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🚢 The Justice Department is preparing to activate a long-dormant maritime war court to streamline military capture of Iranian oil tankers as US prizes, according to three people familiar with the plans. https://aboutblaw.com/bmF7

💰 Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier (R) wants to extract far more money from Meta than the state would have received in this week’s landmark $18 billion settlement over features that allegedly addict children. https://aboutblaw.com/bmF9

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✳️ The FTC pursued an aggressive, years-long case against TikTok over its handling of children’s data. But when it came time to settle, the agency was nowhere to be seen. https://aboutblaw.com/bmJa

✳️ OpenAI was hit with multiple lawsuits claiming the artificial intelligence company could have prevented a mass shooting in Canada earlier this year by informing law enforcement about the suspected killer’s messages with the popular chatbot ChatGPT. https://aboutblaw.com/bmJb

✳️ A former software engineer at Google who was convicted of stealing the tech giant’s trade secrets for building AI chips was sentenced to a one year prison term by a California federal court. https://aboutblaw.com/bmJc

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🟣 A year after one of the largest immigration raids in recent New York history, many of the assertions made at the time by immigration officials, DOJ attorneys and ICE agents have been refuted by court filings, affidavits, bodycam footage and judicial rulings. https://aboutblaw.com/bmKW

🟣 Companies across several sectors are tapping workers with strong social media followings to promote products, a workplace cultural shift that creates potential for legal liability. https://aboutblaw.com/bmKX

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⚖️ Indiana’s top court is about to become the first in the nation to decide whether there’s a religious right to abortion. https://aboutblaw.com/bmMq

👩‍🎤 A landmark New York law requiring advertisers to disclose their use of synthetic performers is generating the first consumer complaints in a test of policy makers’ latest efforts to mitigate some of the potential negative effects of AI. https://aboutblaw.com/bmMr

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🔵 Unions’ push to block Google from buying troves of Spirit Airlines employment records underscores how sensitive workplace information is legally vulnerable to being sold and used for AI training, even without employees’ knowledge. https://aboutblaw.com/bmQk  
 
🔵 OpenAI is working on steps to address artificial intelligence safety issues with its top competitors Anthropic PBC and Google DeepMind, escalating industry efforts to respond to a groundswell of concern that the technology poses an economic and security threat. https://aboutblaw.com/bmQj  

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🔵 San Francisco’s city attorney is urging a state court to block Trump’s social media platform Truth Social from offering customers who pay $100,000 per month priority access to the president’s posts before they’re available to other users.  
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🔵 The Trump administration says it has identified a replacement for an immigrant detention case that had been set for argument but then dismissed by the US Supreme Court. https://aboutblaw.com/bmTO  

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Nearly half of women attorneys who are also caregivers find it difficult to separate work and those duties, a Bloomberg Law survey shows. https://aboutblaw.com/bmVA

Makers of ice cream bars, energy drinks, gummy worms, barbecue sauces, protein bars, and more are all targets of an onslaught of consumer deception litigation because they contain a single ingredient: a sugar substitute called allulose. https://aboutblaw.com/bmVB

Match Group is keeping a lid on records showing what its senior leaders knew and did — or failed to do — about sexual predators using its dating apps to hunt for victims, according to a lawsuit filed in Delaware. https://aboutblaw.com/bmVE

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✳️ The Trump administration rolled back a Biden-era rule that expanded Title IX’s protections against sex discrimination and harassment to include sexual orientation and gender identity. https://aboutblaw.com/bmXE

✳️ Florida’s top cop is urging a state court to block OpenAI and Sam Altman from releasing any new artificial intelligence models without third-party safety approval. https://aboutblaw.com/bmXD

✳️ The explosion in data-center spending by Microsoft, Amazon, and other tech giants has sparked new scrutiny over a tax break that will save them billions of dollars this year and fuel the breakneck pace of new development. https://aboutblaw.com/bmXF

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◾️ The war in Iran has put ICE detainees from that country in a unique position: They're being released at a faster pace than ICE is arresting them. https://aboutblaw.com/bmZq

◾️ Thirty-seven people have died while detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement since last fall, the deadliest fiscal year on record for the agency. https://aboutblaw.com/bmZo

◾️ The Education Department has revived a rule from the first Trump administration that civil rights groups slammed for weakening sex discrimination protections in K-12 schools and on college campuses. https://aboutblaw.com/bmZp

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⏺️ US District Judge Christopher “Casey” Cooper’s handling of the case involving President Donald Trump and the Kennedy Center, while meticulously legal, reflects how richly he was steeped in the arts, including at center performances, as a child by his influential aunt. https://aboutblaw.com/bm1a

⏺️ Franking privileges, and questions about them, are literally as old as the republic. But such spending has surged in recent Congresses, the lines between informing constituents and taxpayer-funded campaign ads seems blurrier than ever. https://aboutblaw.com/bm1b

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🏡 Deed theft, a crime as old as property records themselves, used to require a fair amount of shoe-leather work. Not anymore, thanks to AI. https://aboutblaw.com/bm2G

📚 Trump administration guidance that’s led some universities to halt a training program for international students is unlawful, college groups argue in a new lawsuit. https://aboutblaw.com/bm2I

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➖ President Donald Trump’s new artificial intelligence task force is packed with members possessing deep industry ties, a Bloomberg Government analysis found. https://aboutblaw.com/bm3y

➖ The Department of Homeland Security aims to add a charge of up to $100,000 for participation in an employment program for international graduates of US colleges. https://aboutblaw.com/bm3x

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👩‍💼 Keeping human decision-makers involved when businesses use AI to hire and fire employees is slowly gaining traction among state lawmakers, notably in newly enacted California legislation and rulemaking underway in Colorado. https://aboutblaw.com/bm4s

🫗 Prospective data centers in the Great Plains have community water managers and others on alert for projects that could further deplete the strained Ogallala Aquifer, even as they’re hopeful the centers’ water needs will be low. https://aboutblaw.com/bm4t

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✴️ Former New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin is picking fights with some of AI’s biggest players. https://aboutblaw.com/bm57

✴️ Immigrants have increasingly lost asylum claims since President Donald Trump returned to office and are more likely to lose if their case is before one of his administration’s newest immigration judges. https://aboutblaw.com/bm58

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🔘 The Supreme Court appeared likely to back consumers in a lawsuit against Paramount Global testing whether a federal video privacy law passed during an era of brick-and-mortar video stores applies to online streaming. https://aboutblaw.com/bm6V

🔘 Apple and OpenAI are heading to court for the first high-stakes hearing in the iPhone maker’s lawsuit accusing the artificial intelligence company of scheming to steal proprietary information about upcoming products. https://aboutblaw.com/bm6U

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🔷 Recent multimillion-dollar social media addiction verdicts and settlements have energized calls to limit AI in schools despite concern that doing so threatens to undermine the technology’s educational benefits. https://aboutblaw.com/bm7U

🔷 More than half a dozen states sued OpenAI alleging the tech giant didn’t implement sufficient safeguards to protect vulnerable users, including kids. https://aboutblaw.com/bm7V

🔷 The Trump administration has slowed the application process for would-be citizens, deciding 73% fewer naturalization cases over the past year. https://aboutblaw.com/bm7W

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⚽️ Soccer superstar Erling Haaland’s suit against a Norwegian airline that posted an image of his styled ponytail on one of its planes is raising new concerns about likeness rights in the age of social media. https://aboutblaw.com/bm9y

🩺 The Trump administration’s move to integrate artificial intelligence agents with Medicare patient data is facing concerns the tech push could put sensitive health information at risk. https://aboutblaw.com/bm9z

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🏳️‍🌈 Cities are expanding their civil rights laws to cover polyamory, as well as asexuality and pansexuality, in proposals that are beginning to spread to the state level and raise potential compliance issues for companies. https://aboutblaw.com/bnaU

👓 Meta was hit with a new privacy lawsuit alleging the company recorded a California man’s private conversations via its AI-enabled smart glasses without his knowledge or consent. https://aboutblaw.com/bnaV

🎙 What happens when the government’s own lawyers are cut out of decisions about following court orders? A former career DOJ lawyer tells UnCommon Law what changed under Trump’s second administration: the fear, the delays, and instructions to stop advising agency clients in high-profile cases on how to comply with court orders. https://aboutblaw.com/bnaW

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➡️ Livestreamer Hasan Piker filed a defamation lawsuit against commentator Scott Jennings in federal court and wants more than $72 million in damages. https://aboutblaw.com/bneT

➡️ ChatGPT gave a woman with epilepsy unlicensed and inaccurate advice to taper off her anti-seizure medication leading to her preventable death, a lawsuit from the woman’s family alleged. https://aboutblaw.com/bneW

➡️ About 100 pages of a 335-page Anthropic regulatory filing were devoted to listing potential hazards for investors, providing a glimpse into the unique challenge ahead for its legal team as the company prepares to go public. https://aboutblaw.com/bneY

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🏛 The collapse of Weil Gotshal marked a stunning downfall of a 95-year-old firm. Interviews with people close to Weil show that decision to unwind was the culmination of a slow deterioration that turned into a relatively swift collapse. https://aboutblaw.com/bnhU

🎱 An anticipated first-of-its-kind trial against a US soldier accused of using classified information about the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to reap $400,000 on Polymarket would probe how far prosecutors can go to crack down on insider trading in the skyrocketing industry. https://aboutblaw.com/bnhS