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June 05, 2025
Orgs. Clash At DC Circ. Over FCC's Spectrum Revamp
Public safety groups are clashing at the D.C. Circuit over whether the Federal Communications Commission overstepped its authority when it expanded spectrum rights in the 4.9 gigahertz band, a segment of airwaves long relied on by emergency responders.
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June 05, 2025
Boeing Says Ligado Must Decide On Satellite Deal In Ch. 11
Citing critical unknowns in Ligado Networks LLC's proposed Chapter 11 plan, Boeing Satellite Systems has asked a Delaware bankruptcy judge to order Ligado to choose whether to accept or reject聽a key Boeing contract,聽and to escrow聽at least $37.8 million to cure existing defaults before confirmation.
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June 05, 2025
Justices Revive Bid To Enforce $1.3B Indian Satellite Award
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday overturned a Ninth Circuit decision refusing to enforce a $1.3 billion arbitral award issued to an Indian satellite communications company, ruling that the court's outlier interpretation of a jurisdictional question was incorrect.
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June 04, 2025
Apple Loses Bid To Pause App Store Order Amid Appeal
A Ninth Circuit panel Wednesday refused to lift a lower court's injunction mandating certain App Store policy changes while Apple appeals it, saying that it wasn't "persuaded that a stay is appropriate" in the high-profile litigation brought by Epic Games.
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June 04, 2025
Dems Say Robocalls Can't Be Stopped With Less Money, Staff
Combating the scourge of robocalls is normally a more bipartisan issue, but at a House subcommittee hearing Wednesday, Democrats used the opportunity to take aim at the Trump administration for cutting funding and jobs from agencies tasked with fixing the problem.
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June 04, 2025
Wells Fargo And Others Get Final OK For $19.5M Privacy Deal
A class of California small businesses have gotten final approval for their $19.5 million deal settling claims Wells Fargo Bank NA and two other companies improperly recorded them on telemarketing cold calls in violation of the Golden State's Invasion of Privacy Act.
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June 04, 2025
NC Biz Court Bulletin: TikTok Tussle And Merger Melee
Spring has sprung momentous decisions and quiet resolutions in some of the North Carolina Business Court's top cases, from clearing for trial the attorney general's suit over a hospital's post-merger standard of care to Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP dropping its coverage dispute over a 2022 data breach.
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June 04, 2025
Dish Wants Court To Act On T-Mobile Case Discovery Dispute
Dish told an Illinois federal judge it is at an impasse with wireless customer plaintiffs seeking documents in their case against T-Mobile over its 2020 acquisition of Sprint, saying it met with the plaintiffs four times regarding their subpoenas, but the sides have been unable to find a compromise.
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June 04, 2025
FCC Says C-Band Payment Clearinghouse Can Wind Down
The C-Band Relocation Payment Clearinghouse has received the go-ahead from the Federal Communications Commission to wind down its operations by the end of the month, after the agency agreed it had done what it was intended to do.
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June 04, 2025
Albright Ends Traxcell's Patent Cases Targeting Grubhub, Lyft
U.S. District Judge Alan Albright has tossed a pair of lawsuits accusing Grubhub and Lyft of infringing a Traxcell Technologies wireless network system patent, saying the patent owner failed to show that either the food ordering service or ride-hailing company actually uses the system.
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June 04, 2025
Calif. Assembly Passes Internet Price Cap, Moving To Senate
The California State Assembly on Wednesday passed a bill that would mandate a low-cost option capping the price of high-speed internet service for low-income families at $15.
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June 04, 2025
FTC Can't Exclude TikTok Blackout From Meta Case
Meta Platforms can point to TikTok briefly going dark at the beginning of 2025 as it tries to fend off claims that it is monopolizing the social media market, after a D.C. federal judge refused to let the Federal Trade Commission lock the case to evidence from the year 2023.
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June 04, 2025
FCC Hopes To Junk 'Dead Wood' In Cable Regs, Chair Says
The Federal Communications Commission wants to eliminate 77 regulations affecting the cable industry that the FCC's Republican chief says are outdated.
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June 04, 2025
Aerospace Coms Group Asks FCC To Redo Launch Changes
A radio communications group representing the country's largest aerospace companies and defense contractors is asking the Federal Communications Commission to rethink certain recent procedural changes for space launch operations, arguing that more safeguards are needed to protect incumbent flight test operations from potential space launch interference.
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June 04, 2025
Apple Can Shield Info In NJ TikTok Addiction Suit
A New Jersey state court will allow Apple Inc. to inject itself into the state attorney general's high-profile lawsuit accusing TikTok of designing features that harm and cause addiction in children, allowing the manufacturer of the iPhone to argue, away from public view, that certain content in the lawsuit should be redacted.
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June 04, 2025
Judge Won't Block Amazon From Talking To Depo Witnesses
A federal judge on Tuesday rejected the Federal Trade Commission's bid, in its antitrust case against Amazon, seeking to block lawyers representing the e-commerce giant from conferring with witnesses during breaks in their depositions.
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June 13, 2016
DraftKings Can't Escape Automated Text Message Class Suit
An Illinois federal judge on Monday kept alive a putative class action over an alleged automated promotional text message sent by daily fantasy sports giant DraftKings but tossed a claim that the message stole data from recipients, finding that the loss of value for a single text message is too small.
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June 04, 2025
FCC Republican Says He's Leaving Agency This Week
Nathan Simington, one of only two Republicans on the Federal Communications Commission, said Wednesday he will leave the agency at the end of this week.
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June 03, 2025
Fla. Taking Halt Of Teen Social Media Law To 11th Circ.
A Florida federal judge on Tuesday blocked the state from enforcing a new law that would ban children 13 and under聽and restrict 14- and 15-year-olds from social media after finding the measure is likely unconstitutional, prompting the state's attorney general to immediately appeal the ruling to the Eleventh Circuit.
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June 03, 2025
Orgs. Urge Congress To Tackle Music Royalties On Radio
Radio is the one music platform that doesn't pay royalties for playing music, and it's about time that changes, several groups came together to tell Congress, suggesting a new bill aimed at preventing automakers from phasing out AM radio is the perfect buddy for the royalty legislation.
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June 03, 2025
Foes Urge Court To Assume Google Hid Evidence
Advertisers, publishers and other users of Google's online advertising placement technology come armed with receipts of the search giant's personnel apparently knowingly avoiding their discovery obligations, as the multidistrict litigation plaintiffs tee up a bid to sanction the company with a court presumption that deleted chats hide key evidence of monopolization.
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June 03, 2025
Consumers Defend Amending Apple, Amazon Antitrust Case
Consumers accusing Apple and Amazon of reaching a deal to restrict the sale of Apple devices on the e-commerce site told a Washington federal court there's no need to reconsider letting them amend the complaint despite the original lead plaintiff dropping out of the case.
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June 03, 2025
Ga. Seeks Chance To Defend New Social Media Age Limit Law
The state of Georgia asked a federal judge on Tuesday to hold off on blocking new state-imposed restrictions on minors' use of social media before they take effect next month, suggesting the court should at least unpack how the law might work in practice before deciding whether it violates the First Amendment.
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June 03, 2025
T-Mobile Wants To Duck Counterclaims In Spectrum Fight
T-Mobile wants a California federal court to kill antitrust counterclaims from a telecom the mobile titan has filed a RICO suit against, accusing it of making a series of fake bids to buy licenses for spectrum T-Mobile leases so it will have to buy them or exercise its right of first refusal.
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June 03, 2025
Big 3 Wireless Companies Divvying Up UScellular, FCC Told
T-Mobile, AT&T and Verizon appear to be coordinating to split UScellular among themselves and the Federal Communications Commission needs to review the megadeals in their totality and not just individually, public interest groups said.
Expert Analysis
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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 鈥 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鈥檚 so powerful about artificial intelligence is also what鈥檚 most scary about it 鈥 its ability to detect patterns may curtail young attorneys鈥 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鈥檚 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鈥 recently launched webpage, which details the actions 鈥 and inactions 鈥 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 鈥 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 鈥渢rusted adviser鈥 paradigm from which most firms operate is no longer sufficient 鈥 they should instead aim to become trusted partners with their most valuable clients, says Stuart Maister at Strategic Narrative.
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Calif. Bill, NTIA Report Illustrate Open-Model AI Safety Debate
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration鈥檚 balanced recommendations for preventing misuse of open artificial intelligence models, contrasted with a more aggressive California bill, demonstrate an evolving regulatory debate about balancing democratic access to this powerful new technology against potential risks to the public, say Stuart Meyer and Fredrick Tsang at Fenwick.