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October 08, 2026
ESPN misclassified a graphics producer as exempt from overtime for years despite his routine job duties, then failed to provide back pay after reclassifying his position in June, according to a Connecticut state court lawsuit.
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October 08, 2026
An attorney for the three major news organizations temporarily barred from the White House said President Donald Trump's own words doomed his administration's claim that the ban was based on national security concerns, telling a D.C. federal judge Thursday that the president simply wanted "good press."
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October 07, 2026
The Florida attorney general Wednesday asked a state court to compel Meta Platforms Inc. to impose age verification measures and curb addictive features, saying that a recent $17.1 billion settlement with other state attorneys general shows that the social media giant can do so.
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October 07, 2026
A House Democrat floated draft legislation Wednesday aimed at making it easier for those harmed by emerging artificial intelligence systems to sue developers for damages, on the same day that the top Democrat on the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee unveiled her own comprehensive framework for addressing "catastrophic" risks posed by AI.
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October 07, 2026
The Democratic National Committee on Wednesday sued the Trump administration over its use of taxpayer dollars to air "political propaganda ads" promoting the president ahead of the November midterm elections.
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October 07, 2026
Media organizations urged a New York federal judge on Wednesday to stop President Donald Trump from using Truth Social for his communications as long as the company offers paid early access to those posts, arguing that the private company's "entwinement" with the president violates the First Amendment.
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October 07, 2026
The Federal Communications Commission will consider an order this month to block certain foreign adversaries' testing labs from clearing equipment for the U.S. market.
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October 07, 2026
A Michigan federal jury was told on Wednesday that deciding a Black televangelist's race discrimination claim against the white owner of a religious network will require deciding if the owner's sharing of a meme was racist or simply a joke between old friends that was misunderstood.
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October 07, 2026
The Federal Communications Commission's staff has teed up a proposal that would pave the way for a new auction of 25 megahertz worth of spectrum that could be used for advanced Earth-based wireless service and satellite connectivity to smart devices.
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October 07, 2026
A Texas federal jury has awarded nearly $3.1 million to a patent-holding company, finding that a digital cinema products business willfully infringed a patent, but cleared the company of infringement allegations on a second patent.
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October 07, 2026
A split Fourth Circuit panel Wednesday granted a request from Democratic candidates to force the Federal Communications Commission to issue a ruling on whether broadcasters may only charge the lowest possible rate for ads purchased by political committees attached to candidates.
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October 07, 2026
A First Circuit panel had sharp questions for the federal government Wednesday about its decision to disfavor National Endowment for the Arts grant applicants who "promote gender ideology," with one judge saying the arts program is supposed to be insulated from politics.
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October 07, 2026
Roblox Corp. is asking a Kentucky federal judge to send to arbitration a mother's suit alleging her teenage daughter died by suicide as a result of using the platform, saying both the child and her parents repeatedly agreed to an arbitration clause in its terms of service, and that it is immune from liability for third-party content.
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October 07, 2026
Astronomers have warned the Federal Communications Commission that aerospace company Rocket Lab USA Inc. must fulfill its obligations to avoid harmful interference if the agency approves the license transfer needed for its proposed $8 billion purchase of satellite operator Iridium Communications.
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October 07, 2026
The U.S. Copyright Office is examining whether music-streaming fraud and artificial intelligence-generated music are affecting royalty payments and licensing systems as part of a broader inquiry requested by Congress.
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October 07, 2026
A Los Angeles woman has accused prominent entertainment attorney Bryan Freedman and several public relations professionals in California state court of participating in an online smear campaign that falsely linked her to the death of actor Matthew Perry, claiming the campaign was part of a broader network of anonymous websites targeting critics and adversaries of the defendants and their clients.
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October 07, 2026
The Federal Communications Commission has proposed more than $10 million in fines against two providers for allegedly defrauding the agency's Lifeline program, which provides discounts on phone and internet services to qualifying low-income Americans.
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October 07, 2026
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP announced Wednesday that the former head of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom's global media and entertainment practice has joined the firm as a mergers and acquisitions partner.
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October 07, 2026
A federal jury in Manhattan convicted a Maryland cybersecurity consultant on Wednesday of what prosecutors say was a two-pronged heist of well over $53 million in cryptocurrency from Uranium Finance that wiped out the short-lived decentralized exchange.
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October 06, 2026
Counsel for a Maryland cybersecurity consultant on Tuesday told a Manhattan federal jury that a purported heist of well over $53 million from Uranium Finance didn't actually damage the decentralized crypto exchange, in closing arguments that took aim at the linchpin charge of computer fraud.
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October 06, 2026
A hearing over Brad Pitt's efforts to obtain financial documents from his ex-wife Angelina Jolie in a real estate battle over their winery turned personal Tuesday when Pitt's female counsel from Bird Marella suggested Jolie's male counsel from Murphy Rosen was being sexist, an intimation Jolie's attorney vehemently denied.
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October 06, 2026
The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation has sent nearly three dozen lawsuits alleging Apple Inc. defectively designed AirTags that were susceptible to abuse by stalkers to California's Northern District in a ruling that compared the cases to coordinated multidistrict litigation against Uber Technologies Inc. over driver sexual assaults.
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October 06, 2026
An Illinois federal judge on Tuesday denied a bid from Sprout Social Inc. to dismiss a proposed investor class action alleging the social media management company missed its financial guidance and struggled to integrate an influencer marketing platform it acquired, finding the suit's challenged statements are actionable and that the claims suggest the defendants knowingly committed fraud.
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October 06, 2026
Chinese device-maker Hikvision hoped to convince the D.C. Circuit Tuesday that the Federal Communications Commission doesn't have the authority to strip a company's existing authorizations for national security reasons, but the judges did not seem persuaded.
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October 06, 2026
A Manhattan federal judge sentenced a North Carolina musician to 18 months in prison Tuesday, after he admitted scheming to steal $8 million worth of streaming royalty payments using an army of fake accounts and artificial intelligence-generated songs.