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  • August 14, 2025

    Rumble's Ad Boycott Suit Tossed For Now

    A Texas federal court tossed Rumble's antitrust case against the World Federation of Advertisers and others after finding the claims about a boycott of the video-sharing site, after it refused to follow safety standards, have no connection to the state.

  • August 14, 2025

    Del. Challenge To Squarespace Doc Suit Toss Moves Forward

    A Delaware vice chancellor on Thursday ordered an October hearing over stockholder exceptions to a posttrial dismissal of a lawsuit for records on Squarespace Inc.'s $7.2 billion take-private deal, following objections that the ruling "would require the court to possess impossible prescience."

  • August 14, 2025

    Dr. Phil Media Co. Must Hand Over Texts, Emails In Ch. 11

    Dr. Phil's production company and a bankrupt broadcaster he co-founded must comply with discovery requests from creditors trying to dismiss Merit Street Media's increasingly contentious Chapter 11, a Texas bankruptcy judge said Thursday.

  • August 14, 2025

    Boston Bomber Asks Full 1st Circ. To Weigh Judge DQ Bid

    The convicted Boston Marathon bomber on Thursday asked the full First Circuit to consider disqualifying his trial judge from leading an investigation into potential juror bias, arguing an appellate court panel failed to assess whether post-trial public comments tainted his impartiality.

  • August 14, 2025

    Dropbox Cleared On 1 Of 2 Cloud-Computing Patents

    A California federal judge has granted Dropbox Inc. a declaration of noninfringement on one cloud-computing patent asserted by a web developer, but said there was a genuine dispute as to whether the company had infringed a second patent.

  • August 14, 2025

    Cubs, Rooftop Venue Owner Negotiations Stall In IP Rights Suit

    Talks have fallen through between the Chicago Cubs and the owner of a nearby rooftop venue the baseball team has accused of violating its intellectual property rights by selling unlicensed viewing tickets for Cubs games and other events at Wrigley Field.

  • August 14, 2025

    FCC Member Sees Special Authority As Key To Defense Tech

    The Federal Communications Commission could increasingly use its legal authority to temporarily authorize radio licenses as a way to test new wireless networks that bolster national security, an agency member said.

  • August 14, 2025

    Minn. Telecom Officials Decry Push For Fed Preemption

    Minnesota's telecommunications regulators have told the Federal Communications Commission that local officials are tired of being punching bags for industry groups looking to speed up broadband infrastructure deployment, saying the industry's push for federal rules overriding local authority have been based on "unsubstantiated or vague" attacks on local guidelines.

  • August 14, 2025

    FCC Urged To Tackle Health, Enviro Impacts From Cellphones

    An environmental group called on the Federal Communications Commission to address what it sees as the agency's failure to meet a D.C. Circuit order from four years ago to back up the reasoning for its radiofrequency exposure limits.

  • August 14, 2025

    Who Owns A Beat? The Dispute Over Reggaeton's Core Sound

    The origin of the rhythm that underpins much of reggaeton music is at the center of a copyright lawsuit from Jamaican artists who claim a loop from an instrumental song they released in 1989 has become foundational to reggaeton, which thousands of songs have copied without permission.

  • August 14, 2025

    Infowars Faces Sale As Texas Judge Appoints Receiver

    A Texas state court judge has ordered the appointment of a receiver to take possession of Alex Jones' Infowars assets to help satisfy聽over聽$1 billion in judgments he faces聽for defaming a group of families of Sandy Hook shooting victims.

  • August 14, 2025

    AP Says DOJ Can't Turn Info Sharing Into Views Suppression

    The Associated Press, The Washington Post, Reuters and the BBC hit back Wednesday on Justice Department efforts to back a lawsuit from the anti-vaccine group once tied to Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., alleging they colluded with social media platforms to censor rivals.

  • August 14, 2025

    Purported Cartier Family Scion Denies Laundering Charges

    An Argentinian entrepreneur and professional singer with ties to the family that created jewelry giant Cartier on Thursday denied charges that he helped operate a Colombia cryptocurrency money-laundering network that assisted traffickers in their effort to repatriate $14 million of narcotics proceeds.

  • August 14, 2025

    ESPN Vaccine Mandate Violated Religious Law, Worker Claims

    A South Carolina-based remote ESPN video operator says the sports network, its corporate parent Walt Disney and their executives fired him for refusing a third COVID-19 vaccine dose, resurrecting "state actor" allegations similar to claims in a separate, since-withdrawn lawsuit by the same attorneys in 2023.

  • August 14, 2025

    Anthropic Asks 9th Circ. To Halt AI Copyright Trial For Appeal

    Artificial intelligence developer Anthropic has urged the Ninth Circuit to overturn a California federal judge's refusal to delay trial in a copyright lawsuit from authors who allege their works were illegally obtained to train the company's large language model, Claude.

  • August 14, 2025

    Ga. Management Co. Sues Over Doechii, SiR Festival Deposit

    A Georgia entertainment management firm has filed suit against a man and his management company for allegedly failing to secure hip-hop artists Doechii and SiR to perform at a Baltimore music festival despite collecting a more than $185,000 deposit for that purpose.

  • August 14, 2025

    Justices Allow Mississippi's Social Media Age Verification Law

    The U.S. Supreme Court said Thursday that social media giants like Facebook, X, YouTube and Reddit must comply with a Mississippi law that requires platforms to verify users' ages and obtain parental consent before minors can create accounts, while the companies challenge its constitutionality.

  • August 14, 2025

    2nd Circ. Denies NFL Arbitration In Flores Case

    Fired Miami Dolphins coach Brian Flores won efforts to keep his racial discrimination claims against the NFL in federal court, with the Second Circuit finding Thursday that the league cannot force him into arbitration because the organization has unilateral control over the process.

  • August 14, 2025

    2nd Circ. Affirms Sanctions In Abandoned Suit Against Dylan

    In a precedential ruling, the Second Circuit upheld limited fee sanctions imposed by a聽Manhattan federal judge against attorneys found to have violated a discovery order and committed other wrongs, despite having been warned, in a now-abandoned sexual assault suit against Bob Dylan.

  • August 13, 2025

    DC Circ. Upholds Toss Of Video Privacy Suit Against Paper

    The D.C. Circuit has refused to revive a proposed class action accusing the Washington Examiner of illegally sharing website visitors' video-viewing information with Meta, finding that the plaintiff had failed to show that she "subscribed" to the content that she accessed online rather than through her newsletter subscription.

  • August 13, 2025

    Whoop's Health Tracker Accused Of Sharing Users' Data

    Health and wellness company Whoop Inc., whose wearable devices track and collect users' heart rate, movement, blood pressure and other health metrics, is secretly sharing that data and other user information with an undisclosed third party, according to a proposed class action filed Wednesday in California federal court.

  • August 13, 2025

    Match Group To Pay $14M, Simplify Cancellations In FTC Deal

    Dating app developer Match Group Inc. will pay $14 million and has agreed to simplify its account cancellation process and cease locking consumers out of paid-for accounts to resolve the Federal Trade Commission's claims launched against it nearly six years ago.

  • August 13, 2025

    Paramount Investor Gabelli Sues Redstone, Skydance In Del.

    A fund of Paramount Global investor Mario Gabelli sued National Amusements Inc. successor Harbor Lights Entertainment, Shari Redstone and others in Delaware's Court of Chancery on Wednesday, seeking damages tied to the recently closed $8.4 billion Paramount-Skydance Media merger.

  • August 13, 2025

    Carmen Electra, Other Models End Suit With Strip Clubs

    A group of models including Carmen Electra have officially dropped their lawsuit claiming that a trio of Philadelphia strip clubs misappropriated their likenesses for advertisements, according to filings in Pennsylvania federal court Wednesday.

  • August 13, 2025

    FCC Waives Local Radio Ownership Cap In East Texas

    The Federal Communications Commission will allow an acquisition of several commercial FM radio stations in east Texas to go through by waiving the agency's local ownership cap, the agency said Wednesday.

Expert Analysis

  • Reddit v. Anthropic Is A Defining Moment In The AI Data Race

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    The recent lawsuit filed by Reddit against Anthropic in California state court marks a pivotal moment in the burgeoning field of artificial intelligence by sidestepping a typical copyright dispute, focusing instead on the enforceability of online terms of service and ownership of the digital commons, says William Galkin at Galkin Law.

  • Opinion

    The Legal Education Status Quo Is No Longer Tenable

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    As underscored by the fallout from California鈥檚 February bar exam, legal education and licensure are tethered to outdated systems, and the industry must implement several key reforms to remain relevant and responsive to 21st century legal needs, says Matthew Nehmer at The Colleges of Law.

  • Unpacking Notable Details From FTC's 'AI Washing' Cases

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    The Federal Trade Commission has brought many cases involving allegedly deceptive artificial intelligence claims over the past couple of years, illustrating overlooked aspects of AI washing generally and a few new types of AI marketing claims that may line up in regulatory crosshairs down the road, says Michael Atleson at DLA Piper.

  • Justices' Age Verification Ruling May Lead To More State Laws

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    The U.S. Supreme Court鈥檚 recent Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton ruling, permitting a Texas law requiring certain websites to verify users鈥 ages, significantly expands states' ability to regulate minors鈥 social media access, further complicating the patchwork of internet privacy laws, say attorneys at Troutman.

  • E-Discovery Quarterly: Rulings On Relevance Redactions

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    In recent cases addressing redactions that parties sought to apply based on the relevance of information 鈥 as opposed to considerations of privilege 鈥 courts have generally limited a party鈥檚 ability to withhold nonresponsive or irrelevant material, providing a few lessons for discovery strategy, say attorneys at Sidley.

  • Opinion

    Section 1983 Has Promise After End Of Nationwide Injunctions

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    After the U.S. Supreme Court recently struck down the practice of nationwide injunctions in Trump v. Casa, Section 1983 civil rights suits can provide a better pathway to hold the government accountable 鈥 but this will require reforms to qualified immunity, says Marc Levin at the Council on Criminal Justice.

  • Courts Redefining Software As Product Generates New Risks

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    A recent wave of litigation against social media platforms, chatbot developers and ride-hailing companies has some courts straying from the traditional view of software as a service to redefining software as a product, with significant implications for strict liability exposure, say attorneys at Reed Smith.

  • Trump's 2nd Term Puts Merger Remedies Back On The Table

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    In contrast with the Biden administration, the second Trump administration has signaled a renewed willingness to resolve merger enforcement concerns through remedies from the outset, particularly when the proposed fix is structural, clearly addresses the harm and does not require burdensome oversight, say attorneys at Cooley.

  • Reel Justice: 'Oh, Hi!' Teaches Attys To Return To The Statute

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    The new dark comedy film 鈥淥h, Hi!鈥 鈥 depicting a romantic vacation that turns into an inadvertent kidnapping 鈥 should remind criminal practitioners to always reread the statute to avoid assumptions, meet their ethical duties and finesse their trial strategy, says Veronica Finkelstein at Wilmington University School of Law.

  • What To Know About NCAA Deal's Arbitration Provisions

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    Kathryn Hester at Jones Walker discusses the key dispute resolution provisions of the NCAA's recently approved class action settlement that allows for complex revenue sharing with college athletes, breaking down the arbitration stipulations and explaining how the Northern District of California will handle certain enforcement, administration, implementation and interpretation disputes.

  • Opinion

    Premerger Settlements Don't Meet Standard For Bribery

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    Claims that Paramount鈥檚 decision to settle a lawsuit with President Donald Trump while it was undergoing a premerger regulatory review amounts to a quid pro quo misconstrue bribery law and ignore how modern legal departments operate, says Ediberto Rom谩n at the Florida International University College of Law.

  • Series

    Playing Soccer Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Soccer has become a key contributor to how I approach my work, and the lessons I鈥檝e learned on the pitch about leadership, adaptability, resilience and communication make me better at what I do every day in my legal career, says Whitney O鈥橞yrne at MoFo.

  • What To Do When Congress And DOJ Both Come Knocking

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    As recently seen in the news, clients may find themselves facing parallel U.S. Department of Justice and congressional investigations, requiring a comprehensive response that considers the different challenges posed by each, say attorneys at Friedman Kaplan.

  • Series

    Law School's Missed Lessons: Learning From Failure

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    While law school often focuses on the importance of precision, correctness and perfection, mistakes are inevitable in real-world practice 鈥 but failure is not the opposite of progress, and real talent comes from the ability to recover, rethink and reshape, says Brooke Pauley at Tucker Ellis.

  • Midyear Rewind: How Courts Are Reshaping VPPA Standards

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    The first half of 2025 saw a series of cases interpreting the Video Privacy Protection Act as applied to website tracking technologies, including three appellate rulings deepening circuit splits on what qualifies as personally identifiable information and who qualifies as a consumer under the statute, say attorneys at Perkins Coie.

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