No Jury Yet In Goldstein Trial, But Celeb Witnesses Possible

By Jared Foretek

Day two of jury selection in Tom Goldstein's tax and mortgage fraud case wrapped without a jury being seated Tuesday, but did reveal that the government could call celebrities Tobey Maguire and Kevin Hart to the stand.

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Jordan Card Forgery Case Just A Grading Dispute, Jury Told

By Pete Brush

A Washington man accused of a $2 million sports and trading card scam told a Manhattan federal jury Tuesday that he was charged in a "misguided" prosecution after a dispute with the major player in the card-grading world over a Michael Jordan rookie card.

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Meta Fights Authors', Entrepreneur Mag's Copyright Claims

By Ivan Moreno

Meta Platforms has filed responses in two California cases where it is accused of unlawfully using copyrighted material to train its artificial intelligence models, asking a court to reject an attempt from authors to update their pleadings and urging the same court to dismiss most of a separate complaint from Entrepreneur magazine.

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Google Moves To Toss Penske Media's AI Overview Suit

By Rae Ann Varona

Google has urged a D.C. federal court to dismiss Penske Media Corp.'s antitrust lawsuit accusing it of unlawfully coercing publishers into providing content for artificial intelligence-generated answers at the top of Google search result pages, painting its conduct as a lawful "refusal to deal" on PMC's preferred terms.

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OpenAI Chatbot Coached Man To Suicide, Calif. Suit Claims

By Craig Clough

A Colorado man who confided in ChatGPT about his mental health struggles died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound after the chatbot turned into a "frighteningly effective suicide coach" and even composed a "suicide lullaby" for him shortly before his death, according to a lawsuit filed in California state court Monday.

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Senate Backs Bill Giving Deepfake Porn Victims Right To Sue

By Hailey Konnath

The U.S. Senate on Tuesday unanimously passed bipartisan legislation that would allow individuals depicted in nonconsensual, artificial intelligence-generated, sexually explicit content to sue and recover damages, backing the bill once again after it stalled in the House in 2024.

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Comcast Decries Circuit Split After $177M IP Case Is Revived

By Dani Kass

The Federal Circuit split from several other circuits when reviving WhereverTV Inc.'s $177 million infringement suit against Comcast based on waived arguments, the telecommunications giant has warned the U.S. Supreme Court.

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CoStar, Quinn Emanuel Spar Over Litigation Representation

By Lauren Berg

CoStar urged a California federal judge Tuesday to disqualify Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP from helping a rival commercial real estate platform pursue antitrust counterclaims in CoStar's copyright infringement suit, while the law firm moved to drop its representation of CoStar in separate litigation.

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Wash. Officials Challenge 9th Circ.'s X Corp. Standing Ruling

By Ben Adlin

A group of current and former Washington state officials urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to review a man's proposed class action accusing X Corp., formerly known as Twitter, of violating a state telephone privacy law, telling justices that allowing the Ninth Circuit's ruling in the case to stand would erode state sovereignty and potentially lead to a circuit split.

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Google's $30M Kids' Data Deal OK'd As Class Attys Get $9M

By Dorothy Atkins

The California federal judge overseeing a long-running class action accusing Google and YouTube of illegally collecting children's data for targeted advertising granted final approval Tuesday to the tech giant's $30 million settlement, including $9 million in fees for class counsel, despite her concerns that millions of apparently fraudulent settlement claims have been submitted.

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Meta Shakes App Users' Location Data Privacy Suit, For Now

By Allison Grande

A California federal judge has shut down a proposed class action accusing Meta Platforms Inc. of illegally collecting location data from users of third-party apps that installed the company's tracking software, finding that the plaintiffs hadn't plausibly alleged that Meta knew it didn't have permission to access this data.

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Google Gets 6 Ad Tech Rivals' Complaints Consolidated To 2

By Bryan Koenig

The six antitrust lawsuits from Google's advertising placement technology rivals will soon be consolidated into two, under a New York federal judge's ruling Tuesday combining the four suits originally filed in Virginia and pairing up the two filed in New York.

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The Atlantic Sues Google In Latest Ad Tech Antitrust Suit

By Rae Ann Varona

The Atlantic became the latest publisher Tuesday to launch an ad tech antitrust suit against Google LLC, accusing the search engine giant in New York federal court of cutting the publisher and ad-tech companies out of billions of dollars in revenue by monopolizing the publisher ad server and ad exchange markets.

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Ex-CIA Analyst Says FARA Case Is Flawed, Unconstitutional

By Stewart Bishop

A former CIA analyst, White House official and foreign policy expert on Tuesday urged a Manhattan federal judge to throw out the criminal case accusing her of secretly acting as an agent of South Korea while in the United States, calling the charges defective and unconstitutional.

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Astronomers Seek Upper C-Band Coordination With Wireless

By Christopher Cole

As the U.S. government moves toward an auction of upper C-band airwaves to wireless carriers, the nation's radio astronomers said the carriers should be required to coordinate with observatories to keep mobile services from disrupting their observations in space.

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5 E-Discovery Predictions For 2026 And Beyond

2026 will likely be shaped by issues ranging from artificial intelligence regulatory turbulence to potential evidence rule changes, and e-discovery professionals will need to understand how to effectively guide the responsible and defensible adoption of emerging tools, while also ensuring effective safeguards, say attorneys at Littler.

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Ex-Duane Morris Tax Partner Charged With Murdering Wife

By Hailey Konnath

A former tax partner at Duane Morris LLP's Chicago office has been charged with killing his wife a little more than a year ago, according to an announcement made Tuesday by Illinois prosecutors.

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Beasley Allen Talc Work Sends 'Bad Signal,' J&J Says

By George Woolston

Johnson & Johnson's talc unit told a New Jersey appeals panel on Tuesday that a lower court's ruling permitting Beasley Allen Law Firm attorneys to represent plaintiffs in multicounty litigation over its talc-based baby powder "sends a very bad signal" to the state bar.

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Ex-Atty, Others Charged In Staged New Orleans Crash Scheme

By Hope Patti

A disbarred attorney was hit with new charges claiming that he induced a witness to commit perjury and obstructed justice in the federal investigation of an insurance scam involving staged car crashes in the New Orleans area.

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Halligan Blasts Court's 'Inquisition' Over US Atty Status

By Ryan Boysen

Lindsey Halligan said Tuesday that she is still the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia despite a recent ruling to the contrary, dismissing a federal judge's questions about why she's still using the title as an "inquisition" and a "gross abuse of power."

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Approach The Bench: Judge Bough On Ethics

Years of experience as a plaintiff's attorney influenced U.S. District Judge Stephen Bough's disclosure rules for litigators appearing in his court.

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DLA Piper Can't Counsel Hudson Hotel In Ch. 11, Judge Says

By Alex Wittenberg

A Delaware bankruptcy judge Tuesday rejected a bid by two bankrupt entities tied to the former Hudson Hotel to retain DLA Piper LLP as special counsel in their Chapter 11 case, saying the law firm's work for the entities' lender presented a conflict of interest.

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Sen. Whitehouse Presses AG On Boasberg Complaint Results

By Courtney Bublé

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., ranking member of the courts panel on the Senate Judiciary Committee, is calling for Attorney General Pam Bondi to release the results of the disciplinary complaint she filed against Chief U.S. District Judge James Boasberg of the District of Columbia when the investigation wraps up.

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Jack Smith To Testify Publicly Next Week

By Courtney Bublé

Former special counsel Jack Smith is slated to testify publicly before the House Judiciary Committee on Jan. 22 after, according to his attorney, having been "ready and willing" to do so for a while.

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4th Circ. Combines DOJ Appeals Of Comey, James Dismissals

By Jack Karp

The Fourth Circuit has granted the Trump administration's request to combine its previously separate appeals of the dismissals of prosecutions against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James.

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