The two federal judges who issued highly anticipated opinions about training generative artificial intelligence models with copyrighted material acknowledged the fear from many that AI could ultimately supplant human-created works, but they had differing views about the probability of such a future.
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Can AI Kill Human Art? Two Judges Envision Different Futures

By Ivan Moreno

The two federal judges who issued highly anticipated opinions about training generative artificial intelligence models with copyrighted material acknowledged the fear from many that AI could ultimately supplant human-created works, but they had differing views about the probability of such a future.

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Justices Uphold Texas Law Requiring Porn Site Age Checks

By Catherine Marfin

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday said a Texas law requiring pornographic websites to verify visitors' ages could take effect, agreeing with a divided Fifth Circuit's decision to vacate an injunction while using a different standard of judicial review to evaluate the statute.

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Combs Defense Atty Blasts 'Fake Trial' In Closing Argument

By Pete Brush

A lawyer for Sean "Diddy" Combs on Friday attacked the legitimacy of the government's racketeering case, accusing prosecutors of invading the hip-hop icon's private sex life and saying two women he is alleged to have trafficked are motivated by money.

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Newsom Sues Fox News Over Alleged Lies About Trump Call

By Jeff Montgomery

California Gov. Gavin C. Newsom hit Fox News with a defamation suit in a Delaware court Friday, seeking $787 million in damages for the network's alleged "smearing" of him in reports on a dispute over details of the Democratic governor's June 6 phone call with President Donald Trump.

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UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

By Max Austin

This past week in London has seen the British Basketball Federation sued by members of the men's professional basketball league for alleged competition breaches, songwriter Coco Star file an intellectual property claim against Universal Music Publishing, and the Solicitors Regulation Authority file a claim against the Post Office amid ongoing investigations into law firms linked to the Horizon IT Scandal. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

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DEALS

PE-Backed McGraw Hill, Consumer Researcher NIQ File IPOs

By Tom Zanki

Educational publisher McGraw Hill Inc. and consumer research provider NIQ Global Intelligence PLC filed plans for initial public offerings Friday, marking a pair of large private-equity-backed companies set to join a recovering IPO market.

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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

Trump Urges Court To Push Bob Woodward Suit Forward

By Elliot Weld

President Donald Trump asked a Manhattan federal judge to move forward with his case against Simon & Schuster and Bob Woodward over the investigative reporter's audiobook, saying the lengthy delays in resolving a pending motion to dismiss have put Trump in an untenable position.

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PERSONAL INJURY

Meta, TikTok Can't Escape 'Subway Surfing' Death Suit

By Lauren Berg

TikTok and Meta Platforms can trim, but not escape, a lawsuit over the death of a teen who allegedly participated in a "subway surfing" social media challenge, a Manhattan judge ruled Friday, saying the complaint plausibly pleads the algorithms inundated the teen with dangerous "challenge" content he never sought.

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Ga. Panel Fines Atty For 'Blatant Lack Of Professionalism'

By Chart Riggall

The Georgia Court of Appeals on Friday backed the dismissal of a lawyer's libel suit against opposing counsel over a discovery dispute in a personal injury case, going so far as to slap the attorney with a fine for wasting its time with the "frivolous" appeal.

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Idaho Justices Dismiss Suit Over Skier's Death On Slopes

By Mike Curley

The Idaho Supreme Court has dismissed a widow's suit against Sun Valley Co. alleging the company was negligent and liable for the death of her husband from hitting a snow machine while skiing, finding that the machine was clearly marked in keeping with state law, and the skier had assumed the risks of the sport.

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Insurer Says No Coverage For Music Festival Shooting Suits

By Ganesh Setty

An event company's general liability insurer told a Washington federal court that it should owe no coverage to the company and others, including Live Nation, in two underlying lawsuits seeking damages for a fatal shooting at an electronic dance music festival.

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EMPLOYMENT

Brief

Google Fired Worker For Taking Medical Leave, Suit Claims

By Zach Dupont

A former Google employee said she was discriminated against and fired for taking approved medical leave, according to a lawsuit filed in Washington state court.

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SECURITIES & WHITE COLLAR

NC Biz Court Bulletin: Last-Minute Settlements Head Off Trials

By Hayley Fowler

Untouched by the summer slump, the North Carolina Business Court kicked off June with a sanctions order against a biogas company caught spurning court orders and a new complaint by a former NFL player accusing his longtime financial adviser of defrauding him for decades.

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TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Justices Salvage FCC Subsidy Fees, Reversing 5th Circ.

By Christopher Cole

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday upheld the funding mechanism for the Federal Communications Commission's $9 billion Universal Service Fund used to subsidize low-income phone service, rural broadband, and school, library and healthcare telecommunications connectivity.

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Wireless Co. Says Feds Breached 'Rip And Replace' Promise

By Tom Lotshaw

Illinois-based SI Wireless LLC told a Court of Federal Claims judge the U.S. government breached a promise to reimburse it for removing Chinese-made equipment deemed a national security risk from its telecommunications network and has failed to follow through with nearly $157 million in payments.

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Brief

Apple Execs Sued Over Alleged AI Misrepresentations

By Katryna Perera

Apple's top brass have been hit with a derivative suit accusing them of duping shareholders into believing the tech giant would launch new artificial intelligence Siri features on the iPhone 16, which caused a stock drop when the rollout was delayed repeatedly.

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PEOPLE

Recently Retired US District Judge Joins JAMS In Los Angeles

By James Mills

Alternative dispute resolution service JAMS continues expanding its roster, announcing Thursday it has added a former California federal judge as one of its neutrals.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Trump Admin Appeals Perkins Coie Case To DC Circ.

By Daniel Connolly

The Trump administration announced in D.C. federal court on Monday that it's not giving up on its effort to punish Perkins Coie LLP through an executive order, even after losing four court rulings that found its actions in this and three similar cases are unconstitutional.

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Dunn Isaacson Now In NY, Calif. With Latest Paul Weiss Hires

By Alison Knezevich

Two more litigators from Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP who have represented top technology companies and other clients in court battles have joined Dunn Isaacson Rhee LLP.

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Seyfarth Lands 22 Transactional Attys From Morris Manning

By Tracey Read

Seyfarth Shaw LLP announced Monday that it has added a 22-lawyer transactional team from Morris Manning & Martin LLP, including 11 partners in the real estate, corporate and employee benefits groups, while the latter firm indicated it's in talks to expand its ranks.

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Trump Administration Says Harvard Violated Civil Rights Law

By Chris Villani

The Trump administration on Monday informed Harvard University that it had run afoul of federal civil rights law by failing to protect Jewish and Israeli students on campus from harassment, and threatened to cut all funding from the nation's oldest university.

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Fox Rothschild Beats RICO Suit From 2 Former Clients

By Rose Krebs

A New Jersey federal judge has tossed federal racketeering and state law claims lodged against Fox Rothschild LLP by two former clients who accused the firm of "knowingly and willfully robbing their immigration clients."

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Justices To Review Persecution Standard In Immigration Appeal

By Britain Eakin

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to look at whether the First Circuit was right to give deference to the Board of Immigration Appeals' conclusion that a Salvadoran family failed to show it suffered persecution back home and is therefore ineligible for asylum.

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Tillis Doesn't Plan Roadblocks On Judiciary Nominations

By Courtney Bublé

Following his announcement on Sunday that he won't be seeking reelection, Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee who previously sank President Donald Trump's nominee for U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, told Law360 on Monday that his approach to judiciary nominations won't change.

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High Court Takes GOP Challenge To Election Spending Limits

By Carolyn Muyskens

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday said it would review caps on how much political parties can spend on elections in coordination with candidates in a case brought by Vice President JD Vance and Republican organizations.

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Analysis

Supreme Court May Shape Future Of ISP Liability In Cox Case

By Ivan Moreno

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision Monday to take on a $1 billion battle between major music publishers and Cox Communications Inc. could set new liability boundaries for internet service providers that have faced significant damages for allegedly not curbing users who repeatedly download songs illegally.

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Calif. Panel Chides Attys Who Hid Opponent's Inactive Status

By Emily Sawicki

In a precedential ruling, a California appellate panel found a party whose counsel's license was made inactive should have been treated as though the attorney had died or been suspended, overturning a $70,000 fee award levied against a woman who was not informed that her lawyer was inactive.

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Roundup

4 Arguments Sessions Bias Attys Should Watch in July

By Amanda Ottaway

The Third and Sixth Circuits are scheduled to hear a quartet of oral arguments in July as a fired bus driver, professor, human resources executive and school dean each plan to argue that their terminations violated federal anti-bias law. Here, Law360 looks at those cases. 

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