http://www.law360.com/ Latest articles for organization: AT&T Copyright 2009 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US http://www.law360.com/images/headings/logo.gif http://www.law360.com/ http://www.law360.com/articles/132911 AT&T Inc. has completed its $944 million acquisition of Centennial Communications Corp. following conditional approval of the deal by the Federal Communications Commission, which demanded certain divestitures over competition concerns. http://www.law360.com/articles/132911 http://www.law360.com/articles/132502 AT&T Inc., Sprint Nextel Corp. and other wireless communications heavyweights have been accused by patent-holding company Child Protect LLC of infringing two patents related to control communications between mobile devices. http://www.law360.com/articles/132502 http://www.law360.com/articles/131699 A District of Columbia appeals court has kept a case against Motorola Inc., Verizon Wireless Inc., AT&T Corp. and others alive, reversing in part a lower court's decision to dismiss consolidated suits claiming older phones emitted dangerous amounts of radiation. http://www.law360.com/articles/131699 http://www.law360.com/articles/131237 Apple Inc. and AT&T Mobility LLC are facing a putative class action from an iPhone user in Alabama alleging the companies misrepresented the smartphone's multimedia messaging service capabilities. http://www.law360.com/articles/131237 http://www.law360.com/articles/130988 A putative class of Dell Inc. consumers has won its bid to toss an order compelling arbitration of its suit over allegedly defective laptop computers, with a federal judge ruling that the arbitration clause and class action waiver of Dell's service agreement are unenforceable. http://www.law360.com/articles/130988 http://www.law360.com/articles/130807 A federal appeals court has greenlighted a class action over AT&T Mobility LLC's fees, saying the arbitration clause in the cell phone company's standard contracts is unconscionable despite company efforts to creatively rejig it. http://www.law360.com/articles/130807 http://www.law360.com/articles/130257 Crowell & Moring LLP has affirmed rumors of its continued westward expansion, announcing on Monday the addition of 29 new attorneys formerly of San Francisco litigation firm Folger Levin & Kahn LLP. http://www.law360.com/articles/130257 http://www.law360.com/articles/130117 Sony Electronics Inc. has become the latest company to settle patent infringement allegations brought by Traffic Information LLC over its traffic-detection system patents. http://www.law360.com/articles/130117 http://www.law360.com/articles/130024 A group of Michigan-based AT&T Corp. call center workers has won conditional class certification in a wage-and-hour battle against the telecommunications giant. http://www.law360.com/articles/130024 http://www.law360.com/articles/128896 Battlestar Galactica producer Ron Moore urged the passage of rules to promote competition in video programming during a congressional hearing Thursday, arguing that media conglomerates are squeezing out independent producers. http://www.law360.com/articles/128896 http://www.law360.com/articles/129846 The Federal Communications Commission has voted unanimously to begin crafting net neutrality rules aimed at prohibiting network operators from blocking certain kinds of Web traffic. http://www.law360.com/articles/129846 http://www.law360.com/articles/129787 Plaintiffs in the multidistrict litigation alleging that Apple Inc.’s iPhone 3G underperforms on AT&T Mobility LLC’s 3G data network have filed a consolidated complaint accusing the technology giant of fraud and negligence, and of violating a number of state consumer protection statutes. http://www.law360.com/articles/129787 http://www.law360.com/articles/129525 Motorola Inc. has filed an antitrust suit against a slew of Asia-based liquid crystal display panel makers, including AU Optronics Corp., Chunghwa Picture Tubes Ltd. and Sharp Electronics Corp., claiming they engaged in a long-running conspiracy to fix prices. http://www.law360.com/articles/129525 http://www.law360.com/articles/129074 AT&T Inc. has asked a federal judge who temporarily restrained the telecommunications giant from implementing an allegedly predatory pricing program to issue a stay of the order pending interlocutory appeal, as well as narrow the order's parameters to include only the five carriers that brought the suit. http://www.law360.com/articles/129074 http://www.law360.com/articles/129068 With the Federal Communications Commission expected to vote on hotly debated net neutrality rules Thursday, 72 Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives have asked the agency to soften the proposals to avoid stifling broadband competition, while Google Inc. and other top Web-based companies have stressed the need for a more open Internet. http://www.law360.com/articles/129068 http://www.law360.com/articles/128434 Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer LLP's newest partner, former McDermott Will & Emery LLP intellectual property attorney Robert Greenfeld, says he prefers a more intimate professional setting. http://www.law360.com/articles/128434 http://www.law360.com/articles/123724 With Congress seeking to rein in patent damages awards and patent holders often facing allegations of inequitable conduct, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has taken steps to provide more guidance on these and other intellectual property matters. http://www.law360.com/articles/123724 http://www.law360.com/articles/128118 A federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order against AT&T Inc. in an antitrust suit that claims the company instituted a predatory pricing program to put smaller carriers out of business. http://www.law360.com/articles/128118 http://www.law360.com/articles/128096 A Virginia utility company has hit a number of local Comcast Corp. subsidiaries in the state with allegations that the telecom giant failed to pay the right rental rates for its use of the utility's electric poles, resulting in damages of at least $10 million. http://www.law360.com/articles/128096 http://www.law360.com/articles/128143 The U.S. Department of Justice has handed AT&T Inc. antitrust approval for its $944 million acquisition of Centennial Communications Corp., but told the telecommunications giant it must divest assets in Louisiana and Mississippi. http://www.law360.com/articles/128143