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Reporter’s Notebook: When Family Court Fails
I’ve been a print reporter for decades, but my enterprise into audio journalism this previous 12 months as a contributor to the San Francisco Community Press’ “Civic” podcast and radio exhibit has been one particular of the most satisfying activities of my occupation. Via this perform, I get to choose a deep dive into troubles that have a enormous effects on people’s lives and to investigate with you how systemic change can take place. Most a short while ago, the radio crew has been building a collection about the way relatives courts cope with allegations of abuse. And in a nutshell, what I’ve discovered is not excellent. It all started…
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U.S. court rejects J&J bankruptcy strategy for thousands of talc lawsuits
Jan 30 (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals courtroom on Monday shot down Johnson & Johnson’s (JNJ.N) try to offload tens of 1000’s of lawsuits in excess of its talc solutions into personal bankruptcy court. The ruling marked the very first key repudiation of an emerging lawful tactic with the probable to upend U.S. company liability legislation. J&J is among the four major providers that have submitted so-named Texas two-move bankruptcies to keep away from most likely substantial lawsuit publicity. The tactic entails making a subsidiary to soak up the liabilities and to instantly file for Chapter 11. The court ruled the healthcare conglomerate improperly positioned its subsidiary into individual bankruptcy…
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Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI ask court to throw out AI copyright lawsuit
Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI want the court to dismiss a proposed class action grievance that accuses the providers of scraping certified code to make GitHub’s AI-powered Copilot instrument, as described previously by Reuters. In a pair of filings submitted to a San Francisco federal courtroom on Thursday, the Microsoft-owned GitHub and OpenAI say the claims outlined in the go well with really don’t keep up. Factors came to a head when programmer and lawyer, Matthew Butterick, teamed up with the lawful workforce at Joseph Saveri Law Firm to file a proposed course motion lawsuit very last November, alleging the tool relies on “software piracy on an unprecedented scale.” Butterick and…
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OpenAI, Microsoft want court to toss lawsuit accusing them of abusing open-source code
Summary Firms Legislation corporations Similar documents Businesses say allegations are not distinct sufficient, cite reasonable-use protection Nameless plaintiffs say OpenAI and Microsoft are misusing copyrighted source code (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp, Microsoft’s GitHub Inc and OpenAI Inc informed a San Francisco federal court docket that a proposed course-action lawsuit for improperly monetizing open-supply code to prepare their synthetic-intelligence programs cannot be sustained. The corporations explained in Thursday court docket filings that the criticism, filed by a team of anonymous copyright proprietors, did not outline their allegations specifically ample and that GitHub’s Copilot system, which implies strains of code for programmers, produced honest use of the supply code. A spokesperson for…
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People perceived to be gay could be eligible for asylum, U.S. court says
Persons considered to be homosexual could be ‘social group’ underneath asylum legislation Court docket claims immigration board must make a decision difficulty Guatemalan female crushed, threatened for carrying men’s dresses (Reuters) – A U.S. immigration board ought to choose no matter whether non-U.S. citizens who are perceived to be homosexual in their house international locations can qualify for asylum in the U.S. no matter of their true sexual orientation, a federal appeals court stated on Thursday. A three-decide panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals revived an asylum bid by Rebeca Cristobal Antonio, a Guatemalan citizen who states she been given loss of life threats and was confronted…
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U.S. Supreme Court spurns attorney-client privilege fight in crypto tax probe
Jan 23 (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court docket on Monday threw out a circumstance about the scope of lawyer-client privilege involving a law firm’s bid to withhold documents from prosecutors relevant to a cryptocurrency-endorsing consumer in a tax investigation. The unsigned one-sentence ruling “dismissed as improvidently granted” an enchantment by an unnamed legislation company of court docket orders keeping it in contempt for not turning over information relevant to a person of its clientele in reaction to a federal grand jury subpoena. The justices did so only two weeks immediately after hearing arguments in the scenario. A lot of of the aspects of the case are unclear, as the…
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