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  • December 01, 2023

    Judge Slams Google's 'Deeply Troubling' Tactics As Trial Ends

    A California federal judge overseeing the antitrust trial between Epic Games Inc. and Google LLC said Friday he's concerned that Google's willful destruction of evidence and "bogus" privilege assertions constitute a "frontal assault on the administration of justice," and that jury instructions in the newly wrapped trial will reflect the company's "deeply disturbing" behavior.

  • December 01, 2023

    Fighters Say UFC Can't Avoid Wage Suppression Trial

    Ultimate Fighting Championship fighters assailed the company for trying to avoid trial next year on antitrust claims alleging it suppressed wages by up to $1.6 billion through coercive, exclusive contracts and the purchase of rival promoters, telling a Nevada federal judge UFC's arguments for dismissal are deeply contradictory.  

  • December 01, 2023

    TikTok Parent Rips Coder's 'Gamesmanship,' Urges Arbitration

    TikTok's parent company ByteDance urged a California federal judge at a remote hearing Friday to send an engineer's wrongful termination suit accusing it of being the Chinese Communist Party's "propaganda tool" to arbitration, arguing the plaintiff has engaged in "gamesmanship" to avoid that and get to the state court's "bully pulpit."

  • December 01, 2023

    ​​​​​​​Top Groups Lobbying The FCC

    In November, the Federal Communications Commission heard from close to 200 companies and interest groups sharing their views on digital discrimination and media ownership rules, "SIM swap" fraud, the cost of pole attachments for fiber and more.

  • December 01, 2023

    Boston Landowners Told To Quit Illegal Radio Operations

    Nine different landowners in the Boston area have been allowing illegal radio broadcasts from their property and could be hit with a fine of more than $2 million if they don't knock it off, the Federal Communications Commission announced.

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