9th Circ. Doubts Kids Agreed To Arb. Roblox Gambling Claims

By Dorothy Atkins

A Ninth Circuit panel doubted Monday a website owner's arguments he is entitled to a trial over whether a putative class of minors agreed to arbitrate their claims Roblox and others operated an illegal gambling business, with one judge asking if the appellant wants 9-year-olds to attest to whether they entered a contract.

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WWE Loses Challenge To Md. Law Bolstering Abuse Suit

By Aaron Keller

World Wrestling Entertainment and its co-founders Vince and Linda McMahon cannot escape a lawsuit alleging complicity in the sexual abuse of "ring boys" in the 1980s and 1990s, a Maryland federal judge ruled Monday, rejecting federal constitutional challenges to an Old Line State law.

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Trump Fights Jack Smith Subpoena In $10B BBC Suit

By Lauren Berg

President Donald Trump on Monday slammed the British Broadcasting Corp.'s subpoena to Jack Smith, who brought election interference and classified document-hoarding charges against the president, saying the former special counsel's testimony is "entirely irrelevant" to the $10 billion defamation lawsuit over the broadcaster's documentary on the 2021 U.S. Capital attack.

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Salsa Composer Says He Kept Rights To 6 Albums

By Carolina Bolado

A Venezuelan salsa composer suing his former business partner and producer for copyright infringement told jurors Monday that he never transferred ownership rights to six albums that he says have been disseminated without consent or payment.

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Drake Ripped Off Chorus 'Word-For-Word,' Songwriter Alleges

By Rae Ann Varona

Drake has been hit with a copyright infringement lawsuit in California federal court by a songwriter who alleges the catchy chorus in the rapper and singer's Billboard-topping song "Janice STFU" ripped off a hook the songwriter wrote, "word-for-word, note-for-note."

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4 Justices Sit Out Appeal, Leaving Copyright Ruling Intact

By Ivan Moreno

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday left intact a far-reaching Fifth Circuit ruling holding that U.S. copyright termination can recapture foreign rights conveyed in a worldwide grant, not by denying an appeal from major music publishers, but because four justices sat out and left the court without enough members to hear the case.

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High Court Skips Blackbeard Shipwreck Copyright Clash

By Hayley Fowler

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a videographer's long-running copyright case over photos and videos they took of the famous pirate Blackbeard's shipwreck off the coast of North Carolina.

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CNN Hit With TM Suit In Texas Over Talarico Town Hall

By Adam Lidgett

CNN has been hit with a lawsuit in Texas federal court accusing it of infringing a trademark on the phrase "Change My Mind" associated with conservative media personality Steven Crowder when the network used it as a backdrop during a town hall with Democratic U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico.

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Roku Accused Of Using Voice AI Tech After Licensing Talks

By Elliot Weld

A voice recognition technology company sued the television streaming provider Roku Inc. claiming its voice remote function infringes several patents covering methods of machine speech recognition and language processing.

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Proskauer Says It Didn't Drop Reddit To Defend Perplexity

By Lauren Berg

Proskauer Rose LLP and Perplexity AI are urging a New York federal judge to allow the law firm to represent the artificial intelligence company in Reddit's suit over alleged data scraping, balking at the social media platform's argument that its one-time law firm can't represent its current opponent.

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NSO Avoids Contempt As WhatsApp Says It's Still Hacking

By Nadia Dreid

An Israeli spyware company isn't going to be held in contempt on allegations it violated a court order restricting its use of WhatsApp because the order wasn't so specific that it banned the company from using accounts it already had, only restricted it from making new ones, a judge has ruled.

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Ad Giant Promises Separate Data Access In FTC Merger Deal

By Bryan Koenig

France's Publicis Groupe SA must guarantee five years of access to "standalone" products of data collaboration platform LiveRamp Holdings Inc. under a Federal Trade Commission settlement Monday clearing the advertising buying giant's $2.2 billion purchase.

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FCC Urged To Consider New Cellphone Radiation Studies

By Christopher Cole

An environmental group told the Federal Communications Commission it has an obligation to scrutinize existing science rather than lean on years-old conclusions as it examines the health effects of cellphone radiation.

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DOJ Or Trump: Judge Asks Who Is Deciding Golf Course Plan

By Jared Foretek

Trump administration lawyers continued to insist at a hearing Monday there is no final plan to remake East Potomac Golf Course, and they changed their tune about whether one would require environmental review, despite new social media posts from the president announcing that work on the overhaul would begin "immediately."

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Wood Smith, Charlesbank Capital Ink Pioneering MSO Deal

By Emma Cueto

Insurance defense firm Wood Smith Henning & Berman has inked a deal to take investment from middle market investment firm Charlesbank Capital Partners via a managed services organization, according to an announcement Monday, the largest U.S. firm to announce such a move.

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Arizona Court Approves State's First Non-ABA Law School

By Emma Cueto

The Arizona Supreme Court has approved the state's first law school not accredited by the American Bar Association, citing the need to increase the number of lawyers per capita in the state and provide more affordable options for legal education.

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Court Denies Gov't Bid To DQ Susman Godfrey In ABA's Suit

By Andrea Keckley

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has denied the U.S. Department of Justice's bid to disqualify Susman Godfrey LLP from representing the American Bar Association in its lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's executive orders against multiple major law firms. 

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Trump Taps DOJ Official, Federal Prosecutor For Judgeships

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump on Monday nominated a senior U.S. Department of Justice attorney for a Nebraska federal judgeship and an assistant U.S. attorney for a seat on the Northern District of Indiana bench.

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Rogoff Tells 9th Circ. His Firing Furthers Trump's 'Evil' Plan

By Ben Adlin

Roger Rogoff urged the Ninth Circuit to affirm a lower judge's order reinstating him as Seattle's top federal prosecutor, asserting in a filing Friday that he's entitled to keep the court-appointed U.S. attorney position until President Donald Trump fills the role with a Senate-confirmed nominee.

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What The Justices Won't Hear: A Roundup Of Cert Denials

By Taylor Bowie

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up cases from Google, a U.S. Navy contractor, and other appellate hopefuls on Monday, according to an order list.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court last week blocked Cloudflare Inc. from completing a restructuring meant to preserve its founders' voting control, while Tower Semiconductor Ltd. accused Intel Corp. of backing out of a semiconductor manufacturing agreement and social media company Triller Group Inc. challenged its removal from Nasdaq.

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