One of Elon Musk's longtime law firms has been disqualified from representing social media platform X in a lawsuit that accused Israeli data-scraper Bright Data of illegally copying content from the platform.
The federal judiciary is considering whether new ethical guidance on the hiring of law clerks is needed after two judges hired a clerk who was accused of racist conduct while at a conservative advocacy group and went on to land a prestigious clerkship with Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
After a Florida federal judge’s bombshell dismissal of the criminal case accusing Donald Trump of mishandling classified documents, some former federal prosecutors floated suggestions on social media that special counsel Jack Smith should dismiss the case before District Judge Aileen Cannon rather than appealing her decision to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. But according to experts, those are not really viable alternatives.
A law firm that said it unknowingly submitted fake claims as part of a $5.6 billion antitrust settlement with Visa and Mastercard will escape sanctions for now, a federal magistrate judge has ruled.
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