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April 07, 2025
AT&T Wants 401(k) Forfeiture Suit Tossed
AT&T has asked a California federal judge to throw out an employee's suit regarding forfeited employer 401(k) contributions, arguing it has the right to determine how the abandoned funds are used as the plan sponsor.
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April 07, 2025
FCC Agrees To Bankers' Request To Delay Call Consent Rule
The Federal Communications Commission agreed Monday to delay for a year a new rule expanding the scope of call consent revocation, after banking groups said they need more time to comply.
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April 07, 2025
T-Mobile Says 5G Rural Fund Could Be Unnecessary
T-Mobile thinks a federal program to patch holes in rural 5G service using an auction fund could end up wasting money by getting off the ground too soon, and has urged the Federal Communications Commission to put the whole idea on ice.
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April 07, 2025
Jaguar Land Rover Inks Patent License Deal With Avanci
Avanci and British automotive manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover have struck a deal over a pool of essential patents linked to 5G connected vehicles, the U.S. license operator announced Monday.
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April 07, 2025
Verizon, State Street Say Pension Annuity Suit Claims Fall Flat
Verizon Communications and its independent fiduciary State Street urged a New York federal judge to toss a proposed class action from Verizon retirees who challenged the conversion of their federally regulated pension benefits into annuity insurance contracts, arguing the allegations lacked standing and failed to state a claim.
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April 07, 2025
Monthly Merger Review Snapshot
The Federal Trade Commission sued to block GTCR BC's planned purchase of a medical device coatings company, the Justice Department's antitrust case against Live Nation survived a dismissal bid and a New York state court found a ski mountain deal hurt competition. Here, Law360 looks at the major merger review developments from March.
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April 07, 2025
Ex-AG Lynch Exits $10B McDonald's Bias Case Ahead Of Trial
Paul Weiss partner and former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch is stepping away from McDonald's defense in Byron Allen's $10 billion bias lawsuit against the fast food giant, just months before the case is slated to go to trial.
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April 07, 2025
Meta May Not Scroll Past 'Clever' Instagram Addiction Suit
Meta Platforms Inc. may struggle to convince Massachusetts' top court to dismiss a suit claiming it illegally hooks kids on Instagram, according to experts, who credit the state's attorney general for a creative legal strategy to thwart web platforms' usual defenses.
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April 08, 2025
Justices Skip Fruit Art, Abandoned TM And Sentence Petitions
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined petitions regarding the standard for considering whether unregistered trademarks are abandoned in a case involving T-Mobile, a copyright dispute over fruit taped to walls as part of an art installation, and sentencing guidelines in the theft of trade secrets belonging to General Electric.
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April 04, 2025
Nokia Reaches Deal Before EDTX Patent Trial, T-Mobile Still On
Nokia has settled out of a lawsuit accusing its equipment customer, T-Mobile, of infringing a Dallas-based patent business' wireless communications patents, according to a settlement notice filed Friday in Texas federal court, leaving T-Mobile and its other network equipment supplier, Ericsson, to face trial April 5.
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April 04, 2025
Toyota Wins Patent Case Against UNM In Texas Court
A Texas federal court has shot down a lawsuit against Toyota Motor North America Inc. over a University of New Mexico wireless communications patent after finding that the Federal Circuit already invalidated "the sole claim ever asserted in this case."
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April 04, 2025
OpenAI And Musk Get 2026 Trial Date, Likely Sans Microsoft
A California federal judge on Friday nailed down an expedited March 2026 trial schedule for Elon Musk and OpenAI's contract fight over OpenAI's transition into a for-profit enterprise, while staying antitrust claims indefinitely and calling Microsoft's request to participate in the trial if she dismisses Musk's claims against it "not logical."
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April 04, 2025
Broadcasters Seek Updated Tech Rules For Emergency Alerts
A national trade association for over-the-air radio and television broadcasters has renewed its 2022 request for the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to update its emergency alert rules, citing the recent announcement that one of the remaining vendors for the emergency alert system's devices will soon stop making the relevant equipment.
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April 04, 2025
Railroads Worry Growing Spectrum Needs Won't Be Met
The Association of American Railroads is warning the Federal Communications Commission that its frequencies need to be better protected from interference in order to assure that trains keep running properly and safely.
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April 04, 2025
Top Groups Lobbying The FCC
The Federal Communications Commission heard from advocates nearly 100 times in March about their priorities, including a rework of prison phone rate caps, efforts to clear broadband deployment hurdles, the transition to next-generation TV and more. Here's a look at some of the groups that met with the FCC in March and what they're concerned about.
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April 04, 2025
AM Radio Bill Clears Bar For Senate OK, Backers Say
A bipartisan bill to keep AM radio capabilities in cars has cleared the filibuster hurdle.
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April 04, 2025
FCC To Look At Updating 'Workhorse' Satellite Bands
The Federal Communications Commission will look late this month at updating technical rules for two critical satellite bands, opening up more spectrum in the 37 gigahertz band and clarifying some foreign ownership rules.
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April 04, 2025
Anthropic Can't Weigh In On Google Search Fix
A D.C. federal judge denied a request from Anthropic to provide input during the remedies phase of the government's search monopolization case against Google over concerns about a provision requiring notice before Google makes future investments in artificial intelligence.
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April 04, 2025
Trump Extends TikTok Sale Deadline Another 75 Days
President Donald Trump announced an executive order Friday extending TikTok's sale-or-ban deadline for an additional 75 days, saying his administration needs more time to hash out a deal to keep the social media platform operating in the United States.
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April 04, 2025
Kirkland-Led Blackstone Plugs CA$7B Into Rogers
Canadian communications company Rogers Communications Inc. on Friday announced that a group of investors led by private equity giant Blackstone, guided by Kirkland & Ellis LLP, have plugged 7 billion Canadian dollars ($4.9 billion) into the business.
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April 03, 2025
Apple Security Chief Cleared Of Bribery Charge At Calif. Trial
Apple Inc.'s global security chief has been found not guilty of bribery by a California jury in a case alleging he promised to donate nearly $70,000 worth of iPads to the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office in exchange for the approval of concealed weapons permits for four Apple employees.
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April 03, 2025
NC Biz Court Trims Semiconductor Co.'s Trade Secrets Suit
A North Carolina Business Court judge has permitted the majority of a silicon carbide technology company's suit to proceed against two former executives and the competitor they allegedly helped unfairly compete against it, preserving its claims that they took off with trade secrets.
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April 03, 2025
Samsung Can't Yet Beat Epic's Claim It Colluded With Google
A California federal judge denied Samsung's bid to end Epic Games' suit claiming it colluded with Google to skirt an impending injunction forcing Google to allow competition with its Play Store, saying Thursday the allegations are plausibly stated so "this is not time to put an end to the case."
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April 03, 2025
Samsung Gets Mobile Payment Patent Suit Tossed
A federal judge in Manhattan has tossed a six-year-old suit leveled against Samsung over patents covering "now-obsolete technology" once used by a mobile payment app, ruling that the payment card developer Dynamics already disavowed its latest claim construction argument at an earlier patent board proceeding.
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April 03, 2025
Forge Ahead On Broadband Deployment Funds, States Say
A bipartisan group of legislators from 28 states called on the Trump administration not to disrupt the rollout of $42.5 billion in federal funds for broadband projects targeted to unserved areas around the country.
Expert Analysis
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Secret Service Failures Offer Lessons For Private Sector GCs
The Secret Service’s problematic response to two assassination attempts against former President Donald Trump this summer provides a crash course for general counsel on how not to handle crisis communications, says Keith Nahigian at Nahigian Strategies.
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Managing Sanctions Defense Across Multiple Jurisdictions
Companies called before multiple regulators to account for the same conduct in this era of increased global sanctions and import-control enforcement should consider national differences in law and policy, and proactively coordinate their responses in certain key areas, say attorneys at Baker McKenzie.
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Litigation Inspiration: Honoring Your Learned Profession
About 30,000 people who took the bar exam in July will learn they passed this fall, marking a fitting time for all attorneys to remember that they are members in a specialty club of learned professionals — and the more they can keep this in mind, the more benefits they will see, says Bennett Rawicki at Hilgers Graben.
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Opinion
AI May Limit Key Learning Opportunities For Young Attorneys
The thing that’s so powerful about artificial intelligence is also what’s most scary about it — its ability to detect patterns may curtail young attorneys’ chance to practice the lower-level work of managing cases, preventing them from ever honing the pattern recognition skills that undergird creative lawyering, says Sarah Murray at Trialcraft.
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Antitrust Issues To Watch Amid Google Ad Tech Trial
Regardless of the outcome of the U.S. Department of Justice's advertising technology antitrust suit against Google in Virginia federal court, matters ranging from market definition to unified pricing will likely have far-reaching implications for the digital advertising industry, competition and innovation, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.
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What To Know About Latest Calif. Auto-Renewal Law Update
While businesses have about nine months to prepare before the recently passed amendment to California's automatic renewal law takes effect, it’s not too early to begin working on compliance efforts, including sign-up flow reviews, record retention updates and marketing language revisions, say Gonzalo Mon and Beth Chun at Kelley Drye.
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Taking Stock Of FCC's New Spectrum Rule For Drones
While an order recently adopted by the Federal Communications Commission is intended to provide drones with rapid access to a limited amount of spectrum in the 5030-5091 megahertz band, the commission envisions an incremental approach to full usage that will play out over the course of the coming months and years, say attorneys at Wiley.
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3 Coverage Tips As 2nd Circ. 'Swipes Left' On Tinder Claim
The Second Circuit's recent opinion in Match Group v. Beazley Underwriting, overturning Tinder's victory on its insurer's motion to dismiss a coverage action, reinforces three best practices policyholders purchasing claims-made coverage should adhere to in order to avoid late-notice defenses, say Lynda Bennett and Alexander Corson at Lowenstein Sandler.
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How Loper Bright Is Affecting Pending FCC Litigation
Pending challenges against Federal Communications Commission orders at the Sixth and Eleventh Circuits following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Loper Bright highlight that counsel must be familiar with the statutes, regulations and precedent relevant to the FCC to best navigate the rapidly changing compliance landscape, say attorneys at Davis Wright.
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Series
Round-Canopy Parachuting Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Similar to the practice of law, jumping from an in-flight airplane with nothing but training and a few yards of parachute silk is a demanding and stressful endeavor, and the experience has bolstered my legal practice by enhancing my focus, teamwork skills and sense of perspective, says Thomas Salerno at Stinson.
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Dealmaker Lessons From CFIUS' New Enforcement Webpage
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States’ recently launched webpage, which details the actions — and inactions — that led to enforcement activity, provides important insights for dealmakers about filing requirements, mitigation commitments and the cost of noncompliance, say attorneys at Dechert.
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Why Now Is The Time For Law Firms To Hire Lateral Partners
Partner and associate mobility data from the second quarter of this year suggest that there's never been a better time in recent years for law firms to hire lateral candidates, particularly experienced partners — though this necessitates an understanding of potential red flags, say Julie Henson and Greg Hamman at Decipher Investigative Intelligence.
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Google And The Next Frontier Of Divestiture Antitrust Remedy
The possibility of a large-scale divestiture in the Google search case comes on the heels of recent requests of business breakups as remedies for anticompetitive conduct, and companies should prepare for the likelihood that courts may impose divestiture remedies in the event of a liability finding, say Lauren Weinstein and Nathaniel Rubin at MoloLamken.
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Considering Possible PR Risks Of Certain Legal Tactics
Disney and American Airlines recently abandoned certain litigation tactics in two lawsuits after fierce public backlash, illustrating why corporate counsel should consider the reputational implications of any legal strategy and partner with their communications teams to preempt public relations concerns, says Chris Gidez at G7 Reputation Advisory.
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It's No Longer Enough For Firms To Be Trusted Advisers
Amid fierce competition for business, the transactional “trusted adviser” paradigm from which most firms operate is no longer sufficient — they should instead aim to become trusted partners with their most valuable clients, says Stuart Maister at Strategic Narrative.