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  PlayStation Users Say Sony Made Them 'Captives' In £5B Trial

  By Lucia Osborne-Crowley

  Sony has a "total grip" on the digital PlayStation market, lawyers representing millions of gamers said Tuesday ...(read more)

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  Turkey's Halkbank Reaches Deal To Exit Iranian Sanctions Case

  By Stewart Bishop

  U.S. authorities and Turkey's Halkbank have agreed to end the long-running criminal case accusing the state-back...(read more)

• Judiciary Approves Supreme Court Public Defender Office

  By Katie Buehler

  The federal judiciary approved a new office Tuesday aimed at improving the quality of representation for indigent defendants with cases in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. 

• Fla. Defends Social Media Teen Ban As Content-Neutral

  By Carolina Bolado

  Florida defended its restrictions on social media for children before the Eleventh Circuit on Tuesday, arguing that the law is content-neutral and does not violate the First Amendment, and urged the appeals court to undo an injunction blocking its enforcement.

• Judge Blocks Perplexity AI Assistant From Amazon Shopping

  By Elliot Weld

  A California federal judge has granted Amazon's request for a temporary injunction that could block Perplexity AI Inc. from using its artificial intelligence assistant Comet to purchase things on the retail site, an order that Perplexity has already appealed.

• Texas Jury Awards $48M In Oil Drilling Patent Case

  By Elliot Weld

  A Texas federal jury has awarded Impulse Downhole Solutions Ltd. nearly $48 million in damages against a similarly named company that it said had infringed oil drilling patents.

• 11th Circ. Torn On Ga.'s Social Media Restrictions For Children

  By Chart Riggall

  An Eleventh Circuit panel appeared conflicted Tuesday over a Georgia law that placed new restrictions on children's use of social media, suggesting that some provisions were "clearly constitutional" while others likely won't clear First Amendment scrutiny.

• Wisconsin Judges Decline To Extend Interim US Atty's Term

  By Courtney Bublé

  A majority of judges on the Eastern District of Wisconsin have declined to extend the tenure of interim U.S. Attorney Brad Schimel, according to an announcement on Tuesday.

• DLA Piper Can't Rep Itself At Bias Trial, Fired Atty Says

  By Pete Brush

  DLA Piper should not be permitted to represent itself at trial in a pregnancy discrimination case brought by a senior associate who was fired in 2022, lawyers for the plaintiff told a Manhattan federal judge.

• Atkins Promises End To 'Duplicative' SEC-CFTC Enforcement

  By Jessica Corso

  The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is in the process of updating its protocols for coordinating enforcement efforts with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission with an eye toward ending "duplicative enforcement actions," SEC Chair Paul Atkins said Tuesday.

• Google, Epic Games Settle Play Store Fortnite Removal Fight

  By William Janes

  Google has reached a settlement over claims that it engaged in anticompetitive conduct by dropping the popular Fortnite video game from its Play Store after the game's maker, Epic Games, launched its own app payment system.

• Feds Can't Pause Fight Over Offshore Wind Stop-Work Order

  By Keith Goldberg

  A D.C. federal judge has rejected the Trump administration's bid to pause litigation challenging its stoppage of the Empire Wind offshore wind project, saying the government hasn't justified the need for a stay.

• Musk's Team Warned 'WWIII' Over Twitter Deal, Atty Testifies

  By Bonnie Eslinger

  After Twitter sued Elon Musk for terminating his $44 billion deal to buy the social media platform, Musk's legal team said their client would launch "World War III" against the company's board if forced to go through with the transaction, a Wilson Sonsini lawyer who led the deal for Twitter told a California federal jury Monday.

• 9th Circ. Doubts Trial Judge Properly Nixed $4.7B NFL Verdict

  By Dorothy Atkins

  A Ninth Circuit panel appeared open Monday to reversing at least portions of a lower court's ruling that scrapped a $4.7 billion class action antitrust jury verdict against the National Football League, with one judge saying the "fundamental problem" is the trial court took the verdict away from the jury.