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April 21, 2023

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Here’s a quick look at today’s top legal news. Have a great weekend!

Additional writing by Tanvi Shenoy.

Probe of federal appeals judge tests aging U.S. courts

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The oldest active U.S. federal judge, 95-year-old Federal Circuit Judge Pauline Newman, is under investigation regarding her performance. But Newman pushed back this week when asked about the issue of age in her case. Concerns about a judge’s competence rarely spill into public, but legal experts said the situation may be increasingly relevant as the U.S. judiciary grows older. There is no mandatory retirement age for federal judges, who are appointed for life and can be impeached but not forced to retire. Read more about why it can be difficult to nudge jurists off the bench if their competency becomes uncertain.

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Week in review…

REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton

Fox settled with Dominion. What now?
Fox and Fox News settled a defamation lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems over its coverage of false vote-rigging claims in the 2020 U.S. election for $787.5 million, averting a trial. The settlement marks the end of a lucrative, two-year legal battle for the sprawling teams of highly-paid lawyers on both sides. However, more legal battles are yet to be fought. Dominion’s suit against Fox is part of its broader legal campaign to seek accountability from companies and individuals who it claims have spread falsehoods about its technology. Meanwhile, Fox faces a $2.7 billion lawsuit from another voting technology company, Smartmatic USA, over its coverage of debunked election-rigging claims. And columnist Alison Frankel writes that the network’s decision to settle with Dominion may have given shareholder lawyers exactly what they needed to sue Rupert Murdoch and the rest of the Fox board.

Artificial intelligence
AI technology can be used to conduct research or correct grammar, but it may not be used on exams or to compose any submitted assignments, the University of California, Berkeley School of Law instructed its law student in one of the first formal policies on student use of generative artificial intelligence by a law school. The surge in AI has prompted significant handwringing among educators who fear students will use the programs to cheat.

Antitrust
Google asked a court to toss out several allegations about how it runs its app store for Android phones. Amazon defeated a lawsuit that accused it of a scheme to curb competition for shipping and fulfillment services, causing consumers to pay more for purchases. The University of Chicago will become the first school among 17 prominent colleges to settle claims that they conspired for many years to restrict financial aid and overcharged students by billions of dollars. The American National Red Cross asked a Boston federal judge to dismiss as “implausible” a lawsuit alleging the organization abused its dominance over life-saving cell fragments that help blood to clot. And Brazilian beef giant JBS SA agreed to pay $25 million in its latest beef price-fixing settlement in U.S. court.

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More women describe enduring forced abortions in Nigerian Army program

REUTERS/Christophe Van Der Perre and Paul Carsten

As a Nigerian rights panel probes an army-run abortion scheme revealed by Reuters, two more women say they were forced by the military to end their pregnancies. Read more.