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TOP NEWS
Anatomy Of A Citation Hallucination: AI Edit, Associate Review
By Rachel Riley
Counsel for consumers in a supplement labeling lawsuit against Amazon responded Wednesday to a Seattle federal judge's order to explain an AI-hallucinated citation, saying the error was introduced by a generative artificial intelligence tool used to "harmonize" drafts of a brief, then missed by a fifth-year Boies Schiller associate tasked with checking the citations.
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POLICY & REGULATION
LITIGATION
Judge Quashes Subpoena Of 5 Firms That Repped Twitter
By Rae Ann Varona
A Delaware federal court ruled Thursday that six former Twitter employees cannot subpoena five law firms that represented the social media company in connection with its acquisition by Elon Musk, rejecting the employees' "conclusory allegations" that the company and Musk used the firms to make false promises of severance benefits.
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Apple Gets Class Claims Axed From Storage False Ad Fight
By Dorothy Atkins
A California federal judge has tossed putative class claims from litigation accusing Apple of misrepresenting the storage capacity of certain iPhone and iPad products, finding the consumers' state claims are time-barred and weren't tolled by similar litigation filed over a decade ago, but some consumers can pursue their individual claims.
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NC Justices Shouldn't Ax Severance Fight, Ex-CEO Says
By P.J. D'Annunzio
North Carolina's long-arm statute means its business court had jurisdiction to decide a lawsuit filed by the former CEO of a cybersecurity and IT firm over its alleged failure to buy out his equity interest as part of a severance agreement, he has argued to the state's high court in opposition to the company's appeal of a ruling keeping the case in the Tar Heel State.
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Gemini Investor Sues Over Crypto Co.'s Post-IPO Biz Shift
By Sydney Price
Crypto exchange operator Gemini Space Station Inc. and its founders Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss were hit with a proposed shareholder class action accusing them of not disclosing before the firm's initial public offering its plans to shift focus to the prediction market, pull back on global operations and replace certain members of its leadership.
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DEALS
PE Behemoths Eye $10B OpenAI JV, Plus More Rumors
By Jade Martinez-Pogue
Private equity firms, including TPG and Bain Capital, are considering forming a $10 billion joint venture with OpenAI, Finnish lift maker Kone Oyj is mulling an acquisition of its rival TK Elevator, and Australian investment firm Macquarie has backed out of a bidding war for a stake in Kuwait's oil pipeline network due to the conflict in the Middle East.
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REAL ESTATE
BANKRUPTCY
ENFORCEMENT
TAX
EXPERT ANALYSIS
LEGAL INDUSTRY
The Hypnosis That Helped Send A Man To Death Row
By Marco Poggio
The capital murder conviction of Charles Don Flores, a man on Texas’ death row, hinged on a courtroom identification by a witness who had previously undergone hypnosis. His lawyers are now asking the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene, after Texas’ top court shot down his claims that the hypnosis session contaminated the witness’s memory and tainted her identification.
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Roundup
Balancing The Scales: $3M Jury Verdict, GEO Appeal Denial
By Orlando Lorenzo
A Philadelphia federal judge rejected bids to disturb a $3 million jury award and impose sanctions on plaintiff's counsel arising from proceedings he described as "near-daily Festivus celebrations, where everyone got to air their grievances 'for the sake of the record'" and a Detroit man saw his murder conviction vacated after 27 years due to the case's reliance on a coerced confession and a lack of physical evidence, among other access to justice stories you may have missed.
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Roundup
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
By Laura Stewart Liberty
The past week in London has seen an ex-professional footballer revive a dispute with Charles Russell Speechlys, Virgin Media face a group data protection claim after hundreds of thousands of customers' personal details were exposed online for months, and Mishcon de Reya sued by a real estate private equity firm founded by a former Morgan Stanley executive.
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Roundup
GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week
By Michele Gorman
Major shareholder groups sued the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, claiming the agency violated the Administrative Procedure Act. In the meantime, some attorneys think the sanctions that judges are issuing to lawyers over AI-generated errors won't be enough to stop the problem. 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
Baron & Budd PC, Walden Macht Haran & Williams LLP and Powers Pyles Sutter & Verville PC lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Ninth Circuit revived a major hospital chain's False Claims Act suit accusing large pharmaceutical companies of massive overcharges in a prominent drug discount program.
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