Eco Extra, Ninth's No, Booked Faces: The Morning Minute
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May 03, 2019 at 06:00 AM
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WHAT WE'RE WATCHING
|CHRYSLER CASH - Plaintiffs' lawyers who helped craft an $800 million settlement with Fiat Chrysler this year over its “EcoDiesel” vehicles want $66 million more in attorney fees and costs, reports Amanda Bronstad. On Friday, they plan to go before U.S. District Judge Edward Chen to seek final approval of the deal, which includes a $307 million class action settlement and $400 million to federal and state regulators to resolve claims that Fiat Chrysler installed software in 100,000 vehicles nationwide to cheat emissions tests.
NO SECONDS - An unsuccessful patent litigant can be precluded from bringing copyright claims that arise from the same allegations of IP theft, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled Thursday. Scott Graham reports that the court ruled that Media Rights Technologies Inc. cannot sue Microsoft Corp. for copyright and Digital Millennium Copyright Act violations that could have been included in its 2013 patent suit against the tech giant.
THAT FACE - Currently there's no federal law regulating facial recognition, write Victoria Hudgins. However, lawyers say to watch Illinois closely as that state grants its citizens a private right of action measure if its biometric law is violated.
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EDITOR'S PICKS
|Mass Tort Attorneys: Judges Want to Know About Your Outside Financing
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WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING
|KEEP CALM - In spite of intense worrying, M&A activity in the UK has remained relatively steady throughout the Brexit process, reports Paul Hodkinson. Last year was the second-busiest for activity in the country since the financial crisis, and lawyers say Brexit has had no noticeable effect on activity levels.
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“You had no reason to second-guess the authenticity of that video. It looked and sounded genuine.”
— FORENSIC VIDEO EXPERT DAVID NOTOWTIZ DESCRIBING THE PROBLEM OF “DEEPFAKES,” PART OF A GROWING TREND OF FABRICATED VIDEO.
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