It may be the first jury to say cheats violate copyrights.

Case file: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24689095/bungie-v-phoenix-digital-group-jury-decision.pdf

Members of Assad regime sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment on Friday after landmark trial in Paris

Officers threatened to kill the dog of Thomas Perez Jr as they pressured him to falsely confess to killing his father, who was alive

Families of the victims of the 2022 elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, filed two lawsuits on Friday against Instagram's parent company Meta, Activision Blizzard and its parent Microsoft and the gunmaker Daniel Defense, claiming they cooperated to market dangerous weapons to impressionable teens such as the Uvalde shooter.

ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) tends to treat the Constitution as some ticky-tack policy its officers can safely ignore. That’s not to say ICE believes the Constitution does not exist. It probably at least realizes it exists. After all, it’s a US federal agency. What it firmly believes is that the Constitution provides no protection for the people it targets. As far as it seems to be concerned, immigrants (undocumented or otherwise) aren’t beneficiaries of these enshrined rights.

Case file: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24674998/back-it-down-ice.pdf

“We are going to be walking on new terrain for a while.”

Another day, another dumb lawsuit against TikTok. We’ve seen school districts and parents suing TikTok on the basis of extremely weird claims of “kids used TikTok, some bad stuff happened to kids, TikTok should be liable.”

Case file: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24681638/nebraska-vs-tiktok-complaint-lancaster-district-court.pdf

WWF-Norway says the government has breached the law ‘without adequately assessing the consequences’

According to the EU's executive branch, the company engaged in 22 anticompetitive agreements or concerted practices.

Italian activist Ilaria Salis will be under house arrest until her trial concludes, with another hearing scheduled for Friday in Budapest. However, she could be released if elected in the European elections.

Prosecution hints that Lawrence Hecker, 92, accused of historical rape and kidnapping, is feigning illness to avoid going to trial

Pundits noted the "disastrous" decision "gives politicians the greenlight to racially gerrymander" elsewhere in the US.

Case file: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/22-807_3e04.pdf

Georgia prosecutors on Thursday said they would appeal a judge’s ruling dismissing some criminal counts in the 2020 election subversion case against Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and several of his allies.

Mosby, who led prosecution of police over Freddie Gray death, sentenced to 12 months home confinement

The consultant claims he intended it as a warning about AI.

A district judge stood by his previous finding that the city has seized and destroyed personal property during its homeless encampment removals but said a pending Supreme Court ruling could make his order “unworkable.”

Case file: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24666156/cv-2022-7562-williams-vac-prelim.pdf

I’ll admit, I had to read this story a couple of times, since it’s so unbelievable. With the explosion of AI tools that have come out over the past couple of years, coming along for the ride are all kinds of concerns over how that AI gets used. In the realm of higher education, this means a great deal of consternation over concerns about students using these tools to cheat. While these concerns sure seem wildly overblown, the flipside of this issue has been the use of all kinds of software tools billed as “anti-cheating” programs for schools to use to make sure students are student-ing legitimately.

Case file: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24679413/16.pdf

Live Nation has monopolized "nearly all live music in America today," US says.

Case file: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.621993/gov.uscourts.nysd.621993.1.0_1.pdf

U.S. District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley acknowledged that she failed to allow David DePape to address the court before sentencing him to 30 years in prison last week.

About 50 activists gathered near the Paris Criminal Court, chanting for “freedom” and in support of the disappeared and the dead.

Lawyers for founder of software firm Autonomy, charged over $11bn Hewlett-Packard deal, suggest they may move for mistrial

Deputy manager of Tiny Toes nursery sentenced over manslaughter of nine-month-old Genevieve Meehan

Presley's granddaughter, actress Riley Keough, had asked a judge to halt the famous mansion's sale.

In lawsuit, voting machine firm Smartmatic alleges the outlet destroyed documents that were ‘direct evidence of actual malice’

Case file: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24679358-smt_-brief-spoliation-sanctions_public

Plaintiffs claim $38.7bn gas export project, which would triple state’s greenhouse gas emissions, infringes constitutional rights