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Litigators of the Week: Holding Off Elon Musk’s Challenge to OpenAI’s Corporate Structure
This week, federal jurors in Oakland found that Musk, who provided early funding to OpenAI, waited too long to bring his claims against the company, represented by Wachtell’s William Savitt and Sarah Eddy, and Microsoft, represented by Russell Cohen and Jay Jurata of Dechert.
The Commission on Judiciall Appointments' confirmations include three justices who will serve on the Fourth District Court of Appeal.
A former public defender suing the federal judiciary over alleged sexual harassment says the judicial branch is a "uniquely insulated institution" whose thousands of employees "lack basic workplace protections."
The judges asked if Roblox forfeited arbitration by making a motion in court to dismiss the case on the merits. Roblox, which denies the allegations of wrongdoing, has argued that the parents who purchased the platform in 2023 and 2024 agreed to arbitration when they accepted the company's terms of service.
In what the firm said is one of the largest fee awards in Miami-Dade County and the biggest for the Miami office's commercial litigation group, Florida’s Third DCA affirmed a $16.6 million fee award for Am Law 9th-ranked White & Case, while sending a smaller costs issue back for further findings.
The proposed settlement would close more than four years of litigation.
If Chancellor Kathaleen St. J. McCormick approves the settlement, a stipulation of which was filed with the court on Thursday, it could bring more than four years of litigation to a close.
Tech giants are getting swarmed with class actions for using voiceprints to train AI.
A Manhattan federal judge denied an emergency motion by the Professional Tennis Players Association seeking to force Wimbledon and French Open organizers to admit its representatives, finding no showing of irreparable harm. The judge, however, cautioned that alleged “undisputedly retaliatory conduct” by defendants could factor into future rulings in the antitrust case.
BNP Paribas argued that a landmark human rights verdict was reached based on a “fundamenta[l]” misinterpretation of foreign law.
Rather than giving a traditional celebratory address, the retired judge opted for a blunt tone, detailing what he described as mounting pressures on the bench and legal system, telling graduates that the judicial branch, which he called the most important branch of democracy, is “in trouble."
