In Deepfake Era, NY High Court Probes Evidence Standards

By Elizabeth Daley

A recent New York state high court decision hammering home the importance of video evidence authentication has been coined a "clarion call" for verification in the age of deepfakes by defense attorneys who say the ruling demands a change in tactics.

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Publishers Sue 'Shadow Library' For 'Staggering' Book Piracy

By Ivan Moreno

Thirteen of the biggest book publishers in the U.S. filed a copyright lawsuit against Anna's Archive on Friday, accusing the so-called shadow library of operating one of the world's largest piracy sites and offering high-speed access to its repository of books and academic papers to AI developers.

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NYC Politician Seeks ICE Docs To Defend Obstruction Charge

By Britain Eakin

The ex-comptroller of New York City, Brad Lander, is urging a federal judge to require the federal government to disclose how it is using immigration holding rooms at 26 Federal Plaza in downtown Manhattan as he fights a ticket he received for allegedly obstructing federal immigration officials.

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Analysis

Experts See Immunity Defense Reset After NJ Transit Ruling

By Carla Baranauckas

The U.S. Supreme Court's unanimous ruling Wednesday that New Jersey Transit isn't an arm of the state clarified a key limit on sovereign immunity, with experts telling Law360 that the court's emphasis on corporate form and formal liability could change how states structure and defend their state-created, quasi‑governmental entities.

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NYSE To Pay $9M SEC Fine Over Botched Market Opening

By Jessica Corso

The New York Stock Exchange on Friday agreed to pay $9 million to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission following a hardware failure that caused thousands of trades to fail and dozens of stocks to be hit with price declines.

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Roundup

Real Estate Recap: Big Data, C-PACE, Mamdani's Planners

By Real Estate Authority Staff

Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including a look at the evolution of big data in real estate transactions, C-PACE financing growth according to Nuveen's head counsel, and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's recent picks to lead the city's planning department.

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NY Appeals Court Won't Revive Section 8 Protections

By Grace Dixon

A New York state appellate court confirmed that a New York Human Rights Law provision outlawing source-of-income discrimination is unconstitutional, allowing landlords to decline to rent to prospective tenants with Section 8 rental vouchers.

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Gov't Settles Affordable Housing Dispute With NY Village

By Isaac Monterose

The federal government has agreed to settle its affordable housing suit against a New York village that was accused alongside a local county of failing to comply with a 2018 agreement that required the village and the county to build or rehabilitate 62 affordable housing units within seven years.

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Judge Wants Action On FEMA Disaster Mitigation Funds Delay

By Julie Manganis

A Massachusetts federal judge Friday ordered the Trump administration to step up its pace in restoring a disaster mitigation funding program, nearly three months after he ordered it to do so.

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2nd Circ. Says Pot Edibles Not Covered By Workers' Comp

By Mike Curley

A Second Circuit panel has found that federal workers' compensation can't cover the cost of prescribed cannabis edibles, because they are still considered Schedule I drugs under federal law with "no accepted medical use."

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Judge Says Palantir Noncompete Language Is Too Restrictive

By Ivan Moreno

A Manhattan federal judge who ruled last month that three former Palantir employees could keep working at a rival artificial intelligence business has said in his unsealed opinion that while evidence showed the defendants may have solicited colleagues and mishandled company files, Palantir's noncompete restrictions were overbroad.

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Grocery Chain Strikes Deal In 401(k) Suit Revived By 2nd Circ.

By Patrick Hoff

A supermarket chain told a New York federal court it has agreed to settle a proposed class action claiming the company allowed its 401(k) plan to be saddled with excessive fees, about six months after the Second Circuit partially revived the case.

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EisnerAmper Settles SEC Allegations Over Infinity Q Audit

By Emilie Ruscoe

Audit firm EisnerAmper LLP will not have to pay a fine to resolve U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission allegations tied to its 2020 audit of an Infinity Q Capital Management LLC mutual fund at the center of a criminal overvaluation case.

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NYC Developers Accused Of $1.6M Housing Fraud Plead Out

By Stewart Bishop

Multiple real estate developers and their corporate entities Friday pled guilty over their roles in a $1.6 million scheme that Manhattan prosecutors say defrauded a New York state tax abatement program meant to support affordable housing.

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Senate Dems Float Bill To Break Up 'Meatpacking Monopoly'

By Matthew Perlman

Senate Democrats have introduced a bill to break up the country's largest meatpacking conglomerates over concerns that concentration in the beef, pork and chicken sectors has contributed to higher food prices and worse deals for farmers.

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Brief

Ex-NBAer Beasley Ordered To Pay $1M For Contract Breach

By Alex Lawson

A New York federal judge has ordered ex-NBA guard Malik Beasley to pay his former agency $1 million after the journeyman did not contest the agency's contract breach suit for nearly a year.

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Syrians Ask Justices To Reject Trump Admin's TPS Appeal

By Ganesh Setty

A group of Syrian nationals urged the U.S. Supreme Court to not disturb lower court decisions postponing the Trump administration's move to terminate their temporary protected status, arguing it's the over 6,000 Syrian TPS holders who'd suffer irreparable harm.

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Health Groups Back Bid To Bar Noncitizen Benefit Restrictions

By Gianna Ferrarin

A group of public health organizations and scholars Friday urged a Rhode Island federal court to make permanent its order blocking the Trump administration from enacting a policy change basing access to a host of federally funded services on immigration status.

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Cleary Rehires Former Federal Prosecutor From Paul Weiss

By Andrea Keckley

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP announced on Thursday that it has rehired a former Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP lawyer who previously served as co-chief of the Southern District of New York's General Crimes Section.

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Character.AI Case Highlights Agentic AI Liability Questions

The recently settled litigation against Character Technologies Inc. provides an early case study for exploring salient legal issues related to agentic artificial intelligence, such as tort liability, strict liability, statutory liability and contractual liability, says Samuel Mitchells at Smith Gambrell.

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DOJ Forges Ahead With Law Firm EO Appeals At DC Circ.

By Lauren Berg

The U.S. Department of Justice on Friday moved ahead with filing appeals at the D.C. Circuit to defend executive orders issued by President Donald Trump targeting four law firms, just three days after the agency backtracked on its decision to drop the fight.

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Legal Jobs Up 19th Straight Month In 'Goldilocks' Economy

By Tracey Read

The legal sector continued its lengthy upward streak in February, with 2,600 more people employed in lawyer, paralegal and other law-related professional roles last month than in January, according to seasonally adjusted data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Ex-Girardi Keese Atty Pleads Guilty For Role In Client Scandal

By Dorothy Atkins

Former Girardi Keese attorney Keith Griffin pled guilty to criminal contempt in Illinois federal court on Thursday for his role in the firm's failure to pay millions ​in client settlement funds to relatives of victims killed in the crash of Lion Air Flight 610.

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Louisiana Atty Sanctioned Over AI Hallucinations In Filing

By Matt Perez

A Louisiana attorney was fined $1,000 Thursday for his use of artificial intelligence in drafting an error-riddled brief, while three co-counsel were spared penalty.

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Investors Accuse Alston & Bird Of Aiding $328M Crypto Fraud

By David Minsky

Several investors have brought a Florida federal proposed class action alleging legal malpractice against Alston & Bird LLP, accusing the law firm of drafting joint venture agreements that were used to aid a $328 million cryptocurrency scam. 

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Constantine Cannon Defends Handling Of Sutter $75M Fee

By Dorothy Atkins

Constantine Cannon LLP pushed back against Schneider Wallace Cottrell Kim LLP's allegations it unfairly reduced Schneider Wallace's share of a $75.4 million fee award in Sutter Health's $228.5 million antitrust deal, arguing in California federal court that the firm "sat on the sidelines" for most of the decadelong fight and isn't entitled to a bigger cut.

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NJ Talc Suit Will Proceed Amid Beasley Allen DQ Appeal

By Emily Sawicki

The New Jersey Supreme Court has declined to stay multicounty litigation over Johnson & Johnson's talc-based baby powder brought by hundreds of women who allege their ovarian cancer was linked to the product, while Beasley Allen appeals its removal as plaintiff's counsel over a firm partner's collaboration with the pharmaceutical giant's former outside counsel.

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Florida Bar Rescinds Claim Agency Is Investigating Halligan

By Jack Karp

The Florida Bar said Friday that it is not investigating controversial former interim U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Lindsey Halligan, walking back a previous assertion it had made in a letter to a nonprofit that it was probing Halligan's actions.

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Courts Aren't Ignoring Justices' TPS Orders, Ex-Judges Say

By Ganesh Setty

Over 175 former federal and state judges have slammed the Trump administration's claim that lower courts "flouted" interim orders from the U.S. Supreme Court in litigation involving the administration's revocation of foreign nationals' temporary protected status, saying they weren't binding.

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Dems Again Push For Independent Immigration Courts

By Courtney Bublé

Democrats have again introduced a bill that would shift the immigration courts from the executive branch to an independent judiciary, following concerns that the Trump administration has "weaponized" the system.

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Roundup

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

By Laura Stewart Liberty

This past week in London has seen British American Tobacco sued by more than 100 investors, the government bring a claim against a COVID-19 supplier of personal protective equipment, Annington Funding sue its new corporate trustees on the Financial List, and Piers Morgan hit with a defamation claim from a pro-Israel barrister he interviewed on his YouTube channel. 

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

Anthropic, the developer of Claude AI, says it will take the Pentagon to court over being designated a national security risk because it wants to impose ethical guardrails on Claude's use. And the Mideast war is making in-house legal teams across the country work long hours to protect employees trapped by the violence and to keep businesses running despite broken supply chains. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Winston & Strawn LLP, Sullivan Papain Block McManus Coffinas & Cannavo PC, Stanford's Supreme Court Litigation Clinic and attorney Olivia Gabriel lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that New Jersey cannot shield its public transit system from personal injury lawsuits by out-of-state plaintiffs under sovereign immunity.

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In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On Law360

For those who missed out, here's a look back at the law firms, stories and expert analyses that generated the most buzz on Law360 last week.

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