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Josh Russell
Josh Russell is a politics and culture reporter, who has covered the so-called "Sovereign District of New York" federal court daily beat for Courthouse News since Nov. 2015. A native of Washington, DC, he is based in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, following a decade in Richmond, Virginia.
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NYC seeks to scrap police union challenge to disclosure of officers’ disciplinary records
New York City's largest police union says a public watchdog's release of unsubstantiated misconduct claims causes irreparable damage to officers' professional reputations and long-term career prospects.
Kalshi loses bid to stop New York from regulating prediction markets
New York officials claim prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket are offering unlicensed sports gambling.
Newspapers sue OpenAI, Microsoft for mass copyright infringement
The digital theft and copying of hundreds of thousands of copyrighted articles to train AI apps like ChatGPT is a “death knell” for the already fragile local journalism industry, the publishers say.
Trump DOJ asserts presidential privilege over drug boat drone strikes memo
The American Civil Liberties Union argues the U.S. government should be forced to make public the legal memorandum relied upon by the Trump administration to justify drone strikes abroad.
Maine judge grants possession of abandoned 130-year-old shipwreck to the state
The federal judge also found the wreckage of a New England granite shipping schooner is eligible for the National Register of Historic Places.
US drops case against Turkish bank charged with laundering billions to Iran
Federal prosecutors agreed to entirely drop money laundering and sanctions charges against Halkbank largely due to Turkey's assistance in brokering the Israel-Hamas ceasefire agreement.
Second Circuit takes another shot at NBA data tracking class action
The NBA argues the federal appeals court is bound by circuit precedent to carve out this type of Meta Pixel data disclosure case from civil claims under the 1988 Video Privacy Protection Act.
Second Circuit denies Sam Bankman-Fried’s bid to overturn FTX crypto fraud conviction
The convicted FTX founder has already filed an application for a presidential pardon, according to Department of Justice records.