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Pop star Miley Cyrus copied Bruno Mars’ hit “When I Was Your Man” in her number-one single “Flowers,” according to a copyright lawsuit filed in California federal court. The complaint, filed by music-rights owner Tempo Music Investments on Monday, claims that “Flowers” replicates “numerous melodic, harmonic, and lyrical elements” from Mars’ 2013 chart-topping song. Spokespeople…
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A lawyer representing TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance urged a federal appeals court on Monday to block a U.S. law that would ban the app, which is used by 170 million Americans, starting January 19. The lawyer, Andrew Pincus, argued that the ban violates free speech protections under the U.S. Constitution. However, the…
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The Supreme Court will have an opportunity to further erode the authority of federal regulatory agencies in a case involving the vape industry, following other major rulings. As the justices prepare for a new term featuring significant business-related questions, they will address these issues over a nine-month period beginning on October 7. This term will…
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The group that successfully convinced the Supreme Court to ban the use of race in college admissions will take the Naval Academy to trial on Monday, challenging an exemption that allows military academies to continue using affirmative action policies. This two-week trial before a federal judge in Baltimore is the first to result from lawsuits…
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Carl Icahn’s investment company, Icahn Enterprises (IEP.O), won the dismissal of a lawsuit that accused it of artificially inflating its share price by issuing unsustainably high dividends to help Icahn secure large personal loans. On Friday, U.S. District Judge K. Michael Moore in Miami ruled that shareholders in the proposed class action failed to prove…
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Sam Bankman-Fried’s lawyer argued in their appeal on Friday that the jury convicted him without seeing the full picture because the judge blocked crucial evidence. The lawyer claimed that the jury missed important information, which could have helped support Bankman-Fried’s belief that FTX had sufficient funds to cover customer withdrawals. In a 102-page brief to…
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Federal judges should prevent their law clerks from seeking employment with political organizations while they remain part of the court system to protect the judiciary’s independence, according to new ethical guidance. The U.S. Judicial Conference’s Committee on Codes of Conduct issued the guidance on Thursday, offering an election-year update to an advisory opinion on permissible…
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A University of California, Los Angeles neuroscience professor, Lucina Uddin, has sued six major academic journal publishers, alleging they violated antitrust laws by prohibiting simultaneous submissions to multiple journals and refusing to compensate scholars for peer review services. Uddin filed the proposed class-action lawsuit in Brooklyn federal court on Thursday against Elsevier, John Wiley &…
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Brazil’s Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes lifted freezes on Starlink and X bank accounts after transferring 18.35 million reais ($3.3 million) from those accounts to the national treasury. The court issued this lift after determining that the transferred amount satisfied the fines X owed to Brazil, resulting from a dispute between Elon Musk and…
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Harvey Weinstein faces new criminal charges as Manhattan prosecutors prepare to retry him following the reversal of his rape conviction. In 2020, a jury in Manhattan convicted Weinstein, 72, of rape, but the New York Court of Appeals overturned the conviction in April, ruling that the judge improperly allowed testimony from accusers not formally involved…
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