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  • September 04, 2025

    9th Circ. Affirms Dismissal Of Google-Apple Antitrust Suit

    The Ninth Circuit on Thursday affirmed a lower court's decision dismissing a lawsuit alleging an antitrust conspiracy between Apple and Google over search engine technology, agreeing with the lower court that a restaurant meeting between the companies' CEOs is not sufficient evidence to back up the claims. 

  • September 04, 2025

    FTC Hits Chinese Toy Maker For Gathering Kids' Location Data

    A robot toy maker has agreed to comply with federal rules for handling children's data and ensure that its vendors are doing the same in order to resolve the Federal Trade Commission's claims that the company enabled a Chinese analytics provider to collect geolocation information from mobile app users who were younger than 13 without parental consent.

  • September 04, 2025

    Rural Carriers Call For Expanding Universal Service Aid

    Congress needs to provide more direct aid to rural telecom carriers if it wants connectivity to reach every household in the country, those telecom carriers told House legislators in a recent letter.

  • September 04, 2025

    Caesars Sportsbook Parent Wins Arb. Bid In 'Free Bet' Case

    Two Caesars Sportsbook users alleging the sports betting website illegally advertises "free bets" that aren't actually free must arbitrate those claims now that its parent company has proven they agreed to utilize the alternative dispute resolution method, an Illinois federal judge has ruled.

  • September 04, 2025

    CTIA's Pai Projects Smooth Mobile Transition In Upper C-Band

    Ajit Pai, the onetime leader of the Federal Communications Commission who now runs wireless trade group CTIA, foresees a relatively smooth transition to mobile services in the upper C-band airwaves — as long as the FCC plays its cards right.

  • September 04, 2025

    Settlement Reached In Harassment Suit Against Fox Sports

    A lawsuit accusing prominent figures at Fox Sports of sexual harassment — including an allegation that popular host Skip Bayless offered $1.5 million for sex — has been dismissed by a California state judge after a hairstylist who formerly worked for the network reached a settlement with Fox Sports and the personalities.

  • September 04, 2025

    Music Lyrics Co.'s $1B Antitrust Suit Mostly Survives

    A California federal judge largely refused to dismiss LyricFind Inc.'s $1 billion suit accusing a streaming music lyrics rival of using an exclusive deal with Warner Music to edge it out of the market, crediting claims about the importance of Warner while nixing some business interference allegations.

  • September 04, 2025

    Monthly Merger Review Snapshot

    The Justice Department settled a challenge to UnitedHealth's $3.3 billion home hospice acquisition while Democrats called for a judge to reject a different government settlement and the Federal Trade Commission moved against medical technologies transactions for heart valves and device coatings.

  • September 04, 2025

    FCC's Deregulatory Push Called Blueprint For Other Agencies

    A conservative group said the Federal Communications Commission's recent initiative to shed regulations viewed as obsolete should serve as a model for other federal agencies looking to slash rules.

  • September 04, 2025

    Beer, Wings, Patents: Tackling The Latest IP Football Fights

    As this NFL season kicks off, a copyright fight stemming from the statue of a famed Detroit Lions player and a suit from a former New York Jets player over his portrayal in the sports documentary series "30 for 30" are brewing in the courts.

  • September 04, 2025

    Which GCs Sold Stock In August? Carlyle Group And More

    General counsel Jeffrey W. Ferguson, who has been with the Carlyle Group for 26 years, cashed in some $19 million worth of stock in August.

  • September 04, 2025

    OnlyFans' Parent Says AI-Tainted Briefs Are Unsalvageable

    The online platform OnlyFans' parent company said that a bid to correct legal briefs in a proposed class action against the company should be denied, arguing that the decision to use artificial intelligence to create mistake-riddled documents is severe misconduct and the briefs should be struck instead.

  • September 03, 2025

    Trump Seeks To Have Justices Toss E. Jean Carroll Verdict

    President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he's planning to challenge writer E. Jean Carroll's $5 million sexual assault finding against him at the U.S. Supreme Court, asking the high court to give him 60 days to file a petition for the justices to review "significant issues."

  • September 03, 2025

    Google To Give Users More Control Over Ad Bidding Info

    Google will allow hundreds of millions of users to limit the information shared about them with companies that participate in Google's fast-paced digital ad auctions, part of a nonmonetary settlement resolving allegations information is shared without users' knowledge or consent, according to a filing in California federal court.

  • September 03, 2025

    TikTok, Chinese Co.'s $845M IP Fight Heads To October Trial

    A California federal judge refused to fully grant TikTok Inc. summary judgment or a terminating-sanctions win in a Chinese company's $845 million lawsuit accusing the social media giant of stealing video-editing tool trade secrets and infringing its copyrights, finding that the dispute must go to an October jury trial.

  • September 03, 2025

    NBCUniversal Again Defeats Claims It Shared Data With Meta

    A New York federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a proposed class action accusing NBCUniversal of sharing Today.com visitors' personal and video viewing information with Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc., saying one website visitor in Missouri failed to meet the Second Circuit's newly adopted standard for what is considered personally identifiable information.

  • September 03, 2025

    Newsmax Says Fox Illegally Monopolizes Right-Leaning News

    Newsmax sued Fox News in Florida federal court Wednesday, alleging Fox uses anticompetitive and exclusionary business practices to maintain its dominance over right-leaning television news.

  • September 03, 2025

    Google Can Thank AI's Rise For Mixed Search Remedies

    Despite Google's resounding defeat last year in the U.S. Department of Justice's case targeting its search monopoly, the company will face only a mixed bag of remedies aimed at propping up search engine rivals and limiting its distribution contracts.

  • September 03, 2025

    Fed. Circ. Upholds Zynga PTAB Win Axing IGT Patent Claims

    The Federal Circuit on Wednesday backed a Patent Trial and Appeal Board finding that mobile game maker Zynga was able to show claims in an IGT patent were invalid, handing another loss to the gambling technology company.

  • September 03, 2025

    Radio Host Hit With IP Suit Over Hulk Hogan Sex Tape Doc

    Florida radio host Bubba the Love Sponge Clem has been hit with an intellectual property lawsuit in federal court to try to stop him from releasing a documentary about the Hulk Hogan sex tape scandal.

  • September 03, 2025

    Google Owes Over $425M For Collecting App Data, Jury Says

    A California federal jury concluded Wednesday that Google unlawfully collected information from 98 million cellphone users who'd asked the tech giant not to track their app activity, awarding over $425 million in damages but finding punitive damages are not warranted in the class action.

  • September 03, 2025

    Consumers Defend Apple Antitrust Claims, Class Cert.

    Consumers defended their antitrust claims over Apple's App Store policies, arguing that Apple restricts the distribution of apps on its devices to block competition, not as part of a legitimate design choice, while also trying to preserve a class expected to include 185 million members.

  • September 03, 2025

    Patent Company Fights Baker Botts Atty's Bid To Trim Suit

    A patent licensing company and its owner asked a Florida federal judge to reject a bid from a Baker Botts LLP attorney seeking to trim their defamation case, saying the motion was premature as discovery had not been completed.

  • September 03, 2025

    Liberace Piano Dispute Returns To 1st Circ. After Gibson Win

    A Massachusetts music shop took its campaign to hold onto Liberace's rhinestone-encrusted piano to the First Circuit for the second time Wednesday, telling the appellate court that Gibson Guitars should never have been allowed to ask a jury for its return.

  • September 03, 2025

    Honda Fights FCC Adding Car Technologies To Security List

    Honda has told the Federal Communications Commission that adding certain vehicle technologies to the government's "covered list" of banned devices made in foreign adversary countries would duplicate efforts already being carried out by the U.S. Commerce Department.

Expert Analysis

  • Mitigating Employer Liability Risk Under Sex Assault Rule

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    The American Law Institute's newly approved rule expands vicarious liability to employers for certain sexual assaults that employees commit, which could materially increase employers' exposure unless they strengthen safeguards around high-risk roles, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.

  • Art Market Must Prepare For More AML Scrutiny

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    Calls for art market regulation continue to grow, as evidenced by a recently introduced bill that would subject it to the Bank Secrecy Act’s anti-money laundering requirements, so participants should consider adopting basic, risk-based controls, says Jane Levine at The ArtRisk Group.

  • Series

    Quilting Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Turning intricate patterns of fabric and thread into quilts has taught me that craftsmanship, creative problem-solving and dedication to incremental progress are essential to creating something lasting that will help another person — just like in law, says Veronica McMillan at Kramon & Graham.

  • What 2 Profs Noticed As Transactional Law Students Used AI

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    After a semester using generative artificial intelligence tools with students in an entrepreneurship law clinic, we came away with numerous observations about the opportunities and challenges such tools present to new transactional lawyers, say professors at Cornell Law School.

  • Despite SEC Reset, Private Crypto Securities Cases Continue

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    While the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission under the Trump administration has charted a new approach to crypto regulation, the industry still lacks comprehensive rules of the road, meaning private plaintiffs continue to pursue litigation, and application of securities laws to crypto-assets will be determined by the courts, say attorneys at Skadden.

  • Top Takeaways From Trump's AI Action Plan

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    President Donald Trump's AI Action Plan represents some notable evolution in U.S. policy, including affirmation of the administration's trend toward prioritizing artificial intelligence innovation over guardrails and toward supporting greater U.S. private sector reach overseas, say attorneys at WilmerHale.

  • Reel Justice: 'Eddington' Spotlights Social Media Evidence

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    In the neo-Western black comedy “Eddington” released last month, social media is a character unto itself, highlighting how the boundaries between digital and real-world conduct can become blurred, thereby posing evidentiary challenges in criminal prosecutions, says Veronica Finkelstein at Wilmington University School of Law.

  • It Ends With Us Having No Coverage?

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    A recent suit filed by Harco National Insurance disclaiming coverage for Wayfarer and Justin Baldoni's defense against Blake Lively's claims in the "It Ends With Us" legal saga demonstrates that policyholders should be particularly cautious when negotiating prior knowledge exclusions in their claims-made policies, says Meagan Cyrus at Shumaker.

  • Rebuttal

    BigLaw Settlements Should Not Spur Ethics Deregulation

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    A recent Law360 op-ed argued that loosening law firm funding restrictions would make BigLaw firms less inclined to settle with the Trump administration, but deregulating legal financing ethics may well prove to be not merely ineffective, but counterproductive, says Laurel Kilgour at the American Economic Liberties Project.

  • 9th Circ. Leaves Scope Of CIPA Applicability Unclear

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    Three recent Ninth Circuit decisions declined to directly address whether all of the California Invasion of Privacy Act's provisions actually apply to internet activity, and given this uncertainty, companies should heed five recommendations when seeking to minimize CIPA litigation risk, say attorneys at Skadden.

  • 5 Ways Lawyers Can Earn Back The Public's Trust

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    Amid salacious headlines about lawyers behaving badly and recent polls showing the public’s increasingly unfavorable view of attorneys, we must make meaningful changes to our culture to rebuild trust in the legal system, says Carl Taylor at Carl Taylor Law.

  • Series

    Hiking Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    On the trail, I have thought often about the parallels between hiking and high-stakes patent litigation, and why strategizing, preparation, perseverance and joy are important skills for success in both endeavors, says Barbara Fiacco at Foley Hoag.

  • 6 Tips On Drafting Machine Learning Patents Post-Recentive

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    While the Federal Circuit's decision in Recentive v. Fox narrows the scope of patent-eligible machine learning applications, there are several drafting and prosecution strategies that may help practitioners navigate Section 101 challenges, say attorneys at BCLP.

  • Regulating Online Activity After Porn Site Age Check Ruling

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    A recent U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding an age verification requirement for accessing online adult sexual content applied a lenient rational basis standard, raising questions for how state and federal courts will determine what kinds of laws regulating online activity will satisfy this standard going forward, say attorneys at Hogan Lovells.

  • DC Circ. Ruling Augurs More Scrutiny Of Blanket Gag Orders

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    The D.C. Circuit’s recent ruling in In re: Sealed Case, finding that an omnibus nondisclosure order was too sweeping, should serve as a wake-up call to prosecutors and provide a road map for private parties to push back on overbroad secrecy demands, says Gregory Rosen at Rogers Joseph.

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