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JUST IN: Meta was just ordered to pay $25 billion to the state of New Mexico after losing a consumer deception trial related to its handling of hate speech and the Cambridge Analytica data scandal 1/
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$25 billion is over twice the size of New Mexico's entire state budget for the next year. The verdict may be the largest ever awarded in US legal history. news.bloomberglaw.com/litiga…
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NEW: Elon Musk defrauded Twitter investors in 2022 when he tweeted his $44 billion deal to buy the company was "on hold," an SF jury found today.
The investors believe they'll reap around $2.6 billion in damages from Musk. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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An SF jury this morning founder an ex-Google engineer guilty of stealing AI trade secrets to start a company in China.
He went so far as to have an intern swipe his badge at the office while holding his second job in China. news.bloomberglaw.com/litiga…
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Isaiah Poritz retweeted
Lovely interview with the great William Alsup ahead of his retirement from the federal bench
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Judge William Alsup, an institution on the Northern California federal district court, is planning to retire Dec. 31 after a quarter century on the bench.
Here's my profile looking at his passion for landscape photography and his life in the law: news.bloomberglaw.com/litiga…
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Yosemite is a dreamland in the eyes of a BASE jumper, a parachutist who launches from tall cliffs.
But an obscure, decades-old law prohibits BASE jumping in our national parks.
Enter: a new lawsuit from jumpers involving wonky administrative law.
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When I first started on the California courts beat, I was surprised to learn that a federal judge holds court in maybe my favorite place in the world.
I drove out to Yosemite this summer to profile Judge Helena Barch-Kuchta. news.bloomberglaw.com/litiga…
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Google violated the privacy of almost 100 million users and must pay $425 million in damages, a San Francisco federal jury found this afternoon.
At issue is a nature of a privacy "on/off" toggle buried in your account settings.
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BREAKING: Meta secretly recorded the sensitive menstrual health data of millions of women who used the popular period tracking app Flo, a San Francisco federal jury just determine.
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I imagine it's not easy to impress a US Supreme Court Justice, but Anthropic's Claude AI model seems to have done just that.
Justice Elena Kagan said at a conference that Claude did "an exceptional job" analyzing a complicated constitutional question. news.bloomberglaw.com/artifi…
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NEW: Meta just escaped a copyright suit from authors who say the company took their books without permission to train its AI model
This comes just two days after Anthropic beat a similar suit from authors.
But the rulings are very different... news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law…
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US District Judge William Alsup, who has presided over Silicon Valley's biggest legal battles since he was appointed in 1999, said today that he will likely assume inactive status by the end of the year: news.bloomberglaw.com/litiga…
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Judge William Alsup in San Francisco this afternoon blocked Trump's firing of some federal probationary workers.
Includes workers at NPS, NSF, BLM and the VA, but not all federal agencies.
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Judge William Alsup will hold an unusual hearing in his SF court Thursday: He wants an educational crash course on the science behind generative AI.
The 79-year-old judge has a penchant for using tutorials to understand technical Silicon Valley cases. news.bloomberglaw.com/litiga…
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It took just over 5 years, but WhatsApp is now victorious in its lawsuit against Israeli intelligence firm NSO Group, maker of the notorious Pegasus spying software used by governments around the world.
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A ByteDance whistleblower who exposed CCP influence was sanctioned today by a federal court for lying in his deposition and fabricating a key witness.
Yintao "Roger" Yu engaged in "obstructive and mendacious" conduct in his wrongful firing suit.
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The 9th Circuit stops at nothing to administer justice lol
The San Francisco tsunami alert came in the middle of oral arguments downtown this morning.
Judge Bress: "Welcome to San Francisco."
"That's a first for us with the tsunami warning, but why don't we go ahead."
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Another big ruling this afternoon in the social media addiction case:
School districts can largely proceed with their suit claiming platforms caused a youth mental health crisis that largely burdens schools. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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The ruling today in California federal court contrasts an opinion from an state court judge who largely tossed out the school districts' case in June: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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