Lawyers for one of the men named in a civil lawsuit brought by a former Cornell University student who alleged she was sexually assaulted at a school fraternity in 2024 is asking a New York judge to impose a gag order in the case, arguing the publicity surrounding the case risks tainting potential jurors. 

Attorneys for Diego Sarabia on Monday asked for “narrowly tailored restrictions” that would prevent lawyers and parties in the civil case from commenting on the allegations outside of court.

“Since this action began, Plaintiff’s counsel has repeatedly addressed the merits through widely disseminated media statements,” the motion said. “These statements present disputed allegations and interpretations of evidence to the public before discovery and trial.”

A then-undergraduate student identified only as Jane Doe made a complaint to campus police in November 2024, three weeks after the incident occurred, that she had been raped by a group of men at the Chi Phi fraternity house. She has filed a civil suit against the men and the university alleging that she had been drugged and raped.

No criminal charges have been filed, but an investigation by the New York attorney general is ongoing.

The case has rocked the university and started conversations about treatment of alleged sexual assault on college campuses across the country.

James Knox, an attorney for Sarabia, argued that a gag order would limit “possible juror prejudice” and prevent the potential release of sensitive information that could lead to ” threats, doxing, intimidation, and extrajudicial contact.” Knox also submitted to the court a list of what he described as “prejudicial statements” made by Thomas Giuffra, an attorney for Jane Doe.

“Plaintiff’s counsel has been trying his case in the media since filing the lawsuit,” the motion alleged. “A full cataloguing of the media tour he has engaged in would be far lengthier than necessary to establish the potential risks these statements are incurring upon the fair administration of justice in this case and upon the parties.”

In a statement responding to the motion, Giuffra said, “The Defense has tried to rebut the claims in this case by engaging in a wholesale leaking of confidential documents, giving interviews calling Ms. Doe’s story into question and calling her lawsuit immoral. These attempts to shift the narrative have not been successful.”

“The Defense is now attempting to silence me and Ms. Doe because we have been so successful in rebutting their ineffectual attempts to undermine her story,” the statement said. “Truth always wins out.”

Sarabia is accused in the lawsuit of grabbing and kissing Jane Doe before “pouring lines of Ketamine all over her body and snorting them.” He has denied wrongdoing, and according to Cornell documents reviewed by ABC News, he previously argued that the interaction was consensual.

Last week, a member of the Marine Corps who shares the same name as one of the defendants in the case asked the court to restrict some of the filings in the case because he and his family have been the subject of “continued and ongoing harassment, including death threats from members of the public.”

Judge Phaedra Perry-Bond agreed to seal some of the filings on Friday, condemning what she described as “misguided vigilantism.”

“This Court strongly condemns the reported acts of threats and doxing, which can only be characterized as brash, reckless, and ultimately dangerous internet vigilantism, ” the judge wrote. “Our society has developed procedures and legal mechanisms over the course of centuries to ensure justice and due process are afforded to all. When certain actors decide to work outside those robust and developed frameworks, innocent people often get hurt. That is precisely what has happened here.”

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One person died and several others were injured in an “incident involving a roller coaster” at a Six Flags amusement park in Georgia, authorities said.

The incident occurred at Six Flags Over Georgia in Cobb County shortly before 4 p.m. Monday, according to police.

“Officers assigned to the park, along with uniformed patrol officers, responded to the scene,” the Cobb County Police Department said in a statement. “Detectives with our Major Crimes Unit are responding to investigate the circumstances surrounding the incident.”

Police did not release any further details on the incident.

Distraught witnesses described the horrific incident to a local station, saying they saw a man fall from the amusement park’s Goliath roller coaster and hit the ride several times, and that the fall was captured on their souvenir pictures.

Riders on the Goliath were seen being evacuated off the roller coaster on Monday, after it stopped near the top of the ride.

A Six Flags spokesperson said that the “park team and local authorities responded immediately, and we are cooperating fully with local authorities as they complete their investigation.”

“We are deeply saddened by the guest incident at our park today,” the spokesperson said in a statement. “Our thoughts and heartfelt condolences are with the guest’s family, friends, and loved ones. We are also providing support to the guests and team members affected.”

The spokesperson said it has “temporarily closed similar attractions across our parks.”

The spokesperson added that they will not be releasing additional information at this time “out of respect for the family’s privacy.”

Six Flags Over Georgia is located in Austell, west of Atlanta. The Goliath roller coaster reaches an elevation of 200 feet and speeds up to 70 mph, according to the amusement park’s website. The ride first opened in 2006.

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On the night of Christa Pike’s botched execution, when 911 callers called for medical assistance, there appeared to be some confusion between them and first responders, according to a transcript and audio recording of the calls.

“We’ve been carrying out an execution tonight. We’ve administered 10 grams of pentobarbital. The person is not yet deceased. That started approximately 1 hour ago. And we’re calling for an ambulance,” an individual who called from the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville said, according to a transcript of the first 911 call released by the Metro Nashville Emergency Communications Center.

The call came in at 8:40 p.m. CT on Sept. 30, according to the transcript.

During the call, the dispatcher asked for a code to confirm that the call was verified, but the caller said they didn’t have one. “How do they not have a code?” the dispatcher asked.

Other calls from that night showed Metro Nashville Emergency Communications Center personnel working to confirm the incident, following the initial 911 call.

One woman from the center reached out to Tennessee Department of Correction Central Control around 9 p.m. CT, saying she was trying to verify the “failed execution.”

“We have responders that are standing by,” the woman said, according to audio of the call. “We’re just trying to verify.”

The person at Central Command responded that no one from their facility called.

At 9:08 p.m. CT, one of Pike’s attorneys — Kelly Gleason with the Tennessee Office of the Post Conviction Defender — called 911 requesting “immediate life-saving care,” according to the Metro Nashville Emergency Communications Center.

Three minutes later, an individual with the Metro Nashville Emergency Communications Center called Tennessee Highway Patrol dispatch requesting that a trooper respond so that EMS personnel at the scene could enter the prison. The caller reported that someone at the prison’s front gate told EMS “to come in because they need the ambulance and that this is an actual thing that’s happening, and not someone that’s like swatting,” but that EMS could not enter without an officer on scene.

During the initial 911 call, when asked by the dispatcher if Pike was breathing normally, the caller said, “No. The breathing is very labored and slow,” according to the transcript.

Asked if there was any chest pain, the caller said, “I don’t know. The person is not conscious,” according to the transcript.

In her 911 call, Pike’s attorney reported that Pike was “still alive and breathing, and needs immediate life-saving care,” according to audio of the call.

Pike was “not awake, and she was snoring,” Gleason said in the call.

The dispatcher said that they were working on getting Tennessee Highway Patrol to the prison.

The first 911 call was determined to be exempt from public release under Tennessee law, according to the Metro Nashville Emergency Communications Center, which said in a statement that it has “made a good-faith effort to provide additional information by preparing a written account of the initial call based on a review of the audio recording.”

Pike, the lone woman on Tennessee’s death row, was initially on a ventilator following the execution attempt before regaining consciousness nearly a week later, her attorneys said. She has since been released from the hospital and transferred back to prison, her attorneys said Saturday.

Pike was sentenced to death after being convicted of the 1995 murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer.

She is the first person reported to have survived lethal injection after being given medications, according to the Death Penalty Information Center, whose executive director referred to the failed attempt as “the worst we’ve ever seen and unlike any other botched execution in the modern era.”

Pike’s attorneys raised concerns about her execution in the months leading up to it, arguing the medications used in the execution carried a huge risk of pain and suffering. They said she suffered burns on her arms from the pentobarbital and was having cognitive issues upon regaining consciousness following the botched execution.

Pike’s attorneys have called on Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee to commute her sentence to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.

Lee ordered a temporary halt to scheduled executions in the state following Pike’s botched execution and Tennessee Department of Correction Commissioner Frank Strada announced his resignation earlier this month.

The governor’s office said it appointed former U.S. Attorney Ed Stanton to conduct an independent review of the Tennessee Department of Correction’s execution attempt that “will seek to determine whether the protocol was followed and consider whether additional recommendations are necessary to ensure the State’s protocol continues to be lawful and effective.”

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An Anthropic artificial intelligence model submitted a false tip in an unsolved murder case to a Philadelphia Police Department website, the company and police officials said.

In a detailed report released to the public, the tech company said its Claude Haiku 4.5 AI model submitted the fabricated tip over the summer to the police department’s unsolved murders page.

“Unsolved cases involve real victims, grieving families and investigators working to secure answers. Technology companies must take all appropriate steps necessary to prevent their systems from submitting false information to law enforcement,” the Philadelphia Police Department (PPD) said in a statement.

The police officials said the incident occurred at 11:27 p.m. local time on July 18 and that the tip purportedly came “from someone who might have information about the case.”

“I may have information regarding this case. I recall seeing someone matching the description in the area around [the street named on the page] during that same time period. Please contact me if this information is relevant,” the Claude Haiku 4.5 AI model wrote on a form it submitted to the website, according to Anthropic’s statement.

The police department said the tip was flagged as spam and was never forwarded to homicide investigators. Officials did not explain why the tip went to spam.

The PPD said it didn’t know about the false tip until Oct. 7, when Anthropic notified the department about the incident. Anthropic told the PPD that it discovered the incident on Sept. 28, according to the police department’s statement.

Anthropic said it also notified the White House about the incident.

Unrelated to the false tip incident, President Donald Trump gathered the nation’s top tech leaders in September, including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, for a meeting in which they signed what the president called “constitution” to police themselves amid dire warnings from AI leaders about the technology. Trump said the self-policing agreement is “morally binding.”

“The City of Philadelphia takes this incident very seriously. The company must strengthen its safeguards to prevent similar incidents from impacting city systems without the city’s knowledge,” the PPD’s statement said. “The two-month delay in detecting and reporting the incident to the City is unacceptable.”

Anthropic, according to its report released on Friday, said the Claude Haiku 4.5 made the false report while it was “generating and performing example tasks on randomly selected webpages.”

“Claude was instructed never to log in, create accounts, enter personal data, make purchases, or submit anything destructive, but the instructions did not rule out form submissions,” Anthropic said in its report.

The PPD did not disclose which unsolved homicide Anthropic’s AI model submitted the tip on.

Anthropic’s acknowledgement came after the company disclosed earlier this year that its review of cybersecurity transcripts found three incidents “in which a Claude model researched the internet from within or while interacting with a third-party evaluation environment, and then gained unauthorized access to the real systems of three different organizations.”

The false police tip was made around the same time an OpenAI autonomous AI agent allegedly accessed the computer systems of the AI start-up firm Hugging Face without authorization during a cybersecurity test. That incident prompted a lawsuit filed against OpenAI by the Legal Advocates for Safe Science & Technology (LASST), a nonprofit artificial intelligence safety group.

“Hugging Face was a serious incident and we’ve taken a series of actions in response to it, but this lawsuit is completely without merit,” Drew Pusateri, a spokesperson for OpenAI, told ABC News last month.

Anthropic downplayed the incident involving the false police tip, saying in its report that it and the others it has identified “had minimal real-world impact.”

The PPD said the safeguards it has in place limited the impact of the incident.

“The department’s regular investigative process for crime tips requires human review and vetting before any tips are disseminated for investigative follow-up,” the police department said.

The PPD added, “Regardless of who submits information or how it reaches the department, a tip is a lead to assess — not an established fact. Investigators evaluate its credibility and seek corroborating evidence. An automated submission does not bypass that process.”

Anthropic said it has ended the testing process that led to the false police tip and has taken additional steps to improve its security and monitoring measures to “reliably catch behaviors like these.”

The company released its updated model — Claude Haiku 5.5 — on Oct. 7, the same day it notified PDD about the false tip.

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Multiple people were seen dropping into a Manhattan manhole early Sunday morning, according to police, marking yet another incident in recent weeks involving people entering or exiting manholes across New York City.

Police are searching for three men seen entering a manhole on West 141st Street, in New York City’s Hamilton Heights neighborhood, shortly before 1 a.m. on Sunday, New York Police Department sources told ABC News.

By the time police arrived, the men were gone, the sources said.

The manhole incident follows a separate incident just days earlier on Oct. 9, when police say four men and a woman were spotted emerging from a manhole on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. The group drove away in a black SUV and left behind shovels and other tools, according to police sources.

Police believe these urban scavengers pose no threat and instead are looking for valuables dropped or swept away after it rains.

The events over the weekend follow similar recent instances of individuals seen entering or exiting the manholes found across New York City streets.

Last month, in a separate incident, police arrested two individuals in connection with a sighting of people climbing out of a manhole near a hotel where Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stayed briefly during the U.N. General Assembly in September.

The NYPD and federal agents conducted additional sweeps of the area out of an abundance of caution given the U.N. General Assembly and the proximity to Netanyahu’s hotel, but nothing suspicious was found.  

The same week, on Friday, Sept. 25, police said three men were spotted climbing out of the sewer at Bay Ridge Parkway and 17th Avenue in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, at 4:34 a.m.

The manhole was closed by the time police arrived.

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Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Washington, D.C.-area residence was searched early Monday morning, a Department of Justice spokesperson said, as part of an ongoing criminal investigation. 

Sources tell ABC News that the investigation relates to Omar’s immigration paperwork. Omar, who was first elected to the House in 2018, is the first Somali-American in Congress.

In recent history, the Justice Department’s practice has been to advise prosecutors not to take any overt investigative steps against members of Congress or candidates within 60 days of an election. The midterm elections, during which Omar is up for reelection, take place in 22 days, with early voting starting in Minnesota later this week.

Omar came to the U.S. as a refugee when she was a child and has been living in the country since she was 12 years old. She is a U.S. citizen.

“Today in the Washington, D.C. area, Homeland Security Investigations executed a judicially authorized search warrant secured by the Department of Justice,” a DOJ spokesperson said. “This enforcement action is part of an ongoing federal criminal investigation.”

It’s unclear whether Omar was at her D.C.-area residence at the time of Monday’s search. Omar’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the search or her whereabouts. 

Omar, who represents Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District, has been a central political target for the administration and its broader efforts to cast the Somali community as criminal and un-American.

“How about Ilhan Omar? She comes from Somalia. She comes from Somalia. They don’t have a government. They don’t have police. They don’t. All they have is crime and squalor. And she comes into our country, and she says, ‘My constitution allows me.’ She’s talking about our constitution, what they’ve done to Minnesota, these people from Somalia, what they’ve done to Minnesota, should never be allowed. And let’s see what happens. JD Vance and our people are looking at it very strongly,” Trump said during a rally on Saturday.

In social media posts earlier this year, Trump also said Omar “should be in jail” and “sent back to Somalia.”

Trump’s remarks directed at Omar have drawn criticism, and Omar said earlier this year that Trump’s rhetoric has led threats against her to “skyrocket.”

The White House referred all comment requests to the Department of Justice.

Vice President JD Vance, who the administration has tasked with leading the so-called “anti-fraud efforts” said during a White House briefing in May that the administration was going to look into Omar for immigration fraud allegations.

Omar has previously denied any wrongdoing and has not been charged with a crime. 

Last month, White House border czar Tom Homan confirmed in an interview with Fox News that the Department of Homeland Security was looking into Omar, but wouldn’t disclose the extent of those allegations noting that it was part of an “ongoing criminal investigation.”

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