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288 entries in 'Law Firm News' |
2025/06/28
What’s next for birthright citizenship after the Supreme Court’s ruling
2025/06/11
Getty Images and Stability AI clash in UK copyright trial testing AI's future
2025/03/30
US immigration officials look to expand social media data collection
2025/01/22
South Korea’s Yoon defends his martial law decree - BLOG
2024/12/16
TikTok asks Supreme Court to temporarily block law that could ban site in U.S.
2024/11/18
PA high court orders counties not to count disputed ballots in US Senate race
2024/10/12
Supreme Court grapples with governor’s 400-year veto, calling it ‘crazy’
2023/03/28
Supreme Court skeptical of man who offered adult adoptions
2022/11/30
Hong Kong asks Beijing to step in into row over UK lawyer
2022/09/08
Utah-based company wins auction to buy Jay Peak in Vermont
2022/08/18
Some Capitol rioters try to profit from their Jan. 6 crimes
2022/06/24
States brace for fight over gun laws after high court ruling
2022/06/07
Wisconsin Supreme Court says COVID records can be released
2022/04/09
2nd defendant pleads guilty in 2018 hate crime in Washington
2022/03/09
Kansas AG asking judge to dismiss redistricting lawsuits
2022/02/23
Gangs control who eats at Mississippi jail, monitor says
2022/02/18
Maryland governor appoints 2 to state’s highest court
2022/02/07
Moats named to temporary seat on West Virginia Supreme Court
2022/01/25
Palin COVID-19 tests delay libel trial against NY Times
2022/01/21
Judge sides with Alaska attorney who alleged wrongful firing
2022/01/11
Partisan letters cost long-serving Alaska magistrate his job
2022/01/09
Cobb County jury trials paused as COVID-19 spreads
2021/12/21
Appeals court upholds mask requirement for Knox schools
2021/12/13
Supreme Court rejects appeal over press access in Wisconsin
2021/11/24
Tunisian trial shines light on use of military courts
2021/11/13
Trials delayed for mother, son in Mississippi fraud cases
2021/11/04
Palestinians reject offer to delay their Jerusalem eviction
2021/11/01
Video: Officer shoots Illinois inmate after struggle for gun
2021/10/26
Cambodia amends charter to bar dual citizens from top office
2021/10/22
Federal appeals court won’t stop health worker COVID mandate
2021/10/18
Judge agrees to delay in sentencing for Gaetz friend
2021/10/14
Man arrested after paint thrown on Confederate monument
2021/10/11
Appellate court sets hearing in South Carolina abortion case
2021/10/08
US Supreme Court allows lawsuit against troopers to proceed
2021/09/27
Federal judge delays vaccine mandate for NYC teachers
2021/09/16
Minnesota Supreme Court defers ruling on Minneapolis police
2021/09/14
1st female LGBT federal appeals court nominee to get hearing
2021/09/12
Australia’s High Court intervenes in police shooting trial
2021/09/06
Court rules Catholic school wrongfully fired gay substitute
2021/08/29
Maryland’s highest court reviewing teen sniper’s life term
2021/07/22
Bankruptcy proceedings can have long-term benefits
2020/11/20
US government executes man convicted of killing Texas teen
2020/07/07
UK judge says Amber Heard can be in court for Depp testimony
2020/05/23
Lawyer for Biden accuser Tara Reade drops her as a client
2019/12/05
Court to consider bathroom use by transgender student
2019/12/03
Afghanistan probe appeal begins at Hague international court
2019/11/26
Supreme Court shields Trump’s financial records for now
2019/11/23
Justices question Alaska $500-a-year contribution limit
2019/11/01
Court opens way to send ex-Mozambique minister to US trial
2019/10/03
Ohio counties tell court: Don’t let state stop opioid trial
2019/09/29
Egypt court asks religious figure to weigh in on sentences
2019/08/02
Gunmaker asks US Supreme Court to hear Sandy Hook appeal
2019/07/11
Court to Trump: Blocking Twitter critics is unconstitutional
2019/06/14
Brazil's supreme court votes to make homophobia a crime
2019/04/24
California court is latest to weigh Manson follower’s parole
2019/03/18
Supreme Court to consider Louisiana's non-unanimous juries
2019/02/28
Dominion to ask Supreme Court to hear pipeline appeal
2019/02/26
Court upholds car rental tax imposed in Maricopa County
2019/02/06
High court upholds texting suicide manslaughter conviction
2019/01/01
Chinese court orders new trial for Canadian in drug case
2019/01/01
Court to review murder convictions in husband's beating
2018/11/06
Malaysia court to resume Kim Jong Nam murder trial on Jan. 7
2018/10/22
Supreme Court: Ross can't be questioned in census suit
2018/10/18
Supreme Court hopeful had DWI charge in 2009
2018/10/11
Former FIFA official Makudi at court for ban appeal hearing
2018/10/04
Cemetery case puts property rights issue before high court
2018/10/01
Supreme Court won't hear case over California beach access
2018/09/25
Stand-ins to decide who sits on West Virginia Supreme Court
2018/09/23
Egypt court sentences 65 people over 2013 violence
2018/09/05
Court: Cities can't prosecute people for sleeping on streets
2018/08/27
Iran goes to UN's highest court over re-imposed US sanctions
2018/08/08
With scant record, Supreme Court nominee elusive on abortion
2018/08/06
N Carolina Supreme Court candidate sues over party label law
2018/07/17
Court says convicted serial rapist should be released
2018/06/21
Lawsuit seeks lawyer access to immigrants in prison
2018/06/20
High Court: Online shoppers can be forced to pay sales tax
2018/05/27
Court: Montana minimizes impact of mining near Yellowstone
2018/05/13
Dutch court says time ripe for law to recognize 3rd gender
2018/04/25
Italy's high court refuses to release migrant rescue ship
2018/03/22
Arkansas wants court to dissolve stay for death row prisoner
2018/02/19
Maldives court delays reinstating pro-opposition lawmakers
2018/02/12
Beleaguered gunmaker Remington points to bankruptcy court
2018/01/22
Court rules Puigdemont must return to Spain for re-election
2017/12/29
Democratic judge announces bid for Ohio Supreme Court seat
2017/11/10
Human rights group accuses Guatemalan courts of delays
2017/10/29
Indonesia court upholds seizure of illegal fishing vessel
2017/10/10
Supreme Court opens pivotal term with Trump nominee in place
2017/09/01
S. Korean court says worker's rare disease linked to Samsung
2017/07/22
Court: Indiana layoffs of older workers not discrimination
2017/06/21
High Court ruling may hurt claims of talc link to cancer
2017/05/15
Supreme Court declines to hear North Carolina voter ID case
2017/03/26
Turkish protesters denounce alleged coup plotters at court
2017/02/11
Partisan struggle over NC governor's authority back in court
2017/02/08
Missouri death row inmate appeals to US Supreme Court
2017/01/03
Man who escaped from Rhode Island prison to appear in court
2016/12/05
Court blocks federal plan to extend overtime pay to many
2016/11/16
French court restores far-right candidate's ties to father
2016/10/10
Moscow court orders paper to refute a report on Rosneft CEO
2016/08/09
Turkish court issues arrest warrant for Muslim cleric
2016/07/24
Monitor chosen to oversee Ferguson's police, court reforms
2016/05/03
High court seems poised to overturn McDonnell conviction
2016/03/28
Attorney: Court ruling lets Ohio political candidates lie
2016/02/10
Supreme Court puts Obama's climate change plan on hold
2016/01/30
Supreme Court rejects appeal to outlaw death penalty
2015/12/10
EU court dismisses Barcelona football trademark case
2015/11/28
2 charged in pastor's wife killing say little in court
2015/11/01
German court: former SS Auschwitz guard fit for trial
2015/10/20
Federal court programs aim to keep defendants out of prison
2015/10/08
Suspect in some Phoenix freeway shootings pleads not guilty
2015/09/03
Clerk in gay marriage case to appear in federal court
2015/07/09
Religious beliefs, gay rights clash in court case over cake
2015/06/25
Supreme Court upholds key tool for fighting housing bias
2015/03/31
Court rejects Duncan's death sentence appeal
2015/02/16
Court says Chuck Yeager can sue Utah gun safe company
2014/12/08
Palm Beach Construction Law
2014/12/04
Southern California Personal Injury Lawyers
2014/12/01
Personal Injury Lawyers Practicing Throughout Texas
2014/11/21
Securities Arbitration and Litigation
2014/11/13
Aggressive Securities Arbitration Services
2014/11/07
Las Vegas Accident & Injury Attorney
2014/10/22
Website asks high court to throw out lawsuit
2014/08/27
Law Office of Alan Segal - Greater Boston Estate Planning Attorney
2014/07/11
South Carolina Episcopalians take fight to court
2014/06/16
Davis Law Group, PLLC - Detroit Area DUI/DWI Attorney
2014/06/13
Law Offices of Robert W. Jackson - Cardiff & Fallbrook Personal Injury Lawyers
2014/06/10
DiRusso & DiRusso - Surry County Worker's Compensation Lawyers
2014/06/03
The Salazar Law Firm - Houston Car Accident Lawyers Services
2014/05/30
McKennon Law Group - Los Angeles Life Insurance Claim Attorney
2014/05/27
Place & Hanley - Securities Attorneys Florida Services
2014/05/20
Rita White - Canton Criminal Lawyer Services
2014/05/13
MJM Law Office, P.C. - Eugene DUI and Criminal Defense Lawyer
2014/05/05
Jackson Trial Lawyers - Cardiff Personal Injury Lawyer
2014/04/25
Law Office of Rita O. White - Canton Criminal & DUI Lawyers
2014/03/21
The Davis Law Group, PLLC
2014/03/21
Levin & Curlett LLC
2014/02/20
Supreme Court affirms pipeline value decision
2013/10/25
Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) Attorneys
2013/09/23
Craig Hubble - Hawthorne Employment Discrimination Attorney
2013/08/19
Ala. courts seek $8.5 million to avoid layoffs
2013/08/15
Calif. asks Supreme Court to halt inmate releases
2013/03/11
3 ex-Marine Corp clerks plead guilty in San Diego
2012/12/25
Man who cut lawyer in San Diego court convicted
2012/12/19
Court fines woman in Berlusconi 'bunga bunga' case
2012/11/27
Kline lawyer wants probe of research attorneys
2012/09/14
KC law firm owner faces murder, forgery charges
2012/08/24
Pomerantz Law Firm Has Filed a Class Action
2012/06/08
Groups sue to block Florida voter roll purge
2012/05/19
Court won't consider giving man new trial
2012/03/01
Back Pay Award Reduced Based on Laches in Class Action
2012/02/29
Indianapolis Business Corporate Law Firm
2012/02/24
Indianapolis Business Corporate Law Firm
2012/02/22
A Class Action Has Been Filed Against GNC
2012/02/21
Indianapolis Business Litigation Law Firm - Riley Bennett Egloff, LLP
2012/02/20
Israel top court takes Palestinian detainee appeal
2012/02/13
Indianapolis Bankruptcy Law Firm - Riley Bennett Egloff, LLP
2012/02/02
Miss. high court takes ex-gov pardons case
2012/01/23
US high court: warrant needed for GPS tracking
2012/01/12
Sanford Wittels Heisler Files Employment Class Action
2012/01/11
Judge halts killer's Ohio execution, scolds state
2012/01/09
Texas electoral maps at issue before Supreme Court
2012/01/02
Chief justice defends court's impartiality
2011/12/30
Federal judge blocks Calif. low-carbon fuels rule
2011/12/28
Appeals court upholds convictions in Fort Dix plot
2011/12/26
Supreme Court rejects Hessler appeal
2011/12/16
Phil Spector to take appeal to US Supreme Court
2011/12/16
Wall St. seeks dismissal of Ala. record bankruptcy
2011/12/15
Previously announced class action settlement approved
2011/12/14
Next ICC prosecutor warns against sex crimes
2011/12/12
City Council in Pa. capital again seeks bankruptcy
2011/12/09
Appeals court blocks cement plant pollution rule
2011/12/07
Blagojevich team says he's guilty, asks for mercy
2011/12/06
ICC seeks information from Libya on Seif al-Islam
2011/12/05
Court: Assange can continue extradition fight
2011/12/01
Man tied to Ohio Craigslist case appears in court
2011/11/29
Calif. salon shooting suspect due for arraignment
2011/11/28
US court won't block its Texas redistricting map
2011/11/22
NY top court clears probe of inflated appraisals
2011/11/20
Texas AG blasts court's redistricting maps
2011/11/19
Federal court issues new political maps for Texas
2011/11/18
Fla. hired law firm with ties to Gov. Scott
2011/11/07
Corzine steps down at collapsed firm, hires lawyer
2011/11/03
High court considers Ga. suit over false testimony
2011/11/02
Court unlikely to allow private prison to be sued
2011/10/26
Justices could talk health care cases on Nov. 10
2011/10/25
US appeals court upholds roadless rule in forests
2011/10/22
Indiana, Planned Parenthood in court over funding
2011/10/21
Artists sue auction houses over royalties law
2011/10/18
Arpaio to testify about failed investigations
2011/10/18
Minn. appeals court upholds $1M U verdict
2011/10/14
SEC backs ban on banks trading for own profit
2011/10/06
Scott Cole Associates Announces Update for Class Action
2011/10/05
Hogan to be new courts administrative officer
2011/10/04
Court turns away appeal over commandments display
2011/09/16
Class Action Filed Against Former, Current AP Execs
2011/09/08
Court tosses Sivak's death sentence
2011/08/25
Lawyers wrap up Int'l Court's first trial
2011/08/21
Federal court rejects Houston cop killer's appeal
2011/08/19
Drug company lawyer taped trying to foil lawsuit
2011/08/15
Nigerian who allegedly scammed 80 law firms, lawyers out of $31M extradited to US
2011/08/12
Miss. judge suspended for misconduct
2011/08/10
New hearings sought in Chicago police torture case
2011/08/09
Pozen says Texas court upholds Treximet patents
2011/08/09
Once-exonerated Conn. man ordered back to prison
2011/08/05
Lawyer pleads guilty to $47 million Ponzi scheme
2011/08/03
Buffalo city lawmakers irked by law firm's TV ad
2011/07/28
Health care lawsuit reaches Supreme Court
2011/07/26
Class action lawsuit filed over Antero drilling
2011/07/26
NJ court rules against son in Plain estate dispute
2011/07/25
Court denies motion to stop Loughner medication
2011/07/15
High court sets oral arguments in campaign lawsuit
2011/07/11
Law Firm To Collect $35M In Forfeited Bonds
2011/07/11
Lawyer defends Nevada truck firm in Amtrak crash
2011/07/05
Borrowers sue over apparent loan mod mishaps
2011/06/28
BofA Near $8.5B Deal to Settle Big Investors' Claims
2011/06/24
Toyota class action suit to start with Utah case
2011/06/24
Casino owner cited in complaint against Ala. judge
2011/06/20
Mont. Supreme Court rules against Paws Up
2011/05/17
Ala. chief justice warns more court layoffs coming
2011/05/04
Trump real estate courses didn't deliver, suit says
2011/04/25
High court rejects quick review of health care law
2011/04/18
Democrats criticize hiring of firm for House remap
2011/04/04
Patrick to nominate justice to Mass. high court
2011/03/04
Disgraced Pa. judge wants convictions tossed
2011/02/11
Judge affirms $7.3M verdict against law firm
2010/12/15
Lawsuit seeks to keep 3 Iowa justices on bench
2010/12/03
Transit expert lawyers to help NJ fight tunnel tab
2010/11/28
$450m class action launched against NAB
2010/11/02
Court Appoints Lawyer for Bernard Kilpatrick
2010/10/04
New Supreme Court term opens with Kagan aboard
2010/09/27
Abraham, Fruchter Twersky, LLP
2010/09/16
Man who tried to fake death pleads guilty to fraud
2010/08/30
DOJ's elite Public Integrity unit gets new leader
2010/08/17
DUI Life Sentence Stirs Debate About Alcoholism
2010/08/09
Children in Dependency Proceedings Need Lawyers
2010/07/29
2 re-sentencings ordered in $1.9B Ohio fraud case
2010/07/20
Wis. justices uphold ex-Jesuit priest's conviction
2010/07/05
Law firm merger activity picks up
2010/06/28
Ore. trial court to reconsider $100M tobacco case
2010/06/21
Securities Fraud Liability May Hit More Defendants
2010/06/16
Law firm: BP claims form flawed
2010/06/10
Court OKs Calif. city's day laborer crackdown
2010/05/24
Appeals court rules against Bagram detainees
2010/05/17
CANCER CLUSTER TRIAL APPROACHES
2010/04/28
US lawmaker urges action on Russian lawyer's death
2010/04/19
The Shuman Investigates Ormat Technologies Inc.
2010/04/16
Wash. court: Illegal worker status inadmissible
2010/04/14
Law firms seek to represent dead miners' families
2010/04/12
Law firm Mayer Brown lays off more lawyers
2010/04/12
BofA Merrill, Knight Capital, Franklin Templeton
2010/02/25
Law firm 'in contempt' over MP legal threat
2010/02/13
Stigma of home-based firms disappearing as trend grows
2010/01/30
‘America’s Best Law Firms’ Rankings Are Coming in 2010
2010/01/12
Simmons rated as UK's most gay-friendly firm
2010/01/06
Law firm mergers down 24 percent in 2009
2009/12/23
Judge orders new trial in Chicago patronage case
2009/12/07
Lyondell settles lawsuit brought by unsecured creditors
2009/11/23
Pension drops lawsuit against ACS over Xerox buy
2009/11/02
Jury Rules Against Blue Nile in $60.1 Million Lawsuit
2009/09/28
Burford Capital In GBP200M IPO For Lawsuit Funding
2009/07/16
Goldman Sachs Backs Off Blogger
2009/05/26
Sotomayor nominated to high court
2009/05/26
Recession cuts law firm growth
2009/05/14
Students who paid to attend inauguration sue
2009/05/07
Study Predicts 5 Percent Growth in Legal Spending
2009/04/22
Supreme Court limits warrantless vehicle searches
2009/02/23
Munger, Tolles Olson Retains Clearwell to lower costs
2009/02/05
Sidley Austin Receives Commitment to Justice Award
2008/12/17
Court: No obligation for company to give teen drug
2008/12/15
NJ Sen. Lautenberg among potential fraud victims
2008/12/01
Court revives Ariz. tribes lawsuit over research
2008/10/30
Anti-gay-marriage groups look for Ariz. redemption
2008/06/21
Supreme Court to review decision on Navy sonar use
2008/04/14
Top Law Schools Tighten Hold on NLJ 250 Firms
2008/03/25
Is Schwarzenegger Serious About Taxing Lawyers?
2008/03/24
Attorney Is Disbarred for the Second Time
2008/03/17
High Court Agrees to Hear Indecency Case
2008/03/13
Attorney General To Argue a Case Before High Court
2008/03/05
Touro chief says law school not for sale
2008/03/05
California Supreme Court in gay marriage storm
2008/03/04
Ex-Alaska Governor's top aide to plead guilty
2008/03/04
Louisiana's new AG probes Foti's last-stand lawsuits
2008/03/03
Campton Hills pays $124,000 to lawyers
2008/03/03
Justices reject appeal by Adelphia founder, son
2008/03/02
Peloton hedge fund to liquidate and close shop
2008/02/28
Law Firm Warns Of Looming Katrina Lawsuit Deadline
2008/02/25
Four law firms dominate school district services
2008/02/25
Supreme Court to hear car search, tribal land cases
2008/02/23
Top U.S. court backs S.F. health care
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What’s next for birthright citizenship after the Supreme Court’s ruling
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2025/06/28 08:20
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The legal battle over President Donald Trump’s move to end birthright citizenship is far from over despite the Republican administration’s major victory Friday limiting nationwide injunctions.
Immigrant advocates are vowing to fight to ensure birthright citizenship remains the law as the Republican president tries to do away with more than a century of precedent.
The high court’s ruling sends cases challenging the president’s birthright citizenship executive order back to the lower courts. But the ultimate fate of the president’s policy remains uncertain.
Here’s what to know about birthright citizenship, the Supreme Court’s ruling and what happens next.
What does birthright citizenship mean?
Birthright citizenship makes anyone born in the United States an American citizen, including children born to mothers in the country illegally.
The practice goes back to soon after the Civil War, when Congress ratified the Constitution’s 14th Amendment, in part to ensure that Black people, including former slaves, had citizenship.
“All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States,” the amendment states.
Thirty years later, Wong Kim Ark, a man born in the U.S. to Chinese parents, was refused re-entry into the U.S. after traveling overseas. His suit led to the Supreme Court explicitly ruling that the amendment gives citizenship to anyone born in the U.S., no matter their parents’ legal status.
It has been seen since then as an intrinsic part of U.S. law, with only a handful of exceptions, such as for children born in the U.S. to foreign diplomats.
Trump has long said he wants to do away with birthright citizenship
Trump’s executive order, signed in January, seeks to deny citizenship to children who are born to people who are living in the U.S. illegally or temporarily. It’s part of the hardline immigration agenda of the president, who has called birthright citizenship a “magnet for illegal immigration.”
Trump and his supporters focus on one phrase in the amendment — “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” – saying it means the U.S. can deny citizenship to babies born to women in the country illegally.
A series of federal judges have said that’s not true, and issued nationwide injunctions stopping his order from taking effect.
“I’ve been on the bench for over four decades. I can’t remember another case where the question presented was as clear as this one is. This is a blatantly unconstitutional order,” U.S. District Judge John Coughenour said at a hearing earlier this year in his Seattle courtroom.
In Greenbelt, Maryland, a Washington suburb, U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman wrote that “the Supreme Court has resoundingly rejected and no court in the country has ever endorsed” Trump’s interpretation of birthright citizenship.
Is Trump’s order constitutional? The justices didn’t say
The high court’s ruling was a major victory for the Trump administration in that it limited an individual judge’s authority in granting nationwide injunctions. The administration hailed the ruling as a monumental check on the powers of individual district court judges, whom Trump supporters have argued want to usurp the president’s authority with rulings blocking his priorities around immigration and other matters.
But the Supreme Court did not address the merits of Trump’s bid to enforce his birthright citizenship executive order.
“The Trump administration made a strategic decision, which I think quite clearly paid off, that they were going to challenge not the judges’ decisions on the merits, but on the scope of relief,” said Jessica Levinson, a Loyola Law School professor.
Attorney General Pam Bondi told reporters at the White House that the administration is “very confident” that the high court will ultimately side with the administration on the merits of the case.
Questions and uncertainty swirl around next steps
The justices kicked the cases challenging the birthright citizenship policy back down to the lower courts, where judges will have to decide how to tailor their orders to comply with the new ruling. The executive order remains blocked for at least 30 days, giving lower courts and the parties time to sort out the next steps.
The Supreme Court’s ruling leaves open the possibility that groups challenging the policy could still get nationwide relief through class-action lawsuits and seek certification as a nationwide class. Within hours after the ruling, two class-action suits had been filed in Maryland and New Hampshire seeking to block Trump’s order.
But obtaining nationwide relief through a class action is difficult as courts have put up hurdles to doing so over the years, said Suzette Malveaux, a Washington and Lee University law school professor.
“It’s not the case that a class action is a sort of easy, breezy way of getting around this problem of not having nationwide relief,” said Malveaux, who had urged the high court not to eliminate the nationwide injunctions.
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Getty Images and Stability AI clash in UK copyright trial testing AI's future
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2025/06/11 11:00
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Getty Images is facing off against artificial intelligence company Stability AI in a London courtroom for the first major copyright trial of the generative AI industry.
Opening arguments before a judge at the British High Court began on Monday. The trial could last for three weeks.
Stability, based in London, owns a widely used AI image-making tool that sparked enthusiasm for the instant creation of AI artwork and photorealistic images upon its release in August 2022. OpenAI introduced its surprise hit chatbot ChatGPT three months later.
Seattle-based Getty has argued that the development of the AI image maker, called Stable Diffusion, involved “brazen infringement” of Getty’s photography collection “on a staggering scale.”
Tech companies have long argued that “fair use” or “fair dealing” legal doctrines in the United States and United Kingdom allow them to train their AI systems on large troves of writings or images. Getty was among the first to challenge those practices when it filed copyright infringement lawsuits in the United States and the United Kingdom in early 2023.
“What Stability did was inappropriate,” Getty CEO Craig Peters told The Associated Press in 2023. He said creators of intellectual property should be asked for permission before their works are fed into AI systems rather than having to participate in an “opt-out regime.”
Getty’s legal team told the court Monday that its position is that the case isn’t a battle between the creative and technology industries and that the two can still work together in “synergistic harmony” because licensing creative works is critical to AI’s success.
“The problem is when AI companies such as Stability AI want to use those works without payment,” Getty’s trial lawyer, Lindsay Lane, said.
She said the case was about “straightforward enforcement of intellectual property rights,” including copyright, trademark and database rights.
Getty Images “recognizes that the AI industry is a force for good but that doesn’t justify those developing AI models to ride roughshod over intellectual property rights,” Lane said.
Stability AI had a “voracious appetite” for images to train its AI model, but the company was “completely indifferent to the nature of those works,” Lane said.
Stability didn’t care if images were protected by copyright, had watermarks, were not safe for work or were pornographic and just wanted to get its model to the market as soon as possible, Lane said.
“This trial is the day of reckoning for that approach,” she said.
Stability has argued that the case doesn’t belong in the United Kingdom because the training of the AI model technically happened elsewhere, on computers run by U.S. tech giant Amazon.
The judge’s decision is unlikely to give the AI industry what it most wants, which is expanded copyright exemptions for AI training, said Ben Milloy, a senior associate at UK law firm Fladgate, which is not involved in the case.
But it could “strengthen the hand of either party – rights holders or AI developers – in the context of the commercial negotiations for content licensing deals that are currently playing out worldwide,” Milloy said.
In the years after introducing its open-source technology, Stability confronted challenges in capitalizing on the popularity of the tool, battling lawsuits, misuse and other business problems.
Stable Diffusion’s roots trace back to Germany, where computer scientists at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich worked with the New York-based tech company Runway to develop the original algorithms. The university researchers credited Stability AI for providing the servers that trained the models, which require large amounts of computing power.
Stability later blamed Runway for releasing an early version of Stable Diffusion that was used to produce abusive sexual images, but also said it would have exclusive control of more recent versions of the AI model.
Stability last year announced what it described as a “significant” infusion of money from new investors including Facebook’s former president Sean Parker, who is now chair of Stability’s board. Parker also has experience in intellectual property disputes as the co-founder of online music company Napster, which temporarily shuttered in the early 2000s after the record industry and popular rock band Metallica sued over copyright violations.
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US immigration officials look to expand social media data collection
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2025/03/30 08:53
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U.S. immigration officials are asking the public and federal agencies to comment on a proposal to collect social media handles from people applying for benefits such as green cards or citizenship, to comply with an executive order from President Donald Trump.
The March 5 notice raised alarms from immigration and free speech advocates because it appears to expand the government’s reach in social media surveillance to people already vetted and in the U.S. legally, such as asylum seekers, green card and citizenship applicants -- and not just those applying to enter the country. That said, social media monitoring by immigration officials has been a practice for over a decade, since at least the second Obama administration and ramping up under Trump’s first term.
The Department of Homeland Security issued a 60-day notice asking for public commentary on its plan to comply with Trump’s executive order titled “Protecting the United States from Foreign Terrorists and Other National Security and Public Safety Threats.” The plan calls for “uniform vetting standards” and screening people for grounds of inadmissibility to the U.S., as well as identify verification and “national security screening.” It seeks to collect social media handles and the names of platforms, although not passwords.
The policy seeks to require people to share their social media handles when applying for U.S. citizenship, green card, asylum and other immigration benefits. The proposal is open to feedback from the public until May 5.
“The basic requirements that are in place right now is that people who are applying for immigrant and non-immigrant visas have to provide their social media handles,” said Rachel Levinson-Waldman, managing director of the Brennan Center’s Liberty and National Security Program at New York University. “Where I could see this impacting is someone who came into the country before visa-related social media handle collection started, so they wouldn’t have provided it before and now they’re being required to. Or maybe they did before, but their social media use has changed.”
“This fairly widely expanded policy to collect them for everyone applying for any kind of immigration benefit, including people who have already been vetted quite extensively,” she added.
What this points to — along with other signals the administration is sending such as detaining people and revoking student visas for participating in campus protests that the government deems antisemitic and sympathetic to the militant Palestinian group Hamas — Levinson-Waldman added, is the increased use of social media to “make these very high-stakes determinations about people.”
In a statement, a spokesperson for the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service said the agency seeks to “strengthen fraud detection, prevent identity theft, and support the enforcement of rigorous screening and vetting measures to the fullest extent possible.”
“These efforts ensure that those seeking immigration benefits to live and work in the United States do not threaten public safety, undermine national security, or promote harmful anti-American ideologies,” the statement continued. USCIS estimates that the proposed policy change will affect about 3.6 million people.
How are social media accounts used now?
The U.S. government began ramping up the use of social media for immigration vetting in 2014 under then-President Barack Obama, according to the Brennan Center for Justice. In late 2015, the Department of Homeland Security began both “manual and automatic screening of the social media accounts of a limited number of individuals applying to travel to the United States, through various non-public pilot programs,” the nonpartisan law and policy institute explains on its website.
In May 2017, the U.S. Department of State issued an emergency notice to increase the screening of visa applicants. Brennan, along with other civil and human rights groups, opposed the move, arguing that it is “excessively burdensome and vague, is apt to chill speech, is discriminatory against Muslims, and has no security benefit.”
Two years later, the State Department began collecting social media handles from “nearly all foreigners” applying for visas to travel to the U.S. — about 15 million people a year.
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South Korea’s Yoon defends his martial law decree - BLOG
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2025/01/22 09:20
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In a significant legal development, a federal judge has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump's executive order aimed at ending birthright citizenship. This executive order sought to redefine the 14th Amendment's Citizenship Clause, which grants citizenship to all individuals born on U.S. soil. The order specifically targeted children born to undocumented immigrants and those on temporary visas.
On January 23, 2025, U.S. District Judge John C. Coughenour, appointed by President Reagan, issued a temporary restraining order, labeling the executive action as "blatantly unconstitutional." This decision came in response to lawsuits filed by several states and civil rights organizations, which argued that the order violated the 14th Amendment.
The 14th Amendment clearly states that "all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States." Legal experts have long interpreted this to mean that anyone born on U.S. soil, regardless of their parents' immigration status, is automatically granted citizenship. The Supreme Court reinforced this interpretation in the 1898 case of United States v. Wong Kim Ark, affirming that the Constitution grants birthright citizenship to almost all children born in the United States.
In response to the ruling, President Trump has indicated his intention to appeal, setting the stage for a potentially prolonged legal battle that could escalate to the Supreme Court. This development underscores the ongoing tensions surrounding immigration policy and constitutional rights in the United States. |
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TikTok asks Supreme Court to temporarily block law that could ban site in U.S.
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2024/12/16 06:52
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TikTok on Monday asked the Supreme Court to step in on an emergency basis to block the federal law that would ban the popular platform in the United States unless its China-based parent company agreed to sell it.
Lawyers for the company and China-based ByteDance urged the justices to step in before the law’s Jan. 19 deadline. A similar plea was filed by content creators who rely on the platform for income and some of TikTok’s more than 170 million users in the U.S.
“A modest delay in enforcing the Act will create breathing room for this Court to conduct an orderly review and the new Administration to evaluate this matter — before this vital channel for Americans to communicate with their fellow citizens and the world is closed,” lawyers for the companies told the Supreme Court.
President-elect Donald Trump, who once supported a ban but then pledged during the campaign to “save TikTok,” said his administration would take a look at the situation.
“As you know, I have a warm spot in my heart for TikTok,” Trump said during a news conference at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida. His campaign saw the platform as a way to reach younger, less politically engaged voters.
Trump was meeting with TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew at Mar-a-Lago on Monday, according to two people familiar with the president-elect’s plans who were not authorized to speak publicly about them and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.
The companies have said that a shutdown lasting just a month would cause TikTok to lose about a third of its daily users in the U.S. and significant advertising revenue.
The case could attract the court’s interest because it pits free speech rights against the government’s stated aims of protecting national security, while raising novel issues about social media platforms.
The request first goes to Chief Justice John Roberts, who oversees emergency appeals from courts in the nation’s capital. He almost certainly will seek input from all nine justices.
On Friday, a panel of federal judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit denied an emergency plea to block the law, a procedural ruling that allowed the case to move to the Supreme Court. |
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PA high court orders counties not to count disputed ballots in US Senate race
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2024/11/18 06:25
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Pennsylvania’s state Supreme Court on Monday weighed in on a flashpoint amid ongoing vote counting in the U.S. Senate election between Democratic Sen. Bob Casey and Republican David McCormick, ordering counties not to count mail-in ballots that lack a correct handwritten date on the return envelope.
The order is a win for McCormick and a loss for Casey as the campaigns prepare for a statewide recount and press counties for favorable ballot-counting decisions while election workers are sorting through thousands of provisional ballots.
McCormick’s campaign called it a “massive setback” for Casey.
The Democratic-majority high court’s order reiterates the position it took previously that the ballots shouldn’t be counted in the election, a decision that Republicans say several Democratic-controlled counties nevertheless challenged.
In a statement, Gov. Josh Shapiro, a Democrat, said a lack of legal clarity had surrounded the ballots, putting county officials in a position where they were “damned if they did and damned if they didn’t — likely facing legal action no matter which decision they made on counting.”
It comes amid a gust of fresh litigation in recent days filed by both campaigns, contesting the decisions of about a dozen counties over whether or not to count thousands of provisional ballots.
Casey’s campaign says the provisional ballots shouldn’t be rejected for garden-variety errors, like a polling place worker forgetting to sign it. Republicans say the law is clear that the ballots must be discarded.
The Associated Press called the race for McCormick last week, concluding that not enough ballots remained to be counted in areas Casey was winning for him to take the lead.
As of Monday, McCormick led by about 17,000 votes out of almost 7 million ballots counted — inside the 0.5% margin threshold to trigger an automatic statewide recount under Pennsylvania law.
Statewide, the number of mail-in ballots with wrong or missing dates on the return envelope could be in the thousands.
Republicans last week asked the court to bar counties from counting the ballots, saying those decisions violate both the court’s recent orders and its precedent in upholding the requirement in state law that a voter write the date on their mail-in ballot’s return envelope.
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