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  • May 01, 2025

    'Fingers Crossed' At FCC As Court's Subsidy Ruling Closes In

    There's plenty of hand-wringing at the Federal Communications Commission as a U.S. Supreme Court decision draws near over the legality of the revenue-raising scheme used to pay for more than $9 billion in broadband and phone service subsidies.

  • May 01, 2025

    Wash. Justices Take Up Meta's $35M Political Ad Penalty

    The Washington State Supreme Court has agreed to review a $35 million judgment for penalties and legal fees against Facebook parent company Meta for repeatedly running afoul of the state's political advertising transparency law.

  • May 01, 2025

    Market Effect Key In Authors' IP Suit Against Meta, Judge Says

    Whether it was fair for Meta Platforms to use copyrighted books without permission to train an artificial intelligence platform will come down to how the market for those books is impacted, regardless of how transformative the innovation may be, the California federal judge overseeing a proposed class action from a group of bestselling authors said Thursday.

  • May 01, 2025

    Industry Groups Want FCC Enforcement Rework

    Five telecom industry groups asked the Federal Communications Commission on Thursday to revamp its enforcement policies after a recent Fifth Circuit decision wiped out a $57 million consumer data privacy fine against AT&T.

  • May 01, 2025

    Photo Agency, Country Club Settle Suit Over Prime Rib Picture

    A photo licensing company has settled its copyright lawsuit that alleged a Maryland golf and country club used a picture of a prime rib roast in its promotional materials without permission.

  • May 01, 2025

    Girl Says Discord, Roblox Make Kids 'Easy Prey' For Predators

    A 16-year-old girl who alleges she was groomed by a child predator on Roblox and Discord has hit the companies with a product liability suit in Texas, writing that their sites make kids "easy prey for pedophiles."

  • May 01, 2025

    Fla. Judge Clears Miami In Hannibal Buress Arrest Case

    A Florida federal judge tossed a lawsuit against Miami over the arrest of comedian Hannibal Buress in 2017, saying it originally misunderstood the city's arguments and that granting its motion to reconsider "would prevent manifest injustice."

  • May 01, 2025

    J&J Talc Unit Says New Doc 'Key' To Talc Study Libel Suit

    A Johnson & Johnson talc unit has asked a New Jersey federal court to reinstate its libel suit over a scientific article linking talcum powder to mesothelioma, arguing that newly discovered evidence shows statements in the article are false.

  • May 01, 2025

    Del. Justices OK Mid-Case Appeal In Paramount Doc Suit

    Delaware's Supreme Court on Wednesday approved a mid-case review for a Paramount Global stockholder suit seeking books and records on the company's proposed $8 billion tie-up with Skydance Media.

  • May 01, 2025

    Hair, Makeup, Legal: The Lawyering Behind The Met Gala

    While the red carpet arrivals of the biggest names in the entertainment industry are sure to win the most attention at the Met Gala on Monday, attorneys also play a significant role in advising the brands and celebrities at the center of fashion's biggest night.

  • May 01, 2025

    Internet Pricing Cap Clears Calif. Assembly Committee

    A California Assembly panel has passed a bill to cap internet prices for low-income families, similar to New York legislation now in effect that went through appellate court challenge.

  • May 01, 2025

    Frida Kahlo Co. Tries To Revive Suit Against Kahlo Family

    A company that claims to own various Frida Kahlo trademarks urged the Eleventh Circuit on Thursday to revive its lawsuit against Kahlo's family over cease-and-desist letters the family sent to partners in exhibitions of the Mexican artist's work that the company says interfered with its business.

  • April 30, 2025

    Apple Defied App Store Injunction For Revenue, Judge Says

    A California federal judge Wednesday agreed with Epic Games that Apple violated her order blocking App Store rules that prevent developers from steering users to alternative payment options, and has now barred Apple from collecting any fees on outside-app purchases and referred the matter to federal prosecutors for possible criminal contempt proceedings.

  • April 30, 2025

    Meta Engineers Call WhatsApp Hack 'Unprecedented' At Trial

    Meta Platforms engineers testified Wednesday during a California federal jury trial over how much Israeli spyware-maker NSO Group owes Meta for hacking 1,400 WhatsApp users' devices that they spent days working around-the-clock to combat NSO's "unprecedented" spyware attack.

  • April 30, 2025

    Netflix Hits Broadcom With Another Cloud Patent Suit

    Netflix expanded its patent infringement dispute with Broadcom and one of its recently acquired entities in California federal court, accusing them of selling products that leverage patented technology for keeping online services running smoothly, managing computer networks and syncing time between devices.

  • April 30, 2025

    Wheeling & Appealing: The Latest Must-Know Appellate Action

    Spring has sprung for appellate arguments over the White House's pruning and shearing of agencies, part of a bountiful circuit calendar in May, when appeals courts will also tend to defamation drama involving a pro golfer, antitrust suits against drugmakers and hotels, and a nine-figure patent verdict against Apple Inc.

  • April 30, 2025

    Calif. Privacy Agency Inks Cooperation Pact With UK Authority

    The California Privacy Protection Agency has taken its latest step toward boosting its collaboration with data protection authorities around the world, announcing Tuesday that it had reached an agreement with the U.K.'s privacy regulator to compare investigative methods, research into new technologies and other vital tools.

  • April 30, 2025

    Del. Justices Mull 'Deemed' Phrase In AMC Stock Dilution Suit

    The meaning of "deemed to be issued" was the focus of a Wednesday hearing before the Delaware Supreme Court in a case involving AMC and preferred stockholders who say their shares' value was wrongly reduced last year in a deal that settled a hotly contested share conversion and reverse split.

  • April 30, 2025

    CEO Asked How Rivals Can Possibly Match Google Money

    Google CEO Sundar Pichai testified Wednesday that the Justice Department's proposed monopolization fixes amount to a "de facto divestiture" of the company's entire search intellectual property, only for the D.C. federal judge to wonder how rival search engines could hope to match its financial resources.

  • April 30, 2025

    FCC Could Ban Foreign Adversaries' Testing Labs

    The Federal Communications Commission plans to vote in May on whether to ban U.S. operations of telecom equipment test labs owned by foreign adversaries.

  • April 30, 2025

    Joe Rogan-Backed 'Alpha Brain' False Ad Suit Dropped In NY

    A consumer is asking a New York federal judge to dismiss his proposed class action accusing Onnit Labs Inc. of falsely advertising its "Alpha Brain" cognitive supplement, which were previously promoted by podcaster Joe Rogan, as clinically proven to boost memory.

  • April 30, 2025

    Senate Bill Would Make FCC List Foreign Foes' Telecom Stakes

    The U.S. Senate will consider a bipartisan bill to direct the Federal Communications Commission to publish a list of foreign adversaries' ownership stakes in regulated companies.

  • April 30, 2025

    Trade Desk Sued In Del. For Docs On Nevada Move

    A stockholder of formerly Delaware-chartered branding and marketing venture The Trade Desk Inc. sued on Wednesday in the First State's Court of Chancery for access to company records, citing concerns that the business rechartered in Nevada to derail challenges to its dual-class share structure.

  • April 30, 2025

    Google Cements Win In Image Data Patent Fight At Fed. Circ.

    A patent licensing company suing Google over patents covering image quality data failed to convince Federal Circuit judges on Wednesday that those claims do more than "organize, alter, or manipulate data."

  • April 30, 2025

    TikTok Exec Calls Facebook, Instagram 'Complements'

    A TikTok executive said Wednesday that his company views Facebook and Instagram as "complements" to the Chinese-owned short-form video platform rather than direct competitors playing in the same market, in testimony that largely supported the Federal Trade Commission's claim that Meta dominates personal social networking services.

Expert Analysis

  • Fed. Circ. Ruling Creates New Rule For Certification Marks

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    The Federal Circuit's decision last month in Bureau National Interprofessionnel du Cognac v. Cologne & Cognac Entertainment is significant in that it establishes a new standard for assessing evidence of third-party uses of a certification mark in deciding whether the mark is famous, say Samantha Katze and Lisa Rosaya at Manatt.

  • The Risks Of Employee Political Discourse On Social Media

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    As election season enters its final stretch and employees increasingly engage in political speech on social media, employers should beware the liability risks and consider policies that negotiate the line between employees' rights and the limits on those rights, say Bradford Kelley and James McGehee at Littler.

  • A Preview Of AI Priorities Under The Next President

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    For the first time in a presidential election, both of the leading candidates and their parties have been vocal about artificial intelligence policy, offering clues on the future of regulation as AI continues to advance and congressional action continues to stall, say attorneys at Mintz.

  • How Companies Are Approaching Insider Trading Policies

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    An analysis of insider trading policies recently disclosed by 49 S&P 500 companies under a new U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission rule reveals that while specific provisions vary from company to company, certain common themes are emerging, say attorneys at Gibson Dunn.

  • Court Denial Of $335M UFC Deal Sets Bold Antitrust Precedent

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    A Nevada federal court’s recent refusal to accept a $335 million deal between Ultimate Fighting Championship and a group of former fighters to settle claims of anticompetitive conduct was a rare decision that risks the floodgates opening on established antitrust case law, says Mohit Pasricha at Lawrence Stephens.

  • How Methods Are Evolving In Textualist Interpretations

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    Textualists at the U.S. Supreme Court are increasingly considering new methods such as corpus linguistics and surveys to evaluate what a statute's text communicates to an ordinary reader, while lower courts even mull large language models like ChatGPT as supplements, says Kevin Tobia at Georgetown Law.

  • The State Law Landscape After Justices' Social Media Ruling

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    Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent NetChoice ruling on social media platforms’ First Amendment rights, it’s still unclear if state content moderation laws are constitutional, leaving online operators to face a patchwork of regulation, and the potential for the issue to return to the high court, say attorneys at Crowell & Moring.

  • AI Art Ruling Shows Courts' Training Data Cases Approach

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    A California federal court’s recent ruling in Andersen v. Stability AI, where the judge refused to throw out artists’ copyright infringement claims against four companies that make or distribute software that creates images from text prompts, provides insight into how courts are handling artificial intelligence training data cases, say attorneys at Skadden.

  • Why Attorneys Should Consider Community Leadership Roles

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    Volunteering and nonprofit board service are complementary to, but distinct from, traditional pro bono work, and taking on these community leadership roles can produce dividends for lawyers, their firms and the nonprofit causes they support, says Katie Beacham at Kilpatrick.

  • Ch. 11 Ruling Shows Early Attempt To Tackle Purdue Fallout

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    A Delaware bankruptcy court’s recent ruling in Parlement Technologies’ Chapter 11 case, which denied a bid by Parler’s former owner to extend its bankruptcy stay to nondebtors, illustrates early efforts to grapple with the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Purdue Pharma for a recurring bankruptcy issue, say Daniel Lowenthal and Jonah Wacholder at Patterson Belknap.

  • Opinion

    Agencies Should Reward Corporate Cyber Victim Cooperation

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    The increased regulatory scrutiny on corporate victims of cyberattacks — exemplified by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's case against SolarWinds — should be replaced with a new model that provides adequate incentives for companies to come forward proactively and collaborate with law enforcement, say attorneys at McDermott.

  • Firms Must Offer A Trifecta Of Services In Post-Chevron World

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    After the U.S. Supreme Court’s Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo decision overturning Chevron deference, law firms will need to integrate litigation, lobbying and communications functions to keep up with the ramifications of the ruling and provide adequate counsel quickly, says Neil Hare at Dentons.

  • 5 Tips To Succeed In A Master Of Laws Program And Beyond

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    As lawyers and recent law school graduates begin their Master of Laws coursework across the country, they should keep a few pointers in mind to get the most out of their programs and kick-start successful careers in their practice areas, says Kelley Miller at Reed Smith.

  • Series

    Being An Opera Singer Made Me A Better Lawyer

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    My journey from the stage to the courtroom has shown that the skills I honed as an opera singer – punctuality, memorization, creativity and more – have all played a vital role in my success as an attorney, says Gerard D'Emilio at GableGotwals.

  • How Law Firms Can Avoid 'Collaboration Drag'

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    Law firm decision making can be stifled by “collaboration drag” — characterized by too many pointless meetings, too much peer feedback and too little dissent — but a few strategies can help stakeholders improve decision-making processes and build consensus, says Steve Groom at Miles Mediation.

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