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Lawyers for more than 20 states are following a playbook set out by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barett in their attempt to free $7 billion in solar project grants from the Trump administration.
The suit filed on behalf of writers Molly Tanzer and Jennifer Gilmore is the 11th copyright lawsuit filed by Joseph Saveri Law Firm over the use of protected works to train artificial intelligence.
U.S. Magistrate Judge John M. Bodenhausen of the Eastern District of Missouri approved the class action settlement in a data breach class action against Nahon, Saharovich & Trotz, and granted the motion for fees and costs to be awarded to the data breach and employment firm Cole & Van Note, which represented the plaintiff, Susan Garbarino.
D&D’s fantasy world offers students a "unique outlet for creative risk-taking and a fresh perspective on key lawyering skills,” Chris Ridder said in a statement. “Great lawyers—and great D&D players—are storytellers who think on their feet, leverage complex rules, and succeed as a team.”
The rapper fired his former manager Ronald Sweeney in September 2018, and the court said this week Sweeney could only collect a "reasonable fee" for services he completed up until his termination, the opinion said.
California is poised to be the first state to directly prohibit algorithmic pricing through antitrust law, a move legal experts say could trigger similar legislation across the country. A bill signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom bans use of "common pricing algorithms" that coordinate competitor pricing and significantly lowers the pleading standard for private antitrust claims.
Co-counsel for the rock band Slipknot filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia seeking damages and a court order to transfer the unauthorized slipknot.com domain name to the platinum-recording band that has sold more than 30 million records since its founding in 1995.
Law firms including Reed Smith, Fisher Philips, McDermott Will & Schulte, Ogletree Deakins, Paul Hastings and Paul Weiss contributed to the Vals AI study evaluating AI tools from Alexi, Counsel Stack, Midpage and Open AI.
In 2020, the Supreme Court ruled that a bankruptcy court’s decision to lift the automatic stay of pending litigation imposed by the Bankruptcy Code is a final, appealable order. But what if a bankruptcy court lifts the stay and later reimposes it? Is the latter order also immediately appealable, or is it considered interlocutory?
Attorneys representing California wildfire survivors are divided on whether the recent arrest of an alleged arsonist connected to a Januaryfire that ravaged the Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles will weaken ongoing litigation against government entities. Meanwhile, survivors of the Eaton wildfire in Altadena and Pasadena have publicly pushed back against a compensation fund proposed by Southern California Edison.
