Michelle Morgante

1 week ago | law.com | Michelle Morgante

A federal court on Wednesday rejected a request for a temporary restraining order that sought to reverse the Trump administration’s ouster of the head of the U.S. Copyright Office. Judge Timothy J. Kelly of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia denied the request by Shira Perlmutter, who has filed a suit asserting that her May 10 termination was unlawful.

1 week ago | ourcommunitynow.com | Michelle Morgante

Attorneys from A&O Shearman has stepped in as defense counsel for Toronto-Dominion Bank and other defendants in a pending securities class action. The suit, filed Dec. 11 in New York Southern District Court by Bleichmar Fonti & Auld, accuses the defendants of concealing the bank's 'pervasive' deficiencies in regards to its compliance with the Bank Secrecy Act and the quality of its anti-money laundering controls.

2 weeks ago | law.com | Michelle Morgante

The ousted head of the U.S. Copyright Office has filed suit against President Donald Trump and asked a federal court to reverse her removal and block the administration’s chosen replacements from asserting any powers over the office or the Library of Congress.

3 weeks ago | law.com | Michelle Morgante

A declaration submitted in the copyright suit pitting Amazon-backed Anthropic against music publishers included a nonexistent citation that apparently was hallucinated by the company’s flagship AI product, Claude. Attorneys for the publishers asked U.S. District Judge Eumi K.

3 weeks ago | law.com | Michelle Morgante

Perplexity AI has been hit with a trademark complaint over its new AI-powered browser "Comet," a name that New York-based Comet ML says it has used since 2017. The complaint filed Monday in the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of California alleges that, on Feb. 24, 2025, Perplexity knowingly violated Comet ML’s trademark by announcing its plans to launch “a highly similar product” under the Comet name.