Trump Cites US AI Lead In Shelving Cybersecurity Directive

By Allison Grande

President Donald Trump on Thursday abruptly delayed the planned signing of an executive order to tackle cybersecurity concerns surrounding emerging artificial intelligence models, saying he was worried the proposal to encourage developers to voluntarily share their systems with the government for pre-release testing would impede innovation. 

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Meta Defeats App Users' Location Data Privacy Suit For Good

By Lauren Berg

A California federal judge Thursday shut down for good a proposed class action accusing Meta Platforms of illegally collecting location data from users of third-party apps that installed the company's tracking software, again finding the complaint doesn't plausibly allege that Meta knew it didn't have permission to access this data.

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Meta Expert Says $27M Is Better Number For Abatement

By Cara Salvatore

An economics expert for Meta testified Thursday against New Mexico's desired $3.7 billion plan to abate social media's harm to mental health, calling it more "a spending plan" than one for abatement and claiming $27 million will do the job.

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Meta, Others Settle Bellwether School Case Set For June Trial

By Dorothy Atkins

Meta Platforms Inc., Snap Inc., TikTok Inc. and YouTube have each agreed to settle a bellwether school district's claims in social media addiction multidistrict litigation that were set for a six-week California federal jury trial beginning June 12, according to the Kentucky school district's counsel.

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NY Cautions Banks About Cyber Risks From Advanced AI

By Sarah Jarvis

New York's financial services regulator issued new guidance Thursday on the risks associated with cutting-edge artificial intelligence, urging firms to make sure their cybersecurity programs can promptly flag weaknesses that so-called frontier AI models can exploit, among other things.

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Analysis

BigLaw Deals Scandal Puts Boston Back On White Collar Map

By Chris Villani

A sweeping insider trading case involving information stolen from BigLaw firms shows a return to bread-and-butter white collar enforcement for Boston federal prosecutors and provides a morale lift in an office that has seen shifting priorities and staff turnover since the signature "Varsity Blues" takedown in 2019, veteran prosecutors told Law360.

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Texas AG Accuses Meta Of Lying About WhatsApp Encryption

By Bonnie Eslinger

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued Meta and the social media giant's messaging platform WhatsApp in Texas state court on Thursday, claiming the companies lied in promising that WhatsApp messages are private and "not even WhatsApp can see them."

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Feds Accuse Contractors Of DOD Bribery Scheme In Hawaii

By Ganesh Setty

The U.S. Department of Justice has accused two Florida residents of conspiring to bribe a U.S. Army employee and defraud the federal government in connection with the development of a U.S. Department of Defense innovation lab in Hawaii.

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Texas Panel Weighs If AG Can Sue Allstate Data Unit In State

By José Luis Martínez

A Texas appellate court considered Thursday whether an Allstate-owned analytics company accused of illegally collecting mobility data from people's phones through third-party apps can be sued in Texas, pressing counsel on the company's ties to Texas users' data.

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Series

NY Times Word Puzzles Make Me A Better Lawyer

Every morning I let The New York Times humble me with word games, which offer a chance to recalibrate my brain before the day's chaos arrives and remind me that a solution — whether to a puzzle or employment law issue — almost always exists once I find the right angle, says Amy Epstein Gluck at Pierson Ferdinand.

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Goldstein Taps Ex-SG Prelogar Before Sentence, Likely Appeal

By Jeff Overley

One of the nation's most accomplished oral advocates, Tom Goldstein, revealed Thursday he has retained another of the nation's most accomplished oral advocates, Elizabeth Prelogar, ahead of his sentencing and likely appeal in a criminal tax case that has captivated the appellate bar.

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Immigration Judges' 'Anxiety' Dialed Up Amid Mass Exodus

By Emma Cueto

Current and former immigration judges spoke on a web panel Thursday about threats to the independence of immigration judges and the strains on the immigration system, such as a massive backlog of cases at a time when many judges have been pushed out or fired.

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Analysis

How Exxon Attys Beat A 10-Year-Old Securities Class Action

By Spencer Brewer

This month, Exxon Mobil's defense team helped deliver a clean sweep victory for the energy giant when a federal jury in Texas found the company did not lie to investors about the profitability of some operations.

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PBM Swaps Cravath For WilmerHale In Price-Fixing Suit

By Bonnie Eslinger

Pharmacy benefit manager Prime Therapeutics LLC has replaced counsel Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP with WilmerHale and another firm in an antitrust case in Michigan federal court brought by the state's attorney general.

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Bush-Appointed Missouri Judge To Take Senior Status

By Courtney Bublé

U.S. District Judge David Gregory Kays of the Western District of Missouri will take semi-retired status in May 2027, according to an update from the federal judiciary on Thursday.

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Feature

5 Podcasts To Keep IP Attys Entertained And Informed

By Theresa Schliep

Whether intellectual property attorneys are hitting the road for a family trip or kicking their feet up at home, podcasts about legal news can offer an easy way for them to stay in the know while (hopefully) not working this Memorial Day weekend.

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