Alan N. Walter 
Costco sells roughly 157 million Kirkland Signature Seasoned Rotisserie Chickens a year, and it has held the price at 4.99 dollars apiece for so long that the number itself has become part of the brand. That pricing discipline is now showing up in a federal court record. Two California shoppers sued Costco in the U.S. … Read more
Between March 2024 and mid-2026, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta and Nvidia deployed more than $40 billion through a dealmaking structure that has no clean name in the legal lexicon. They did not acquire companies. They did not file Hart-Scott-Rodino notifications. They hired away founding teams, licensed intellectual property at extraordinary prices and left behind hollowed-out startups, stranded … Read more
This article was originally published on Law360 in June 2026. On April 17, federal prosecutors unsealed a 10-count indictment in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York charging the CEO and chief financial officer of iLearningEngines Inc., a corporate education and training company claiming to utilize artificial intelligence, with securities fraud, wire fraud, conspiracy and running a continuing financial crimes enterprise.[1] The criminal enterprise charge alone carries a maximum sentence of life inprison. It was not an … Read more
There is a moment in every product launch when the gap between the promise and the reality becomes impossible to ignore. For the Trump Mobile T1 smartphone, that moment arrived from several directions at once. The phone was nine months late. It was no longer being marketed as made in America. The American flag printed … Read more
Two of the most consequential statements on artificial intelligence issued in the past year came from leaders who could not be more different in temperament, constituency or institutional authority. One governs the most powerful nation on earth. The other leads the world’s oldest continuously operating institution. Together, Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical Magnifica Humanitas and President Trump’s Executive Order … Read more
The federal government may be the most formidable defendant in the American legal system, but it is not immune from a copyright lawsuit over a holiday social media post. Lee Mendelson Film Productions, the family-owned company that has controlled the Vince Guaraldi music catalog associated with the Peanuts television specials since 1963, filed four federal copyright infringement lawsuits … Read more
SUMMARY A federal jury in Oakland ended the Musk v. Altman trial on May 18 without reaching the merits, finding Elon Musk waited too long to sue OpenAI. The statute of limitations ruling cleared a major legal challenge for OpenAI as it approaches a potential IPO. For founders and investors in mission-driven ventures, the case … Read more
A prediction market is a marketplace where participants buy and sell contracts tied to the outcome of future events. The price of each contract reflects the market’s collective assessment of how likely that event is to occur. A contract trading at $0.65 implies a 65% probability. The model aggregates information from many participants, often beating … Read more
Update, June 10, 2026: The jingle is back. On June 4, the Fourth Appellate District granted Kars4Kids’ petition for a writ of supersedeas, staying the Orange County injunction while the charity pursues its appeal. The appellate order holds the injunction and all other proceedings in the case in abeyance pending resolution of the appeal or further … Read more
On May 25, 2026, Pope Leo XIV released Magnifica Humanitas (“Magnificent Humanity”), the first papal encyclical in history devoted to artificial intelligence. At 42,300 words, it is the most authoritative theological statement yet on the promise and peril of AI. Its message is urgent, sweeping and deliberately aimed at governments, corporations and individuals alike. For lawyers, technologists, … Read more
New Jersey is no longer just talking about artificial intelligence. It is building the infrastructure, the capital networks and the talent pipelines that serious AI development demands. The NJ AI Hub, now fully operational in West Windsor, has moved from ribbon-cutting ceremony to first cohort in a matter of months, and the implications for entrepreneurs, investors … Read more
Artificial intelligence is reshaping legal practice faster than most ethics rules were written to address. For New Jersey lawyers, that gap is not theoretical. In January 2024, the New Jersey Supreme Court issued Preliminary Guidelines on the Use of Artificial Intelligence by New Jersey Lawyers, making clear that the existing Rules of Professional Conduct apply fully … Read more