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President Trump has repeatedly lost in court against U.S. media outlets, but those rulings have done little to curb a broader, multipronged campaign that critics say continues to pressure and retaliate against the press.
Why it matters
Trump has lost most courtroom battles, most recently on April 13 when a judge dismissed his $10 billion defamation suit against the Wall Street Journal over reporting on a Jeffrey Epstein‑related letter, finding the claims fell far short of the legal standard. But legal experts say the losses still advance Trump’s broader agenda because litigation is slow, costly and easy to prolong. Even unsuccessful suits and regulatory threats can drain news organizations’ resources and create leverage outside the courts, as illustrated by settlements by ABC and CBS in cases widely seen as weak on the merits. Repeated appeals and shifting tactics have limited the real‑world impact of judicial wins for the press.
What’s next
Trump is expected to keep filing revised complaints and pursuing appeals, potentially tying up media companies in years of litigation. Courts remain a key backstop for press freedom, but lawyers and scholars warn they may not be sufficient to counter a fast‑moving, multifaceted pressure campaign that extends beyond formal legal channels.
Jack Queen has more here.
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- Immigration: The Trump administration will urge the 4th Circuit to overturn an injunction blocking it from enforcing policy that allows federal immigration authorities to enter houses of worship. Read the lower court ruling.
- Government: Democratic state AGs will urge U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani in Boston to rule that a key tool the Trump administration has relied on to cancel federal grants is being used unlawfully to slash billions of dollars in funding. Read the complaint.
- Judiciary: U.S. District Judge Edmond Chang in Chicago will hear oral arguments in a lawsuit filed by the Liberty Justice Center on behalf of retired Cook County Circuit Court Judge James Brown, who was recalled for a temporary judicial assignment to address a judge shortage but removed from the post for political opinions expressed on a conservative blog while he was retired from the bench. Read the complaint.
- Immigration: U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs in Boston will consider whether to block the Trump administration from again terminating the legal status of hundreds of thousands of migrants. Burroughs previously ruled against the administration’s effort to revoke permissions to live in the United States granted to people who used a Biden-era app known as CBP One. Read the ruling here.
- Health: The California Supreme Court will weigh the question of whether drug companies have a duty to innovate. Gilead is appealing lower court rulings that allowed plaintiffs to proceed with negligence claims and argue that Gilead has a legal obligation to keep developing a new HIV drug with fewer side effects.
- Environment: A Massachusetts judge will hold a hearing to assess the status of a long-running lawsuit by the state's attorney general accusing Exxon Mobil of misleading consumers and investors about climate change and the dangers of using fossil fuels.
- Constitutional: Massachusetts' top court will consider whether the city of Quincy can install two 10-foot-tall statues that depict the Catholic Saints Florian and Michael on a new public safety building. A trial court judge blocked the installation at the urging of the ACLU of Massachusetts.
- SCOTUS: U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts is scheduled to speak with 3rd Circuit Chief Judge Michael Chagares at the circuit’s Judicial Conference in Hershey, Pennsylvania.
- SCOTUS: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch and his “Heroes of 1776” coauthor Janie Nitze are scheduled to speak at the Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, California.
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Court calendars are subject to last-minute docket changes.
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- Providence-based U.S. District Judge Melissa DuBose said the court should consider disciplining Assistant U.S. Attorney Kevin Bolan after DHS posted a press release that falsely suggested she knowingly ordered the release of an immigration detainee wanted for murder.
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That’s how many Pulitzer Prizes Reuters won this week. One was for national reporting for stories on President Trump's campaign of political retribution. Read those stories here. The second was for beat reporting for investigations revealing how social-media behemoth Meta knowingly exposed users, including children, to harmful AI chatbots and fraudulent advertisements. Read the Meta stories here.
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"Citing cases that do not exist or do not support the proposition for which they are cited is a violation of this Court’s rules and falls far beneath the conduct we expect from Georgia lawyers."
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—Georgia Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Land in an order barring Deborah Leslie, a Clayton County assistant district attorney, from appearing before the state’s highest court for six months. The court found Leslie misused AI tools that led to fake and misleading case citations appearing in a ruling in a murder case. Here’s the order.
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- IP: Publishers Elsevier, Cengage, Hachette, Macmillan and McGraw Hill sued Meta in Manhattan federal court alleging that the tech giant misused their books and journal articles to train its AI model Llama
- Litigation: OpenAI President Greg Brockman testified that his stake in the company was worth close to $30 billion — a figure not previously known — and that in 2017, Sam Altman gave him a stake in Altman’s family office worth about $10 million at the time. He also said Musk supported transforming the AI startup into a for-profit, but wanted full control to help him raise $80 billion to colonize Mars.
- Litigation: Pennsylvania sued Character Technologies, the maker of Character.AI, to stop its chatbot from posing as doctors.
- Employment: The EEOC sued the New York Times, accusing the newspaper of passing over a white man for a promotion to a senior editorship in favor of a less-qualified candidate to meet diversity goals.
- IP: Paint maker Behr settled a lawsuit from record label ABKCO Music over its alleged misuse of the Rolling Stones classic "Paint It, Black" in an Instagram ad, the companies told a California federal court.
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Berger Kahn’s Erin Mindoro Ezra, Robert Chan and Ryan Johnson examine at what point does electronic employee monitoring become a liability hazard. Read today’s Attorney Analysis.
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Additional writing by Megha L.
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