Notorious BIG's Widow Owes Trust $12.5M, Chancery Rules

By Elliot Weld

The Delaware Chancery Court has ruled that Notorious B.I.G.'s widow must pay $12.5 million to his late mother's trust, which has an ownership stake in the company that holds the late rapper's intellectual property and music catalog.

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DC Judge Finds Trump Ads Likely Broke Propaganda Ban

By Jared Foretek

A D.C. federal judge once again blocked taxpayer-funded campaign-style television ads for President Donald Trump from hitting the air Wednesday, ruling that the Democratic National Committee, which challenged the spots earlier this month, was likely to succeed on its claim that the spending violated a congressional ban on propaganda.

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Jury Selection Starts In 2nd Social Media Bellwether In LA

By Craig Clough

Jury selection began Wednesday in a California courtroom for the second bellwether trial focused on allegations that major social media companies are harming the mental health of children, with Meta Platforms Inc. returning to the defense table next to Snap Inc., which is facing jurors on the claims for the first time.

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Hasan Piker Sues Scott Jennings Over Lynching Claim

By Jared Foretek

Socialist activist and Twitch streamer Hasan Piker is suing conservative commentator Scott Jennings for more than $70 million in D.C. federal court, alleging Jennings defamed him by falsely claiming Piker had called for Black voters to be lynched.

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YouTuber Sues Broker Over Logan Paul Defamation Coverage

By Danielle Ferguson

A YouTube investigator who called influencer and professional wrestler Logan Paul's cryptocurrency project a scam sued insurance brokers, alleging they failed to procure an insurance policy that would have provided defense coverage for Paul's defamation suit.

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4th Circ. Judge Sees 'Big Brother' In Va. Social Media Limits

By Hayley Fowler

A Fourth Circuit judge Wednesday expressed concern with a Virginia law limiting children's access to social media, telling counsel for the commonwealth that the provision has a "Big Brother atmosphere" to it and suggesting he'd back the district court's injunction halting enforcement of the regulation.

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DraftKings Fights Bid To Link Bettor Suit To Promos Action

By Ganesh Setty

DraftKings Inc. urged an Illinois federal court to not reassign an Illinois man's personal injury action over his sports gambling addiction to a judge in the district overseeing a separate proposed class action challenging DraftKings' advertising practices, arguing they are materially different.

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FTC Probes Delta, Uber, Others Over Data-Driven Pricing

By Allison Grande

The Federal Trade Commission is pressing Delta, Uber, Target and a half-dozen other companies to detail how they're using personal data to set individualized pricing for consumers and compensation for workers, marking the latest escalation of the agency's growing scrutiny of the increasingly prominent business practice.

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Proskauer, Reddit Attys Called To Testify In Data-Scraping Suit

By Bryan Koenig

A New York federal judge on Wednesday called for live testimony from two Proskauer Rose LLP attorneys and Reddit's deputy general counsel as he weighs the law firm's bid to represent Perplexity AI in a lawsuit from Reddit, the firm's former client, over alleged data scraping.

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Nike Ad Crew Member Reaches Deal In Wage Suit

By MJ Koo

A production assistant who worked on a Nike commercial has reached a deal to end his lawsuit in California federal court accusing the sportswear giant, its advertising agency and a production company of shorting film crew members on wages and breaks, according to a court filing.

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Meta Wants Ex-WhatsApp Security Head's Suit Axed For Good

By Bonnie Eslinger

Meta has urged a California federal judge to permanently dismiss a whistleblower retaliation suit from a former cybersecurity head for WhatsApp, saying the fourth version of his complaint repleads theories the court has tossed and still doesn't show the managers responsible for the alleged retaliation knew about his claimed protected activity.

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Endeavor Sues Icahn Over 'Illegally Acquired' Shares

By Jessica Corso

Media company Endeavor Group Holdings Inc. sued billionaire investor Carl Icahn in New York federal court Wednesday, arguing he should be required to forfeit the shares in the company that he "illegally acquired" before it was taken private in a $13 billion acquisition by Silver Lake.

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FCC Inks $80K Consent Decree With Nexstar

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

Nexstar has entered into a consent decree with the Federal Communications Commission to pay $80,500 and implement compliance plans to end a probe related to the license renewals of several stations.

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RNC Files New Suit Over FCC's Campaign Ad Rates

By Hailey Konnath

The Republican National Committee, Republican Party of Texas and several Republican candidates Wednesday filed a fresh suit over the Federal Communications Commission's longtime requirement that broadcasters charge the lowest political ad rates for committees tied to candidates, calling it "a drag on First Amendment freedoms."

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Watchdog Seeks Privacy Guardian In Character.AI Ch. 11 Sale

By Clara Geoghegan

The U.S. Trustee's Office said a Delaware bankruptcy judge must appoint a consumer privacy ombudsman to review the sale of artificial intelligence entertainment platform Character Technologies' assets, saying its Character.AI platform includes identifiable information from users' chats.

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Online Presence Complicates Defamation's Public Figure Test

Recent defamation cases demonstrate that online presence can affect how courts distinguish between public and private figures, so litigants should consider several questions when evaluating potential claims and defenses where public figure status may affect the litigation, such as whether there is a connection between the plaintiff's public activities and the alleged defamation, say attorneys at Brown Rudnick.

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3 Strategies To Reduce AI Sycophancy In Legal Work

The tendency of generative artificial intelligence models to tell users what they want to hear can reinforce attorneys’ confirmation bias when testing the strength of arguments, and it can’t simply be prompted away — but a few practices can help mitigate it, says Michael Ott at Ice Miller.

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Weil's Demise Sparks Shock, Reflection In The Legal World

By Alison Knezevich and Andrea Keckley

The stunning collapse of Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP is the talk of BigLaw this week, as those in the industry grapple with how the powerhouse Wall Street firm could implode so quickly.

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Lessons From The Past For Weil's Final Curtain Call

By Rick Archer

Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP leaders may have every reason to agree to an out-of-court wind-down, but dissolving such a storied law firm, which announced Wednesday it intends to shut down following an exodus of attorneys, is not as simple as a handshake among partners, experts said in interviews with Law360 on Wednesday.

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Troutman, Baker McKenzie Report Data Breaches

By Lynn LaRowe

Troutman Pepper Locke LLP and Baker McKenzie experienced data breaches last month as a result of social engineering attacks, according to notices submitted this week to the attorneys general offices in California and Texas.

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Morgan & Morgan Seeks To Block Celebrity Ad Ban In Florida

By Ryan Boysen

Personal injury giant Morgan & Morgan PA has asked a Florida federal court for a preliminary injunction to block a Sunshine State bar rule that forbids celebrity endorsements in attorney advertisements.

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