Tesla Used AI 'Blade Runner 2049' Image For Sales, Suit Says

By Lauren Berg

When Alcon Entertainment wouldn't let Tesla use an image from "Blade Runner 2049" in an event live-streamed from a Warner Bros. Discovery studio to promote an autonomous taxicab, the electric vehicle giant used an infringing image created by artificial intelligence, according to a lawsuit filed Monday in California federal court.

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News Corp. Subsidiaries Hit AI Co. With Copyright Suit

By Adam Lidgett

The publishers behind the Wall Street Journal and the New York Post have said in a new lawsuit that an artificial intelligence company is ripping off the news organizations' work, saying the AI company's "answer engine" has copied huge amounts of copyrighted material.

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Combs Seeks Gag Order As Rape Claims Flood Courts

By Frank G. Runyeon

Attorneys for Sean "Diddy" Combs asked a Manhattan federal judge to order all prospective witnesses and their lawyers not to "assassinate" his character in the media, as seven new sexual assault lawsuits against him hit dockets in New York.

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Kids' YouTube Studio Goes After 'Top Blippi Impersonator'

By Hailey Konnath

The company that makes the hit childrens' show "Blippi" has accused a Florida man of infringing on its intellectual property rights by offering "counterfeit services providing Blippi Show impersonators," according to a suit filed Monday in Florida federal court.

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Central Park 5 Say Trump Defamed Them During Debate

By Nadia Dreid

The Central Park Five — New Yorkers who were wrongfully convicted as young teens of assaulting and raping a woman in Central Park — have hit former President Donald Trump with a defamation suit, saying he falsely claimed at a recent debate that they pled guilty, decades after calling for the boys to be executed.

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​​​​​​​Cox Asks Justices To Nix Sony's $1B Music Copyright Appeal

By Hannah Albarazi

Cox on Monday urged the U.S. Supreme Court to reject Sony and other music publishers' bid to reinstate a $1 billion damages award undone by the Fourth Circuit, arguing it can't be penalized for internet piracy because continuing to provide an internet connection is not profiting off copyright infringement.

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20-Year FBI Vet Joins Motion Picture Association In California

By Jack Rodgers

A former supervisory special agent with the FBI has joined the Motion Picture Association in Los Angeles to work as vice president of the group's content protection enforcement for the Americas region, and for its Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment, according to a Monday announcement.

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In OpenAI Copyright Case, Court Told, 'Too Many Cooks'

By Andrew Karpan

Lawyers for some of the media companies and groups hitting up OpenAI and Microsoft with copyright cases say they have major reservations about marrying their cases, warning about rushed discovery and "forcing too many cooks into the same kitchen."

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Google, Meta Want Out Of GoodRx Health Data Sharing Suit

By Hailey Konnath

Google, Meta Platforms and Criteo have asked a California federal court to cut them loose from litigation alleging that GoodRx improperly shared patients' protected health information with the tech companies, saying the claims are "fundamentally flawed."

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X Corp. 'Sabotaging' Discovery Process, Media Matters Says

By Spencer Brewer

Left-leaning watchdog Media Matters for America says that X Corp. is "jamming the wheels of discovery" by refusing to answer questions or provide documents relating to Elon Musk's role in the site's content moderation, asking a Texas federal court Friday to order X to comply.

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Target Wants Sanctions For 'Bogus' BIPA Suit

By Lauraann Wood

An Illinois federal judge should sanction a group of Target customers and their lawyers for pursuing a facial recognition privacy case even though the plaintiffs had seen evidence their legal theory was "bogus," the retail giant says.

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ID Service Can't Avoid Roblox Player's BIPA Claims

By Lauraann Wood and Celeste Bott

A minor who uploaded a selfie to register an account with Roblox can pursue biometric privacy claims against the company that provides identify verification services to the game platform, an Illinois federal judge said Monday.

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Fla. Dept.'s Ex-GC Says Gov.'s Office Directed TV Ad Letters

By Carolina Bolado

The former general counsel for the Florida Department of Health said Monday that he was directed by Gov. Ron DeSantis' office to send out letters threatening television stations with criminal prosecution if they did not pull a campaign ad promoting an abortion rights ballot initiative.

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1st Astroworld Trial Pushed As Travis Scott Drops Appeal

By Catherine Marfin

Rapper Travis Scott has dropped his bid for settlement information from several Astroworld plaintiffs, telling a Texas appellate court that the first plaintiffs scheduled to have their day in court will no longer be heading to trial this week.

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3rd Take's The Charm For Terrence Howard in CAA Suit

By Craig Clough

A Los Angeles judge Monday declined to dismiss "Empire" star Terrence Howard's suit alleging Creative Artists Agency's conflicting interests led him to accept a salary below industry standards, finding the latest version of the complaint adequately addressed her statute of limitations concerns.  

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Netflix Inks $1.4M Wage Deal With Reality TV Contestants

By Craig Clough

A California judge gave preliminary approval Monday to a $1.4 million settlement between Netflix and contestants from the reality television shows "Love Is Blind" and "The Ultimatum" to end a putative wage class action alleging the contestants were forced to work long hours with little pay.

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NCAA Wants Suit From Ex-College Basketball Players Tossed

By Elaine Briseño

The NCAA wants a New York federal court to dismiss a lawsuit by men's college basketball players that accuses the organization of exploiting their name, image and likeness by continuously replaying their highlights from March Madness, arguing that it fails in numerous ways, including time-barred claims.

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DC Moves To Buy NBA, NHL Arena In $800M Overhaul Plan

By Nate Beck

Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser on Monday announced the introduction of legislation to buy Capital One Arena for $87.5 million to keep the Washington Capitals and Washington Wizards in town, after months of negotiations with Sidley Austin LLP advising the arena owner.

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Belgium Joins French Courts In Telegram CEO Criminal Probe

By Dorothy Atkins

Belgian investigators have joined French law enforcement in the criminal investigation of Pavel Durov, the CEO of encrypted messaging-platform Telegram, who is charged in France with aiding illegal child pornography, fraud and other crimes, the Paris prosecutor's office announced.

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Justices Pass On Cohen Suit Blaming Trump For Prison Stint

By Elliot Weld

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up a case brought against Donald Trump by his former personal attorney Michael Cohen, who claimed that he was vindictively put in prison for writing a memoir that painted the former president in a negative light.

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FCC Lets Wisper Take On More Broadband Blocks In Missouri

By Nadia Dreid

Wisper Internet is going to be taking over another telecom's Connect America Fund projects in the state of Missouri, and the Federal Communications Commission gave the move its blessing Monday by granting an application allowing the switch to move forward.

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Video Game Co. Looks To Halt Mass Antitrust Arbitration

By Jared Foretek

The company behind PC game marketplace Steam is suing over 600 game buyers in a bid to block them from contintuing in arbitration with antitrust claims against the company, calling the litigants "pawns" in attorney William Bucher IV's mass arbitration scheme.

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Ogletree Shareholder Who Went In-House 'Returning Home'

By Tracey Read

Communications company WPP Group USA's vice president and counsel for the Americas rejoined Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC on Monday as a labor and employment shareholder, the firm said.

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How Cos. Can Build A Strong In-House Pro Bono Program

During this year’s pro bono celebration week, companies should consider some key pointers to grow and maintain a vibrant in-house program for attorneys to provide free legal services for the public good, says Mary Benton at Alston & Bird.

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SEC, CFTC Chairs Talk Crypto, AI & Wall Street Texting Sweep

By Jessica Corso

The leaders of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission appeared before an audience of top financial professionals Monday to discuss the future of cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence regulations and to defend against accusations that ongoing probes of brokers' use of off-channel communications were too harsh.

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Paul Hastings Adds Baker McKenzie Employment Team In NY

By Tracey Read

Paul Hastings LLP said Monday that it has landed a top-tier, four-partner employment litigation team in New York from Baker McKenzie LLP to strengthen its East Coast practice.

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Mastercard's Legal Chief Departs For Tech Co. Coherent

By Rae Ann Varona

Rob Beard is leaving his post as Mastercard Inc.'s chief legal officer and global policy head to join Coherent Corp. as its CLO, the industrial laser technology company announced Monday.

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High Court Will Review Clean Air Act Jurisdiction Cases

By Juan-Carlos Rodriguez

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to review Tenth Circuit and Fifth Circuit rulings that reached different conclusions about whether legal challenges to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency air pollution rules belong in the D.C. Circuit.

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High Court Takes Case On Sentencing For Release Infractions

By Brian Dowling

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to address a circuit split over what factors judges can consider when sentencing a person for violating conditions of supervised release, an issue estimated to affect thousands of defendants each year.

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Judge Cites University Ties To Bow Out Of Aid-Fixing Suit

By Jared Foretek

An Illinois federal judge has recused herself from a proposed antitrust class action against 40 private colleges, reasoning that she has a relationship with one of the university defendants.

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9th Circ. Revives Atty's ADA Suit Against Calif. Bar

By Jack Karp

The State Bar of California may not have sovereign immunity that would allow it to duck an attorney's federal lawsuit claiming it failed to provide him with adequate disability accommodations during a bar exam amid the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Ninth Circuit said Monday.

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Wade Says Trump Probe Plans Began Before Willis Took Office

By Kelcey Caulder

Former Fulton County special prosecutor Nathan Wade told Georgia House Judiciary Committee staff last week that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis planned to pursue charges against former president Donald Trump before she officially took the job and admitted to meeting with White House officials at least twice during the Georgia investigation.

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Ex-Morgan Lewis Atty Seeks Moderation In LA County DA Bid

By Rachel Scharf

Nathan Hochman, a former federal prosecutor and onetime partner at Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP, is running on a "hard middle" platform as he looks to unseat progressive Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón, the candidate told Law360 in an interview delving into his experience on both sides of the bar.

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Ex-Holland & Knight Atty Slams 'Incendiary' Client Info Suit

By Lauren Berg

A former Holland & Knight LLP partner asked a Pennsylvania federal judge Monday to toss a lawsuit alleging he unlawfully accessed a client's confidential documents in order to gain an upper hand in his contentious divorce, saying the "incendiary and defamatory" complaint is vague and fails to state viable claims.

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Firm Fired HR Manager Because Of Pregnancy, Fla. Jury Told

By David Minsky

The lawyer for a former human resources manager at a South Florida law firm told a federal jury Monday that she was fired for being pregnant, saying that her ex-employer made her come into work despite a doctor's note telling her to stay home after determining that she had a high-risk pregnancy.

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