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  Legal Industry Bounces Back, Gaining 2,400 Jobs In April

  By Tracey Read

  The legal sector is once again on a positive trajectory, gaining 2,400 jobs last month, according to seasonally ...(read more)

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  Estée Lauder Investors Reach $210M Deal Over Share Inflation

  By Lauren Berg

  Estée Lauder investors on Thursday asked a New York federal judge to greenlight a $210 million settlement resolv...(read more)

• EdTech Platform Canvas Accused Of Lax Security After Breach

  By Allison Grande

  The operator of Canvas, a popular educational software tool used by thousands of schools and universities, is facing more than a half-dozen proposed class actions filed in Utah and New York federal courts following its disclosure of a cyberattack tied to a hacking group that's claimed to have gained access to personal data belonging to more than 275 million students and teachers.

• Fed. Circ. Doubts Ability To Review Sanctions From VLSI Saga

  By Dani Kass

  Former U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director Kathi Vidal's sanctions against OpenSky Industries LLC and Patent Quality Assurance LLC may be beyond the reach of the Federal Circuit's jurisdiction, a panel suggested Friday.

• FTC's Gender-Care Probe Likely Retaliatory, Judge Says

  By Nadia Dreid

  The Endocrine Society has convinced a D.C. federal judge that the Federal Trade Commission's motivation for targeting it with a subpoena was likely retaliation for the guidelines the nonprofit produced regarding gender-affirming care.

• Social Media Litigation Gains Reveal Potential Regulatory Path

  By Allison Grande

  Recent suits by a social media user and two state attorneys general in their bids to hold Meta and other tech giants accountable for the allegedly addictive nature of their platforms have brought to the forefront a potentially lucrative strategy for more broadly regulating online harms, as the First Amendment and other roadblocks continue to stymie legislative efforts.

• Calif. Hits GM With Record $12.75M Data Privacy Penalty

  By Allison Grande

  General Motors has agreed to pay $12.75 million — the largest penalty imposed to date under California's data privacy law — and halt its sale of geolocation and driver behavior data to consumer reporting agencies to resolve claims that it illegally kept and handed off this information to a pair of data brokers, California's attorney general and several other state enforcers announced Friday.

• Fed. Circ. Debates If Alice Dooms $673M Amazon Patent Loss

  By Ryan Davis

  Amazon urged a Federal Circuit panel on Friday to wipe out a $673 million judgment against it over data storage technology by arguing that the patents underlying the case are invalid for covering only abstract ideas, which led the judges to debate how the inventions differ from a library card catalog.

• Colo. Legislators Pass Bill Limiting Surveillance Pricing

  By Rachel Konieczny

  The Colorado General Assembly has passed a bill that limits companies and others from using consumers' and workers' personal data for setting individualized consumer prices and worker wages.

• Musk, SEC Face Judge's Scrutiny Over $1.5M Settlement

  By Jessica Corso

  A Washington, D.C., federal judge says she will not approve the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's proposed $1.5 million deal to end a lawsuit against Elon Musk until the parties answer questions about the settlement. 

• OCC Rules Spur 7th Circ. Remand In Ill. Swipe-Fee Fight

  By Jon Hill

  The Seventh Circuit hit reset Friday in a closely watched legal challenge to a pending Illinois law that bans swipe fees on taxes and tips, directing a lower court to take another look at the case in light of new federal rules declaring the restrictions preempted for many banks.

• TTAB's 'Selective' Approach Spurs Drop In Precedents

  By Ivan Moreno

  The precedential decision the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board issued late last month upholding the cancellation of a credit union's trademark registration was noteworthy not only for the binding authority it created, but also for its rarity: it was only the sixth such ruling from the board this fiscal year.

• Why Trump's 2nd Global Tariff May Fare Better On Appeal

  By Dylan Moroses

  President Donald Trump's administration on Friday appealed the U.S. Court of International Trade's ruling deeming his temporary global tariff unlawful to the Federal Circuit, where judges may view the executive action with more deference than the measures it immediately replaced.

• ABC Accuses FCC Of Trying To Chill Speech On 'The View'

  By Nadia Dreid

  ABC has accused the Federal Communications Commission of trying to trample its First Amendment rights by targeting long-running talk show "The View" with an investigation into whether it has been violating the agency's "equal time" rule for political candidates.