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April 17, 2025
Sandberg Says FTC Market View Makes No Sense In Meta Case
Meta Platforms' former longtime board member and Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg pushed back Thursday on crucial Federal Trade Commission arguments trying to shape the market the social media giant is accused of monopolizing, criticizing a friends and family definition the FTC is using to exclude TikTok as a competitor.
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April 17, 2025
Wash. Justices Back Consumers In Old Navy Spam Email Suit
Washington's highest court said in a 5-4 ruling Thursday that the state's spam law bars commercial emails that include any false information in their subject lines, endorsing two consumers' broader interpretation of the statute in a proposed class action against Old Navy.
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April 17, 2025
UK Says NY Convention Doesn't Kill Sovereign Immunity
Ratifying the New York Convention isn't enough to strip away a state's right to plead sovereign immunity in a later dispute over a contract that might be subject to the convention's rules, a London court has ruled.
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April 17, 2025
Robocall Arb. Denied Despite Alleged Recording Of Consent
A federal judge declined to force a Tennessee man into arbitration in his suit accusing a health insurance brokerage of making illegal robocalls, ruling that the plaintiff had created enough doubt to get to trial.
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April 17, 2025
Think Tank Urges FCC To Drop $4.5M Fine Against Telnyx
A think tank claimed Thursday the Federal Communications Commission went too far when floating a nearly $4.5 million fine against a telecom for alleged robocall violations and that due process concerns call for rescinding the penalty.
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April 17, 2025
Globalstar Pushes For Feds' OK On Mobile Satellite Plan
Globalstar is pressing its bid for the Federal Communications Commission to approve its plan for a U.S. mobile satellite service using licensed spectrum in what's known as the "Big LEO" band.
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April 17, 2025
Music Rights Orgs. Trade Barbs In Copyright Office Inquiry
The organizations responsible for getting musical artists their royalty payments sparred with each other in comments to the U.S. Copyright Office, with one legacy organization accusing newer entrants of insufficient transparency, and one of those competitors in turn alleging "anticompetitive practices" by the established players.
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April 17, 2025
FCC Getting An Earful On Creating GPS Backstop
Industries ranging from broadcast to broadband are giving the Federal Communications Commission their two cents on how to build an Earth-based network to reinforce the Global Positioning System, offering regulators a full menu of options to move ahead.
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April 17, 2025
Mitel Networks Gets Ch. 11 Plan Confirmed In Texas
A Texas bankruptcy judge on Thursday approved telecommunications group Mitel Networks' disclosures regarding its prepackaged Chapter 11 plan and confirmed the company's reorganization proposal, overruling an objection from the U.S. Trustee's Office regarding claims release provisions.
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April 17, 2025
Frontier Slapped With Suit Over Cycling Accident
Frontier Communications is liable for the serious injuries of a man who was thrown from his bicycle after he became caught in a loose cable that was hanging in the road, a lawsuit filed recently in Connecticut state court says.
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April 17, 2025
Fed. Circ. Won't Revive Network Tech Patent Suit
The Federal Circuit on Thursday upheld a lower court's finding that Seattle-based technology company F5 did not infringe a patent owned by WSOU Investments LLC covering a network traffic distribution technology.
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April 17, 2025
Judge Rules Google Monopolized Ad Tech In 2nd Win For DOJ
A Virginia federal judge on Thursday handed the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division its second seminal win against Google, ruling that the search giant has illegally monopolized markets for display advertising placement technology.
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April 16, 2025
Zuckerberg Calls TikTok Meta's 'Highest Competitive Threat'
Meta Platforms Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg pushed back Wednesday on Federal Trade Commission efforts to cabin the company's allegedly monopolistic social media dominance into a market that excludes TikTok and YouTube, telling a D.C. federal judge video has become the new predominant form of social media interaction.
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April 16, 2025
Computer Equipment Co. Wants Suit Over Sales Decline Axed
Cloud network equipment company Extreme Networks Inc. has asked a federal judge in California to toss a lawsuit alleging it misled investors about its financial prospects and declining client demand during the COVID-19 pandemic, arguing the existence of undisclosed information, by itself, is not misleading.
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April 16, 2025
AT&T Gets $450M 'Twinning' Patent Suit Tossed Again
A New York federal judge has held that it is only fitting that she rule twice on a motion to dismiss a $450 million patent lawsuit against AT&T over so-called twinning phone technology, deciding yet again that the patent is not inventive enough to be worth anything.
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April 16, 2025
FCC Boots 7 From E-Rate Program After Fraud Convictions
Seven people who were convicted of defrauding the Federal Communications Commission's E-Rate program have been suspended from the subsidy program that helps offset the cost of internet service for schools and libraries, the agency has revealed.
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April 16, 2025
Ohio's 'Breathtakingly Blunt' Social Media Age Limit Law Axed
Ohio's law requiring social media companies to obtain parental consent before allowing a child under the age of 16 to make an account has been struck down after a federal judge said the legislation "fails to pass constitutional muster and is constitutionally infirm."
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April 16, 2025
Bankers Ask FCC To Pare Back Call Consent Rules
While the Federal Communications Commission is deciding which regulations to slash, a coalition of banking groups is hoping the agency will hone in on telemarketing consent rules that they say make it harder for them to reach out to their customers.
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April 16, 2025
Union Denied More Time In Feds' Bid To Bless CBA Rebuke
A Kentucky federal judge has refused to delay an approaching hearing on the U.S. Department of the Treasury's bid to nullify its workers' union contracts, despite a union's assertion that it's been given little time to prepare for a consequential case and that it has yet to be served.
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April 16, 2025
Musk Rips Calif. AG Decision To Not Join Suit Against OpenAI
Elon Musk blasted a California attorney general's office decision declining to join his federal lawsuit against OpenAI, saying in a Tuesday filing the decision appears to "misapprehend" the complaint and its derivative claims and "mischaracterizes or misunderstands" the consortium of investors he's assembled to bid on OpenAI Inc.'s assets.
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April 16, 2025
7th Circ. Judge Doubts CTA Worker's Signal Chat Claims
A Seventh Circuit judge on Wednesday expressed skepticism that a lower court erred in tossing a former Chicago Transit Authority employee's retaliation suit as a sanction for spoiling evidence, saying he changed his story about how electronic phone messages were deleted after a Signal executive said the initial explanation was technologically impossible.
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April 16, 2025
Ex-US Atty Chosen To Monitor T-Mobile Merger Compliance
The U.S. Department of Justice is looking to appoint former U.S. attorney and current Kasowitz Benson Torres partner Edward McNally as the new monitoring trustee to oversee the government's settlement with T-Mobile that cleared the way for its $26 billion acquisition of Sprint.
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April 15, 2025
Trump Cites U.S. Security To Investigate Critical Minerals Tax
President Donald Trump on Tuesday issued an executive order launching a so-called Section 232 national security tariff investigation into the United States' reliance on imported processed critical minerals, citing his belief that "an overreliance ... could jeopardize U.S. defense capabilities."
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April 15, 2025
Zuckerberg Calls Buying Rival, Building Co. Two Sides Of 1 Coin
Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg tried Tuesday to distance himself from internal documents describing Instagram and WhatsApp as competitive threats, pushing back on Federal Trade Commission monopolization claims by arguing in D.C. federal court that the owner of Facebook was always focused on improvements to itself and the acquisitions.
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April 15, 2025
Judge Ends 'China Initiative' Prosecution Of Ex-Ga. Tech Prof
A federal judge has dismissed the last remaining criminal charges against a former Georgia Tech professor who was indicted more than four years ago over allegations he was helping Chinese tech workers come to the U.S. under the guise of being university-affiliated researchers.
Expert Analysis
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How Law Firms Can Avoid 'Collaboration Drag'
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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Election Outlook: A Precedent Primer On Content Moderation
With the 2024 election season now in full swing, online platforms will face difficult and politically sensitive decisions about content moderation, but U.S. Supreme Court decisions from last term offer much-needed certainty about their rights, say Jonathan Blavin and Helen White at Munger Tolles.
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Opinion
Litigation Funding Disclosure Key To Open, Impartial Process
Blanket investor and funding agreement disclosures should be required in all civil cases where the investor has a financial interest in the outcome in order to address issues ranging from potential conflicts of interest to national security concerns, says Bob Goodlatte, former U.S. House Representative for Virginia.
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What NFL Draft Picks Have In Common With Lateral Law Hires
Nearly half of law firm lateral hires leave within a few years — a failure rate that is strikingly similar to the performance of NFL quarterbacks drafted in the first round — in part because evaluators focus too heavily on quantifiable metrics and not enough on a prospect's character traits, says Howard Rosenberg at Baretz+Brunelle.
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Replacing The Stigma Of Menopause With Law Firm Support
A large proportion of the workforce is forced to pull the brakes on their career aspirations because of the taboo surrounding menopause and a lack of consistent support, but law firms can initiate the cultural shift needed by formulating thoughtful workplace policies, says Barbara Hamilton-Bruce at Simmons & Simmons.
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Class Actions At The Circuit Courts: August Lessons
In this month's review of class action appeals, Mitchell Engel at Shook Hardy considers certification cases touching on classwide evidence of injury from debt collection practices, defining coupon settlements under the Class Action Fairness Act, proper approaches for evaluating attorney fee awards in class action settlements, and more.
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Planning Law Firm Content Calendars: What, When, Where
During the slower month of August, law firms should begin working on their 2025 content calendars, planning out a content creation and distribution framework that aligns with the firm’s objectives and maintains audience engagement throughout the year, says Jessica Kaplan at Legally Penned.
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4 Steps To Address New Sanctions Time Bar Extension
Recent guidance from the Office of Foreign Assets Control clarifies details of the newly extended statute of limitations for civil and criminal enforcement of U.S. sanctions law, so compliance teams should implement key updates, including to lookback periods and recordkeeping policies, say attorneys at Freshfields.
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Series
Playing Golf Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Golf can positively affect your personal and professional life well beyond the final putt, and it’s helped enrich my legal practice by improving my ability to build lasting relationships, study and apply the rules, face adversity with grace, and maintain my mental and physical well-being, says Adam Kelly at Venable.
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Law Firms Should Move From Reactive To Proactive Marketing
Most law firm marketing and business development teams operate in silos, leading to an ad hoc, reactive approach, but shifting to a culture of proactive planning — beginning with comprehensive campaigns — can help firms effectively execute their broader business strategy, says Paul Manuele at PR Manuele Consulting.
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Remedy May Be Google's Biggest Hurdle Yet In Antitrust Case
There are difficulties ahead in the remedies phase of the antitrust case against Google in District of Columbia federal court, including the search engine giant's scale advantage and the fast-moving nature of the tech industry, setting the stage for the most challenging of the proceedings so far, says Jonathan Rubin at MoginRubin.
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Opinion
The Big Issues A BigLaw Associates' Union Could Address
A BigLaw associates’ union could address a number of issues that have the potential to meaningfully improve working conditions, diversity and attorney well-being — from restructured billable hour requirements to origination credit allocation, return-to-office mandates and more, says Tara Rhoades at The Sanity Plea.
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Opting In To CIPA Risk Mitigation After New Precedent
A recent California federal court decision, adopting a new, broad interpretation of the California Invasion of Privacy Act, will likely increase the volume of CIPA claims and should prompt businesses to undertake certain preventative measures, including adopting an opt-in approach to using third-party website advertising technologies, say attorneys at Thompson Hine.
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Opinion
It's Time For A BigLaw Associates' Union
As BigLaw faces a steady stream of criticism about its employment policies and practices, an associates union could effect real change — and it could start with law students organizing around opposition to recent recruiting trends, says Tara Rhoades at The Sanity Plea.
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Why DOJ's Whistleblower Program May Have Limited Impact
The U.S. Department of Justice’s new whistleblower pilot program aims to incentivize individuals to report corporate misconduct, but the program's effectiveness may be undercut by its differences from other federal agencies’ whistleblower programs and its interplay with other DOJ policies, say attorneys at Milbank.