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Multiple news outlets reported Trump was considering launching the nearly $1.8 billion fund as part of the talks to resolve his lawsuit.

A nine-person jury in Oakland unanimously found that Musk’s claims had been filed too late under the statute of limitations, ending the most consequential corporate governance trial in the history of artificial intelligence without reaching the merits of whether OpenAI's leaders had “stolen a charity.” The verdict is advisory, meaning Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers of the Northern District of California will make the final determination on liability. But she indicated before deliberations began that she would very likely follow the jury's recommendation.

Three major social media platforms paid an undisclosed price last Friday rather than let a Kentucky jury hear evidence about their internal design decisions. Alphabet's YouTube, Snap, and TikTok settled the first school district addiction lawsuit set to go to trial, filing agreements in federal court in Oakland, California, on May 15, 2026. The settlements leave Meta Platforms as the sole defendant heading to a June 15 trial in the case brought by Breathitt County School District, a rural district in eastern Kentucky, designated by the court as the bellwether for more than 1,200 similar lawsuits filed by school districts across the United States.

Kalshi, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the Justice Department, and Arizona regulators jointly asked a federal judge Friday (May 15) to pause litigation involving sports-event contracts offered on federally regulated exchanges. The request was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona and asks Judge Michael T. Liburdi to freeze proceedings until the Ninth Circuit rules in at least one pending appeal tied to prediction-market platforms.

The jury found that Musk's claim for breach of charitable trust was barred by the statute of limitations, and the claim that Microsoft aided and abetted such a breach failed with it.

Aaron Connolly, who has spent over three years serving a life sentence for the murder of teenager Cameron Reilly, has had his conviction quashed after the Court of Appeal found that the trial judge's instructions to the jury lacked balance and in parts may have been seen as "advocacy" for the prosecution case.

The Justice Minister is introducing new laws to make it a criminal offence to possess or distribute extreme and violent pornography.

On Thursday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit heard argument in two cases about when the president can target private attorneys. The cases stemmed from President Donald Trump's executive orders last year singling out specific law firms and lawyers that the president claimed posed a national security risk. But the arguments revealed how Trump's actions were nothing more than retaliation and censorship for anyone who dares to represent Democrats in court or challenge the administration's policies.

A manager who was sacked after 45 years at the Murphy construction group when the firm learned its machines, staff and materials were used to build a house for his son has lost his claim for unfair dismissal.

The family row that has rocked one of Ireland's major hotel chains has taken a fresh twist, with a new lawsuit alleging lawyers and financial advisers acting for hotelier Noel O'Callaghan were covertly recorded by his son.