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“CNN’s lawsuit stands for the proposition that Perplexity, a company valued at tens of billions of dollars, should not be able to steal from entities that create the original content Perplexity exploits,” CNN said in a statement. “By exploiting CNN’s reporting in this manner, Perplexity violates the protections afforded by copyright law and undermines the economic incentives that make original newsgathering possible.”
In his ruling, Gayles found that there was enough evidence to suggest that the Journal had done its due diligence in verifying the Epstein letter’s authenticity. The fact that Trump himself claimed that the letter was a forgery, Gayles said, did not mean that the Journal published the story “with serious doubts.”
Torrez says that, by continuing to cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the counties are imposing “serious costs on local communities.” Deputies who are assigned to help assist ICE, for instance, are no longer available for criminal investigations and emergency calls—tasks that the attorney general describes as being “the core mission of local law enforcement.”
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita, a Republican, said that his office is suing in an effort to protect children from the dangers “posed by expanded access to marijuana.”
In a somewhat unusual move, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, a Republican, filed the lawsuit directly with the U.S. Supreme Court. Although most claims that appear before the bench are first heard by lower courts, the justices can choose to intervene in disputes between states.
“The lawsuit’s characterization of Discord does not reflect the platform we have built or the investments we have made in user safety,” a Discord spokesperson aid. “We look forward to collaborating with policymakers in working toward a safer online experience for all users on Discord and across the internet.”
A spokesperson for Melania Trump has since said that the First Lady “is proud to continue standing up to, and fighting against, those who spread malicious and defamatory falsehoods as they desperately try to get undeserved attention and money from their unlawful conduct.”
In a related case, a Tennessee man who was jailed for more than a month for posting a Kirk-related meme to Facebook announced that he settled his own lawsuit for “unlawful incarceration.” He is expected to receive an estimated $835,000 in damages.
“Under our Constitution, states are the primary regulators and administrators of elections for federal office, unless Congress passes legislation that preempts that framework,” one of the judges wrote. “And Congress’s power to do even that is itself subject to limitations.”
“Return to the Land’s actions constitute blatant and brazen violations of federal and state fair housing laws,” Colfax said in a statement posted to the Legal Defense Fund’s website. “Ms. Walker has been deprived of her housing and civil rights, including the right to purchase land and build housing.”