Analysis

IP Notebook: Cox's Reach, 'Top Gun' Appeal, 'Lazy' Videos

By Ivan Moreno

This round of Law360's review of emerging copyright and trademark issues looks at the ripple effects from the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on secondary copyright liability and highlights looming high court bids over "Top Gun" and Roberto Clemente's likeness on commemorative license plates.

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Cop Urges Justices To Strike Down Burden-Shifting Precedent

By Grace Elletson

A Black police officer asked the U.S. Supreme Court to take up his case alleging he was fired out of race bias, claiming the Sixth Circuit was too quick to accept the argument that rap videos he posted online were the reason for his termination.

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Trump Loses Bid To DQ Judge In BBC Defamation Suit

By Carolina Bolado

A Florida federal magistrate judge on Wednesday denied President Donald Trump's request that she recuse herself from overseeing discovery in his $10 billion defamation suit against the BBC, ruling he waived his right to ask for recusal by waiting over five months to do so.

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Judge Tells DOJ Not To 'Play Possum' On Trump Fund

By Jared Foretek

A D.C. federal judge on Wednesday declined to block the Trump administration's proposed $1.8 billion "lawfare" fund, crediting statements from Attorney General Todd Blanche and other U.S. Department of Justice lawyers last week that the fund was dead.

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Rozier's Betting Case Set For 2027 Amid $26M NBA Fight

By Stewart Bishop

A New York federal judge Wednesday set a February trial date for former Miami Heat player Terry Rozier over newly enhanced allegations accusing him and others of tipping gamblers with lucrative prop bet information, amid a $26 million fight with the NBA that hinges on his bail conditions.

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Influencer Says Underwear Co. Posted Lewd Deepfake

By Elliot Weld

A lifestyle content creator has sued body-inclusivity-oriented underwear company EBY Inc., claiming that while she had agreed to be a brand ambassador, the company used artificial intelligence to create a "deepfake" version of her and then used it to post a video where she appeared partially nude.

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Variety Makes Offer It Says Panel Can't Refuse In Coppola Suit

By Craig Clough

An attorney for entertainment trade publication Variety urged a California appellate panel Wednesday to end Francis Ford Coppola's libel suit over a story suggesting he sexually harassed actresses on the set of his "Megalopolis" movie, saying a trial judge erred when he declined to toss the suit on First Amendment grounds.

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NCAA Athletes Fight To Limit Review Of Third-Party NIL Deals

By Dorothy Atkins

College athletes urged a California federal magistrate judge Wednesday to find their deals with multimedia rights companies and third-party brand sponsors aren't subject to oversight by the College Sports Commission, a new entity created following the NCAA's landmark $2.78 billion name, image and likeness settlement.

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Meta, YouTube Lose Bid To Void $6M Addiction Verdict

By Lauren Berg

Meta Platforms Inc. and Google cannot overturn a landmark verdict finding them liable for harming the mental health of a young woman who says she became addicted to their social media platforms as a child, a Los Angeles judge has ruled.

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Accenture Pushes For Arbitration In WhatsApp Privacy Suit

By Caroline Simson

Irish technology consulting company Accenture PLC on Tuesday pressed a California federal judge to nix proposed class claims brought by WhatsApp users alleging privacy violations or send the matter to arbitration, as the users said that they will fight to at least keep certain state law claims in court.

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Brief

Disney Imagineering, Staffing Firm Settle IT Worker's OT Suit

By MJ Koo

A former IT project manager, Walt Disney's theme park design arm and a staffing firm have agreed to resolve the worker's lawsuit alleging the companies failed to pay him overtime wages, according to a mediation report filed in Florida federal court.

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Zillow-Redfin Noncompete Deal Sank Stock, Investor Claims

By Isaac Monterose

A proposed class of Zillow Group Inc. shareholders accused the property listings company of making an anticompetitive noncompete agreement with rival Redfin Corp., which caused the federal government to file an antitrust suit and Zillow's common stock value to drop.

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FCC Grants ISP Biz Waiver On Router Hardware For 1 Year

By Nadia Dreid

The Federal Communications Commission has come through and granted NCTA — The Internet & Television Association members a waiver allowing them to make changes to foreign-made routers after granting similar permission to telecom titan AT&T.

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Use 'Great Care' In Covered List Changes, Rural ISPs Tell FCC

By Christopher Cole

Rural internet service providers want the Federal Communications Commission to make sure only companies posing known risks are barred from interconnecting high-speed networks as the FCC looks to expand a national security program.

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FCC Says Chinese Lab Falsified Reports Via Copy-Paste Ploy

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission has started the process of pulling U.S. certification from an equipment testing lab based in China that the agency claims submitted false test reports for devices by copying other reports.

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Unpacking The Take It Down Act's Compliance Ambiguities

The Federal Trade Commission’s recent guidance concerning the Take It Down Act suggests that covered platforms should build removal systems immediately and prioritize compliance, but until courts or regulators provide additional clarity, companies will be navigating a statutory framework that is urgent and uncertain, says Laura-Kate Bernstein at ZwillGen.

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Vax Ruling Offers Employer Tips For Handling Political Speech

A California appeals court's recent decision in Rademacher v. ABC, rejecting a "General Hospital" actor's suit alleging he was terminated for opposing a vaccine policy, demonstrates the importance of the employer's process, including neutral policies, documentation, and evidence of who knew what and when, say attorneys at Krevolin Horst.

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Susman Godfrey Beats, Seward & Kissel Matches Milbank Pay

By Tracey Read

At least four more firms have joined the associate pay raise bandwagon, with Seward & Kissel LLP matching the salary scale recently set by Milbank LLP, and Susman Godfrey LLP exceeding it.

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Judicial Noms Say Biden Won, But Critics Fault Their Caveats

By Courtney Bublé

Three district court nominees on Wednesday said President Joe Biden won the 2020 election, a departure from other judicial nominees in the second Trump administration, but court watchers on the left took issue with how they couched those statements.

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Camp Mystic Fights Sanctions Over 'Burn In Hell' Atty Remark

By Lynn LaRowe

Camp Mystic and parents of a girl killed in flooding there last summer faced off Wednesday over whether the camp should be sanctioned because its attorney said a plaintiff's lawyer would "burn in hell" and for other alleged misconduct in litigation over flooding deaths at the Texas camp.

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Ga. Federal Judge Faces 2nd Set Of Impeachment Articles

By Kelcey Caulder

A Georgia congressman has filed articles of impeachment against a federal judge who was reprimanded for having sex with a police officer in her Atlanta chambers within earshot of staff, the second lawmaker this week to do so. 

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Unions Rally As 5 Shops Approach Contract Deadline

By Andrea Keckley

Legal service providers across New York City gathered in City Hall Park on Wednesday afternoon as five unions represented by the Association of Legal Advocates and Attorneys approach their deadlines for a new contract at the end of the month.

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'Anti-ICE Vigilantes': DOJ Says Law Clerks Aided Noncitzens

By Lauren Berg

Two state court clerks in Utah are facing criminal charges after federal prosecutors say they acted as "self-appointed anti-ICE vigilantes" by helping noncitizens leave the courthouse by a back door to evade arrest by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to the newly unsealed case.

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Morgan & Morgan Atty Again Blocked From Harvard Suit

By Carolyn Muyskens

A Massachusetts judge rebuffed a Morgan & Morgan PA attorney's second attempt to appear in a lawsuit over the theft of body parts from a Harvard Medical School morgue, saying he would not reconsider his earlier decision to bar the attorney over an incident in a separate court involving fake AI-generated case citations.

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