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  • August 26, 2025

    Otter.ai Violates BIPA Through Voiceprint Collection, Suit Says

    Artificial intelligence-powered transcription software company Otter.ai has been collecting users' voiceprints without consent and without a published policy laying out when it retains and destroys the data, a new proposed class action filed Tuesday in California federal court alleges.

  • August 26, 2025

    Standard General's Racial Bias Claims Against FCC Fall Flat

    Hedge fund manager Soo Kim has failed to convince a D.C. federal judge that the Federal Communications Commission and a cadre of media players were part of a racist conspiracy to kill his $8.6 billion merger with broadcaster Tegna.

  • August 26, 2025

    Meta Fired Worker For Being Older White Male, Bias Suit Says

    A former Meta Platforms Inc. employee filed an age bias suit in California state court Tuesday, alleging the company prioritized non-white, non-male workers and applicants for job opportunities, bonuses and promotions, before it eventually executed a "reduction in force" that disparately affected older workers who ended up being terminated.

  • August 26, 2025

    Google Backers Cite Security, Competition To 9th Circ.

    Trade groups, cybersecurity experts, think tanks and others backed Google with proposed Ninth Circuit amicus briefs arguing that an order affirmed by an appeals panel opening up the Play Store will upend competition and endanger security.

  • August 26, 2025

    Garnishment Statute Is Too 'Arbitrary,' NBC Tells Ga. Justices

    NBCUniversal urged the Georgia Supreme Court Tuesday to overturn a trial court's denial of its motion to set aside a more than $543,000 default judgment entered against it after it failed to respond to a garnishment action, arguing that the state's garnishment default statute is unconstitutional.

  • August 26, 2025

    Piers Morgan Wants Iran 'Spy' Defamation Suit Tossed

    Piers Morgan on Tuesday asked a Massachusetts federal judge to toss a political scientist's defamation suit, with the broadcaster arguing that a podcast introduction calling the scientist an alleged spy is backed up by both federal criminal charges and the plaintiff's own account of his situation.

  • August 26, 2025

    Disney Prevails In Multimedia Patent Challenge At PTAB

    The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has sided with Disney in its challenge to claims in a patent for marketing and distributing multimedia, finding that prior inventions rendered the claims too obvious for patent protection.

  • August 26, 2025

    Expert Sees No 'Ugly House' Mixup In Warner Bros. IP Case

    During the second day of trial in Delaware federal court, a trademark litigation survey expert testified she found no public confusion with respect to Warner Bros. Discovery Inc.'s "Ugliest House in America" series and HomeVestors Inc.'s house-flipping business and "Ugliest House of the Year" campaign.

  • August 26, 2025

    AI Copyright Licensing Is Helping To Fuel Tech's Evolution

    While courts wrestle with fair use questions around artificial intelligence training, legal experts say the growing number of licensing deals between tech companies and copyright owners is setting market norms for accessing the troves of content needed across rapidly evolving AI applications.

  • August 26, 2025

    FCC Ordered To Turn Over More DOGE Docs

    A D.C. federal judge ruled Tuesday the Federal Communications Commission must produce more documents related to its communications with Elon Musk's government-slashing Department of Government Efficiency.

  • August 26, 2025

    Artist Seeking Copyright Of AI Image Equates Use To Cameras

    A Colorado man who used artificial intelligence to create an image that won an art award at a state fair told a federal judge that he should be allowed to copyright the image just as those who used technology such as cameras and cellphones had been allowed to copyright their works.

  • August 26, 2025

    Blacklist Suit Blocked By Illegal Biz Ties, Justices Told

    LegitScript has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene against the Ninth Circuit's decision to make it face PharmacyChecker.com's antitrust blacklisting claims, arguing the lower court rulings wrongly allow PharmacyChecker to sue to protect a business focused on facilitating the illegal importation of drugs.

  • August 26, 2025

    Anthropic, Authors Reach Deal In AI Copyright Cases

    Artificial intelligence developer Anthropic said Tuesday it has inked a deal to end copyright litigation from authors who allege that their works were illegally obtained to train the company's large language model, Claude.

  • August 26, 2025

    Fla. High Court Won't Hear Appeal In Trump's Pulitzer Suit

    The Florida Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to take up the appeal of Pulitzer Prize Board members of a decision declining to stay President Donald Trump's defamation lawsuit against the board over reporting that he colluded with Russia to win the 2016 election.

  • August 26, 2025

    Feds Look To Dismiss Calif. Tribe's $700M Casino Dispute

    The U.S. Department of the Interior, with the backing of two tribes and the California Gaming Association, is looking to dismiss a lawsuit over its decision to temporarily nix eligibility for a proposed $700 million casino and hotel project, arguing it doesn't constitute a final agency action under the Administrative Procedure Act.

  • August 26, 2025

    X Corp. Settles WARN Act Suit With Worker Terminated In 2022

    A former X Corp. employee has settled its lawsuit alleging that he wasn't given a heads-up before the company conducted mass layoffs in 2022 following Elon Musk's takeover, prompting a California federal judge to conditionally dismiss the case on Monday, two weeks before trial had been set to begin.

  • August 26, 2025

    Netflix Flight Attendant Says Harassment Report Led To Firing

    A former flight attendant for Netflix's private air fleet accused the streaming company of withholding her raise and eventually firing her after she reported several instances of sexual harassment, including one involving a pilot's sexually explicit Christmas cards.

  • August 26, 2025

    Japanese Newspapers Sue Perplexity AI Over Content Use

    Two large Japanese newspapers said Tuesday they are suing Perplexity AI Inc., alleging the company ignored their ban on unauthorized use of their content by running a generative artificial intelligence model that spits out copyrighted material.

  • August 26, 2025

    White & Case-Led EchoStar Sells Spectrum To AT&T For $23B

    Telecommunications company EchoStar, advised by White & Case LLP, on Tuesday unveiled plans to sell certain wireless spectrum licenses to AT&T in a $23 billion all-cash deal.

  • August 26, 2025

    Studio Mogul Demands Jury In $2.8M Mohegan Sun Debt Suit

    A former Hollywood studio mogul told a Connecticut state court that the Mohegan Tribal Gaming Authority lured him into accumulating nearly $5 million in debt, knowing he was a "problem gambler," and now incorrectly wants to pursue its collection case against him without a jury.

  • August 26, 2025

    TikTok Takes State's Addictive App Case To NC Top Court

    TikTok and its Chinese parent company are taking the state of North Carolina's lawsuit accusing it of intentionally designing the app to addict young users to the state's highest court after a Business Court judge rejected their early exit bid.

  • August 26, 2025

    Buchalter Adds Ex-Carlton Fields Attys To LA Office

    Buchalter has hired two former Carlton Fields attorneys as shareholders for its corporate team in Los Angeles, and one of the announced hires is returning to the firm after almost 30 years.

  • August 25, 2025

    Del. Justices Won't Revive Hunter Biden Defamation Suit

    Delaware's highest court on Monday affirmed a lower court's decision to toss defamation claims a computer repair shop owner lodged against Hunter Biden and others over media reports he asserted tied him to Russian disinformation, saying no reasonable person would have concluded that statements he alleged were defamatory concerned him.

  • August 25, 2025

    Meta Has No Grounds To Erase Flo Privacy Verdict, Users Say

    Flo app users opposed Meta's bid to overturn a California federal jury verdict that found it liable for using an online tracking tool to unlawfully retrieve sensitive health data users entered into the menstrual tracking app, arguing that the company can't scrap the decision because it doesn't "like" the outcome. 

  • August 25, 2025

    California Tribe Looks To Undo Casino Union Arbitration Order

    A California federal judge should nix an arbitrator's finding that a labor agreement, rather than tribal law, governs unionization at a Native American casino, the Wilton Rancheria tribe argued in a new lawsuit.

Expert Analysis

  • A Judge's Pointers For Adding Spice To Dry Legal Writing

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    U.S. District Judge Fred Biery shares a few key lessons about how to go against the grain of the legal writing tradition by adding color to bland judicial opinions, such as by telling a human story and injecting literary devices where possible.

  • IRS Scrutiny May Underlie Move Away From NIL Collectives

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    The University of Colorado's January announcement that it was severing its partnership with a name, image and likeness collective is part of universities' recent push to move NIL activities in-house, seemingly motivated by tax implications and increased scrutiny by the Internal Revenue Service, say attorneys at Buchanan Ingersoll.

  • A Reminder On Avoiding Improper Venues In Patent Cases

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    A Texas federal court's recent decision in the Symbology and Quantum cases shows that baseless patent venue allegations may be subject to serious Rule 11 sanctions, providing venue-vetting takeaways for plaintiffs and defendants, say attorneys at Bond Schoeneck.

  • Implications Of Kid Privacy Rule Revamp For Parents, Cos.

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    The Federal Trade Commission's recent amendments to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act will expand protections for children online, meaning parents will have greater control over their children's data and tech companies must potentially change their current privacy practices — or risk noncompliance, say attorneys at Labaton Keller.

  • Copyright Ruling Could Extend US Terminations Worldwide

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    If upheld on appeal, Vetter v. Resnik, a recent ruling from a Louisiana federal court, could extend the geographical scope of U.S. copyright termination rights to foreign territories, say attorneys at Manatt.

  • Examining Trump Meme Coin And SEC's Crypto Changes

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    While the previous U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission tended to view most crypto-assets as securities, the tide is rapidly changing, and hopefully the long-needed reevaluation of this regulatory framework is not tarnished by an arguable conflict of interest due to President Donald Trump's affiliation with the $Trump meme coin, say attorneys at Thompson Coburn.

  • Pepperdine Case Highlights Shift In Collegiate IP Landscape

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    A complaint filed by Pepperdine University against Netflix and Warner Bros. two weeks ago alleges that a comedy series unlawfully copies the school's trademarks, and the decision could reshape the portrayal of collegiate athletics on screen and the legal tools schools use to defend their emblems, says Mindy Lewis at Michelman & Robinson.

  • 7 Tips For Associates To Thrive In Hybrid Work Environments

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    As the vast majority of law firms have embraced some type of hybrid work policy, associates should consider a few strategies to get the most out of both their in-person and remote workdays, says James Argionis at Cozen O’Connor.

  • White Collar Archetypes: Wrangling The Shape-Shifter

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    In white collar criminal trials, certain pieces of evidence can shape-shift in the jury’s eyes, presenting both challenges and opportunities for defense counsel, says Jack Sharman at Lightfoot Franklin.

  • Series

    Playing Beach Volleyball Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    My commitment to beach volleyball has become integral to my performance as an attorney, with the sport continually reminding me that teamwork, perseverance, professionalism and stress management are essential to both undertakings, says Amy Drushal at Trenam.

  • US Soccer Win Shows Value Of Defining 'Relevant Market'

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    Despite U.S. Soccer's successful defense against North American Soccer League's antitrust allegations, sports leagues should continue to be mindful of risks posed by hierarchical structures since the New York federal judge in that suit found a triable issue of fact on the relevant markets issue, say attorneys at Debevoise.

  • If Elphaba Had Signed A Restrictive Covenant In 'Wicked'

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    Following the recent big-screen release of "Wicked," employers should consider how the tale might have ended if the Wizard of Oz had made Elphaba sign a restrictive covenant agreement, which would have placed clear limitations on her ability to challenge his regime, says Emily Wajert at Sidley.

  • How Law Firms Can Counteract The Loneliness Epidemic

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    The legal industry is facing an urgent epidemic of loneliness, affecting lawyer well-being, productivity, retention and profitability, and law firm leaders should take concrete steps to encourage the development of genuine workplace connections, says Michelle Gomez at Littler and Gwen Mellor Romans at Herald Talent.

  • 5 Keys To Building Stronger Attorney-Client Relationships

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    Attorneys are often focused on being seen as the expert, but bonding with clients and prospects by sharing a few key personal details provides the basis for a caring, trusted and profoundly deeper business relationship, says Deb Feder at Feder Development.

  • Justices' TikTok Ruling May Pose Threat To Online Expression

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    The U.S. Supreme Court's recent landmark ruling upholding a federal law mandating TikTok's forced divestiture in the name of data security may embolden digital censorship agendas worldwide, says IP lawyer Bahram Jafari.

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