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April 14, 2025
FCC Inundated With Ideas On Where To Cut Regulatory Fat
From prison phone service providers to trade groups, everybody has something to say about what rules and requirements the Federal Communications Commission should be cutting as part of President Donald Trump's directive to shed as many regulations as possible.
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April 14, 2025
Industry Seeks Tougher Laws To Fight Cable Theft, Vandalism
State and local officials should enact more effective laws to fight the growing theft and vandalism of cable infrastructure, according to a new industry report.
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April 14, 2025
FCC Could Nix Engineer Certification Reg, Cable Biz Says
A cable industry lobbying group said Monday the Federal Communications Commission could soon withdraw a little-known but contentious rule requiring professional engineers to certify providers' broadband mapping data.
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April 14, 2025
MSU, Trivia Quiz Creator Settle Hitler Question Lawsuit
A content creator has settled claims that Michigan State University displayed one of his video trivia quizzes containing a question about Adolf Hitler without permission during a nationally televised rival football game, according to an order closing the case.
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April 14, 2025
Meta Accused Of Hiding $4B In Facebook Ad Overcharges
South Carolina-based fitness company Iron Tribe has hit Meta Platforms Inc. with a proposed class action in California federal court, alleging the social media giant secretly overcharged Facebook advertisers $4 billion by using a flawed "blended price" auction system that it hid from advertisers and took years to correct.
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April 14, 2025
Google Fired Workers For Pro-Palestine Views, Suit Says
Staging a peaceful protest to denounce harassment of Muslim and Arab employees at Google and the tech giant's support of Israeli military operations got many workers at the company unlawfully fired, a proposed class action filed in California federal court said.
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April 11, 2025
Microsoft, OpenAI Want Out Of Musk's For-Profit Challenge
OpenAI and Microsoft are ready to be done with a lawsuit brought by Elon Musk accusing them of swindling the billionaire by turning OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, into a private entity after he and others invested in the artificial intelligence venture.
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April 11, 2025
Ireland Probes X's Use Of Public Posts To Train AI Tool Grok
Ireland's data protection authority said Friday that it is forging ahead with an investigation into whether efforts by the Elon Musk-owned social media platform X to train its artificial intelligence model Grok on personal data lifted from public posts complied with the European Union's data protection rules.
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April 11, 2025
DOGE, OMB Ordered To Ready 1,000s Of Pages In FOIA Suit
A D.C. federal judge ordered the Office of Management and Budget and the Department of Government Efficiency to start processing 1,000 pages of documents per month to potentially hand over to a watchdog group seeking insight into DOGE's "secretive operations," saying DOGE's actions were of "highest national concern."
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April 11, 2025
EchoStar Wants FCC To Cut Satellite Cos.' Political File Reg
Dish Network parent company EchoStar Corp.'s wishlist to curb Federal Communications Commission regulations includes a proposal to drop a requirement that satellite providers keep tabs on paid political ads.
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April 11, 2025
Live Nation, Ticketmaster Can't Nix Consumer Antitrust Suit
A California federal judge Friday denied a bid from Live Nation and Ticketmaster to toss an antitrust case from consumers alleging monopolization of the concert ticketing market, following a tentative ruling issued earlier this week while finding a recent antitrust win for Amazon doesn't translate to the case before him.
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April 11, 2025
NBA's Licensing Arm Seeks To Block Foreign Counterfeiters
The NBA's licensing arm filed a copyright infringement suit Friday in Illinois federal court against a cadre of foreign e-commerce operators for allegedly selling counterfeit merchandise, saying the fake products are diluting its brand, harming its reputation and diverting money from its coffers.
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April 11, 2025
CBS Can't Nix Sony's Grab Of 'Jeopardy,' 'Wheel Of Fortune'
A Los Angeles judge on Thursday denied a bid by CBS to block Sony Pictures Television from terminating its agreements that gave CBS exclusive rights to distribute popular game shows "Jeopardy!" and "Wheel of Fortune," but the network is not eliminated from the contest yet as the ruling only denied a preliminary injunction.
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April 11, 2025
House Bill Would Fund Satellite, Fixed Wireless Broadband
An Ohio Republican has introduced House legislation to use some of the funds from the $42.5 billion Congress set aside for broadband expansion in 2021 to help defray the costs of obtaining satellite or fixed wireless broadband equipment and service.
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April 11, 2025
NFT Owner Admits To Dodging Tax On Crypto Art Sales
A Pennsylvania man pled guilty to filing false tax returns and underreporting his income by $13.1 million after selling 97 nonfungible token artworks, federal prosecutors said Friday.
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April 11, 2025
Miami Art Dealer Arrested, Accused Of Selling Fake Warhols
A Miami art dealer was charged in Florida federal court for allegedly selling fake Andy Warhol artwork to his gallery clients, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida announced Thursday.
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April 11, 2025
WWE Fan Ends Suit Over Pyrotechnics Hearing Loss
A Florida man who sued World Wrestling Entertainment alleging negligence over sustaining hearing loss after pyrotechnics went off next to him during a Friday Night Smackdown event in Orlando has dismissed his federal lawsuit on Friday after reaching a settlement, Connecticut federal court records show.
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April 11, 2025
Hagens Berman Sanctioned Over Disappearing Client
Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP is facing monetary sanctions in a proposed class action against Apple and Amazon, after a Washington federal judge said the firm misled her about a problem client who disappeared and wasted the court's time in the process.
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April 11, 2025
Alex Jones' Sandy Hook Atty Lands 7-Day Suspension Credit
Alex Jones' former lead Connecticut attorney will be suspended for only one additional week because of a prior sit-out in 2023, a state court judge has clarified, saying she hadn't considered that Norm Pattis was previously benched while he appealed his discipline for his role in transferring Sandy Hook families' confidential records to another Jones attorney.
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April 11, 2025
Rakoff Quips 'I Love Trials' Before Palin-NYT Libel Rematch
Manhattan U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff took up legal questions Friday ahead of a retrial for former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin in her suit accusing The New York Times of maliciously defaming her, cheerfully noting that an earlier verdict was erased.
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April 11, 2025
Keller Postman Denies Breaching Arbitration Deal With Tubi
Keller Postman LLC shot back at Tubi Inc.'s claims that it violated an agreement meant to cool a heated dispute amid the video streaming service's tortious interference suit over mass arbitration against its user agreement, with the firm arguing it "complied with every stipulation it made to this court."
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April 11, 2025
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
This past week in London has seen law firm Michael Wilson & Partners reignite a 20-year dispute with a former director over an alleged plot to form a rival partnership, headphone maker Marshall Amplification sue a rival in the intellectual property court, and a commercial diving company pursue action against state-owned nuclear waste processor Sellafield. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new cases in the U.K.
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April 10, 2025
Senate Confirms Meador To Fill 3rd GOP Seat AT FTC
The U.S. Senate voted along party lines Thursday to confirm Kressin Meador Powers LLC partner Mark Meador to the Federal Trade Commission, filling the agency's third Republican seat as the spots left by the recent firing of the commission's two Democrats remain vacant.
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April 10, 2025
Vanda Sues FDA To Block Off-Label Use Drug Promo Regs
A pharmaceutical company, a Texas physician and an often-jet lagged traveler sued the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in Texas federal court Wednesday seeking to block marketing restrictions on the off-label uses of FDA-approved drugs, arguing that long-standing rules and Biden-era guidance runs afoul of the First Amendment.
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April 10, 2025
Trump Gets Some Central Park 5 Defamation Claims Clipped
A Pennsylvania federal judge on Thursday trimmed claims from the Central Park Five's defamation lawsuit against President Donald Trump but said that the men, wrongfully convicted of assault and rape 35 years ago, could refine their allegations in another complaint.
Expert Analysis
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Rethinking Litigation Risk And What It Really Means To Win
Attorneys have a tendency to overestimate litigation risk before summary judgment and underestimate risk after it, but an eight-stage litigation framework can clarify risk at different points and help litigators reassess what true success looks like in any particular case, says Joshua Libling at Arcadia Finance.
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Mass Arbitration Procedures After Faulty Live Nation Ruling
Despite the Ninth Circuit's flawed reasoning in Heckman v. Live Nation, the exceptional allegations of collusive conduct shouldn't be read to restrict arbitration providers that have adopted good faith procedures to ensure that consumer mass arbitrations can be efficiently resolved on the merits, says Collin Vierra at Eimer Stahl.
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5 Notable Information Security Events In 2024
B. Stephanie Siegmann at Hinckley Allen discusses 2024's largest and most destructive data breaches seen yet, ranging from ransomware disrupting U.S. healthcare systems on a massive scale, to tensions increasing between the U.S. and China over cyberespionage and the control of U.S. data.
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Series
Playing Rugby Makes Me A Better Lawyer
My experience playing rugby, including a near-fatal accident, has influenced my legal practice on a professional, organizational and personal level by showing me the importance of maintaining empathy, fostering team empowerment and embracing the art of preparation, says James Gillenwater at Greenberg Traurig.
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Looking Back At 2024's Noteworthy State AG Litigation
State attorneys general across the U.S. took bold steps in 2024 to address unlawful activities by corporations in several areas, including privacy and data security, financial transparency, children's internet safety, and other overall consumer protection claims, say attorneys at Troutman Pepper.
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Opinion
No, Litigation Funders Are Not 'Fleeing' The District Of Del.
A recent study claimed that litigation funders have “fled” Delaware federal court due to a standing order requiring disclosure of third-party financing, but responsible funders have no problem litigating in this jurisdiction, and many other factors could explain the decline in filings, say Will Freeman and Sarah Tsou at Omni Bridgeway.
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5 Advertising Law Trends To Watch In 2025
Although advertisers are encouraged by the incoming Trump administration's focus on deregulation, this year could feel like wading through uncharted waters, and decreased federal government regulation may mean increased state regulation, say attorneys at Reed Smith.
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5 E-Discovery Predictions For 2025 And Beyond
In the year to come, e-discovery will be shaped by new and emerging trends, from the adoption of artificial intelligence provisions in protective orders, to the proliferation of emojis as a source of evidence in contemporary litigation, say attorneys at Littler.
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Celebs' Suits Show Limits Of Calif. Anti-SLAPP Laws
Two recent cases including Amanda Ghost v. Rebel Wilson and Leviss v. Sandoval highlight the delicate balancing act courts must perform in weighing free speech against privacy and reputational harm under California's robust anti-strategic lawsuit against public participation laws, say attorneys at Nixon Peabody.
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What To Expect From Federal Cybersecurity Policy In 2025
There are 12 cyber policy questions to keep an eye on as the new administration and Republican control of Congress present an opportunity to advance less regulatory approaches and revisit some choices from the prior administration, say attorneys at Wiley.
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2024 Was A Banner Year For Shareholder Activism
Shareholder activism campaigns in 2024 continued at an elevated pace globally, with activist investors exploiting valuation gaps and pushing aggressively for corporate governance reforms, including the ouster of many companies' chief executives, a trend that could continue once President-elect Donald Trump takes office, say attorneys at Sidley.
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6 Predictions For Cyber Risk And Insurance In 2025
This year is likely to bring with it some thorny and expensive cyber challenges, including increased ransomware activity, more data breach class actions and continued efforts to define business interruption loss calculations, say attorneys at Wiley.
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7 Ways 2nd Trump Administration May Affect Partner Hiring
President-elect Donald Trump's return to the White House will likely have a number of downstream effects on partner hiring in the legal industry, from accelerated hiring timelines to increased vetting of prospective employees, say recruiters at Macrae.
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4 Novel Issues From The Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni Suits
A series of lawsuits arising from actress Blake Lively's sexual harassment and retaliation complaint against her "It Ends With Us" co-star, Justin Baldoni, present novel legal issues that employment and defamation practitioners alike should follow as the litigation progresses, say attorneys at Dorsey & Whitney.
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E-Discovery Quarterly: Rulings On Custodian Selection
Several recent rulings make clear that the proportionality of additional proposed custodians will depend on whether the custodians have unique relevant documents, and producing parties should consider whether information already in the record will show that they have relevant documents that otherwise might not be produced, say attorneys at Sidley.