In separate amicus briefs to the D.C. Circuit, the ACLU, tech industry groups, former government officials and moral theologians variously panned the Trump administration's designation of Anthropic PBC as a supply chain risk to national security as unjustified, unlawful and counterproductive.
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Amici Chide Trump Admin For Calling Anthropic A Security Risk

By Tom Lotshaw

In separate amicus briefs to the D.C. Circuit, the ACLU, tech industry groups, former government officials and moral theologians variously panned the Trump administration's designation of Anthropic PBC as a supply chain risk to national security as unjustified, unlawful and counterproductive.

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OpenAI, Musk Can't Argue Over Wealth In $38M Fraud Trial

By Dorothy Atkins

A California federal judge laid out the ground rules for an upcoming April jury trial on Elon Musk's claims OpenAI duped him into donating $38 million, barring evidence regarding the "wealth or lack thereof of any party," unless the dispute reaches the punitive damages stage, which the judge called "unlikely."

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JCPenney AI Tool Faces Ill. Privacy Lawsuit Over Facial Data

By Joyce Hanson

Retail brand JCPenney uses an artificial intelligence skin-care analysis tool for website visitors without ever telling them that the technology scanning their faces to provide personalized cosmetics advice illegally captures and stores their biometric information, according to a new lawsuit in Illinois state court.

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Indiana Firm Drops Quintairos Prieto 'Mass Exodus' Suit

By Adrian Cruz

Less than a month after suing Quintairos Prieto Wood & Boyer PA for allegedly causing a "mass exodus" of attorneys, Indiana-based Kopka Pinkus Dolin PC has chosen to dismiss the matter, according to a recent court filing.

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Michigan Targets AI Chatbots In Child Safety Bills

By Jonathan Capriel

Michigan lawmakers are considering a package of child safety bills that would impose new regulations on social media and artificial intelligence companies, including a prohibition on certain features in "companion chatbots" for minors.

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Analysis

Prediction Markets Have Opened Compliance 'Pandora's Box'

By Phillip Bantz

The burgeoning prediction market has exploded the definition of what qualifies as confidential corporate information that employees could misuse for personal gain, leaving companies scrambling to update internal policies and guidelines, compliance experts say.

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POLICY & REGULATION

China Surveillance Makes Radio Conference Harder, Senate Told

By Christopher Cole

China's ability to monitor foreign visitors from the moment they step onto its soil will make it harder for U.S. officials to navigate next year's critical treaty-making conference on radio spectrum rules in Shanghai, experts told the U.S. Senate Tuesday.

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NJ Justices Probe Daniel's Law Notification Requirement

By George Woolston

The New Jersey Supreme Court on Tuesday questioned whether a notice requirement in the state's judicial privacy law is enough to ensure that any person or entity that can be held liable under the law acted with negligence.

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Brief

USPTO Won't Ax Centripetal IPR, But Sends It To New Panel

By Theresa Schliep

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office director declined Centripetal Networks' request to quash a challenge to its cybersecurity patent that was at issue in a since-nullified multibillion-dollar judgment against Cisco Systems, saying Tuesday that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board has not yet addressed the patent's validity.

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ENFORCEMENT

9th Circ. Pauses Ban On Perplexity Bot's Amazon Shopping

By Elliot Weld

The Ninth Circuit has paused an order from a lower court that banned the Perplexity AI Inc.-made bot Comet from shopping on Amazon while an appeal of the order plays out.

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LITIGATION

Fla. Judge Orders Consumers To Arbitrate Binance Claims

By Carolina Bolado

A Florida federal judge sent two proposed class suits against Binance to arbitration Monday after finding that the arbitration provision of Binance's terms of use applied to the investors' claims that the exchange laundered stolen cryptocurrency.

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Book Distributor Baker & Taylor Hits Ch. 11 To Wind Down

By Clara Geoghegan

Baker & Taylor, a 198-year-old book distributor, sought bankruptcy protection in New Jersey with at least $100 million in liabilities after the COVID-19 pandemic, litigation and a loan default forced it to shut down operations last year.

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PEOPLE

Goodwin Launches OC Office With 3 Ex-Jones Day Partners

By Gina Kim

Goodwin Procter LLP has launched its first Orange County office with a trio of powerhouse cybersecurity and privacy attorneys from Jones Day, marking yet another expansion of its West Coast footprint, with existing offices in Los Angeles, Santa Monica and the Bay Area, the firm announced Tuesday.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Industry Leaders Grapple With BigLaw Recruiting 'Chaos'

By Aebra Coe

Many large law firms hit elite law school campuses last September to begin recruiting first-year students for their 2027 summer associate job openings, in what panelists at a New York City Bar Association event Tuesday described as a dysfunctional system unhelpful to both law students and law firms.

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Latham Hires Desmarais IP Partner In DC

By Jack Rodgers

Latham & Wakins LLP has hired a Desmarais LLP partner in D.C., who helped represent GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals in an ongoing infringement suit against Moderna Inc., the firm announced Tuesday.

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Health Litigator Rejoins Holland & Knight From In-House Role

By Madison Arnold

A former Holland & Knight LLP attorney has returned to the firm in Jacksonville, Florida, after a 10-year stint in-house at Florida Blue, a subsidiary of GuideWell Mutual Holding Corp.

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Calif. Bills Would Reform Litigation Funding, Client Recruiting

By Emily Sawicki

Two new bills introduced to the California Assembly this week seek to impose reforms on the state's legal industry, including adding mandatory disbarment for attorneys convicted of felony "capping" — or illegally paying for client recruitment — and blocking corporate litigation funders from influencing cases.

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Brief

Prior Counsel In Settled EBay Harassment Case Eyes Payment

By Julie Manganis

An attorney who previously represented a Massachusetts couple in a harassment lawsuit against eBay and three former executives has asked a federal judge to hold off on entering a dismissal in the now-settled case until she receives assurances she will be paid.

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Advisors LLC

Anderson & Kreiger

ArentFox Schiff

Ballard Spahr

Bird Marella

Blank Rome

Boies Schiller

Bryan Cave

Buchanan Ingersoll

Carlton Fields

Carmagnola & Ritardi

Cleary Gottlieb

CohenMalad

Constangy Brooks

Cooley LLP

Corr Cronin

Crowell & Moring

Dechert LLP

Dentons

Desmarais LLP

Diller Law

Downtown LA Law Group

FBT Gibbons

Farella Braun

Finkelstein & Partners

Finkelstein Blankinship

FisherBroyles

Freeman Mathis

Goodwin Procter

Gordon Rees

Greenberg Traurig

Greenspoon Marder

HSF Kramer

Hanson Bridgett

Haynes Boone

Herman Jones LLP

Holland & Knight

Hueston Hennigan

Jones Day

Kaufman Dolowich

Keller Rohrback

Kopka Pinkus

Krizner Group

Lewis Brisbois

Lowell & Associates

Lowenstein Sandler

Manatt Phelps

Martin G. Weinberg PC

McNaul Ebel

MoloLamken

Morrison & Foerster

Munger Tolles

O'Toole Scrivo

Offit Kurman

Parasmo Lieberman

Pierson Ferdinand LLP

Quinn Emanuel

Quintairos Prieto

RKW LLC

Raj Ferber

Reed Smith

Riker Danzig

Rimon PC

Robbins Geller

Ropes & Gray

Scalli Murphy Law

Seyfarth Shaw

Sidley Austin

Silver Miller

Stinson LLP

The Norton Law Firm

Thompson Hine

Toberoff & Associates

Troutman

Wachtell Lipton

WilmerHale

Wilson Sonsini

Winston & Strawn

Withersworldwide

Wood Smith

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Amazon.com Inc.

American Bar Association

American Civil Liberties Union

Anthropic PBC

BARBRI

Barron's

Binance Holdings Ltd.

Binance.US

Boyer Co.

Castle Harlan Inc.

Center for Democracy & Technology

Cisco Systems Inc.

Coinbase Global Inc.

Computer & Communications Industry Association

Consumer Attorneys of California

Experian PLC

Federal Bar Association

Florida Blue

Follett Corp.

Fordham University

George Washington University

Google LLC

GuideWell Mutual Holding Corp.

HDR Inc.

Human Genome Sciences, Inc.

Information Technology Industry Council

Instagram Inc.

J.C. Penney Co. Inc.

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Keysight Technologies Inc.

LinkedIn Corp.

Los Angeles Times

Make-A-Wish Foundation of America

Meta Platforms Inc.

Microsoft Corp.

Moderna Inc.

New York City Bar Association

New York University

OpenAI OpCo LLC

Palo Alto Networks Inc.

Pfizer Inc.

State Bar of California

The Software & Information Industry Association

Thomson Reuters Corp.

UCLA School of Law

YouTube Inc.

eBay Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

California Privacy Protection Agency

Colorado Supreme Court

Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Cook County Circuit Court

Federal Trade Commission

International Telecommunication Union

New Jersey Supreme Court

New York Department of Financial Services

Patent Trial and Appeal Board

U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey

U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

U.S. Department of Defense

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Senate

United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio