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May 19, 2023

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Here’s a quick look at today’s top legal news.

Additional reporting by Palak Chawla.

Afternoon Docket writer Caitlin Tremblay is on a Reuters assignment this spring and will return to the newsletter soon.

USC, NCAA face US agency’s claims that college athletes are employees

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A National Labor Relations Board official late Thursday accused the University of Southern California and the National Collegiate Athletics Association of misclassifying basketball and football players as student-athletes to prevent them from unionizing.

The board in December had said it found merit to charges filed by a group of USC players seeking to be treated as employees.

The complaint comes as athletes have been seeking a bigger share of the billions of dollars in revenue that sports generate for schools. The U.S. Supreme Court in 2021 struck down the NCAA’s limits on non-cash compensation for athletes, such as scholarships and paid internships. Several states including California have passed laws letting college athletes profit from their name, image and likeness rights.

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Week in review …

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Montana bans TikTok

Montana became the first U.S. state to ban TikTok this week. Users filed a lawsuit challenging the law a day later. Here’s what you need to know about the ban.

The U.S. Supreme Court this week…

Handed internet and social media companies a pair of victories by leaving legal protections for them unscathed.
Left in place the Illinois state assault weapons ban.
Ruled that a federal labor agency can force state militias to bargain with unions.
Denied Amgen’s bid to revive patents on its cholesterol-lowering drug Repatha.
Rejected Teva’s challenge to GSK’s $235 million award in a patent dispute.
Dismissed a lawsuit over over Title 42 border expulsions.
Spurned a dispute over Monsanto’s class-action settlement.
Allowed a death row inmate’s lawsuit after his failed execution.
Agreed to hear a bid to revive a South Carolina voting map deemed to be racially biased.
Declined to hear patent disputes over luggage locks and wearable content players.

Lawsuits over Epstein ties

Deutsche Bank AG agreed to pay $75 million to settle a lawsuit by women who say they were abused by the late financier Jeffrey Epstein, and who accused the German bank of facilitating his sex trafficking. Meanwhile, JPMorgan Chase & Co faces its own legal troubles. JPMorgan asked a federal judge to deny class-action status to more than 100 women who said the bank helped enable Epstein to sexually abuse them, days after a bid to disqualify the bank’s law firm was rejected. JPMorgan is now seeking documents from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg as part of the lawsuit. And, the U.S. Virgin Islands subpoenaed Tesla CEO Elon Musk for documents in its own lawsuit accusing the bank of helping enable sexual abuses by Epstein.

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Woman who called police on Black bird-watcher faces skeptical court in employment appeal

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Judges of the 2nd Circuit appeared unlikely to reinstate a lawsuit against her employer by a white woman who called police on a Black bird-watcher in New York City’s Central Park. Amy Cooper was fired by Franklin Templeton after a video of the May 25, 2020, incident went viral.

“I’ve got to admit, the film is an eye-popper,” Judge Barrington Parker told Cooper’s lawyer Matthew Litt. Judge Rosemary Pooler also suggested the video spoke for itself, asking: “What more would you have had them do?”

Litt told the judges that “this was not about race until social media and the defendants made it about race.” The lawsuit said Franklin Templeton’s statements following the incident suggested the company had “facts unknown to the public” to justify terminating Cooper and branding her a racist.

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