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LIV Golf lawyers argue PGA Tour is ‘exploiting litigation’ after request to delay antitrust trial, discovery schedule

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Lawyers for both the PGA Tour and LIV Golf filed a joint motion Sunday to the US District Court for Northern California to ask for a case management conference to discuss delaying the current trial date and extending the discovery schedule for the ongoing antitrust lawsuit.

US District Judge Beth Labson Freeman is overseeing the trial that is currently set for January 2024. The deadline for complete document discovery is March 30. The fact discovery deadline is May 26.

Lawyers for the upstart circuit led by Greg Norman and financially supported by the Public Investment Fund argued “the Tour is

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Judge orders Trump lawyers not to disclose evidence in documents case | Donald Trump

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A Florida judge handed prosecutors in Donald Trump’s classified documents lawsuit a significant victory on Monday by ruling the former president cannot publicly disclose any of the evidence against him.

Trump, who was arranged in Miami last week on a 37-count indictment over his improper storage and handling of classified materials at his Mar-a-Lago resort, can also only view, but not retain, any of the evidence under the direct supervision of his lawyers, the order from the magistrate judge, Bruce Reinhart, stated.

The secrecy ruling in particular will thwart Trump, who has been a vocal critic of justice department prosecutors

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Lawyer cites bogus ChatGPT case & it went poorly

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Published: 2023-06-23T11:00:42

❘ Updated: 2023-06-23T11:00:54

New York lawyers have been hit with a fine after he and his law firm decided to use ChatGPT to cite cases that never existed.

In March, a pair of attorneys submitted AI-assisted documents to a case. ChatGPT had helped the two scour the web for related cases to cite in an injury lawsuit.

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However, ChatGPT had ‘hallucinated’ the cases and provided fake information. Key examples include “Varghese v China Southern Airlines Co. Ltd.”, which never happened. When prompted about it, ChatGPT insisted that it

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Pakistan court grants bail to former PM Imran Khan’s wife in graft case – lawyer

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LAHORE, Pakistan, May 15 (Reuters) – A Pakistani court in the eastern city of Lahore on Monday granted bail until May 23 to former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s wife in a graft case, a lawyer in their legal team said.

Khan was arrested by the country’s anti-graft agency last week in the same case, prompting violent protests across the country, which is already reeling from a crippling economic crisis. He was later released and received bail from a court in Islamabad for two weeks.

Khan’s wife, Bushra Bibi, was co-accused along with Khan in the case, which is pertained to

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Florida plastic surgeon charged with murder in case of vanished lawyer | US crime

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One day last week, Steve Cozzi, a south Florida attorney, got up from his desk to use the bathroom. He never came back to work and has not been seen since.

Police said he was apparently murdered during that bathroom break, by a plastic surgeon at the center of a lawsuit in which Cozzi represented the opposing side.

Though Cozzi’s body had not been found as of late Monday, Dr Tomasz Roman Kosowski faces a charge of first-degree murder.

Investigators stopped short of saying if they believed Kosowski, 44, killed Cozzi, 41, because of the suit the doctor filed against

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Fox News Settles Dominion Defamation Case For $787.5 Million, Dominion Lawyer Says

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Dominion Voting Systems has settled its defamation lawsuit against Fox News in a last-minute move Tuesday, Delaware Superior Court Judge Eric Davis announced, solving one of the most high-profile defamation cases in recent history for nearly $800 million—and avoiding a week- a long trial that would have likely put some of Fox News’ top figures on the stand and potentially led to the network being forced to pay billions in damages.

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