's highest-profile cases before she was fired by the Trump administration, has joined Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP, the firm announced Wednesday.

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Democrats Cast Doubt On New DOJ Fraud Role

By Courtney Bublé

During the confirmation hearing on Wednesday for President Donald Trump's nominee for the new assistant attorney general for fraud role, Democrats expressed anxiety about the White House's involvement in the fraud crackdown and how genuine the effort is.

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Dems Demand Explanation For DOJ Antitrust Chief's Exit

By Lauren Berg

Two Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee demanded Wednesday that U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi explain to lawmakers why the U.S. Department of Justice's antitrust chief was forced to resign, expressing concern about the administration's potential interference with merger reviews and antitrust litigation.

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Florida Co. Blames Holland & Hart For $21M Judgment

By Zach Dupont

A Florida-based company claimed in Colorado federal court Wednesday that a Holland & Hart LLP attorney was negligent in representing it in a lawsuit from the city of Fort Collins that eventually ended in a more than $21 million judgment against the company.

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'Do Not Lie To Me': Calif. Judge Panel Agrees Credibility Is Key

By Bonnie Eslinger

California federal judges speaking at a Federal Bar Association panel in San Francisco have urged attorneys to protect their credibility in the courtroom, with one judge bluntly telling lawyers "do not lie to me" and another revealing it's "shocking" how frequently judges share notes about lawyers.

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Justices Set New Limits On Recess Testimony Talks

By Cara Salvatore

A unanimous Supreme Court set limits Wednesday on the right to counsel during overnight breaks in a defendant's testimony under the Sixth Amendment, ruling that prohibiting talk about "testimony for its own sake" strikes an appropriate constitutional balance.

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Netflix Swaps Out Latham For Munger Tolles In Antitrust Suit

By Bonnie Eslinger

Latham & Watkins LLP withdrew Wednesday as defense counsel for Netflix in a proposed consumer class action in Illinois federal court claiming Meta cut an illegal deal ceding the video streaming market to Netflix, which is now represented by Munger Tolles & Olson LLP.

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Foley & Lardner Wants 'Scattershot' Malpractice Suit Tossed

By Rose Krebs

Foley & Lardner LLP is urging the Delaware Superior Court to toss a malpractice suit accusing the firm of negligence in representing an officer of a now-defunct food recycling company in a Chancery Court case that led to a $1.6 million judgment, saying it "suffers from basic pleading defects."

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