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August 21, 2025
Workers Snag Deal In $500M Twitter Severance Suit
Social media platform X has agreed to settle a suit accusing it of owing workers $500 million in severance after Elon Musk took the reins of the company while it was still named Twitter, the two workers suing and the entity told the Ninth Circuit.
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August 21, 2025
FCC Seeks Feedback On New Pole Attachment Deadlines
The Federal Communications Commission wants industry and interested parties to share what they think about a set of rule changes the agency has proposed to make pole attachment regulations less complicated and hopefully to speed up the deployment of broadband.
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August 21, 2025
Epic Says Google Can't Dodge App Store Trade Libel Claims
Video game and software developer Epic Games Inc. has told a California federal court that Google LLC can't eschew remaining state law claims in a trade libel suit because the alleged harms are new, not resurrected from claims in a separate case.
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August 21, 2025
NHTSA Looking Into Tesla Crash Report Tardiness
Tesla Inc. must explain why many crashes involving its advanced driver-assistance systems or self-driving vehicles are not being timely reported to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, according to a notice filed by federal regulators who are now investigating the company's compliance.
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August 21, 2025
Payment Tech Co. Hit With Patent Infringement Suit In Ga.
Global payment technology company Verifone Inc. has been sued in Georgia federal court for allegedly infringing Sovereign Peak Ventures LLC's patents by "making, selling, importing, offering to sell and using Verifone devices with cellular capabilities."
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August 21, 2025
C-Band Payment Clearinghouse Officially Wound Down
The C-Band Relocation Payment Clearinghouse has officially ceased operations after the Federal Communications Commission agreed back in June that the clearinghouse had done what it was intended to do.
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August 21, 2025
Fed. Circ. Leaves Lost Profits Award Alone In Tennis IP Case
The Federal Circuit on Thursday refused to award a tennis technology company more than the $119,000 in lost profit damages it already won in a case involving a vanishing defendant and the operator of the U.S. Open, but it found a lower court was wrong not to award post-judgment interest.
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August 21, 2025
FCC Seeks Feedback Before Ditching Truth-In-Billing Rules
The Federal Communications Commission is officially asking for opinions on whether the agency's slamming and truth-in-billing rules are outdated and, if so, where they should be cut, after voting earlier this month to propose eliminating some of them.
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August 21, 2025
KKR Leads Bidding War For Nissan HQ, Plus More Rumors
Private equity firm KKR is said to be dominating in a bidding war for Nissan Motor's headquarters in Japan, Jared Kushner's private equity firm is rumored to have taken a minority stake in British bank OakNorth, and railroad giant CSX is reportedly facing pressure from activist investment firms to pursue a merger. Here, Law360 breaks down these and other deal rumors from the past week.
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August 21, 2025
Engineering Consultant Fights 'Sweeping' Ban On Job Move
A former principal for a California environmental consulting firm asked a Michigan federal judge Thursday to dissolve or narrow a restraining order barring her from taking a job at a competitor, calling the order a "sweeping" ban that would "destroy" her career.
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August 21, 2025
FCC Dings NC FM Station For Unapproved Transfer Of Control
The owners of a low-power Catholic FM station in North Carolina are entering into a consent decree with the Federal Communications Commission over allegations that its owners effectively gave control to another entity without authorization, agreeing to pay $2,000 and implement a comprehensive compliance plan.
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August 21, 2025
Wachtell, Kirkland Advise On $12.3B Dayforce Take-Private
Wachtell Lipton is advising Dayforce Inc. on a new agreement to be taken private by Thoma Bravo, represented by聽Kirkland & Ellis,聽in an all-cash transaction with an enterprise value of $12.3 billion, Dayforce announced Thursday.聽
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August 21, 2025
Cantor Equity Partners IV Begins Trading After $400M IPO
Special purpose acquisition company Cantor Equity Partners IV Inc., sponsored by private equity giant Cantor Fitzgerald, hit the public markets Thursday after pricing its $400 million initial public offering the day prior.
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August 21, 2025
Software Startup Catamorphic Settles Wage, OT Class Action
Software startup Catamorphic has agreed to settle a proposed class action brought by three former sales employees in Massachusetts and California who say the company failed to pay them overtime and engaged in other "widespread, repeated and consistent" violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act, a Wednesday court filing says.
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August 20, 2025
Credit Union, Customers Notch Deal In Data Breach Suit
OE Federal Credit Union and a proposed class of current and former customers revealed Wednesday that they have reached a deal to resolve litigation over a 2023 cyberattack, a day after the federal judge overseeing the case refused to cut negligence, California Consumer Privacy Act and several other claims from the dispute.聽
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August 20, 2025
Supersede California's Voice Over IP Rules, FCC Urged
California's new regulatory regime for internet voice call providers is a "power grab" and the Federal Communications Commission should make clear that its rules preempt those of the Golden State, a free market think tank is telling the agency.
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August 20, 2025
W.Va. Judge Blocks Private Suits Under State's 'Daniel's Law'
A West Virginia federal judge has tossed five proposed class actions accusing PeopleConnect, LexisNexis Risk Solutions and several other data brokers of violating the state's Daniel's Law by publishing information on judicial and law enforcement officers, after finding the privacy statute's lawsuit mechanism to be unconstitutional.聽
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August 20, 2025
Google Duped App Users With 'Fake' Privacy Button, Jury Told
A lead plaintiff in a multibillion-dollar privacy lawsuit alleging Google illegally collected data from 98 million cell phone users told a California federal jury Wednesday that the tech giant is "misleading" consumers with a "fake button" purporting to allow users to opt out of tracking.
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August 20, 2025
Masimo Targets CBP Over Latest Apple Watch Import Ruling
Masimo sued U.S. Customs and Border Protection in D.C. federal court Wednesday, arguing the agency defied the law by issuing a ruling that found a newly redesigned version of Apple's smartwatches is not subject to an import ban in the companies' patent dispute.
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August 20, 2025
TikTok Profits From Addicting Children, Minnesota Says
TikTok Inc. knowingly designed its social media platform to be addictive to children, according to a state court lawsuit filed by Minnesota, which also accuses the company of operating an unlicensed virtual currency system that facilitates financial and sexual exploitation of minors.
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August 20, 2025
Civil Rights Org. Urges FCC Not To Ditch Nat'l Ownership Cap
A civil rights group founded by the Rev. Al Sharpton said it would be a bad idea for the Federal Communications Commission to strip away ownership regulations that cap how many television stations any one company can own.
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August 20, 2025
9th Circ. Told Apple, Google CEO Meeting Aids Antitrust Claim
A California crane operator training school's attorney told a Ninth Circuit panel Wednesday that a lower court erred in dismissing his client's suit alleging an antitrust conspiracy between Apple and Google because a meeting between the companies' CEOs should have been taken into consideration as supporting the claim.
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August 20, 2025
Character.AI Founder Seeks Exit From Teen's Suicide Suit
The co-founder of Character.AI has asked a Florida federal judge to toss certain claims in a suit alleging a teen's suicide was caused by a negligently designed artificial intelligence chatbot, saying he can't be sued individually in Florida because he's never done any business in the state.
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August 20, 2025
Argent To Shell Out $4.5M To Exit Workers' ESOP Suit
Argent Trust Co. will pay $4.5 million to exit a class action alleging it approved a sale of undervalued shares in an electrical component company's employee stock ownership plan in a deal to shut the program down, according to a filing in Massachusetts federal court.
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August 20, 2025
Envestnet Didn't Preserve Data In IP Suit, Special Master Says
A special master in Delaware federal court has recommended sanctioning Envestnet for failing to properly preserve data from a piece of log management software as part of a suit, accusing it of scheming to steal rival fintech software company FinApps' trade secrets.
Expert Analysis
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Despite SEC Reset, Private Crypto Securities Cases Continue
While the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission under the Trump administration has charted a new approach to crypto regulation, the industry still lacks comprehensive rules of the road, meaning private plaintiffs continue to pursue litigation, and application of securities laws to crypto-assets will be determined by the courts, say attorneys at Skadden.
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What Patent Claim 'Invalidity' Means In Different Forums
A recent Federal Circuit order allowing a patent suit to proceed despite similar claims being invalidated in an inter partes review underscores how fractured the patent litigation landscape has become, leading to critical nuances in how district courts, the U.S. International Trade Commission and Patent Trial and Appeal Board treat invalidity, says Jason Hoffman at BakerHostetler.
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Top Takeaways From Trump's AI Action Plan
President Donald Trump's AI Action Plan represents some notable evolution in U.S. policy, including affirmation of the administration's trend toward prioritizing artificial intelligence innovation over guardrails and toward supporting greater U.S. private sector reach overseas, say attorneys at WilmerHale.
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Reel Justice: 'Eddington' Spotlights Social Media Evidence
In the neo-Western black comedy 鈥淓ddington鈥 released last month, social media is a character unto itself, highlighting how the boundaries between digital and real-world conduct can become blurred, thereby posing evidentiary challenges in criminal prosecutions, says Veronica Finkelstein at Wilmington University School of Law.
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Rebuttal
BigLaw Settlements Should Not Spur Ethics Deregulation
A recent Law360 op-ed argued that loosening law firm funding restrictions would make BigLaw firms less inclined to settle with the Trump administration, but deregulating legal financing ethics may well prove to be not merely ineffective, but counterproductive, says Laurel Kilgour at the American Economic Liberties Project.
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Opinion
8th Circ. Should Reaffirm False Commercial Speech's Nature
The Eighth Circuit in Goldfinch Laboratory v. Iowa Pathology Associates should assert that false commercial speech is not categorically immune from antitrust scrutiny, says Daniel Graulich at the Federal Trade Commission.
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Bid Protest Spotlight: Injunctions, Unequal Treatment
Two recent decisions by the Court of Federal Claims and the U.S. Government Accountability Office illustrate how poorly defined criteria can muddle an agency's evaluation and best-value decision, and affirm the fundamental principle that an agency must evenhandedly evaluate vendors' quotations against solicitation requirements, says Victoria Angle at MoFo.
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9th Circ. Leaves Scope Of CIPA Applicability Unclear
Three recent Ninth Circuit decisions declined to directly address whether all of the California Invasion of Privacy Act's provisions actually apply to internet activity, and given this uncertainty, companies should heed five recommendations when seeking to minimize CIPA litigation risk, say attorneys at Skadden.
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5 Ways Lawyers Can Earn Back The Public's Trust
Amid salacious headlines about lawyers behaving badly and recent polls showing the public鈥檚 increasingly unfavorable view of attorneys, we must make meaningful changes to our culture to rebuild trust in the legal system, says Carl Taylor at Carl Taylor Law.
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USPTO's AI Tool Redefines Design Patent Landscape
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's newly introduced DesignVision tool for artificial intelligence-powered image searching represents a dramatic shift in how design patent applications are examined, necessitating new strategies for patent practitioners, says Matthew Epstein at Dinsmore.
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Series
Hiking Makes Me A Better Lawyer
On the trail, I have thought often about the parallels between hiking and high-stakes patent litigation, and why strategizing, preparation, perseverance and joy are important skills for success in both endeavors, says Barbara Fiacco at Foley Hoag.
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6 Tips On Drafting Machine Learning Patents Post-Recentive
While the Federal Circuit's decision in Recentive v. Fox narrows the scope of patent-eligible machine learning applications, there are several drafting and prosecution strategies that may help practitioners navigate Section 101 challenges, say attorneys at BCLP.
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Regulating Online Activity After Porn Site Age Check Ruling
A recent U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding an age verification requirement for accessing online adult sexual content applied a lenient rational basis standard, raising questions for how state and federal courts will determine what kinds of laws regulating online activity will satisfy this standard going forward, say attorneys at Hogan Lovells.
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DC Circ. Ruling Augurs More Scrutiny Of Blanket Gag Orders
The D.C. Circuit鈥檚 recent ruling in In re: Sealed Case, finding that an omnibus nondisclosure order was too sweeping, should serve as a wake-up call to prosecutors and provide a road map for private parties to push back on overbroad secrecy demands, says Gregory Rosen at Rogers Joseph.
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Series
Law School's Missed Lessons: Negotiation Skills
I took one negotiation course in law school, but most of the techniques I rely on today I learned in practice, where I've discovered that the process is less about tricks or tactics, and more about clarity, preparation and communication, says Grant Schrantz at Haug Barron.