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March 17, 2025
'Matrix' Film Producer Files Ch. 11 After Warner Bros. Row
Film production company Village Roadshow filed Chapter 11 in Delaware on Monday, listing about $390 million of debt and blaming a fight with production partner Warner Bros. over the release of a 2021 sequel to "The Matrix" for its financial problems.
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March 14, 2025
Looming Virginia AI Bill Likely Just Start Of State Law Flood
Virginia is on the brink of becoming the second state to regulate high-risk uses of artificial intelligence, a move that would kick-start the formation of a patchwork that is similar to the one emerging in the data privacy realm and that is expected to rapidly expand in the wake of the federal government's disavowal of stringent rules in the AI space.
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March 14, 2025
Newsmax Says It Shelled Out $40M To End Smartmatic Suit
Newsmax Media Inc. paid $40 million in last year's settlement with Smartmatic USA Corp. to put to rest the election technology company defamation suit ahead of trial, according to a disclosure recently filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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March 14, 2025
'Pig Butchering' Crypto Site Must Pay $2.5M, Judge Says
A purported crypto trading platform has been ordered to pay nearly $2.5 million after failing to respond to U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission claims that it was at the heart of a so-called pig-butchering scheme — or a scam that sees victims fleeced by fictitious, chatty social media users.
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March 14, 2025
'Final Fantasy' Maker Says Rival Created Copycat Game
Square Enix, the creator behind Final Fantasy, sued a Chinese company in Washington federal court for allegedly releasing an infringing role-playing video game that uses substantial elements of Square Enix's Front Mission – 2089: Borderscape, including characters, game mechanics and visual designs.
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March 14, 2025
Ex-Mich. Players Defend $50M NIL Suit Against NCAA, Big Ten
Former University of Michigan football players are fighting to keep a proposed class action seeking $50 million in compensation for their names, images and likenesses in Michigan federal court and fend off what they called "premature" dismissal bids from the NCAA and Big Ten Network.
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March 14, 2025
Legalese Aside, Live Nation Judge Keeps Damages Claims
A New York federal judge refused Friday to pare back a lawsuit filed by the government and 40 states accusing Live Nation of quashing competition and hiking ticketing prices, preserving claims that artists have been forced to use Live Nation promotion services and deeming state attorneys general to have standing to seek damages.
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March 14, 2025
Gov't Tells Justices FCC Subsidy Critics Target 'Strawman'
Opponents of the Federal Communications Commission's nearly 30-year-old telecom subsidy system are making "strawman" arguments by claiming taxing power has been unlawfully delegated away from Congress, the government told the U.S. Supreme Court.
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March 14, 2025
Apple Tells DC Circ. It's Still Singled Out In Final Google Fixes
Apple told the D.C. Circuit that it still needs to intervene in the U.S. Department of Justice's search monopolization case against Google because the government's final remedy proposal still treats the iPhone-maker differently than other companies.
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March 14, 2025
Calif. Tribe Looks To Defend Casino Land Trust Decision
A California tribe at the crux of an Interior Department decision to take 221 acres of trust land for the construction of its casino development wants to intervene in a challenge to the order, saying it and the federal agency have different goals in dismissing the dispute.
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March 14, 2025
FCC Chief Presses Congress For Spectrum Pipeline Soon
The Republican chair of the Federal Communications Commission told lawmakers the U.S. won't make critical advances on the wireless technology front until they free up dedicated blocks of airwaves for private licensing.
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March 14, 2025
Record Labels Want Out Of Copyright Suit Over Cardi B Song
Two music creators who say Cardi B's hit "Enough (Miami)" infringed a song they wrote in 2021 cannot circumvent the need for a copyright registration merely by framing their claim under common law, Atlantic Records and Warner Music Group have said in a bid to toss the Texas federal lawsuit.
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March 14, 2025
Ex-Ozy Media Employee Avoids Prison After Cooperating
A former Ozy Media employee who became a government cooperator and testified at the fraud trial of the company and its founder Carlos Watson was sentenced to time served Friday.
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March 14, 2025
Theft Ring Member Who Stole Warhol Paintings Gets 8 Yrs.
A man who admitted to participating in a 20-year art and sports memorabilia theft ring targeting Andy Warhol paintings and Yogi Berra's MVP plaques across multiple states was sentenced to eight years in prison by a Pennsylvania federal judge on Thursday, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
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March 14, 2025
Combs Jury To Be Closely Vetted For May Trial
A Manhattan federal judge said Friday that he plans to open Sean "Diddy" Combs' criminal trial on sex-trafficking charges on May 12 after a lengthy jury-vetting process, laying out his plan after the jailed hip-hop icon denied charges in a superseding indictment.
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March 14, 2025
Reject Next-Gen TV Tuner Mandate, Consumer Tech Org. Says
It's a bad idea to force TV manufacturers to include devices that make them compatible with the next generation of television broadcasting technology on all new sets, a consumer technology trade group told the Federal Communications Commission.
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March 14, 2025
Post-Gazette Print, Ad Workers Take Buyout After Court Loss
Striking production and advertising workers at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette have reached a deal to take a buyout from the newspaper's publisher, the Communications Workers of America announced Thursday, just weeks after the National Labor Relations Board lost its bid to restart bargaining between the paper and the workers' unions.
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March 14, 2025
FTC Probing $13B Marketing Mega-Deal
Marketing communications giants Omnicom and Interpublic disclosed an in-depth Federal Trade Commission probe into their $13 billion merger, pumping the brakes on their ability to close the deal soon, but they said the expectation is nevertheless to finish by the second half of this year.
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March 14, 2025
Off The Bench: Ex-Jet Sues Over Favre Clip, New Soccer Build
In this week's Off The Bench, a retired football superstar claims an argument with icon Brett Favre should have never been aired on television, one trading card company gets the upper hand on another in dueling antitrust suits, and an English soccer club opts for a new stadium over a rebuild of the old one.
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March 14, 2025
Brooklyn Man Gets 45 Months For 'Seinfeld'-Themed Fraud
A Brooklyn federal judge sentenced a podcaster and purported cryptocurrency guru to 45 months in prison after he pled guilty to scamming investors out of more than $2 million using fictitious businesses, including one apparently named after "Seinfeld" character George Costanza's fake prospective employer Vandelay Industries.
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March 13, 2025
Brave Software Claims 'Bullying' By News Corp. In IP Row
Internet browser company Brave Software on Wednesday hauled News Corp. into California federal court, accusing the media company of trying to "bully" it out of the search engine market by crying copyright infringement and threatening legal action over Brave's use of its website content.
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March 13, 2025
Calif. Kids' Privacy Law Again Fails Constitutional Challenge
A California federal judge on Thursday again blocked the state from enforcing a landmark law requiring tech giants to bolster privacy protections for children, finding that a second review of the dispute didn't change the conclusion that tech trade group NetChoice was likely to succeed with its First Amendment challenge.
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March 13, 2025
Springer Nature Planning 'Bait-And-Switch,' Court Hears
Independent scientific journal publisher Pleiades Publishing is urging a New York federal court to bar Springer Nature from trying to use a "bait-and-switch" tactic with customers allegedly aimed at undermining Pleiades' reputation while the two companies arbitrate a dispute over a soured distribution deal.
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March 13, 2025
Public Broadcasting Sues FEMA Over Emergency Alert Funds
The nonprofit responsible for providing funding to more than 1,500 U.S. public radio and television stations filed suit Thursday in D.C. federal court, accusing the Federal Emergency Management Agency of placing an unlawful hold on $40 million in grant funds meant to bolster the national's emergency alert system.
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March 13, 2025
Soulja Boy Beat And Raped Assistant, Jury Told As Trial Starts
The artist known as Soulja Boy physically and sexually abused a live-in personal assistant for nearly two years, jurors in California state court heard on the first day of a civil assault and employment trial against the "Crank That" rapper on Thursday.
Expert Analysis
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How Law Firms Can Counteract The Loneliness Epidemic
The legal industry is facing an urgent epidemic of loneliness, affecting lawyer well-being, productivity, retention and profitability, and law firm leaders should take concrete steps to encourage the development of genuine workplace connections, says Michelle Gomez at Littler and Gwen Mellor Romans at Herald Talent.
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5 Keys To Building Stronger Attorney-Client Relationships
Attorneys are often focused on being seen as the expert, but bonding with clients and prospects by sharing a few key personal details provides the basis for a caring, trusted and profoundly deeper business relationship, says Deb Feder at Feder Development.
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Justices' TikTok Ruling May Pose Threat To Online Expression
The U.S. Supreme Court's recent landmark ruling upholding a federal law mandating TikTok's forced divestiture in the name of data security may embolden digital censorship agendas worldwide, says IP lawyer Bahram Jafari.
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What SDNY Judge Can And Can't Do In Adams Case
The federal judge in the Southern District of New York overseeing the criminal case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams deferred making a decision on the government's motion to dismiss the indictment, and while he does have limited authority to deny the motion, that would ultimately be a futile gesture, says Ethan Greenberg at Anderson Kill.
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What Reuters Ruling Means For AI Fair Use And Copyright
A Delaware federal court's recent decision in Thomson Reuters v. ROSS Intelligence is not likely to have lasting effect in view of the avalanche of artificial intelligence decisions to come, but the court made two points that will resonate with copyright owners who are disputing technology companies' unlicensed use of copyright-protected materials to train generative AI models, says David Ben-Meir at Ben-Meir Law Group.
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Opinion
NFT Bill Needs Refining To Effectively Regulate Digital Assets
A recent bill in the U.S. House proposing to regulate nonfungible tokens as digital assets would leave key concepts undefined until the U.S. comptroller general completes an after-the-fact study of NFTs, showing it needs more work before it is comprehensive enough to meaningfully protect the market, say attorneys at Duane Morris.
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McMahon SEC Settlement Warns Of Nondisclosure's Price
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's recent financial nondisclosure settlement with former WWE CEO Vince McMahon illustrates the breadth of executives' reimbursement obligations under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and highlights the importance of building robust internal corporate reporting processes, say attorneys at BCLP.
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Series
Racing Corvettes Makes Me A Better Lawyer
The skills I use when racing Corvettes have enhanced my legal practice in several ways, because driving, like practicing law, requires precision, awareness and a good set of brakes — complete with the wisdom to know how and when to use them, says Kat Mateo at Olshan Frome.
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Questions Remain After Justices' Narrow E-Rate FCA Ruling
The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in Wisconsin Bell, holding that requests for reimbursement from the Federal Communications Commission's E-Rate program are subject to False Claims Act liability, resolves one important question but leaves several others open, says Jason Neal at HWG.
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Opinion
Attorneys Must Act Now To Protect Judicial Independence
Given the Trump administration's recent moves threatening the independence of the judiciary, including efforts to impeach judges who ruled against executive actions, lawyers must protect the rule of law and resist attempts to dilute the judicial branch’s authority, says attorney Bhavleen Sabharwal.
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Colo. Anti-SLAPP Cases Highlight Dismiss Standard Disparity
A pair of recent decisions from the Colorado Court of Appeals highlights two disparate standards for courts evaluating anti-SLAPP motions: one that requires a court to accept the plaintiff's evidence as true and another that allows the court to assess its merits, says Jacob Hollars at Spencer Fane.
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Rethinking 'No Comment' For Clients Facing Public Crises
“No comment” is no longer a cost-free or even a viable public communications strategy for companies in crisis, and counsel must tailor their guidance based on a variety of competing factors to help clients emerge successfully, says Robert Bowers at Moore & Van Allen.
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How Design Thinking Can Help Lawyers Find Purpose In Work
Lawyers everywhere are feeling overwhelmed amid mass government layoffs, increasing political instability and a justice system stretched to its limits — but a design-thinking framework can help attorneys navigate this uncertainty and find meaning in their work, say law professors at the University of Michigan.
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Compliance Pointers For DOJ's Sweeping Data Security Rule
A new Justice Department rule broadly restricts many common data transactions with the goal of preventing access by countries of concern, and with an effective date of April 8, U.S. companies must quickly assess practices related to employee, customer and vendor data, says Sam Castic at Hintze Law.
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What To Expect From The New FCC Chair
As a vocal critic of the Federal Communications Commission's recent priorities, newly appointed chair Brendan Carr has described a vision for the agency that would bring significant changes to telecommunication regulation and Telephone Consumer Protection Act enforcement in the U.S., say attorneys at BCLP.