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May 08, 2025
Instagram Head Says App 'Blends' Friends And Entertainment
The head of Instagram didn't shy away Thursday from Federal Trade Commission arguments about how Meta functions as a social media platform, testifying in D.C. federal court that sharing with friends and family is a key function, but part of a blended approach also focused on entertainment.
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May 08, 2025
Ticketmaster Asks Justices To Protect 'Alternative' Arbitration
Live Nation and Ticketmaster have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to clarify whether a federal law requires courts to enforce only traditional arbitration arrangements Congress envisioned when the law was enacted a century ago, or also "alternative" agreements drafted more recently to process mass arbitration.
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May 08, 2025
Judge Allows WWE Accuser To Add SEC Settlement To Suit
A former World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. staffer, who has accused ex-CEO Vince McMahon of assault and sex trafficking in Connecticut federal court, was allowed to include in an amended complaint the settlement McMahon reached with the federal government regarding payments he made to her and another woman over alleged misconduct.
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May 08, 2025
Musk Objects To New Job For SEC's Former Litigation Chief
Elon Musk is opposing a move by plaintiff-side firm Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP to hire the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's former chief litigation counsel, arguing in a court filing that the lawyer "played a personal and substantial role" in suing Musk while at the SEC.
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May 08, 2025
Apple Asks 9th Circ. To Pause New App Store Injunction
Apple has asked the Ninth Circuit to pause parts of a California federal court's new injunction mandating changes to its App Store policies, issued after finding Apple violated a previous order, saying the "punitive" measures force it to give away free access to its products.
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May 08, 2025
E-Rate Paperwork Snafus Cost Some Orgs. FCC Funds
The Federal Communications Commission has denied seven organizations' appeals for reimbursement under the E-Rate subsidy program because their service providers failed to send in the paperwork required to qualify for school and library connectivity funds.
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May 08, 2025
PTAB Labels Decision Ending Hulu Fights As Informative
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has designated as informative an April decision where the acting head of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office ended Hulu's challenges to a patent on inserting ads in media content.
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May 08, 2025
Full DC Circ. Restores International Media Funding, For Now
The en banc D.C. Circuit on Wednesday restored federal grant funding to international broadcasters while the Trump administration appeals a lower court ruling blocking cuts to the agency that oversees Voice of America.
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May 08, 2025
Senate Rejects FCC's Wi-Fi Subsidy For Students Off Campus
The Senate voted Thursday to overturn a Federal Communications Commission rule that would allow the E-Rate school and library program to subsidize Wi-Fi hot spots for students and library patrons off premises.
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May 08, 2025
Power Cos. Fight New Deadline In Pole Attachment Regs
Power companies are pushing back against a telecom industry proposal that would give utility pole owners just 30 days to approve third-party contractors for "make-ready" work in preparation for communications attachments, telling the government that the proposal would effectively strip utilities of their agency in contracting work on their poles.
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May 08, 2025
Latham, Wilson Sonsini Guide $800M Tripledot Gaming Deal
British game developer Tripledot Studios said Thursday it has inked a deal to acquire Palo Alto, California-based AppLovin's portfolio of mobile games studios for $800 million, with Latham & Watkins LLP advising Tripledot and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC guiding AppLovin.
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May 07, 2025
Ex-OneTaste Staffer Says She Was Sexually Exploited
A former salesperson for OneTaste on Wednesday testified in the forced labor trial of its former top leaders that she was traumatized and "lost touch with reality" during her time working for the sexual wellness company, and felt coerced into taking part in unwanted sexual acts.
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May 07, 2025
Celebs And YouTubers Nix Most FTX Investor Claims, For Now
A Florida federal judge Wednesday freed several high-profile celebrities and YouTubers from a majority of claims FTX investors lodged in a sprawling multidistrict litigation over the cryptocurrency exchange's collapse, slashing all but two of the investors' claims, including aiding and abetting.
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May 07, 2025
Texas AG Warns Chinese Cos. To Get In Step With Privacy Law
The Texas attorney general has informed Alibaba, CapCut, TP-Link and several other companies with ties to the Chinese government that they have 30 days to remedy alleged violations of the state's comprehensive data privacy law or face "additional legal action," marking the latest escalation of the agency's privacy enforcement efforts.
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May 07, 2025
Roku's GC Steps Down After Less Than A Year In The Role
Roku Inc.'s general counsel Louise Pentland is leaving the company to "pursue another opportunity," a move that comes less than a year after Pentland joined the company, according to a disclosure filed Wednesday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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May 07, 2025
Google Is 'What's Best' For Users, Apple Exec Tells Judge
A top Apple executive forcibly defended the company's pick for its default search engine Wednesday, telling a D.C. federal judge that Google is the only real option, as the U.S. Justice Department looks to ban Google from paying the iPhone maker and others for default search engine placement.
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May 07, 2025
DOJ, FTC Seek Public Input On Live Event Ticketing Abuses
The U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission announced Wednesday they are seeking input from the public about potential abuses in the live ticketing industry, which comes after President Donald Trump's March executive order that looks to enforce "transparency at all stages of the ticket-purchase process."
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May 07, 2025
Philips Presses For 'Certainty' On Next-Gen TV Transition
Electronics giant Philips is backing the National Association of Broadcasters' proposed timeline for stations to move to "NextGen TV," telling the Federal Communications Commission in a new filing that clear government action is needed to "shepherd the broadcast and consumer electronics industries towards a successful transition."
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May 07, 2025
Nike, 'Replica' Influencer Settle TM Suit Ahead Of Trial
Nike has resolved the remainder of its trademark infringement lawsuit against a social media influencer accused of posting and selling fake Nike shoes just days before trial, with a Florida federal judge on Wednesday signing off on the agreement that calls for the influencer to pay $1 million in damages.
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May 07, 2025
Girardi Keese Ex-CFO Will Cop To Client Theft In Chicago
Girardi Keese's former chief financial officer will plead guilty in federal prosecutors' Chicago case alleging he and a relative of now-disbarred Tom Girardi helped the disgraced former legal titan steal millions from clients, according to his Wednesday request that the judge handling the case accept his anticipated plea remotely.
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May 07, 2025
Top Groups Lobbying The FCC
The Federal Communications Commission heard from advocates dozens of times throughout April about their concerns, from T-Mobile's planned takeover of UScellular's wireless operations to Native American tribes' needs for licensed spectrum, phone "unlocking" mandates to spur competition, satellite power limits and more.
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May 07, 2025
Ex-Enforcers Back Higher Standard For Google Breakup
A bipartisan group of former federal antitrust enforcers stretching back to the Nixon administration has told the D.C. federal court overseeing the government's search monopolization case against Google that a high standard needs to be met when divestitures are sought.
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May 07, 2025
Fed. Circ. Backs Denial Of 'US Space Force' Trademark
The Federal Circuit on Wednesday shot down an intellectual property attorney's appeal of the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board's denial of his bid to register a trademark for the term "US Space Force," refusing to undo a finding that it would suggest a false connection to the military branch.
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May 07, 2025
Splenda Maker Can't Claim Scientist's Research Is 'Defamation'
A North Carolina federal judge has partially dismissed claims from the maker of sweetener Splenda alleging that a scientist defamed the company by saying in a television interview that Splenda contains a harmful chemical, saying accurately stating the results of her research is protected by the First Amendment.
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May 07, 2025
Judge Rejects New Trial Over Antitrust Loss To US Soccer
A Brooklyn federal judge denied a defunct soccer league's request for a new antitrust trial against MLS and the U.S. soccer governing body, rejecting a challenge to a jury instruction that asked about the existence of a relevant market.
Expert Analysis
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Lights, Camera, Real Estate: Preparing For Film Facility M&A
As the entertainment industry struggles to recover from multiple strikes and a decline in production, certain aspects of selling or acquiring production facilities may become important to consider, as these assets are valued very differently from typical commercial real estate properties, say attorneys at Olshan Frome.
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Nintendo Suit May Have Major Impact On Video Game Patents
If Nintendo and The Pokémon Co. win their patent infringement case in Japan against Pocketpair, the game developer behind Palworld, it could pose new challenges for independent game creators — but it could also encourage innovation, says Charles Morris at Marshall Gerstein.
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Risk Disclosure Issue Remains After Justices Nix Meta Case
After full briefing and argument, the U.S. Supreme Court recently dismissed Facebook v. Amalgamated Bank as improvidently granted, leaving courts with the tricky endeavor of determining when the failure to disclose a past event in an Item 105 risk disclosure is materially misleading, say attorneys at Lowenstein Sandler.
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Think Like A Lawyer: 1 Type Of Case Complexity Stands Out
In contrast to some cases that appear complex due to voluminous evidence or esoteric subject matter, a different kind of complexity involves tangled legal and factual questions, each with a range of possible outcomes, which require a “sliding scale” approach instead of syllogistic reasoning, says Luke Andrews at Poole Huffman.
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Netflix Dispute May Alter 'Source' In TM Fair-Use Analysis
​The Ninth Circuit’s upcoming decision in Hara v. Netflix​, about what it means to be source-identifying​, could change how the Rogers defense protects expressive works that utilize trademarks in a creative fashion, says Sara Gold at Gold IP.
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Think Like A Lawyer: Note 3 Simple Types Of Legal Complexity
Cases can appear complex for several reasons — due to the number of issues, the volume of factual and evidentiary sources, and the sophistication of those sources — but the same basic technique can help lawyers tame their arguments into a simple and persuasive message, says Luke Andrews at Poole Huffman.
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Tracking The Uncertainty Of The FTC's Negative Option Rule
The fate of the Federal Trade Commission's final rule requiring businesses that utilize negative options to provide consumers with a simple cancellation method remains in limbo as it faces multiple legal challenges and the threat of possible congressional action looms, say attorneys at Manatt.
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Plugging Gov't Leaks Is Challenging, But Not A Pipe Dream
As shown by ongoing legal battles involving New York City Mayor Eric Adams and Sean “Diddy” Combs, it’s challenging for defendants to obtain relief when they believe the government leaked sensitive information to the media, but defense counsel can take certain steps to mitigate the harm, says Kenneth Notter at MoloLamken.
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Gardening Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Beyond its practical and therapeutic benefits, gardening has bolstered important attributes that also apply to my litigation practice, including persistence, patience, grit and authenticity, says Christopher Viceconte at Gibbons.
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Litigation Inspiration: Reframing Document Review
For attorneys — new ones especially — there is much fulfillment to find in document review by reflecting on how important, interesting and pleasant it can be, says Bennett Rawicki at Hilgers Graben.
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Key Takeaways From FDA's Latest Social Media Warnings
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's latest untitled letter concerning a drug company's social media promotion provides lessons for how companies should navigate risk presentation, FDA labeling requirements and superiority claims, say attorneys at Sheppard Mullin.
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California Supreme Court's Year In Review
Attorneys at Horvitz & Levy highlight notable decisions on major questions from the California Supreme Court's last term, including voter initiatives, hostile work environment and the economic loss rule.
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Service Providers Must Mitigate 'Secondary Target' Risks
A lawsuit recently filed in an Illinois federal court against marketing agency Publicis over its work for opioid manufacturers highlights an uptick in litigation against professional service providers hired by clients that engaged in alleged misconduct — so potential targets of such suits should be sure to conduct proper risk analysis and mitigation, say attorneys at Dechert.
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Flying Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Achieving my childhood dream of flying airplanes made me a better lawyer — and a better person — because it taught me I can conquer difficult goals when I leave my comfort zone, focus on the demands of the moment and commit to honing my skills, says Ivy Cadle at Baker Donelson.
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Best Practices For Influencer Trademark Protection
Though the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board recently decided that an influencer couldn't qualify for a retail services trademark registration for posting affiliate links to a third-party website, there are other trademark protections that influencers can pursue for their branding and marketing services, say attorneys at Nixon Peabody.