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U.S. District Judge in San Francisco (N.D. Cal.) who presides over high-profile tech, AI copyright, privacy and federal-government cases.
A U.S. district judge has blocked USDA's plan to move the Forest Service headquarters and close 23 research facilities until at least 11 December. Judge Vince Chhabria's preliminary injunction preserves the status quo until a ruling, though he noted the relief could be relatively short.
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A federal judge granted LinkedIn's motion to dismiss for lack of standing and gave the plaintiffs leave to amend, while writing in the same order that he doubts they can allege a privacy violation at all. LinkedIn never denied the scanning.
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OpenAI and Microsoft accuse Susman Godfrey, the plaintiffs' firm in the consolidated AI copyright suit, of paying for research and hiding the payment. At stake is the kind of market-dilution evidence a federal judge said last year that authors suing Meta had not presented.
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Section 14 of the PlayStation Terms of Service sends US disputes to individual arbitration, and Sony is invoking it against plaintiffs who say those same terms are not surfaced clearly enough at checkout to satisfy AB 2426.
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Seven economic espionage convictions against a former Google engineer are gone; seven trade secret convictions remain. The evidence gap was allegiance, not exfiltration.
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