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May 22, 2025
Gem Group Plugs $100M Into MoviePass For Fantasy Platform
A fund sponsored by alternative investment firm Gem Group announced Thursday that it completed its inaugural investment in MoviePass, plugging $100 million into the company that says it is "redefining" the moviegoing experience.
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May 22, 2025
Senior FCC Democrat Attends Final Monthly Meeting
Geoffrey Starks, the senior Democrat on the Federal Communications Commission, participated in his last agency meeting Thursday, where he announced he will leave the agency sometime within the next month.
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May 21, 2025
Fox Accuses Smartmatic Of Destroying 'Critical' Evidence
Fox News on Wednesday called for Smartmatic to be sanctioned, claiming that nearly two-dozen executives and other employees at the voting tech company destroyed "critical" evidence related to the company's defamation case against the television network, an accusation that comes a week after Smartmatic said Fox deleted relevant texts.
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May 21, 2025
Latham Leads Pair Of Venture-Backed IPOs Raising $624M
Artificial-intelligence powered physical therapy startup Hinge Health Inc. raised an estimated $437 million initial public offering at the top of its range Wednesday, leading two venture-backed IPOs that netted more than $624 million combined, both represented by Latham & Watkins LLP.
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May 21, 2025
Google, Character.AI Can't Escape Suit Over Teen's Suicide
A Florida federal judge on Wednesday greenlit the bulk of claims in a suit accusing Character.AI and Google of causing a 14-year-old's suicide after he became addicted to an artificial intelligence chatbot, saying the AI app can be considered a product for the purposes of a product liability claim.
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May 21, 2025
4th Circ. Won't Revive Khashoggi Widow's Surveillance Suit
The Fourth Circuit on Wednesday said a Virginia federal judge properly tossed a lawsuit from the widow of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi alleging NSO Group Technologies' spyware contributed to her husband's assassination, saying she hasn't shown the cyber-intelligence firm's alleged conduct was directed at the Commonwealth.
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May 21, 2025
Verizon Looks To Break Free Of TracFone Unlocking Condition
Verizon is once again asking the Federal Communications Commission to let it out of a condition from its takeover of TracFone requiring the carrier to unlock its mobile phones after 60 days.
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May 21, 2025
Google Gets Rumble's Video-Sharing Antitrust Case Tossed
A California federal court on Wednesday agreed with Google that Rumble waited too long to file an antitrust case accusing the tech giant of rigging search results to favor its YouTube unit over the rival video-sharing site.
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May 21, 2025
Texas Bills To Watch Before The End Of The 2025 Session
With less than two weeks remaining in the Texas legislative session, lawmakers will hit several deadlines in the coming days that will seal the fate of bills surrounding legal procedure, abortion, artificial intelligence and other topics.
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May 21, 2025
Country Music Singer Urges Sens. To Pass AI Deepfakes Bill
Country music star Martina McBride urged U.S. senators Wednesday to pass legislation aimed at protecting individuals from having their voice and likeness replicated with artificial intelligence without their permission, saying "it's frightening, and it's wrong."
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May 21, 2025
FCC's Carr Clashes With Dems Over Verizon DEI Deal
Congressional Democrats grilled the Federal Communications Commission's chief Wednesday about the legal basis for targeting diversity, equity and inclusion programs at Verizon, days after the wireless giant agreed to drop DEI initiatives amid its takeover of Frontier Communications.
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May 21, 2025
'Rip And Replace' Likely Done In 1 Year, FCC Says
Telecom carriers will likely be finished with work across the country to remove risky foreign-made equipment from their networks in about a year, the head of the Federal Communications Commission told lawmakers Wednesday.
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May 21, 2025
DOGE Seeks High Court's Help In Ducking FOIA Discovery
The Department of Government Efficiency asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to halt discovery into whether it's an agency subject to Freedom of Information Act requests, arguing a Washington, D.C., federal judge has improperly authorized a "fishing expedition" into the internal workings of a presidential advisory entity.
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May 21, 2025
Apple Lets Fortnite Back In App Store As Appeal Pends
Apple has allowed Epic Games to put its popular Fortnite video game back in the App Store, while the sides await a ruling on Apple's bid to pause an injunction mandating additional changes to its policies issued after the court found it had violated a previous order.
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May 21, 2025
Trump Can't Fire Privacy Board Democrats, DC Court Says
The Trump administration is not allowed to remove two Democrats from the U.S. Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, Congress' privacy watchdog over the executive branch's counterterrorism policies, a D.C. federal judge ruled Wednesday.
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May 21, 2025
50 Cent Wants Ch. 11 Reopened To Fight Woman's $20M Suit
A Connecticut bankruptcy judge will review under seal a woman's $20 million New York injury suit against recording artist 50 Cent during an agreed-upon pause in the state court proceeding, helping her decide whether the rapper can use his Chapter 11 case to torpedo the woman's claims.
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May 20, 2025
DC Circ. Won't Revive Okla. Tribe's Creek Land Dispute
The D.C. Circuit on Tuesday affirmed the dismissal of an Oklahoma tribe's challenge to a decision that rejected its proposed liquor ordinance in a dispute over shared jurisdiction with the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, agreeing with the district court that the complaint failed to identify a valid cause of action that entitles relief.
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May 20, 2025
Tech Co. AppLovin's Brass Face 'Shadow Downloads' Claims
Executives and directors of technology company AppLovin face a shareholder derivative suit alleging they breached their fiduciary duties after the company allegedly inflated its download numbers, a key performance metric, by means of manipulative practices.
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May 20, 2025
FCC Warned To Not Overreach In Undersea Cable Rules
Network providers cautioned the Federal Communications Commission to stick to its legal authority when crafting new rules to beef up the security of undersea telecom cables, saying the FCC can't regulate beyond cable owners and operators under existing law.
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May 20, 2025
State AGs Say No To Nixing Wireless Site NHPA Reviews
Eight states are calling on the Federal Communications Commission not to listen to a major wireless trade group's petition encouraging it to cut "burdensome ... red tape," which the states say are actually mandates of the National Historic Preservation Act.
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May 20, 2025
Ye Must Answer Discovery Requests In 'Donda' IP Suit
A California federal magistrate judge has largely granted a company's request for documents related to its copyright infringement suit against Ye — the artist formerly known as Kanye West — his entities, UMG Recordings Inc. and Universal Music Corp. over two tracks in Ye's August 2021 "Donda" album.
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May 20, 2025
Netflix Hit With TM Suit Over Tyler Perry's 'She The People'
The founder of a leadership organization focused on women of color alleged in California federal court Monday that Tyler Perry's fictional Netflix comedy series "She the People" about a female Black politician infringes her registered trademark.
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May 20, 2025
Nextdoor Beats Investor Suit Over Post-SPAC Profitability
A California federal judge has tossed a shareholder class action that alleges hyperlocal social networking service Nextdoor Holdings Inc. misled investors about its projected profitability when combining with a special purpose acquisition company, saying the suit's plaintiff never owned or sold the company's securities before the merger, among other things.
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May 20, 2025
Carnegie Hall Group Targets Hospitality Biz In TM Suit
The nonprofit behind New York City's famous Carnegie Hall accused a hospitality company in a federal lawsuit Tuesday of infringing the concert venue's trademarks by using them for the company's diners and cafés.
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May 20, 2025
Meta Asks To Toss Claim That Illegal Tool Scraped Tax Info
Meta's tracking tool did not violate state privacy law, the company argued, urging a California federal court to toss a claim calling the tool an unauthorized recording device that collected sensitive information from tax filing websites H&R Block, TaxAct and Tax Slayer.
Expert Analysis
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Opinion
6 Changes I Would Make If I Ran A Law School
Reuben Guttman at Guttman Buschner identifies several key issues plaguing law schools and discusses potential solutions, such as opting out of the rankings game and mandating courses in basic writing skills.
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From Football To Pickleball, Sports Investing Evolved In 2024
The NFL's decision to allow private-equity investments in football franchises capped off a transformative year in U.S. sports that also included landmark PE transactions in emerging sports ranging from women's soccer to pickleball, say attorneys at Weil.
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Using Data To Inform Corporate Disclosure Decisions
With today’s market volatility and regulatory factors requiring public companies to confront competing transparency and protection demands, incorporating stock price reaction analysis of company-specific news into the controller's role could be beneficial for disclosure determinations, say Liz Dunshee at Fredrikson & Byron and Nessim Mezrahi at SAR.
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How White Collar Attys Can Use Mythic Archetypes At Trial
A careful reading of a classic screenwriting guide shows that fairy tales and white collar trials actually have a lot in common, and defense attorneys would do well to tell a hero’s journey at trial, relying on universal character archetypes to connect with the jury, says Jack Sharman at Lightfoot Franklin.
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Firms Still Have The Edge In Lateral Hiring, But Buyer Beware
Partner mobility data suggests that the third quarter of this year continued to be a buyer’s market, with the average candidate demanding less compensation for a larger book of business — but moving into the fourth quarter, firms should slow down their hiring process to minimize risks, say officers at Decipher Investigative Intelligence.
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Reviewing 2024's State Consumer Privacy Law Enforcement
While we are still in the infancy of state consumer privacy laws, a review of enforcement activity this year suggests substantial overlaps in regulatory priorities across the most active states and gives insight into the likely paths of future enforcement, says Thomas Nolan at Quinn Emanuel.
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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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Series
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.