CaaStle, the embattled fashion startup whose board of directors accused its founder, Christine Hunsicke, of financial misconduct, is starting to face lawsuits from a partner and a supplier over missed payments and more allegations of fraud. As first reported by Axios and by suits seen by TechCrunch, CaaStle is being sued by P180, a vehicle it launched to invest in companies that used CaaStle technology, and by EXP Topco, an apparel company that says the company never paid it after reaching a settlement for copyright infringement. The P180 suit alleges, 'Nothing about CaaStle was true.' The lawsuit claims that CaaStle tried to hide details of its income and financial stability from P180. 'It then fraudulently induced P180, among other things, to raise capital and take out multiple loans in the expectation that P180 would acquire viable assets, which P180 ultimately did,' the suit alleges, adding that CaaStle also tried to force the two to merge. The suit goes on to say that because P180 believed it was misled, its 'investors took full control of the board,' the suit continues. 'P180 has been harmed in excess of $58 million and seeks recovery of those proceeds, rescission of contract, and unwinding of corporate ties between itself and CaaStle.'...

Here's a nice little distraction from your workday: Head to Google, type in any made-up phrase, add the word 'meaning,' and search. Behold! Google's AI Overviews will not only confirm that your gibberish is a real saying, it will also tell you what it means and how it was derived. This is genuinely fun, and you can find lots of examples on social media. In the world of AI Overviews, 'a loose dog won't surf' is 'a playful way of saying that something is not likely to happen or that something is not going to work out.' The invented phrase 'wired is as wired does' is an idiom that means 'someone's behavior or characteristics are a direct result of their inherent nature or 'wiring,' much like a computer's function is determined by its physical connections.' It all sounds perfectly plausible, delivered with unwavering confidence. Google even provides reference links in some cases, giving the response an added sheen of authority. It's also wrong, at least in the sense that the overview creates the impression that these are common phrases and not a bunch of random words thrown together. And while it's silly that AI Overviews thinks 'never throw a poodle at a pig' is a proverb with a biblical derivation, it's also a tidy encapsulation of where generative AI still falls short....

In the 1970s, President Richard Nixon tried to fire the Department of Justice prosecutor leading an investigation into the president's involvement in wiretapping the Democratic National Committee's headquarters. In February 2025, seven DOJ attorneys resigned, rather than follow orders from Attorney General Pam Bondi to dismiss corruption charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams. Adams was indicted in September 2024, during the Biden administration, for alleged bribery and campaign finance violations. One DOJ prosecutor, Hagan Scotten, wrote in his Feb. 15 resignation letter that while he held no negative views of the Trump administration, he believed the dismissal request violated DOJ's ethical standards. Among more than a dozen DOJ attorneys who have recently been terminated, the DOJ fired Erez Reuveni, acting deputy chief of the department's Office of Immigration Litigation, on April 15. Reuveni lost his job for speaking honestly to the court about the facts of an immigration case, instead of following political directives from Bondi and other superiors....

One content creator, who posts videos under the username I'm Not a Lawyer But, recently made a seven-minute TikTok in which she highlighted the important sentences from Drake's 81-page defamation complaint against Universal Music Group. Another described herself in a recent video as 'literally reading through the receipts of Justin Baldoni's 179-page lawsuit,' referring to one stage of a complicated legal battle between Baldoni and his It Ends With Us co-star, Blake Lively, which is the hot legal case of the moment. The threads of this conflict are too knotted for me to fully untangle here, but the dispute began in December with Lively accusing Baldoni of inappropriate on-set behavior and of a secret social-media campaign against her. It became chaotic'and ripe for play-by-play commentary'in February when Baldoni, who has denied Lively's allegations, launched a website with the URL thelawsuit.info to tell his side of the story. The creators I'm seeing have loyal, long-term audiences and sell T-shirts and water bottles emblazoned with obscure references. They go by names such as Lawyer You Know and Legal Bytes ('Explaining the law one bite at a time!') and sometimes appeal to expertise, usually by proving that they are actual attorneys. For some, though, their bona fides are looser: 'I'm not an attorney, but I was raised by attorneys,' one creator said in a recent video....