Reuters WASHINGTON, Feb 21 (Reuters) – U.S. Supreme Court justices signaled on Wednesday they may dismiss a legal fight between a Miami music producer and Warner Music (WMG.O)opens new tab over a song by rapper Flo Rida. Some of the justices during arguments in the case questioned whether they should decide the Read more…
ABA Journal During oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court last term—in one of two thorny cases about whether social media companies could be held liable for aiding and abetting terrorist groups—Justice Elena Kagan observed, “We’re a court. We really don’t know about these things.” “You know,” she continued, looking Read more…
ABA Journal “Generative artificial intelligence—which can generate new content based on a prompt—has the potential to “dramatically improve the efficiency of a lawyer’s practice,” but it also can pose ethical concerns, according to a Florida Bar ethics opinion approved Jan. 19. One of the pitfalls is that generative AI can “hallucinate” or Read more…
ABA Journal “Musician Dustin Ballard has turned a spare room in his Dallas home into a soundproof studio. Inside are relics from another era: a ukulele, a fiddle, a smattering of 45s and an Edison phonograph. But when he sits down at his PC to make music, he’s immersed in Read more…
ABA Journal The U.S. Supreme Court is about to take up one of the biggest cases of the term not involving former President Donald Trump. On Jan. 17, the justices will consider whether they should overrule a landmark 1984 decision often requiring courts to defer to federal agencies’ reasonable interpretations Read more…
ABA Journal “The U.S. Supreme Court will have oral arguments in February to consider an emergency petition to stay the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s “good neighbor” rule, which is intended to curb pollution that drifts to downwind states. The high court agreed Wednesday to consider a stay in four consolidated Read more…
ABA Journal “A federal appeals court based in Cincinnati has refused to certify a class action lawsuit comprising about 11.8 million Ohio residents suing manufacturers of “forever chemicals” said to contaminate the environment. The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at Cincinnati ruled Monday that the lead plaintiff, Ohio firefighter Kevin Hardwick, Read more…
Bloomberg Law “Publicly owned companies must comply with a new set of regulatory deadlines during the next week that will require swift disclosure of malicious cyberattacks on their networks and the processes in place to prevent them from happening again. Entities subject to Securities and Exchange Commission authority will be Read more…
Bloomberg Law “Meta Platforms Inc. sued the US Federal Trade Commission claiming its in-house trials violate the Constitution and asked a court to immediately halt the agency’s bid to change a 2020 privacy settlement. The social networking giant filed the suit in Washington federal court seeking a halt to FTC proceedings related to Read more…
ABA Journal “The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at St. Louis ruled Monday that private plaintiffs cannot sue for alleged violations of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which bans voting practices and procedures that deny or abridge the right to vote on the basis of race or Read more…