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May 06, 2025
Senate Tees Up Vote Against FCC Wi-Fi Funding Plan
The Senate on Tuesday advanced a GOP bill to nullify the Federal Communications Commission's program to fund Wi-Fi hot spots for students off-campus through the E-Rate school and library subsidy.
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May 06, 2025
Meta Wins $168M Verdict Against NSO Over WhatsApp Hack
A California federal jury found Tuesday that Israeli spyware-maker NSO Group owes Meta Platforms Inc. $444,719 in compensatory damages and a staggering $167.25 million in punitive damages for hacking 1,400 WhatsApp users' devices.
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May 06, 2025
Alex Jones' Atty Seeks Discipline Pause In Sandy Hook Leak
Alex Jones' former lead Connecticut attorney has asked a state appeals court to pause the remaining seven days of a suspension he was handed for a role in transferring Sandy Hook families' confidential records to another Jones attorney in Texas, arguing the case should be stayed while he again appeals the punishment.
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May 02, 2025
Republicans Tout Bill To Make App Stores Verify Users' Ages
Two Republican lawmakers introduced a bill Thursday to protect minor app users by requiring app stores and developers to vet their ages through a verification process and seek parental consent before allowing them to download apps or make any purchases.Â
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May 06, 2025
Prince Harry Demands Daily Mail Reveal 'Web Of Illegal Acts'
Public figures including Prince Harry and Elton John urged a judge on Tuesday to force the publisher of the Daily Mail newspaper to hand over more information about what they allege was a "web of illegal acts" committed against them.
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May 05, 2025
Ex-OneTaste Leaders Face Trial On Forced Labor Charges
After nearly three years of bruising pretrial litigation, jury selection began Monday for OneTaste founder and "orgasmic meditation" advocate Nicole Daedone and her former deputy over allegations that they extracted free labor from followers by fostering an abusive environment at the sexual wellness company.
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May 05, 2025
Apple Hit With Developer Suit After App Store Contempt Order
Apple has been hit with a developer's proposed class action after a California federal judge last week agreed with Epic Games that the tech giant violated her order prohibiting App Store rules that prevent developers from steering users to alternative payment options.
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May 05, 2025
Jimmy Page Accused Of Infringing 'Dazed and Confused'
American songwriter Jake Holmes on Monday hauled Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page and Warner Chappell Music Inc. into California federal court, accusing them of infringing his rights to the hit "Dazed and Confused" despite agreeing in a 2011 settlement that Holmes created the song and had complete ownership of it.
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May 05, 2025
OpenAI Abandons For-Profit Plan After Musk Suit Is Preserved
OpenAI announced Monday that it was no longer pursuing plans to transition the ChatGPT maker into a for-profit enterprise, changing course just days after a California federal judge refused to throw out the bulk of Elon Musk's suit challenging those plans.
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May 05, 2025
'Punish' NSO For WhatsApp Hack, Meta Tells Jury In Closings
Meta's counsel urged a California federal jury during trial closings Monday to "punish" Israeli spyware-maker NSO Group by awarding "significant" punitive damages, plus $445,000 in compensatory damages, for "vile" conduct hacking 1,400 WhatsApp users' devices, while NSO's counsel argued Meta never lost money and its demands are a PR stunt.
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May 05, 2025
Officials Seek More Depo Time In Live Nation Antitrust Suit
U.S. officials have asked a Manhattan federal court to extend deposition time in a lawsuit accusing Live Nation of anticompetitive practices in ticket sales to live entertainment events, saying they need more hours to seek testimony from several entities and individuals who were recently disclosed in the case.
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May 05, 2025
Judge Rejects Media Matters' Bid To Move X's Case
A Texas federal judge has shot down a bid by watchdog Media Matters for America to transfer X Corp.'s defamation case against it to the Northern District of California, saying Media Matters has waived any contractual right to transfer venues it may have had.
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May 05, 2025
Calif. Stations Must Pay $32K Over File Failings, FCC Says
Two California TV stations have agreed to pay over $30,000 and to enter compliance plans after the Federal Communications Commission said they broke agency rules by failing to maintain and upload records regarding commercial limits in children's programming.
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May 05, 2025
Meta Users Refused 9th Circ. Appeal On Data Pay Cert Denial
A Ninth Circuit panel summarily refused to permit Meta Platforms Inc. users to immediately appeal a district court decision rejecting class certification for their antitrust case alleging the social media giant would have had to pay for their data if it didn't lie about privacy safeguards.
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May 05, 2025
Google Ads Advertisers Ask For Class Cert. In MDL
A group of advertisers in multidistrict litigation accusing Google of violating antitrust law through its control over key ad technology has asked a New York federal court to certify it as a class.
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May 05, 2025
EchoStar Says CBRS Revamp Won't Hurt Incumbents
EchoStar said a cable and broadband industry group was wrong to portray a plan to raise power levels in the Citizens Broadband Radio Service as possibly detrimental to existing users.
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May 05, 2025
Defamation Litigation Roundup: Palin, Fox, Crime Podcasters
In this month's review of ongoing defamation fights, Law360 looks back on developments in two voting technology companies' cases against news organizations that claimed they helped rig the 2020 election.
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May 05, 2025
NetChoice Sues Over Ga.'s New Social Media Age Limit Law
Internet trade group NetChoice has sued the state of Georgia over a new law set to take effect this summer that would limit minors' access to social media, arguing the bill unconstitutionally infringes upon the First Amendment rights of both adults and the children the measure is purported to protect.
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May 05, 2025
Ex-Twitter Execs Can See Some Musk Texts In Severance Row
Four former Twitter executives claiming they are owed $200 million in severance will be able to conduct a search of Elon Musk's text messages, but only when it comes to iMessage and not other messaging platforms like Signal, a California federal judge ruled.
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May 05, 2025
FB Exec Saw Messaging Apps As Threat, But Not WhatsApp
A former top Meta executive for Facebook Messenger and Instagram provided limited backing Monday for Federal Trade Commission allegations the company bought WhatsApp and Instagram to squelch competition, telling a D.C. federal judge that while he saw messaging apps as a real threat, those worries didn't include WhatsApp.
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May 05, 2025
Trump Seeks 100% Tariff On Foreign-Made Movies
President Donald Trump asked his administration to place a 100% tariff on foreign-made movies, with a spokesperson telling Law360 on Monday that a final decision on the plan hadn't been made.
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May 05, 2025
Celebrity Doctor Says McMahon Accuser's Atty Defamed Him
A celebrity doctor who has been fighting an information request from a former staffer for Vince McMahon accusing the former World Wrestling Entertainment executive of sexual assault and trafficking has claimed that the accuser's attorney defamed him and his practice during a press conference livestreamed on YouTube.
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May 05, 2025
DC Circ. Urged To Revisit Copyright Denial For AI-Created Art
A computer scientist challenging the U.S. Copyright Office's requirement that only humans are eligible to register works has asked the full D.C. Circuit to review a three-judge panel's decision that rejected his arguments for why a two-dimensional artwork created by an artificial intelligence system he invented should be registered.
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May 05, 2025
Mass. Justices Eye Potential Bias In Police Use Of Snapchat
Justices on Massachusetts' highest court Monday pressed a county prosecutor over a police department's use of a fictitious non-white "bitmoji" and name on Snapchat to target suspected gang members in the city of Lowell, in the latest legal challenge to law enforcement's use of social media surveillance.
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May 05, 2025
NFL, Retail Group Back NBA In Video Privacy Fight
The National Football League and a retail industry group filed separate briefs supporting the National Basketball Association's bid for the U.S. Supreme Court to let it out of a video privacy class action over its video viewing data practices, arguing that the Second Circuit stretched the relevant law beyond Congress' intent.
Expert Analysis
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Patent Lessons From 7 Federal Circuit Reversals In August
The Federal Circuit’s seven vacated or reversed cases from August provide helpful clarity on obviousness-type double patenting, written description and indefiniteness, and suggest improved practices for petitioners and patent owners in inter partes review, say Denise De Mory and Li Guo at Bunsow De Mory.
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Use The Right Kind Of Feedback To Help Gen Z Attorneys
Generation Z associates bring unique perspectives and expectations to the workplace, so it’s imperative that supervising attorneys adapt their feedback approach in order to help young lawyers learn and grow — which is good for law firms, too, says Rachael Bosch at Fringe Professional Development.
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Opinion
Congress Can And Must Enact A Supreme Court Ethics Code
As public confidence in the U.S. Supreme Court dips to historic lows following reports raising conflict of interest concerns, Congress must exercise its constitutional power to enact a mandatory and enforceable code of ethics for the high court, says Muhammad Faridi, president of the New York City Bar Association.
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Series
The Pop Culture Docket: Justice Lebovits On Gilbert And Sullivan
Characters in the 19th century comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan break the rules of good lawyering by shamelessly throwing responsible critical thought to the wind, providing hilarious lessons for lawyers and judges on how to avoid a surfeit of traps and tribulations, say acting New York Supreme Court Justice Gerald Lebovits and law student Tara Scown.
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California's AI Safety Bill Veto: The Path Forward
California Gov. Gavin Newsom's veto of a bill that sought to impose stringent regulations on advanced artificial intelligence model development has sparked a renewed debate on how best to balance innovation with safety in the rapidly evolving AI landscape, say Bobby Malhotra and Carson Swope at Winston & Strawn.
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State Of The States' AI Legal Ethics Landscape
Over the past year, several state bar associations, as well as the American Bar Association, have released guidance on the ethical use of artificial intelligence in legal practice, all of which share overarching themes and some nuanced differences, say Eric Pacifici and Kevin Henderson at SMB Law Group.
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8 Childhood Lessons That Can Help You Be A Better Attorney
A new school year is underway, marking a fitting time for attorneys to reflect on some fundamental life lessons from early childhood that offer a framework for problems that no legal textbook can solve, say Chris Gismondi and Chris Campbell at DLA Piper.
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Recent Securities Cases Highlight Risks In AI Disclosures
Increasing public disclosure about the use and risks of artificial intelligence, and related litigation asserting that such disclosures are false or misleading, suggest that issuers need to exercise great care with respect to how they describe the benefits of AI, say Richard Zelichov and Danny Tobey at DLA Piper.
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Opinion
This Election, We Need To Talk About Court Process
In recent decades, the U.S. Supreme Court has markedly transformed judicial processes — from summary judgment standards to notice pleadings — which has, in turn, affected individuals’ substantive rights, and we need to consider how the upcoming presidential election may continue this pattern, says Reuben Guttman at Guttman Buschner.
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Consider Best Legal Practices For Commissioning Public Art
Commissioning public art for real estate projects can provide many benefits to real estate developers and the public, but it's important to understand the unique legal and contracting aspects of the process to ensure that projects are completed on time and on budget, says Sarah Conley Odenkirk at ArtConverge.
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A Look At The PTAB's Assessment Of Prior Art Exceptions
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board's approach over the last 10 years to assessing Section 102(b) prior art exceptions reveals a few trends, including that evidence of common ownership may have a higher likelihood of successfully disqualifying prior art under Section 102(b)(2)(C) at the institution stage, say Louis Panzica and David Holman at Sterne Kessler.
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Series
Playing Diplomacy Makes Us Better Lawyers
Similar to the practice of law, the rules of Diplomacy — a strategic board game set in pre-World War I Europe — are neither concise nor without ambiguity, and weekly gameplay with our colleagues has revealed the game's practical applications to our work as attorneys, say Jason Osborn and Ben Bevilacqua at Winston & Strawn.
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Open Questions In Unsettled Geofence Warrant Landscape
The Fourth and Fifth Circuits recently reached radically divergent conclusions about the constitutionality of geofence warrants, creating an uncertain landscape in which defendants should assert and preserve the full range of conventional Fourth Amendment challenges, says Charles Fowler at McKool Smith.
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A Look At 5 States' New Data Privacy Laws
With new data privacy laws in Utah, Florida, Texas, Oregon and Montana recently in effect or coming into force this year, state-level enforcement of data privacy creates significant challenges and risks for how businesses interact with employees and consumers, and for companies that provide and use technologies in multiple jurisdictions, say attorneys at Jenner & Block.
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Mental Health First Aid: A Brief Primer For Attorneys
Amid a growing body of research finding that attorneys face higher rates of mental illness than the general population, firms should consider setting up mental health first aid training programs to help lawyers assess mental health challenges in their colleagues and intervene with compassion, say psychologists Shawn Healy and Tracey Meyers.