2nd Circ. Stands By $83M Carroll Verdict As Full Court Splits

By Cara Salvatore

In a splintered ruling Wednesday, the full Second Circuit refused to rehear President Donald Trump's appeal challenging an $83.3 million verdict for defaming writer E. Jean Carroll in his response to her sexual abuse allegations.

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Musk Accuses OpenAI Atty Of Tricking Jury In Fiery Cross

By Dorothy Atkins

Elon Musk locked horns with an OpenAI attorney during a combative, and at times comical, cross-examination in a California federal jury trial Wednesday over Musk's challenge to OpenAI's for-profit conversion, repeatedly accusing defense counsel of asking "false" and misleading questions, which Musk claimed were crafted to "trick" him and jurors.

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Fla. Judge Pick Denies Conflict In Trump Defamation Case

By Courtney Bublé

A judicial nominee for the Southern District of Florida on Wednesday denied there was any overlap between when he presided over a case involving President Donald Trump and when the White House let him know Trump was considering him for the federal judgeship.

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Music Cos. Must Share Social Media Deals With DSW

By Elliot Weld

Several music companies within Warner Music Group that are suing DSW over alleged improper use of their music in social media videos must turn over licensing agreements they have with social media companies, an Ohio federal judge has ordered.

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Infowars Parent Says The Onion IP Deal Would Gut Asset Value

By Aaron Keller

The company behind Alex Jones' conspiracy website Infowars has asked a Texas appeals court to block a receiver from leasing its intellectual property and internet domain for $81,000 a month to a corporation linked to satire website The Onion.

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Tech Groups Urge Court To Find AI Training Is Fair Use

By Elliot Weld

Five technology industry groups have urged a California federal judge overseeing a suit accusing Anthropic of infringing copyrighted music to train the artificial intelligence model Claude to find that such activity falls under the umbrella of fair use. 

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Tupac's Family Files Wrongful Death Suit, Citing New Info

By Bonnie Eslinger

Nearly 30 years after the fatal shooting of Tupac Shakur, the rapper's stepbrother has filed a wrongful death lawsuit in Los Angeles County Superior Court against a man about to go on trial for the murder and unidentified others, suggesting that revelations in a recent Netflix documentary implicate Sean Combs in Shakur's murder.

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WordPress Judge Calls Deleted Message Claims 'Concerning'

By Bonnie Eslinger

A federal magistrate judge overseeing discovery in an antitrust lawsuit against WordPress parent Automattic Inc. and its CEO Matthew Mullenweg said plaintiff WPEngine Inc. "plausibly contends" Mullenweg "deleted relevant documents or allowed such documents to be deleted after an obligation to preserve was triggered."

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Lions' Williams Files NIL Suit Against NCAA, Big Ten, SEC

By Craig Clough

Detroit Lions wide receiver Jameson Williams has sued the NCAA, the Big Ten Conference and the Southeastern Conference in California state court alleging they illegally profited off his name, image and likeness during his time as a star collegiate player that helped them secure multibillion-dollar media contracts while paying him "zero."

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Bipartisan Bill Would Give Parents Control Over Kids' AI Use

By Lauren Berg

A group of Democratic and Republican senators introduced legislation that would allow parents to keep a better eye on their children's use of chatbots by requiring artificial intelligence companies to establish safeguards the lawmakers say will help protect kids' mental health and social development.

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Tech Group Aims To Halt Minn. Social Media Warning Mandate

By Allison Grande

A Minnesota law that requires social media platforms to prominently display mental health warning labels to all users has become the target of the latest First Amendment challenge being pressed by tech trade group NetChoice, which argued in a lawsuit filed Wednesday that the state is using public health concerns to create an unlawful "backdoor" to regulate protected speech. 

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EU Finds Meta Failing To Protect Children On Social Media

By Sophia Dourou

The European Union's enforcement arm said on Wednesday that Meta breached the bloc's digital safety rules by failing to prevent children under 13 from using Facebook and Instagram.

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9th Circ. Reverses Stay In App Store Commissions Case

By Craig Clough

The Ninth Circuit has reversed its own order that stayed a ruling on an injunction barring Apple from charging developers high commissions on in-app purchases until a district court judge sets up narrower guardrails, saying Epic Games had persuaded it that Apple was unlikely to get the U.S. Supreme Court to hear its appeal.

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FTC's BOTS Suit Survives Because Law Not Just About Bots

By Bryan Koenig

A Maryland federal judge has refused to dismiss one of the Federal Trade Commission's first-ever online ticketing cases, rejecting ticket reseller arguments that their use of thousands of Ticketmaster accounts to buy concert tickets is immune because they don't use bots.

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NLRB Judge Clears IATSE Over Problem Worker's Ouster

By Braden Campbell

An International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees local did not breach its duty of fair representation by removing a repeat offender from its hiring hall roster after he irked an employer during a "gratuitously obnoxious" clash with a manager, a National Labor Relations Board judge said.

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NY Says Crypto Co. To Pay $5M Over Fraud Promotion Claims

By Sydney Price

Cryptocurrency platform operator Uphold HQ Inc. will pay $5 million to settle claims from the New York attorney general's office that it promoted now-bankrupt Cred Inc.'s fraudulent, high-risk crypto scheme for which Cred's former executives were sentenced to prison last year.

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Ex-Hawks Exec Sentenced To 3½ Years For Embezzling $3.8M

By Kelcey Caulder

A former finance executive with the NBA's Atlanta Hawks was sentenced Wednesday to three years and five months in federal prison for embezzling $3.8 million over an eight-year period. 

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Sunsetting FCC High-Cost Programs Could Undergo 'Refresh'

By Christopher Cole

Federal Communications Commission leaders during their meeting next month will weigh reforms to longstanding programs that help fund broadband deployment to rural and other "high cost" areas.

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FCC Looks To Update How It Collects Broadband Map Data

By Nadia Dreid

The Federal Communications Commission has its eye on the National Broadband Map, with plans to vote next month on launching a proceeding to explore how to cut red tape from the data collection process while also increasing the accuracy of the data being collected.

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FCC Pushed To Scale Back Radio Ownership Regs

By Christopher Cole

A broadcast company that helped persuade the Eighth Circuit to toss federal limits on local media ownership last year is now urging the Federal Communications Commission to pare back radio station limits.

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Kennedy Center Director Says Safety Perils Warrant Overhaul

By Jared Foretek

The Kennedy Center's new director said he was "dumbfounded" when he first saw the true condition of the cultural hub's facilities, telling a D.C. federal court weighing whether to stop the center's planned two-year closure that now is the right time to catch up on a growing backlog of work.

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Improving Well-Being In Law, 10 Years After Landmark Study

An important 2016 study revealed significant substance abuse and mental health issues among lawyers, and while the findings helped normalize the conversation around these topics, a decade later, structural change is still needed, says Denise Robinson at PLI.

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Comey Indictment Built On Bad Legal Foundation, Experts Say

By Phillip Bantz

The criminal indictment of former FBI Director James B. Comey over an alleged threat against President Donald Trump by way of a social media post of seashells appears to be based on either an outdated or flawed understanding of the legal standard required to prove the charges in the case, which could sink the prosecution, according to experts.

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GrayRobinson Faces More Suits Over 2025 Data Breach

By Adrian Cruz

After being hit with a proposed class action accusing GrayRobinson PA of negligence following the revelation of a March 2025 data breach, the Florida-based firm is now facing two further suits regarding the same incident.

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Justices Limit Voting Rights Act Suits While Voiding La. Map

By Katie Buehler

The U.S. Supreme Court struck down Louisiana's congressional map containing two majority-Black voting districts Wednesday and further limited the Voting Rights Act's use in challenging racial discrimination in legislative redistricting — a decision the dissent claims completes the conservative majority's "demolition" of the seminal civil rights law.

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Judiciary Advisers Back Looser Limits On Defense Subpoenas

By Jeff Overley

A campaign by white collar defense lawyers against long-standing limits on subpoena powers cleared a key hurdle Wednesday when federal judiciary advisers endorsed earlier and easier access to potentially favorable evidence despite staunch resistance from crime victims' advocates.

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Former AG Bondi To Appear Before House Committee May 29

By Courtney Bublé

Former Attorney General Pam Bondi will appear before the House oversight committee on May 29, committee Republicans said Wednesday.

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Nadine Menendez Denied Bail During Bribery Conviction Appeal

By George Woolston

A New York federal judge on Wednesday denied a bid from Nadine Menendez for bail while she appeals her conviction on a bribery scheme carried out with her ex-senator husband, ruling that her motion doesn't raise a substantial question of law.

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