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Here’s what we’re reading. 🟣 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

Here’s what we’re reading. ✳️ 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

Here’s what we’re reading. 🚢 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

Here’s what we’re reading. 🟠 Meta said it agreed to pay up to $18 billion in landmark settlements to resolve allegations from multiple US states that the company deliberately designed Facebook and Instagram to encourage compulsive use among young users. https://aboutblaw.com/bmFc 🟠 DLA Piper’s defense of Donald Trump in Jan. 6 lawsuits marks a sharp pivot for the global law firm, which called for the president’s removal following the US Capitol riot. https://aboutblaw.com/bmFd

Here's what we're reading:    🔵 Google’s proposed $10 million purchase of a vast trove of Spirit's deindentified business data exposes a void in privacy protections for workers amid a growing AI-driven market for real-world business data. https://aboutblaw.com/bmBY     🔵 Snap Inc., the company that created Snapchat, failed to convince a federal judge that its scraping of YouTube videos to train its AI didn’t violate copyright anti-hacking law. https://aboutblaw.com/bmBX

Here’s what we’re reading. 🎧 There’s no need to brave long lines or packed courtroom benches to witness the landmark social media addiction trial kicking off next week against Meta in a federal courthouse in Oakland, California. https://aboutblaw.com/bmyC 🏛 The US government’s experimentation with AI in rulemaking carries the risk that actions associated with the technology may be overturned in court, former federal officials warn. https://aboutblaw.com/bmyD

Here’s what we’re reading. ◾️ From Festus, Mo., to Doña Ana County, N.M., dozens of lawsuits claim data center approvals violated public notice laws or zoning regulations. Local officials, in turn, are defending their processes and boasting about the potential economic benefits. https://aboutblaw.com/bmwx ◾️ Meta failed to obtain an emergency order pausing a landmark trial slated to begin this week involving claims from dozens of state attorneys general alleging the social media giant addicts children and has caused a youth mental health crisis. https://aboutblaw.com/bmwy ◾️The Trump administration is proposing a rule that would largely stop allowing food companies to determine that new ingredients they use are safe without notifying the federal government. https://aboutblaw.com/bmwz

Here’s what we’re reading. ✴️ AI chatbots as therapists are exploding in popularity, especially among young users. But the bots are not professionals, and that comes with risks. While the federal government slowly embarks on regulating this space, states are trying to fill the void. https://aboutblaw.com/bms2 ✴️ In the weeks that followed President Trump's order last August to send the National Guard into Washington, federal prosecutors filed more than two dozen cases charging people with assaults on federal officers. Almost all of them fell apart as felonies. Most were dismissed. But it left those who were arrested struggling to rebuild their lives. https://aboutblaw.com/bms3

Here’s what we’re reading. 🦝 It's unlikely that anyone can claim intellectual property rights to the name or image of Jimothy, the short-spined Seattle raccoon who has become an internet sensation. https://aboutblaw.com/bmrv ❌ Data brokers operating in California have denied or ignored more than 1 million requests in the past two years to delete personal information they collected from online users, according to a Bloomberg Law review of company disclosures and interviews with industry professionals. https://aboutblaw.com/bmru

Here's what we're reading:    🔵 William Savitt, the Wachtell Lipton co-leader known for taking on Elon Musk in high profile court battles, is leaving the corporate law firm for rival Gibson Dunn & Crutcher. https://aboutblaw.com/bmo6     🔵 Federal prosecutors in New Jersey have secured a judge’s approval to dismiss with prejudice longstanding charges against the alleged mastermind of a $722 million cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme. https://aboutblaw.com/bmo8

Here’s what we’re reading. 🔘 Delaware’s plan to create a new type of standalone legal entity, the artificial intelligence company, is raising fundamental questions about AI capabilities, business governance, human accountability, and the political economy of America’s corporate capital. https://aboutblaw.com/bmn3 🔘 Anthropic, Google and others racing to deploy the world’s most advanced AI models endorse the concept of regulatory oversight, but aim to shape it with specific — and narrow — mandates. https://aboutblaw.com/bmn4

Here’s what we’re reading. ◼️ A teenage boy’s last-minute decision to withdraw his social media addiction lawsuit against Meta before trial is a setback for the sprawling litigation playing out in the Los Angeles court that saw early success with a jury awarding $6 million to a 20-year-old girl. https://aboutblaw.com/bmnB ◼️ The Department of Homeland Security’s top lawyer publicly called out what he dubbed the “worst of the worst” judges who’ve ruled against the administration’s immigration agenda, escalating tensions between the judiciary and government officials. https://aboutblaw.com/bmnC

Here’s what we’re reading. ➡️ Accounting rules and disclosure requirements for off-balance-sheet entities, like the ones Big Tech giants are using to finance AI data centers, have evolved since Enron’s collapse 25 years ago. But they still run the risk of presenting a misleading financial picture to investors. https://aboutblaw.com/bmkW ➡️ Several district courts have moved to document federal grand juries’ rare refusals to indict — a quiet institutional shift as judges express doubts that prosecutors are bringing only strong criminal cases. https://aboutblaw.com/bmkX

Here’s what we’re reading. 🚴‍♂️ Isaac Rabicoff is the nation’s most prolific filer of patent-infringement lawsuits, representing entities sometimes derisively referred to as “patent trolls.” Most of his cases settle quickly. But when he sued disgraced cycling champion Floyd Landis, he learned he’d taken on the wrong guy. https://aboutblaw.com/bmj3 👩‍🎓 Trump regulations restricting international students’ presence in the US could kneecap enrollment in graduate programs used by foreign workers to maintain their work authorization. https://aboutblaw.com/bmj5

Here’s what we’re reading.   🛂 Foreign students on F-1 visas will be limited to four-year stays in the US under new regulations finalized by the Department of Homeland Security. https://aboutblaw.com/bmiZ   💬 Big Tech’s presence in the AI-for-legal industry is ramping up with six of the most important tech companies making forays into the space in the last four months. https://aboutblaw.com/bmi0

Here’s what we’re reading.   🤳 The rise of artificial intelligence has models and influencers in a bind as traditional expectations of image editing are stretched to the limits — and the law may not be able to keep up. https://aboutblaw.com/bmhL   🍟 Consumers of industrially processed food are suing the nation’s largest snack, breakfast, and beverage companies, intensifying litigation pressure even as federal and state regulators bear down on the sector. https://aboutblaw.com/bmhM   📱 Google told a California federal court that it will begin allowing US users to download third-party app stores within its Google Play Store beginning next week. https://aboutblaw.com/bmhN

Here’s what we’re reading.   ➡️ Justice Amy Coney Barrett personally appealed to Congress for more Supreme Court security funding, publicly detailing for the first time a recent attempted swatting attack on her home. https://aboutblaw.com/bmg0   ➡️ New York will be the first state to issue a moratorium on new hyperscale data centers as localities across the country grapple with how to regulate the proliferation of energy-hungry facilities. https://aboutblaw.com/bmg1   ➡️ AI-native firms may not be taking Big Law’s market share, but they are making incursions into a valuable asset: talent. https://aboutblaw.com/bmgZ

Here’s what we’re reading.   🍔 With more than 10 percent of American adults now using a GLP-1 drug, the makers of dietary supplements and packaged food are trying to profit by marketing products with terms like GLP-1 “friendly.” But lax federal oversight of such claims, coupled with consumer confusion, has brought courts into the mix. https://aboutblaw.com/bmgq   💊 A federal appeals court revived lawsuits that claim Kenvue hid alleged risks that Tylenol could cause autism in children whose mothers took the over-the-counter pain medication while pregnant, a controversy that’s roiled the medical community. https://aboutblaw.com/bmgr

Here’s what we’re reading.   ➖ Bloomberg Law announces the 2026 Unrivaled litigators, 25 trial lawyers honored for winning high-stakes verdicts and garnering favorable settlements between 2023 and 2025. https://aboutblaw.com/bmew   ➖ Google defeated a proposed class action alleging it used its Gemini AI assistant to illegally track the private communications of users of its Gmail, instant messaging, and videoconference programs. https://aboutblaw.com/bmeu   ➖ Latham & Watkins is harnessing the artificial intelligence industry’s demand for power to strengthen its top spot among law firms advising companies going public. https://aboutblaw.com/bmev

Here’s what we’re reading.   ✳️ The volatile environment around the cyber defense powers of Mythos and other cutting-edge AI models is causing companies to hedge their bets to avoid falling behind. https://aboutblaw.com/bmdI   ✳️ A lawsuit claims the Trump administration is unlawfully giving confidential personal information to Iran about Iranians who applied for asylum to avoid “grave danger” in their native country. https://aboutblaw.com/bmdJ   ✳️ Florida’s “anti-woke” restrictions on the way university professors teach about race and gender violate the professors’ First Amendment rights, a panel of Eleventh Circuit judges decided. https://aboutblaw.com/bmdK