Attys Defend $85M Fee Bid Blasted By Judge In Google Deal
By Bonnie Eslinger
Consumers who pursued an antitrust class action against Google urged the California federal judge who criticized their 98,000 hours billed as "grotesquely bloated" to approve their $85 million fee request, emphasizing Friday that they filed suit a year before state attorneys general joined the case and maintained a leading role in the litigation.
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POLICY & REGULATION
LITIGATION
FTC Swears Off Media Matters' Boycott Probe, Forever
By Bryan Koenig
Media Matters for America announced a "legally binding settlement" Monday resolving its retaliation claims against the Federal Trade Commission, securing a promise by the agency "to forgo ever reissuing or issuing a substantially similar" administrative subpoena to the left-leaning watchdog in the search for censorship of conservatives.
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DEALS
ENFORCEMENT
FTC Deal Bars Kochava From Selling Sensitive Location Data
By Allison Grande
Mobile app analytics provider Kochava Inc. has agreed to halt the disclosure of sensitive location data without consumers' affirmative express consent to resolve the Federal Trade Commission's longstanding claims that the data broker sold geolocation data from mobile devices that could be used to track people to reproductive health clinics, places of worship and other sensitive places.
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PEOPLE
EXPERT ANALYSIS
Suit's Dismissal Would Not Settle Gold Card Visa's Legality
The government’s recent assertion that the plaintiffs in American Association of University Professors v. Department of Homeland Security lack standing to challenge the Trump administration’s pay-to-play immigration program does not address whether an agency can deem a million-dollar gift evidence of eligibility for immigration benefits carefully defined by Congress, says Jun Li at Reid & Wise.
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2 AI Snafus Show Why Attys Can't Outsource Judgment
The recent incident involving Sullivan & Cromwell where citations in a filed motion were fabricated by artificial intelligence, as well as a punitive ruling from the Sixth Circuit in U.S. v. Farris, demonstrate that the obligation to supervise AI has belonged and always will belong to lawyers, says John Powell at the Kentucky School Boards Association.
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LEGAL INDUSTRY
Analysis
High Court Clarity On Subpoenas Creates Murky Path For AGs
By Carla Baranauckas
The U.S. Supreme Court's unanimous decision that the New Jersey Attorney General's Office infringed free speech by asking an anti-abortion nonprofit to release donor names gives nonprofits and companies more leverage for challenging subpoenas at the outset, although the question remains if and how attorneys general and other enforcers can ultimately obtain sought-after information following a constitutional affront.
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