Anthropic Pilfered Elvis Presley Songs To Train AI, Suit Says

By Ivan Moreno

Owners of copyrights in 274 songs recorded by Elvis Presley have sued Anthropic for nearly $50 million, alleging the artificial intelligence company used their lyrics for training data, stripped identifying information and enabled its chatbot Claude to generate infringing material.

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Meta Docs Reveal Plan To Discredit Teen-Harm Critic Haidt

By Dorothy Atkins

Meta internally set a goal to "get the academic community to disavow" and "turn against" professor Jonathan Haidt, who has linked social media use to mental health decline, as it in-house rebuffed internal efforts to study social media's impact on teen health, according to recently unredacted documents filed publicly Friday.

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Neil Young Sues Trump Committee Over Rally Song

By Jared Foretek

Singer-songwriter Neil Young sued President Donald Trump's joint fundraising committee for $10 million in Virginia federal court Monday, claiming that the committee violated a 2020 settlement when it used his hit "Rockin' in the Free World" without a license at an Ohio rally earlier this month.

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Novo Can't Get 'Deceptive' Lilly GLP-1 Ads Blocked Amid Suit

By Hailey Konnath

A New Jersey federal judge on Monday refused to issue an injunction blocking Eli Lilly & Co. from running ads allegedly comparing its GLP-1 drug to Novo Nordisk Inc.'s using "outdated" clinical trials and "false superiority messages," ruling that Novo Nordisk hasn't shown it would be irreparably harmed.

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NBCUniversal Sued Over Alleged Leak Of Employee Data

By Craig Clough

An NBCUniversal employee filed a proposed class action in New York federal court over the company's alleged "incompetent" security measures that led to a cybercriminal organization hacking sensitive personal records of around 35,000 workers.

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LA Producer Sues Tony Robbins, Fox Over 'Man's Search' Film

By Dorothy Atkins

A Los Angeles producer has sued Tony Robbins, Fox Corp., her former business partner and multiple other entities in California federal court, alleging they engaged in "disloyalty, concealment and self-dealing" and iced her out of adapting Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl's best-selling memoir "Man's Search for Meaning" into a feature-length film.

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Buzbee Fights $2.5M Fee Bids In Dismissed Conspiracy Suits

By Lynn LaRowe

Prominent Houston plaintiffs attorney Tony Buzbee has urged a Texas state court to reject what he called the "incredible sum" of roughly $2.5 million in combined attorney fees sought by Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP and a Mississippi lawyer after defeating claims that they conspired with rapper Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter to retaliate against Buzbee and two of his former clients.

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Morgan & Morgan Can't Pursue Ad Ban Suit, Fla. Bar Says

By Madison Arnold

The Florida Bar has pushed back against Morgan & Morgan PA's lawsuit alleging that a rule banning the use of a celebrity's voice or image in lawyer advertising violates the First Amendment, arguing that the personal injury giant lacks standing to bring the case.

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Apple, Microsoft Accused Of Infringing Cybersecurity Patents

By Elliot Weld

Tech giants Apple Inc. and Microsoft have each been sued in Texas federal court by a cybersecurity firm with claims of infringing two patents that cover the detection of memory corruption.

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Data-Scraping Co. Says Reddit Must Face Counterclaims

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

A data-scraping company accused of acting like "would-be bank robbers" in taking in copyrighted data from Reddit that is then used to train AI said in a brief defending its antitrust counterclaims that the content in question actually belongs to Reddit users, and that Reddit anticompetitively restricts access to it.

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Salsa Producer Had Rights To 3 Albums, Jury Finds

By Carolina Bolado

A federal jury in Miami came back with a mixed verdict Friday in a dispute between a Venezuelan salsa composer and his former business partner and producer, finding the producer had a valid license for three of the six albums at issue and owned one of two trademarks.

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Colo. AI Rules Face Calls For Longer Compliance Window

By Allison Grande

Business groups across the tech, banking and other industries pushed Colorado's attorney general Monday to revisit his proposed rules for the use of artificial intelligence to make consequential decisions and to fuel chatbots in order to address concerns such as their potential conflict with existing laws and the tight window for implementation.

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Pa. Panel Revives Clarks Website Visitor's Wiretap Suit

By Allison Grande

A Pennsylvania appellate court has reversed the toss of a proposed class action accusing shoe retailer Clarks of violating the state's wiretap law by sharing website visitors' information with a third-party analytics provider, finding that it wasn't clear whether consumers had adequate notice of the company's data practices.

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Google Says DOJ Overreaching With Proposed Antitrust Fixes

By Nadia Dreid

Google has told a D.C. federal court that the U.S. Department of Justice and state enforcers are trying to force it into unreasonable antitrust measures that go beyond what the court imagined when it handed down its remedies order in the monopolization suit.

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Comcast, Viamedia Settle Cable Ad Antitrust Case Before Trial

By Celeste Bott

Comcast Corp. and Viamedia Inc. have reached a settlement in their decadelong antitrust battle over the cable advertising market just days before a jury trial was set to begin in Illinois federal court over allegations the cable giant is monopolizing local advertising markets.

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Workers Say Hard Rock's Tobacco Health Fee Violated ERISA

By Kellie Mejdrich

Current and former employees of Hard Rock sued the restaurant, hotel and casino company in Florida federal court, alleging the company's $15 weekly surcharge on the health plans of workers who used tobacco violated federal benefits law.

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Trump Media Investor Says Firm Reaped $18M On Inside Info

By Carolina Bolado

A Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. shareholder told jurors in Florida federal court on Monday that the $18 million a venture capital firm made when Trump Media went public should be returned because it was the result of insider trading.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court last week approved a $250 million settlement of litigation over Microsoft Corp.'s acquisition of Activision Blizzard Inc., while Albertsons Cos. Inc. accused Kroger Co. of rejecting changes that could have saved their $24.6 billion merger, and the Delaware Supreme Court ordered Verisk Analytics Inc. to keep pursuing a $2.35 billion acquisition.

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FCC Asked To Combine Study Areas For 4 Iowa Telecoms

By Christopher Cole

Four Iowa local exchange carriers will be joined into one corporate entity, and they have asked the Federal Communications Commission to sign off on the combination of their coverage areas for purposes of federal aid.

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Kalshi Sues Louisiana Over 'Threat' To Its Sports Contracts

By Bonnie Eslinger

Kalshi filed preemptive litigation against Louisiana state officials and entities saying their actions and statements deeming prediction market activities unlicensed gambling means it's facing "a threat of irreparable harm, leaving [it] with no choice to protect its commercial interests and those of its users except to bring this suit."

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Judge Reopens NC State Player's NCAA Eligibility Suit

By Alex Lawson

A federal judge reopened a North Carolina State University football player's eligibility suit against the NCAA on Monday after the player's attorneys informed the court that they have been unable to fully resolve the case.

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Feature

Dugout Divided: Foley & Lardner Clients Clash In World Series

By Chris Villani

The World Series matchup between Foley & Lardner LLP clients, the Milwaukee Brewers and the Tampa Bay Rays, has pitted partners against one another as the firm enjoys a good-natured intrasquad rivalry during the Fall Classic.

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Feds Say CIA Contractor Leaked Intel To Romantic Partner

By Ganesh Setty

A contractor leaked national defense information from the CIA to a romantic partner, who then posted articles on Substack based on the information, the U.S. Department of Justice alleges.

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How Senate-Passed Bill May Reshape NCAA Antitrust Liability

With the U.S. Senate's recent passage of the Protect College Sports Act, practitioners should not wait for the U.S. House of Representatives' approval to prepare for shifts in potential antitrust protections, compensation, media rights deals and conference mergers, say attorneys at Norton Rose.

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2nd Circ. EFAA Ruling Shifts Employer Litigation Strategy

In Diaz-Roa v. Hermes Law, the Second Circuit recently held that, under the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act, employers can't carve out nonharassment claims and send them to arbitration, which has implications for discovery, litigation costs and resolution strategy in EFAA-covered disputes, say attorneys at Krevolin Horst.

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At 4th Circ., DOJ Admits But Downplays Goldstein Trial Errors

By Jeff Overley

The U.S. Department of Justice late Tuesday acknowledged that it confused key statutory terms related to jury instructions at famed appellate advocate Tom Goldstein's criminal trial, while also insisting "the government's mistake here was understandable" and shouldn't upend a jury's guilty verdict.

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Brief

Fenwick & West To Match $235K Salary Scale For Associates

By Tracey Read

Fenwick & West LLP is reportedly the latest firm that will raise associate pay in the new year.

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Ex-Fla. Bar Prez Accused Of Botching $350M Estate Claim

By Carolina Bolado

The widow of a Miami real estate investor is suing a former president of the Florida Bar for malpractice, claiming his botched representation left her without a claim to her late husband's $350 million estate.

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Analysis

3 Federal Circuit Clashes To Watch In November

By Ryan Davis

A high-stakes case that will determine whether the U.S. government should face patent infringement claims over Moderna's COVID-19 vaccines and Labcorp's appeal of a nine-figure patent verdict against it are among the arguments the Federal Circuit will hear in November.

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4th Circ. Says W.Va. Daniel's Law Is Unconstitutional

By Rose Krebs

The Fourth Circuit on Tuesday affirmed a district court determination striking down as unconstitutional West Virginia's law restricting the publication of the home addresses and phone numbers of law enforcement and judicial officials, saying the district court applied "well-established" First Amendment principles.

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