Daily Report

11/21/2025

AI Music Generator Udio Reaches Agreement With Warner Music Group

The deal is the second announced settlement to emerge from a lawsuit filed last year by the country’s major recording labels against the AI platform founded by former Google DeepMind researchers.

11/21/2025

Litigants Are Relying on AI—and It's Not Going Well

An international database tracking artificial intelligence hallucinations in legal documents reveals California leads the nation, followed by Texas and Florida.

11/21/2025

Salesforce Hires Gibson Dunn for Backpage.com Sex-Trafficking Case

The company was sued in July for allegedly benefiting from its relationship with Backpage.com, which pleaded guilty to human-trafficking charges in Texas in 2018.

11/21/2025

Midsize firm Cranfill Sumner LLP gave leadership of its business operations to someone who was not a firm partner for the first time: April Bogard Pinder She moved from serving as senior vice president and head of strategy and program ex*****on for a division of U.S. Bank in Dallas.

"For me, this is not necessarily uncharted territory," Pinder told reporter Tom Spigolon.

Read the interview here: 🔗 https://www.law.com/pro-mid-market/2025/11/20/new-cranfill-sumner-ceo-discusses-goal-of-easing-firm-leaders-decision-making-creating-more-capacity-for-lawyers-/

11/21/2025

US Judge Rules Trump's DC National Guard Deployment Likely Unlawful

U.S. District Judge Jia M. Cobb granted a preliminary injunction blocking President Donald Trump's Defense Department from deploying National Guard troops in Washington, D.C., but temporarily paused her order from taking immediate effect to "prevent potential disruption to the functioning of the Dis...

11/21/2025

Supreme Court Reviewing Gun Restrictions for Private Property, Drug Use

On this podcast edition of Supreme Court Brief, host Jimmy Hoover interviews Second Amendment scholar Haley Proctor of Notre Dame Law School on the major gun cases to be decided during the 2025-2026 term.

11/21/2025

Local Affiliates Should Feel 'Empowered' to Preempt Network Programming, FCC Chief Says

The Federal Communications Commission has launched a probe into the relationship between national networks and their broadcast affiliates and whether FCC rules adequately ensure the independence of local stations.

11/20/2025

Bricker Graydon and Wyatt Tarrant & Combs Merging Jan. 1 to Create 325-Lawyer Firm Across Four States

Bricker Graydon currently has a footprint in Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana, while Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs has offices in Kentucky, Tennessee and Indiana.

11/20/2025

Court proceedings in Wayne County in southeastern Georgia will, for the time being, take place in an unlikely local venue.

Litigation reporter Cedra Mayfield has details about the blaze and how Wayne County State Court is coping: 🔗 https://www.law.com/dailyreportonline/2025/11/20/new-venue-trials-relocated-after-courthouse-fire/

11/20/2025

Behind a 30-Minute Deliberation: A $50,000 Car Wreck Turned Into a $3.2M Verdict in Henry County

The jury was out for about 30 minutes before returning a $3.2 million verdict, according to plaintiff's counsel.

11/20/2025

The latest edition of On the Move includes personnel updates about Greenberg Traurig, Ogletree Deakins, Foley & Lardner and McGuireWoods.

🔗 https://www.law.com/dailyreportonline/2025/11/19/on-the-move-csx-counsel-growing-greenbergs-tax-practice-in-southeast-delta-lawyer-leading-ogletrees-aviation-industry-group-/

11/20/2025

ICYMI. A Georgia judge issued a permanent injunction prohibiting the Catoosa Republican Party from requiring candidates to obtain an unlawful qualifying affidavit approved by a secret vote of the party's executive committee.

A Georgia judge issued a permanent injunction prohibiting the Catoosa Republican Party from requiring candidates to obtain an unlawful qualifying affidavit approved by a secret vote of the party's executive committee.