President Donald Trump asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider its decision to let stand a jury's $5 million verdict finding he sexually abused writer E. Jean Carroll in a department store dressing room.
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Trump Seeks High Court Rehearing In Carroll Case

By Cara Salvatore

President Donald Trump asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider its decision to let stand a jury's $5 million verdict finding he sexually abused writer E. Jean Carroll in a department store dressing room.

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'Terrifier' Filmmaker Can't Slash Actor's Royalties Claims

By Elliot Weld

The makers of the 2016 independent horror film "Terrifier" were able to shake an actress' claim that nude images of her were illegally circulated but couldn't persuade a judge to throw out her claims for breach of contract and acting in bad faith.

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Meta Pans States' Bid For $1.4T In Social Media Addiction MDL

By Emily Field

Meta said Monday that California and three other states are seeking more than a trillion dollars in penalties in their upcoming August trial in the multidistrict social-media-addiction litigation, based on sweeping, "unmoored" calculations.

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Women's Law Group Asks FCC To Ditch Plan For 'The View'

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

The National Women's Law Center has asked the Federal Communications Commission to drop potential plans to withdraw its "bona fide news" exemption for ABC's "The View" over concerns it would amount to censorship.

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Jermaine Dupri Alleges Sony Withheld Over $18M In Royalties

By Kelcey Caulder

American record producer and rapper Jermaine Dupri and his Georgia-based record label sued Sony Music Entertainment in New York federal court on Monday, alleging it breached its contract by underreporting and withholding $18 million in producer royalties.

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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

Fed. Circ. Side-Eyes No Sanctions For 'Very Bad' Game Patent

By Theresa Schliep

A Federal Circuit panel seemed ready Tuesday to revive a company's bid for sanctions after it defeated Epic Tech LLC's patent case, with one judge calling the patent "very bad" and saying "if I were the district court judge in this case, I 100% would have granted the attorney's fees."

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PRIVACY & CONSUMER PROTECTION

Ex-U Of Mich. Coach Loses Bid To Trim Hacking Indictment

By Melanie Dorsey

A former University of Michigan assistant football coach accused of hacking into thousands of college athletes' accounts and stealing personal information and intimate photos lost his bid to dismiss several charges when a Michigan federal judge Monday ruled prosecutors may proceed with the indictment.

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Veradigm Can't Shake Suit Over Patient Portal Data Tracking

By Allison Grande

An Illinois federal judge has refused to toss a putative class action accusing health information technology services provider Veradigm LLC of illegally divulging patient portal visitors' protected health information to Google, finding that the plaintiffs had plausibly alleged that the company's conduct violated federal and state wiretap laws.

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FTC Must Deny Musk 'Pardon' For X's Violations, Chopra Says

By Hailey Konnath

Rohit Chopra, a former member of the Federal Trade Commission and current head of a new California agency, has urged the FTC to reject X Corp.'s attempt to be released from an enforcement order stemming from data privacy violations, arguing that such a "pardon" would expose its users to further fraud and abuse.

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Data Co. Not Covered In Meta Glasses Privacy Suit, Court Told

By Hope Patti

A data annotation company accused of using private recordings collected by Meta's smart glasses to train artificial intelligence models is not entitled to insurance coverage, a Travelers unit told a California federal court, saying the company's policy bars coverage for the wrongful collection of protected personal information.

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COMPETITION

Calif. Judge Asks About Standing In Google Antitrust Case

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

A California federal judge overseeing an antitrust litigation accusing Google of shutting out rival search engines has asked for evidence showing that the consumers bringing the case have standing.

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SECURITIES & WHITE COLLAR

DC Circ. Backs Tax Bribery Convictions Despite Jury Error

By Jack McLoone

A D.C. Circuit panel refused on Tuesday to reverse a lower court's judgments against two men in connection to a bribery scheme carried out to evade $2.3 million in business tax obligations, finding a jury instruction error "harmless," among other unsuccessful arguments.

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Trump Depo Needed In Fla. Merger Suit, Ex-SPAC CEO Says

By David Minsky

The former CEO of a special purpose acquisition company that helped take Truth Social public urged a Florida judge Tuesday to allow President Donald Trump's deposition, arguing it's necessary to defend against a claim that he was targeted in a conspiracy to sign a merger agreement without his knowledge. 

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TELECOMMUNICATIONS

​​​​​​​Top Groups Lobbying The FCC

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission heard from lobbyists more than 140 times in June, with AT&T at the front of the pack hoping to convince the agency to preempt California rules that the telecom giant says are hindering network modernization.

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AT&T Asks FCC To Retire Copper Lines In 600 More Places

By Nadia Dreid

There are more than 600 locations across the country where AT&T's copper phone lines have been disrupted — by theft, accident or natural disaster — and the company is hoping the Federal Communications Commission will give it the green light to leave them as they are.

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REAL ESTATE

X Corp. Fights $8M Award Over Boulder Office Rent Credit

By Zach Dupont

Colorado appellate judges on Tuesday tested the limits of competing interpretations by X Corp. and its former landlord regarding a contract provision governing almost $5.8 million in rent credits the social media company says it's owed, weighing X's bid to undo an $8.2 million judgment in a rent dispute.

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PERSONAL INJURY & MEDICAL MALPRACTICE

Sony Bank's Crypto Charter Bid Clears 1st OCC Hurdle

By Aislinn Keely

Sony's online banking unit is a step closer to setting up a crypto-focused U.S. trust company with a preliminary conditional charter from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

'Tiger King' Funeral Clip Ruling Offers Fair Use Road Map

The Tenth Circuit's decision in Whyte Monkee v. Netflix that the streaming service's use of another party's funeral footage in the docuseries "Tiger King" constituted fair use lays out a framework for producers to apply the four statutory fair use factors to their own projects, says Frank D’Angelo at Loeb & Loeb.

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Trademark Law As A Tool To Bolster NIL Rights Against AI

The meteoric rise of artificial intelligence-generated deepfakes is prompting high-profile celebrities to protect their name, image and likeness rights using federal trademark law — a powerful yet limited supplement to traditional NIL claims, says Susan Natland at BakerHostetler.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Sealing The Deal

How Gibson Dunn Helped SpaceX Pull Off Its $75B Global IPO

By Al Barbarino

When SpaceX completed its record-breaking $75 billion initial public offering last month, the transaction was notable not only for its size — the largest IPO ever — but also for breaking new ground in how public offerings can be structured to reach retail investors around the world.

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CEO Cops To Conspiracy In BigLaw Insider Trading Case

By Sydney Price

A Dubai-based CEO and trader has pled guilty in Massachusetts federal court to charges that he worked with a former BigLaw associate and others to carry out a far-reaching insider trading scheme.

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Justices To Defend Court's Budget In Rare Hill Testimony

By Courtney Bublé

U.S. Supreme Court Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Elena Kagan will testify before House and Senate committees on July 14, marking the first time in seven years that a sitting justice has gone before lawmakers.

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Ex-DOJ Employees Tell Senate To Reject Blanche Nomination

By Emily Sawicki

Hundreds of former Justice Department employees and appointees urged the Senate in a Tuesday letter to reject the nomination of acting Attorney General Todd Blanche for the permanent role, particularly noting what they called Blanche's work toward politicizing the department.

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ChatGPT Edits Weren't 'Knowing' Errors, Conn. Justices Told

By Aaron Keller

A GLG Law LLC lawyer who blamed ChatGPT for misquotes and citation errors in three filings told the Connecticut Supreme Court on Tuesday he did not violate an ethics rule requiring candor to the tribunal because his briefs, though inaccurate, contained correct assertions about the law.

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Ogletree Co-Founder Deakins, 'Beacon Of Wisdom,' Dies At 90

By Emily Johnson

A co-founder of the global labor and employment juggernaut Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC died Monday after decades of helping shape the firm's values of honesty and transparency.

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McCarter Atty's Work 'Fell Short' In $20M Deals, Judge Told

By Brian Steele

McCarter & English LLP and one of its Connecticut attorneys failed to uphold the applicable standard of care when advising insurers on $20 million worth of loan transactions that ultimately fell apart because the borrower stopped paying, an expert witness told a Connecticut state court on Tuesday.

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House Dems Push To Ban Judges From Prediction Markets

By Emily Sawicki

Ranking members of the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday called on the federal judiciary to ban judges from taking part in prediction markets amid growing concerns that court-related wagers could undermine judicial integrity.

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COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

AT&T Inc.

Amazon.com Inc.

Apple Inc.

Baltimore Ravens Inc.

CLS Bank International

CTIA

Coinbase Global Inc.

Connecticut Bar Association

Connecticut Fair Housing Center

EchoStar Corp.

Fort Point Capital

Gerson Lehrman Group Inc.

Google LLC

Grain Management LLC

Johnson & Johnson

LinkedIn Corp.

Nasdaq Inc.

National Women's Law Center

Netflix Inc.

Occidental Petroleum Corp.

Public Citizen Inc.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television & Radio Artists

Snap Inc.

Sony Music Entertainment Inc.

Space Exploration Technologies Corp.

T-Mobile US Inc.

TikTok Inc.

Twitter Inc.

X Corp.

YouTube Inc.

LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Ahmad Zavitsanos

Alioto Law Firm

Baker & Hostetler

Baker Donelson

Brown & Rosen

Covington & Burling

DLA Piper

Davis Wright Tremaine

Dykema

Early Sullivan

FisherBroyles

Gibson Dunn

Goodwin Procter

Harris Beach Murtha

Holland & Hart

Homer Bonner

Kalbian & Hagerty

Latham & Watkins

Law Offices of Lawrence G. Papale

Lawson Huck

Loeb & Loeb

Logan Vance

McCarter & English

McDermott Will & Schulte

Nedeau Law Firm

Ogletree Deakins

Price Benowitz

Shook Hardy

Sidley Austin

Silver Golub

Skadden Arps

Strauss Borrelli

Veen Firm

Wheeler Trigg

Wiggin & Dana

Williams & Connolly

Zeldes Needle

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

California Attorney General's Office

California Department of Justice

Congressional Research Service

European Union

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Communications Commission

Federal Reserve System

Federal Trade Commission

Internal Revenue Service

Office of the Comptroller of the Currency

U.S. Army

U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Michigan

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

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit

U.S. Department of Justice

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

U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

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

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

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

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Supreme Court

United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma