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Musk's Access To Records Blocked In DOGE, Treasury Suit
By Sarah Jarvis
A Washington, D.C., federal judge on Thursday approved a consent order blocking Elon Musk and additional Department of Government Efficiency employees from accessing the federal government's payment systems, although a "special government employee" will have limited access as the Treasury Department and suing plaintiffs spar over a preliminary injunction.
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Meta AI Used 'Astonishing' Load Of Pirated Works, Writers Say
By Hailey Konnath
Meta Platforms allegedly downloaded tens of millions of pirated copyrighted works from peer-to-peer networks to train its Llama artificial intelligence product, and its employees repeatedly discussed this "illegal" strategy with lawyers, with one engineer writing, doing so "from a corporate laptop doesn't feel right," according to internal communications unsealed in copyright infringement litigation Wednesday.
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POLICY & REGULATION
Analysis
Top Groups Lobbying The FCC
By Christopher Cole
The Federal Communications Commission heard from interest groups and companies around two dozen times in January, on issues ranging from consumer consent to receive telemarketing calls to UScellular's contested $4.4 billion plan to sell its wireless operations to T-Mobile.
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LITIGATION
Allstate Collected, Sold Driver Data, Suit Alleges
By Celeste Bott
Allstate unlawfully collected the driving data of at least 45 million policyholders through software integrated in third-party mobile apps, using information about their driving behavior as a basis for denying coverage, hiking up auto insurance premiums, or dropping them from coverage altogether, according to a proposed class action filed in Illinois federal court Wednesday.
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DEALS
ENFORCEMENT
PEOPLE
EXPERT ANALYSIS
Perspectives
DC Circ. Cellphone Ruling Upends Law Enforcement Protocol
The D.C. Circuit’s recent U.S. v. Brown decision, holding that forcibly requiring a defendant to unlock his cellphone with his fingerprint violated the Fifth Amendment, has significant implications for law enforcement, and may provide an opportunity for defense lawyers to suppress electronic evidence, says Sarah Sulkowski at Gelber & Santillo.
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LEGAL INDUSTRY
GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week
By Sue Reisinger
General counsel will be scrutinizing their companies' DEI policies after U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi directed the U.S. Department of Justice to probe and penalize illegal diversity policies in the private and public sectors. Outside the DOJ, legal professionals, including in-house attorneys, reported high job satisfaction in a recent survey, likely leading to lower turnover. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.
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UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
By Laura Stewart Liberty
This past week in London has seen Investec Bank PLC sue two diamond tycoons, London florist Nikki Tibbles file a claim against an "imitator company," a direct descendant of the Cartier family launch a claim, and a Coronation Street actor hit footballer Joe Bunney with a defamation claim. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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