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Senior DOJ officials have halted the grand jury probe of Meta over drug sales on its platforms, two people familiar told Bloomberg Law. Officials are weighing a civil fine or non-prosecution agreement, one said, and DOJ would not discuss the case.
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President Trump ordered federal agencies to write 'Super Intelligence' in place of 'AI' in correspondence, websites, reports and policy documents. The order sets no new duty for model builders; what could change their scope is a proposed statutory definition due to the President within 60 days.
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Buist v. Anthropic pleads a horizontal agreement to slow capability gains, assembled entirely from material the four defendants published themselves. A cross-company safety call is now discoverable evidence.
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Land-use and energy lawyers in the United States are rebuilding their practices around data-center opposition, and the fight continues after the permit is granted, in nuisance suits over cooling noise.
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The £260m deal arrives a month before trial with no admission of liability. Of that total, £100m pays the lawyers and funders who built the case, not the developers who paid the commission.
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Houston's U.S. Attorney is reviving a dormant body of maritime law for the Iran blockade. The practical effect is to move the fight over a seized cargo to the far side of the capture, where the owner funds it.
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Spirit Airlines' archive of emails, Teams logs and source code drew three bidders in bankruptcy court. A judge rules on September 9 on whether the workforce inside it can be de-identified.
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Small importers are carrying the tariff cases while the largest buyers route objections through trade associations. The plaintiffs setting your cost baseline answer to nobody's risk model.
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