Civil Litigation · Case note
An Ordinary Copyright Case: Westlaw Headnotes and AI Training in the Third Circuit
The Third Circuit insisted that Thomson Reuters v. ROSS is about copyright, not the future of legal AI. Its holding on purpose is confined to a non-generative tool built to replace Westlaw. Its reasoning on how much was taken, and on the market for training data, is not.
Read the case noteSuits against the immigration agencies: mandamus and APA actions over delay, naturalization litigation, and federal-court review of agency decisions.
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October 2026
Fee by Proclamation: Global Nurse Force and the $100,000 H-1B Payment
The second court to set aside the agency rules behind the $100,000 H-1B payment did so on curable procedural grounds, and left the Proclamation itself untouched.
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August 2026
Unreasonable by When? Mandamus and the Silent Green-Card File
The jurisdictional bar that is rarely briefed, the two TRAC factors that decide the case, and the exception Barr Laboratories announced and never decided.
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August 2026
The 120-Day Clock: Naturalization Under 8 U.S.C. § 1447(b)
When the clock starts, whether filing strips the agency of authority, and why the door the statute opens is narrower than it looks.
Business and commercial disputes in the state and federal courts: pleadings and motion practice, injunctions, discovery, and trial.
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October 2026
An Ordinary Copyright Case: Westlaw Headnotes and AI Training in the Third Circuit
The Third Circuit called it an ordinary copyright case. Its purpose holding is narrow; its rulings on amount and on AI training-data markets travel.
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October 2026
The Redaction That Wasn’t: Contempt, Rule 37, and the Cost of a White Box
A white box hid nothing. Why the court refused to certify contempt over a leaked bank account but made defense counsel pay anyway — and how it priced the cleanup.
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