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July 16, 2025
Fla. Man Convicted In Plot To Kill Fed Prosecutor, FBI Agent
A Florida federal jury convicted a former university student of charges in connection with a murder-for-hire plot and attempting to kill U.S. government officials, including a prosecutor and FBI agent shortly before his trial commenced in a separate cyberstalking case.
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July 16, 2025
NFT Fraudster Says He Used Tornado To Hide $1.1M Rug Pull
An admitted cryptocurrency fraudster who copped to a million-dollar nonfungible tokens scam Wednesday told the jury in the $1 billion money laundering and sanctions trial of Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm that when it came time to hide the proceeds of the NFT fraud, he turned to the crypto mixer to cover his tracks.
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July 16, 2025
OpenAI, Microsoft Challenge Authors' Proposed Class Action
OpenAI and its financial backer Microsoft each have lodged challenges in New York federal court to a consolidated proposed class action from a group of best-selling authors who claim their works were used to train ChatGPT, saying the consolidated litigation went beyond the court's permissible scope.
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July 16, 2025
PR Consultant Wins Exit From Lively's 'It Ends With Us' Suit
A New York federal judge Wednesday dismissed a public relations consultant and his company from actress Blake Lively's lawsuit that accuses her "It Ends With Us" co-star and director, Justin Baldoni, of sexual harassment on set and trying to orchestrate a public relations campaign to "destroy" her reputation.
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July 16, 2025
Gilgo Beach Killer Case Puts New DNA Science To The Test
The only physical evidence linking the Gilgo Beach serial killings to the defendant, Rex Heuermann, are five hairs that could only be analyzed via a newer technique known as whole genome sequencing, but as the court decides whether the science is jury ready, experts are divided.
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July 16, 2025
Meta Wanted To Shield Zuckerberg From FTC Suit, Chancery Told
A former Facebook director testified Wednesday that company directors resisted federal efforts to include CEO Mark Zuckerberg as a defendant in a privacy breach suit that settled for $5 billion in 2019, starting a Delaware trial on a derivative stockholder suit to recover the payout.
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July 16, 2025
Ex-Tech Exec Says Ga. Law Can't Hold Her To Trade Secrets
An ex-vice president of Georgia-based software firm Trinoor LLC said Tuesday that a trade secrets suit from her former company should be thrown out over contradictory language about which state's law ought to govern the spat.
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July 16, 2025
NBA Bolsters Case For Justices To Review VPPA Scope
The NBA is amplifying its push for the U.S. Supreme Court to review a Second Circuit decision that revived a Video Privacy Protection Act suit against the league for sharing user data, saying appellate courts have splintered on the issue since it filed its March petition.
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July 16, 2025
DOJ Tells FCC Terminals Critical To Undersea Cable Security
The U.S. Department of Justice is calling for new Federal Communications Commission rules to better protect undersea cable systems from foreign adversaries, saying cable licensees should have to report information about nonlicensee entities that operate equipment on submarine cables landing in the U.S.
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July 15, 2025
Tornado Founder Wasn't In On Crypto Laundering, Jury Told
Counsel for a Seattle-area software developer and co-founder of Tornado Cash told a New York federal jury on Tuesday that he had nothing to do with North Korean cybercriminals and others who used the cryptocurrency mixer to launder more than $1 billion in ill-gotten gains.
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July 15, 2025
Consumers Say Apple's Bid To End App Store Case Will Fail
A massive class of consumers accusing Apple of monopolizing the distribution of apps on its devices has told a California federal court the tech giant's planned summary judgment bid should be rejected because there's evidence showing harm to both users and developers.
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July 15, 2025
House Passes Bill To Codify FCC Network Security Council
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill Tuesday that would cement into law a federal advisory panel on network security.
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July 15, 2025
FCC Hunts For Customer Info On Cellcom Network Outage
Regional wireless service provider Cellcom's mid-May network outage has prompted a public inquiry by federal regulators who want to know how customers handled their inability to make or receive texts and calls.
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July 15, 2025
Internet Provider Can't Duck Conn. Atty's ID Theft Probe
Connecticut Trial Firm LLC co-founder Andrew Garza may pursue a bill of discovery against internet service provider NetSpeed LLC as he tries to unmask the person he says stole his identity to open a bank account, a Connecticut state judge has ruled.
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July 15, 2025
FCC Drops 'Single Seller' Marketing Reg After 11th Circ. Ruling
The Federal Communications Commission has plucked from the books a rule requiring individual consumer consent for companies to contact customers through comparison shopping sites after the Eleventh Circuit declared the regulation an overstep.
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July 15, 2025
Fizz Social Loses Bid To Block Instacart's 'Fizz' Drink App
A California federal judge has denied social media platform Fizz Social Corp.'s bid for a preliminary injunction in its trademark infringement and anti-cybersquatting lawsuit accusing Instacart and Partiful of ripping off its "FIZZ" mark to launch a rival "Fizz" beverage-delivery app that targets the so-called Gen Z demographic.
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July 15, 2025
Judge Says Election Audit Deal Doesn't Cover Michigan Atty
A $500,000 settlement reached between a Pennsylvania businessman and a cybersecurity firm suing over unpaid voting machine investigation bills does not cover a Michigan attorney and her firm, a Michigan federal judge ruled this week.
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July 15, 2025
Roku Attacks Mich. AG's Standing In Child Data Privacy Suit
Michigan's attorney general lacks the authority to assert privacy claims on behalf of millions of Great Lakes State residents, Roku Inc. said Monday in a bid to narrow a lawsuit accusing the streaming platform of illegally collecting and sharing children's data.
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July 15, 2025
9th Circ. Upholds Axing Of IT Co.'s Microsoft Data Misuse Case
The Ninth Circuit declined Tuesday to revive a cybersecurity supplier's case accusing Microsoft of misusing a proprietary database of login credentials recovered on the black market, concluding that the parties' contract did not impose limits on the tech giant's use of the data.
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July 15, 2025
Booz Allen Urges DC Circ. To Affirm IRS Leak Sentence
Government contractor Booz Allen Hamilton urged the D.C. Circuit to uphold the five-year prison sentence of its former employee for leaking tax returns while on a job at the IRS, saying the crime has hurt the company's reputation and subjected it to "baseless lawsuits."
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July 15, 2025
LA Deputies Admit Using Positions To Aid Crypto 'Godfather'
Two Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies admitted using their official positions to harass enemies of a cryptocurrency founder who called himself "The Godfather" and failed to report $36 million in income from selling hacked Meta business accounts, the U.S. Department of Justice said.
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July 14, 2025
Top Data Privacy & AI Developments Of 2025: Midyear Report
The rise and rapid fall of a federal proposal to ban states from regulating artificial intelligence for a decade and an uptick in activity from data privacy enforcers in states across the country dominated headlines in the first half of 2025, and attorneys are expecting these areas to continue to grab attention in the coming months.Â
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July 14, 2025
ÃÛÌÒÊÓÆµ Deal To Put Medical Debt Back On Reports OK'd
A Texas federal court has reversed a Biden-era rule that kept an estimated $49 billion in medical debt from credit reports after the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and lender trade groups struck a deal to axe the rule.
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July 14, 2025
ÃÛÌÒÊÓÆµ Defends Timeliness Of Experian Credit Reporting Suit
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has urged a California federal judge to reject Experian's bid to toss key claims in the agency's suit accusing it of mishandling consumer credit reporting disputes, arguing that the company can't dodge liability by disavowing a tolling agreement.
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July 14, 2025
Cigna Denies Responsibility For Alleged Health Data Breach
Cigna has asked a Pennsylvania federal judge to throw out class claims by health plan members alleging it failed to protect their private data, arguing they didn't show how their sensitive information was intercepted from the insurer's websites.
Expert Analysis
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4 Consumer Class Action Trends To Watch In 2nd Half Of 2025
The first half of 2025 has seen a surge of consumer class action trends related to online tools, websites and marketing messages, creating a new legal risk landscape for companies of all sizes, says Scott Shaffer at Olshan Frome.
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8 Ways Lawyers Can Protect The Rule Of Law In Their Work
Whether they are concerned with judicial independence, regulatory predictability or client confidence, lawyers can take specific meaningful actions on their own when traditional structures are too slow or too compromised to respond, says Angeli Patel at the Berkeley Center of Law and Business.
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3 Cautionary Tales For Cos. Using Facial Recognition Tech
Whether a business intends to develop its own facial recognition applications or contract with another company to use such services, three recent case studies should be kept in mind to help lower the risk of litigation or regulatory enforcement, says Adam Nyenhuis at Hilgers Graben.
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Series
Law School's Missed Lessons: Communicating With Clients
Law school curricula often overlook client communication procedures, and those who actively teach this crucial facet of the practice can create exceptional client satisfaction and success, says Patrick Hanson at Wiggam Law.
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3 Judicial Approaches To Applying Loper Bright, 1 Year Later
In the year since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Chevron deference in its Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo decision, a few patterns have emerged in lower courts’ application of the precedent to determine whether agency actions are lawful, say attorneys at Husch Blackwell.
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What Businesses Need To Know To Avoid VPPA Class Actions
Divergent rulings by the Second, Sixth and Seventh Circuits about the scope of the Video Privacy Protection Act have highlighted the difficulty of applying a statute conceived to regulate the now-obsolete brick-and-mortar video store sector in today's internet economy, say attorneys at DTO Law.
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Prepping For SEC's Changing Life Sciences Enforcement
By proactively addressing several risk areas, companies in the life sciences sector can position themselves to minimize potential exposure under the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's return to back-to-basics enforcement focused on insider trading and fraud, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.
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Series
Adapting To Private Practice: From US Rep. To Boutique Firm
My transition from serving as a member of Congress to becoming a partner at a boutique firm has been remarkably smooth, in part because I never stopped exercising my legal muscles, maintained relationships with my former colleagues and set the right tone at the outset, says Mondaire Jones at Friedman Kaplan.
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Comparing New Neural Data Privacy Laws In 4 States
Although no federal law yet addresses neural privacy comprehensively, the combined effect of recent state laws in Colorado, California, Montana and Connecticut is already shaping the regulatory future, but a multistate compliance strategy has quickly become a gating item for those experimenting with neuro-enabled workplace tools, says Kristen Mathews at Cooley.
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Opinion
Senate's 41% Litigation Finance Tax Would Hurt Legal System
The Senate’s latest version of the Big Beautiful Bill Act would impose a 41% tax on the litigation finance industry, but the tax is totally disconnected from the concerns it purports to address, and it would set the country back to a time when small plaintiffs had little recourse against big defendants, says Anthony Sebok at Cardozo School of Law.
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Series
Performing As A Clown Makes Me A Better Lawyer
To say that being a clown in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade has changed my legal career would truly be an understatement — by creating an opening to converse on a unique topic, it has allowed me to connect with clients, counsel and even judges on a deeper level, says Charles Tatelbaum at Tripp Scott.
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Series
Law School's Missed Lessons: Rejecting Biz Dev Myths
Law schools don’t spend sufficient time dispelling certain myths that prevent young lawyers from exploring new business opportunities, but by dismissing these misguided beliefs, even an introverted first-year associate with a small network of contacts can find long-term success, says Ronald Levine at Herrick Feinstein.
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Speech Protection Questions In AI Case Raise Liability Risk
A Florida federal court's recent landmark ruling in Garcia v. Character Technologies, rejecting artificial intelligence developers' efforts to shield themselves from product liability and wrongful death claims under the First Amendment, challenges the assumption that chatbot outputs qualify as speech, and may redefine AI regulation and litigation nationally, says Peter Gregory at Goldberg Segalla.
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The Legal Fallout Of The Open Model AI Ecosystem
The spread of open-weight and open-source artificial intelligence models is introducing potential harms across the supply chain, but new frameworks will allow for the growth and development of AI technologies without sacrificing the safety of end users, says Harshita Ganesh at CMBG3 Law.
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Move Beyond Surface-Level Edits To Master Legal Writing
Recent instances in which attorneys filed briefs containing artificial intelligence hallucinations offer a stark reminder that effective revision isn’t just about superficial details like grammar — it requires attorneys to critically engage with their writing and analyze their rhetorical choices, says Ivy Grey at WordRake.