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Elon Musk’s X wins appeal to block part of California content moderation law

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It’s been a week of legal ups and downs for Elon Musk’s X (formerly Twitter). This afternoon X won an appeal at the 9th Circuit to partially block a California law requiring social media companies to publish their policies for combating disinformation, harassment, hate speech and extremism. Earlier today Ireland’s data regulator said it ended court proceedings against X after it agreed to limit its use of personal data collected from EU users to train its AI on a permanent basis.

Yesterday, Musk’s satellite broadband firm, Starlink, said that it is complying with Brazil’s top court order to block access to X in the country, a day after informing the country’s regulator it would not obey the order. Meanwhile a federal judge in San Francisco late Tuesday ruled that X must face class action age bias claims over mass layoffs in 2022.

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Career Tracker …

Here’s the latest moves news:

In New York …
O’Melveny added restructuring partner Ana Alfonso from Willkie Farr & Gallagher … Finance partner Flora Go joined Paul Weiss from Fried Frank as head of its funds finance … Holland & Knight added Paul Libretta to its financial services team from Winston & Strawn.

In Washington, D.C. …
Brown Rudnick added life sciences and technology partners Vince Shier and Ryan Smith from Haynes and Boone … Power regulatory lawyer George Cannon joined Hogan Lovells from A&O Shearman.

In Los Angeles …
Scott Koller joined Clark Hill as a member of its cybersecurity, data protection, and privacy team from Baker & Hostetler … Polsinelli expanded its commercial litigation practice with partner Deborah Jones from Alston & Bird.

In San Francisco …
Former Assistant U.S. Attorney Benjamin Kingsley joined the government investigations practice at Fenwick & West.

In Charlotte …
Litigation partner Chelsea Corey joined Haynes Boone from King & Spalding.

In Michigan …
Former Goodwin Proctor attorney Christopher Mull joined Honigman in the firm’s real estate transactions practice in Ann Arbor.

In London …
DLA Piper hired Nikhil Markanday from King & Spalding as a partner in its international finance practice … Melanie Howard joined Latham’s corporate department as a partner from Baker McKenzie.

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Do you have a 1st Amendment right to tape virtual court hearings? U.S. appeals court ducks question

A defense lawyer in Oakland County, Michigan, took a screenshot during a hearing four years ago in one of his criminal cases. He posted the screenshot on Facebook, along with some spicy remarks about the prosecutor. The prosecutor hit him with a contempt motion, citing the county court system’s ban on rebroadcasting virtual hearings. He responded with First Amendment claims in federal court, winning backing from two journalism groups. The 6th Circuit weighed in last week — but, as Alison Frankel explains, ended up ducking the big questions.

Check out other recent pieces from our columnists: Alison Frankel and Jenna Greene

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