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  • June 10, 2025

    Shaq To Pay $1.8M Over FTX Investors' Promotion Claims

    Retired NBA star Shaquille O'Neal has agreed to pay $1.8 million to resolve claims he promoted crypto exchange FTX to the detriment of investors prior to its stunning collapse.

  • June 10, 2025

    Florida Man Avoids Prison Over Ashley Biden's Stolen Diary

    A Florida resident who admitted that he and an associate sold the stolen diary of former President Joe Biden's daughter to right-wing activist group Project Veritas was spared any time in prison, as a Manhattan federal judge on Tuesday determined that his cooperation with prosecutors weighed heavily in his favor.

  • June 10, 2025

    Alphabet Investor Sues Company For TikTok Docs

    An Alphabet Inc. shareholder filed suit on Tuesday against the Google parent company in Delaware Chancery Court, seeking access to the company's books and records to investigate its compliance with a ban on the distribution of the TikTok mobile app under the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act.

  • June 10, 2025

    Key Insights On Looming Fair Use Rulings In AI Cases

    Two California federal judges have indicated they are inclined to find that using copyrighted material to train artificial intelligence systems is transformative, which usually means that copying a work is fair, but that may not let Meta Platforms and Anthropic off the hook in separate lawsuits.

  • June 10, 2025

    11th Circ. Revives Suit Over 'Summer Waves' TM

    The Eleventh Circuit on Tuesday revived a trademark lawsuit that the entity behind a Georgia waterpark launched against an inflatable pool maker over its purported use of the phrase "summer waves," finding a lower court has jurisdiction to hear the case.

  • June 10, 2025

    Relax Power Limits, But Don't Move CBRS Users, FCC Told

    Federated Wireless is urging the Federal Communications Commission to reject a proposal to relocate the Citizens Broadband Radio Service band, telling the agency Monday that despite AT&T's claims that the band sees "low demand," it is actually home to "the largest ecosystem of any commercial band in the world."

  • June 10, 2025

    Lawmakers Float NIL Bills Following NCAA Deal

    Members of Congress introduced a pair of bills Tuesday looking to establish national standards for how college athletes monetize their name, image and likeness in the wake of the landmark NCAA class action settlement last week.

  • June 10, 2025

    Paramount Says 'Top Gun' Authorship Claim Is 'A Delusion'

    Paramount Pictures Corp. urged a New York federal judge Monday to dismiss a lawsuit brought by the cousin of a "Top Gun: Maverick" screenwriter who claims he is a joint author of the film's script, saying his complaint is "a delusion."

  • June 10, 2025

    Spokesman Sues Motel 6 Over Unauthorized Use Of His Voice

    Tom Bodett, a radio personality and voice actor known for Motel 6's radio and television ads for nearly 40 years, has sued the hospitality chain for allegedly using his name and voice without consent after he ended an agreement.

  • June 10, 2025

    FCC Temporarily Blocks Co.'s Equipment Authorization

    The U.S. leg of a Taiwanese infrastructure company hasn't been up front about who makes some of the equipment it has been selling inside the country, the Federal Communications Commission has said, so the agency is temporarily yanking its equipment authorization.

  • June 10, 2025

    Match.com Settles Reverse Spinoff Suit For $30M In Del.

    A mediator-recommended, $30 million settlement proposal has tentatively ended a five-year Delaware Court of Chancery stockholder challenge to the fairness of Match.com's 2019 reverse spinoff from the Barry Diller-controlled IAC/Interactive.

  • June 10, 2025

    Stability AI, Others Fear Artists' Expert Might Use Their Info

    Stability AI and other artificial intelligence art platforms urged a California federal magistrate judge Tuesday to block an artists' expert in a proposed copyright infringement class action from having access to their confidential information, their lawyer arguing the professor is a "functional competitor" who created software to "sabotage" his clients' products.

  • June 10, 2025

    Union, Philharmonic Fight Suits From Suspended Musicians

    A musicians union has asked a New York federal judge to toss two suspended New York Philharmonic players' allegations that the union illegally dropped its fight for their reinstatement, saying it had good reason to abandon the mission after the full extent of their alleged sexual violence was revealed.

  • June 10, 2025

    Thune Touts GOP's Spectrum Plan On Senate Floor

    Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., promoted the Republicans' legislative plan to open more federal spectrum to private companies during a floor speech Tuesday.

  • June 10, 2025

    OpenAI Hit With Trademark Suit Over IO Co. Name

    Technology company IYO Inc. has accused OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman of knowingly infringing its trademark when the company acquired competitor IO Products Inc. last month.

  • June 10, 2025

    Willkie Partner Wants To 'Chill' Media Contact, Conn. Atty Says

    A Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP partner and his wife are pursuing a federal lawsuit based on speculative allegations and trying to "chill" the First Amendment rights of a Connecticut attorney who represented their ex-landlord and leaked a story about them to the New York Post, the defendant is arguing in seeking judgment in his favor.

  • June 10, 2025

    Photographer Says Marlon Wayans Took Pot Pic

    Marlon Wayans, star of such films as "White Chicks" and "Scary Movie," was hit with a copyright infringement lawsuit on Tuesday by a photographer who claims he used her image of a Ziploc bag filled with marijuana on his Facebook account without permission.

  • June 10, 2025

    Atlanta Drag Bar Agrees To $50K Deal In Wage Suit

    An Atlanta bar that provides drag show entertainment has agreed to pay $50,000 to end a performer's proposed collective action alleging it failed to pay minimum wage and overtime, and both parties urged a Georgia federal court to greenlight the deal.

  • June 09, 2025

    Blake Lively, NYT Defeat 'It Ends With Us' Defamation Claims

    A New York federal judge on Monday threw out Justin Baldoni's defamation claims against his "It Ends With Us" costar Blake Lively, her husband Ryan Reynolds and The New York Times, among others, ruling that Baldoni hasn't plausibly alleged any statements were made or reported maliciously.

  • June 09, 2025

    Trump Executive Order Revamps US Cybersecurity Policy

    President Donald Trump has moved to "reprioritize" the nation's cybersecurity efforts by issuing an executive order scrapping the provisions of prior directives issued by the past two Democratic administrations while focusing on measures such as mandating more secure software development and the latest encryption protocols. 

  • June 09, 2025

    Disney Will Pay An Added $438.7M For NBC's Hulu Stake

    The Walt Disney Co. said Monday that it will pay an additional $438.7 million to purchase NBCUniversal's 33% stake in the streaming platform Hulu, a payment that's on top of the $8.6 billion Disney already paid NBCUniversal in 2023.

  • June 09, 2025

    Nev. Dem Threatens To Block Commerce Picks Over BEAD

    A Nevada senator derided the U.S. Department of Commerce's overhaul of the government's $42.5 billion broadband deployment program and threatened to put a Senate hold on some of President Donald Trump's agency nominees until her state's federal funding is restored.

  • June 09, 2025

    EchoStar Questions FCC Process In SpaceX, VTel Fight

    EchoStar said the Federal Communications Commission should not be "pulling the rug out from" under it as it fights to keep the spectrum rights it got from T-Mobile, arguing that it was being unfairly singled out by SpaceX and VTel, who want the commission to review the buildout of Dish's network.

  • June 09, 2025

    Match Group Settles FTC's Fake-Unsubscribe Suit

    The Federal Trade Commission and Match Group Inc. settled an unfair trade practices suit at the eleventh hour on what would have been the first day of trial in Texas federal court Monday, ending claims that Match Group tricked customers into thinking they had unsubscribed when they hadn't.

  • June 09, 2025

    Patent Suit Against Sirius XM Gets 2nd Fed. Circ. Reprieve

    The Federal Circuit on Monday revived a patent case against satellite radio company Sirius XM for a second time, reversing a lower court's ruling that a German research foundation's five-year delay in alleging infringement meant it was prohibited from pursuing the case.

Expert Analysis

  • Patenting AI And Machine Learning In The Wake Of Recentive

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    Though the Federal Circuit's recent decision in Recentive Analytics v. Fox Corp. initially appears to doom patents related to artificial intelligence and machine learning, a closer look shows that strategies for successfully drafting and prosecuting such patents offer hope despite increased pushback from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, say attorneys at Banner Witcoff.

  • How Mass Arbitration Defense Strategies Have Fared In Court

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    As businesses face consumers who leverage arbitration agreements to compel mass arbitration, companies are trying defense strategies like batching arbitration cases to reduce costs, and escaping specific mass arbitrations without rejecting the process completely, with varying results in the courtroom, say attorneys at Montgomery McCracken.

  • $38M Law Firm Settlement Highlights 'Unworthy Client' Perils

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    A recent settlement of claims against law firm Eckert Seamans for allegedly abetting a Ponzi scheme underscores the continuing threat of clients who seek to exploit their lawyers in perpetrating fraud, and the critical importance of preemptive measures to avoid these clients, say attorneys at Lockton Companies.

  • Series

    Teaching Business Law Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Teaching business law to college students has rekindled my sense of purpose as a lawyer — I am more mindful of the importance of the rule of law and the benefits of our common law system, which helps me maintain a clearer perspective on work, says David Feldman at Feldman Legal Advisors.

  • Deregulation Memo Presents Risks, Opportunities For Cos.

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    A recent Trump administration memo providing direction to agencies tasked with rescinding regulations under an earlier executive order — without undergoing the typical notice-and-review process — will likely create much uncertainty for businesses, though they may be able to engage with agencies to shape the regulatory agenda, say attorneys at Blank Rome.

  • Series

    Law School's Missed Lessons: Mastering Discovery

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    The discovery process and the rules that govern it are often absent from law school curricula, but developing a solid grasp of the particulars can give any new attorney a leg up in their practice, says Jordan Davies at Knowles Gallant.

  • Web Tracking Ruling Signals Potential Broadening Of CCPA

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    The Northern District of California's recent decision in Shah v. Capital One Financial Corp. is notable, as it signals a potential broadening of the California Consumer Privacy Act's private right of action beyond data breaches to unauthorized, nonbreach disclosures involving the use of now-ubiquitous tracking technologies, say attorneys at Baker Donelson.

  • Patent Takeaways In Fed. Circ.'s 1st Machine Learning Ruling

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    The Federal Circuit’s recent decision in Recentive Analytics v. Fox, a case of first impression affirming the invalidity of patents that applied general machine learning methods to conventional tasks, serves as a cautionary guide for patent practitioners navigating the complexities of machine learning inventions, say attorneys at Foley & Lardner.

  • Opinion

    Int'l Athletes' Wages Should Be On-Campus Employment

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    The U.S. Department of Homeland Security should recognize participation in college athletics by international student-athletes as on-campus employment to prevent the potentially disastrous ripple effects on teams, schools and their surrounding communities, says Catherine Haight at Haight Law Group.

  • Series

    Playing Guitar Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Being a lawyer not only requires logic and hard work, but also belief, emotion, situational awareness and lots of natural energy — playing guitar enhances all of these qualities, increasing my capacity to do my best work, says Kosta Stojilkovic at Wilkinson Stekloff.

  • Crisis Management Lessons From The Parenting Playbook

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    The parenting skills we use to help our kids through challenges — like rehearsing for stressful situations, modeling confidence and taking time to reset our emotions — can also teach us the fundamentals of leading clients through a corporate crisis, say Deborah Solmor at the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation and Cara Peterman at Alston & Bird.

  • Tips For Companies Crafting Tariff Surcharge Disclosures

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    As the Trump administration imposes tariffs on imports, retail businesses considering itemizing tariff-related costs separately for consumers must ensure that any disclosures are both accurate and defensible to avoid regulatory enforcement or private suits, says Christopher Cole at Katten.

  • Series

    Adapting To Private Practice: From NY Fed To BigLaw

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    While the move to private practice brings a learning curve, it also brings chances to learn new skills and grow your network, requiring a clear understanding of how your skills can complement and contribute to a firm's existing practice, and where you can add new value, says Meghann Donahue at Covington.

  • Combs Case Reveals Key Pretrial Scheduling Strategies

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    The procedural battles over pretrial disclosure deadlines leading up to the criminal trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs show how disclosure timing can substantially affect defendants’ ability to prepare and highlight several scheduling pointers for defense counsel, says Sara Kropf at Kropf Moseley.

  • Top 3 Litigation Finance Deal-Killers, And How To Avoid Them

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    Like all transactions, litigation finance deals can sometimes collapse, but understanding the most common reasons for failure, including a lack of trust or a misunderstanding of deal terms, can help both parties avoid problems, say Rebecca Berrebi at Avenue 33 and Boris Ziser at Schulte Roth.

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