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Supreme Court sides with Cox Communications in copyright dispute over pirated music

March 30, 2026

The Supreme Court ruled that internet service provider Cox Communications cannot be held liable for copyright infringement by its subscribers in a closely watched dispute over pirated music.

The high court ruled unanimously in favor of Cox, finding that the company cannot be held liable for infringement that occurred on its network.

Supreme Court’s tariff decision still leaves a ‘mess’ for companies trying to grab refunds

March 27, 2026

In its 6-3 decision, the high court concluded that a broad category of Trump’s tariffs imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act exceeded the president’s legal authority. Many companies that had sued for relief in the form of rebate checks cheered the ruling.

Judge Richard Eaton at the Court of International Trade, tasked with overseeing the refund distribution, then ordered the Trump administration to immediately start the process by asking Customs and Border Protection to recalculate its revenues without the tariffs to determine the rebate total – a tally that the agency estimates at about US$166 billion. But no one is sure how long it will take or whether it will work. And that uncertainty is sparking a fresh round of litigation.

Meta and Google Lose Landmark Case on Social Media Addiction

March 25, 2026

The case was closely watched since there are over 2,000 individual cases against Meta involving child safety currently pending in federal court. Meta lost a case Tuesday in New Mexico where the tech company was found liable for misleading consumers about the safety of its platforms and endangering children. Meta has been ordered to pay $375 million in civil penalties in New Mexico, lower than the $2 billion the state had asked for.

AI Won’t Replace Lawyers But Can Create Critical Shortage Of Good Ones

March 24, 2026

The future rests on the idea that someone at the top of the pyramid has the training and judgment to shepherd the agent swarm. Those people are there right now, but what happens in 10-20 years? Will there be enough lawyers with enough know-how to get the job done?

DNA testing could clear a dead man’s name

March 23, 2026

Every state now has a legal avenue where people can request DNA testing of evidence after being convicted. But in many cases, it’s not clear if those statutes apply once convicts have died, said Brandon Garrett, a law professor at Duke University.

Posthumous exonerations based on DNA testing are exceedingly rare. There are only seven such cases across the nation over the past three decades, according to a database maintained by Garrett.

But there is always the possibility of more, and Tanner’s case could help pave the way. The advent of DNA testing “upended all these traditional notions of finality,” Garrett said. “As long as it’s kept in a dry place, you can test it 60 days later or 10 years later.”

OpenAI sued for practicing law without a license

March 16, 2026

OpenAI has been accused of practicing law without a license in a lawsuit brought by Nippon Life Insurance Co. of America.

According to the insurer’s complaint, which was filed on Wednesday in the Northern District of Illinois, OpenAI’s artificial intelligence platform ChatGPT pushed a woman seeking disability benefits to breach a settlement agreement and file dozens of motions that “serve no legitimate legal or procedural purpose.”

The how and why of gun control

March 12, 2026

What is at stake in Hemani is not whether the government may criminalize mixing guns and drugs.
Rather, the law under which it indicted him prohibits a person from possessing firearms at all times because he sometimes uses drugs.

Antitrust Case Against Live Nation

March 9, 2026

Attorney General Nessel Vows to Continue Antitrust Case Against Live Nation for Illegally Monopolizing Live Entertainment Industry

After a settlement was announced between Live Nation and the U.S. DOJ over antitrust claims, AG Nessel & a bipartisan multistate coalition announced they will not join the settlement and will continue litigating their claims separately.

15 of the Weirdest Liquor Laws in the U.S.

March 6, 2026

Even before Prohibition, states and counties instituted laws related to the production, sale, and consumption of alcohol. Temperance advocates, bootleggers, religious wine producers, and consumers have all weighed in over the years, leading to a hodgepodge of regulations on a state-by-state and county- by-county level.

Some of these mandates come from research and years of developing common sense — for example, don’t drink and drive or operate heavy machinery. Others are based on religious tendencies like dry counties in the South and limitations in Utah. And plenty are just plain weird.

Google faces lawsuit after Gemini chatbot allegedly instructed man to kill himself

March 5, 2026

A new lawsuit against Google alleges that the company's artificial intelligence chatbot Gemini guided 36-year-old Jonathan Gavalas on a mission to stage a “catastrophic accident” near Miami International Airport and destroy all records and witnesses, part of an escalating series of delusions that ended when Gavalas killed himself.

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