Media & Entertainment

  • October 21, 2025

    UberEats Stole Pics From Nearly 2 Dozen Photogs, Suit Says

    A group of nearly two dozen professional photographers slapped Uber with a copyright suit in Florida federal court Tuesday, claiming the company displayed their photos on the UberEats food delivery service platform without permission or compensation.

  • October 21, 2025

    J&J Unit Seeks Sanctions Over Doc's Deleted Talc Emails

    A Johnson & Johnson subsidiary is asking a Virginia federal court to sanction a doctor who it alleges wrote a false article linking its talc products to mesothelioma, saying the only explanation for his policy of deleting all emails as soon as he sends or reads them is to destroy evidence.

  • October 21, 2025

    Paramount's Claims In 'Top Gun' Credit Suit Stay Alive

    A New York federal judge has refused to toss counterclaims Paramount Pictures Corp. launched against a man who claims he wasn't credited for writing key scenes in the 2022 film "Top Gun: Maverick."

  • October 21, 2025

    Widower Wants Disney Sanctioned In Allergy Death Suit

    A widower suing Disney over his wife's food allergy death at a Walt Disney World restaurant asked a Florida court on Monday to sanction the restaurant, claiming it ambushed him with brand new evidence in the middle of depositions, after months of discovery had already been conducted.

  • October 21, 2025

    FCC Urged To Rescind Pulling Of Equipment Testing Labs

    Several entities linked to China urged the Federal Communications Commission to reconsider pulling their authorizations to run equipment testing labs in the U.S.

  • October 21, 2025

    Judge Slams Lawyer's Suit Over NFL Trademarked Apparel

    A New York federal judge tossed the lawsuit of an attorney who hoped to sell unlicensed merchandise bearing NFL trademarks, issuing a scathing order that said the court would not be "entertaining" the plaintiff's "frivolous" lawsuit.

  • October 21, 2025

    Vivid Seats Faces Class Action Claiming 'Drip Pricing' Tactics

    Ticket reseller Vivid Seats is facing a proposed class action alleging that it used "drip pricing" to illegally deceive consumers by advertising artificially low ticket prices before revealing mandatory fees at checkout.

  • October 20, 2025

    Sandy Hook Families Oppose Reverting Equity To Alex Jones

    Families of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims have pushed back against a bankruptcy trustee's attempt to relinquish equity interests in conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' Free Speech Systems LLC, telling a Texas bankruptcy court Friday that doing so would frustrate their collection of more than $1 billion in judgments.

  • October 20, 2025

    Penny Stock Trader Wants New 'Scalping' Trial After SEC Loss

    A man found liable on U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission claims he earned at least $2.5 million by buying, hyping, and then selling penny stocks in a "scalping" scheme has asked a New York federal judge for a new trial, saying the verdict form unfairly lumped his civil charges together.

  • October 20, 2025

    Judge Blocks DOD Schools' Gender, Sex And Race Book Ban

    A Virginia federal judge said Monday that the U.S. Department of Defense school system must restore hundreds of books and lessons on race and gender that were pulled under the Trump administration, finding the removals likely violated students' First Amendment rights.

  • October 20, 2025

    TikTok Must Produce Docs On Anorexic Influencer

    A California federal judge on Monday ordered TikTok to produce documents related to Eugenia Cooney, an influencer with anorexia and 2.8 million followers, in litigation over claims social media hurts youth mental health, and also instructed YouTube to yield documents on two of its witnesses.

  • October 20, 2025

    5G Broadcast Called Potential 'Force Multiplier' For Industry

    Advocates of federal policies to support 5G Broadcast said the technology can help cellular networks by offloading technology that uses 5G to broadcast television, and other content is not "in competition with mobile networks" but a complement to them.

  • October 20, 2025

    Zuckerberg Ordered To Testify At 1st Social Media Harm Trial

    A Los Angeles judge on Monday ordered Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg to testify at an upcoming bellwether trial over major social media technology companies allegedly causing harm to young users' mental health, but put off deciding whether he must testify at future bellwether trials.

  • October 20, 2025

    OpenAI Says It Owes Musk Nothing In For-Profit Move

    OpenAI and Microsoft have asked a California federal court to avoid trial on claims that OpenAI duped Elon Musk into donating $45 million with false promises of remaining a nonprofit, arguing no such promises were made and that the billionaire's money came without strings or control.

  • October 20, 2025

    Ill. Judge Grills Immigration Officials Over Use Of Force

    Two immigration officials defended their agencies' recent use of force during the Trump administration's ongoing enforcement crackdown in Chicago on Monday, taking the stand after an Illinois federal judge expressed concern that they were violating her earlier order temporarily barring them from using allegedly violent silencing tactics against the media and peaceful protesters.

  • October 20, 2025

    Tax Startup CEO Swindled $13M From Investors, SEC Says

    The CEO of a defunct tax-compliance startup lied to investors as she raised $13 million for her company, overstating its revenues by almost 900 times and falsely claiming she was a certified public accountant, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said Monday in California federal court.

  • October 20, 2025

    'A Total Mess': Judge Slams Calif. Privacy Law's Ambiguity

    California's Invasion of Privacy Act "is a total mess" that routinely requires courts to make "borderline impossible" decisions about how to apply the law's language to new technologies, a San Francisco federal judge commented in an order Friday, pleading for state lawmakers to bring the law into the 21st century.

  • October 20, 2025

    RELX Escapes Ex-Employee's Greenwashing, Retaliation Suit

    A Massachusetts federal judge has tossed a suit accusing RELX PLC of retaliating against a former employee and committing securities fraud by making business decisions that contradicted environmentally minded pledges made to investors, ruling that the employee missed the window to file a charge related to his termination.

  • October 20, 2025

    TikTok Urges Nix Of Wash. Applicant's Pay Transparency Suit

    TikTok urged a Washington state court to toss an applicant's proposed class action claiming the video platform failed to include salary information in job listings, arguing the worker leading the case and dozens of others couldn't show he was harmed by the omission.

  • October 20, 2025

    Judge Ends Songwriters' 'Funk Rave' Suit Against Pop Star

    A Florida federal judge on Monday permanently dismissed a suit from two songwriters who claimed that Brazilian pop star Anitta had copied their work in her song "Funk Rave," saying the songwriters had three chances to state their claims but had failed to adequately do so.

  • October 20, 2025

    Reggaeton Copyright Clash Sparks Dueling Sanctions Bids

    Attorneys in a copyright lawsuit about the origins of Reggaeton are embroiled in competing motions for sanctions, with lawyers representing Jamaican musicians — who accuse the genre's leading stars of infringement — arguing that the court's ire should be directed at opposing counsel's recent sanctions request over allegedly fabricated quotes.

  • October 20, 2025

    DC Says It's Ready To Pick Subgrantees For BEAD Money

    The District of Columbia has received the green light from the federal government on how it plans to use its $100 million slice of the Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment program pie after a Trump administration revamp of the program made all the states and territories rework their proposals.

  • October 20, 2025

    Meta Faces Massive Cut To $167M Win Over WhatsApp Hack

    A California federal judge said Friday that WhatsApp parent Meta must either accept a cut of its $167.25 million punitive damages win against spyware-maker NSO Group to $4 million or go to trial again over the proper amount of damages, concluding that the amount awarded by a jury was "excessive."

  • October 20, 2025

    Squires Gives Entropic Chance To Save Patent Claims

    The head of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office says that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board has to take another look at certain claims the board found invalid in an Entropic Communications local area network patent challenged by Dish Network.

  • October 20, 2025

    Radio Co. Challenges Nielsen's National-Local Data 'Tying'

    Cumulus Media sued Nielsen in New York federal court last week, as the local and national radio network owner seeks temporary and lasting blocks on a new ratings data policy Cumulus says entrenches Nielsen's monopolies by conditioning comprehensive nationwide data on subscriptions to the data for local geographies.

Expert Analysis

  • How Calif. Law Cracks Down On Algorithmic Price-Fixing

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    Gov. Gavin Newsom signed two laws this month significantly expanding state antitrust enforcement and civil and criminal penalties for the use or distribution of shared pricing algorithms, as the U.S. Department of Justice has recently wielded the Sherman Act to challenge algorithmic pricing, say attorneys at Pillsbury.

  • Opinion

    High Court, Not A Single Justice, Should Decide On Recusal

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    As public trust in the U.S. Supreme Court continues to decline, the court should adopt a collegial framework in which all justices decide questions of recusal together — a reform that respects both judicial independence and due process for litigants, say Michael Broyde at Emory University and Hayden Hall at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.

  • FTC's Consumer Finance Pivot Brings Industry Pros And Cons

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    An active Federal Trade Commission against the backdrop of a leashed Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will be welcomed by most in the consumer finance industry, but the incremental expansion of the FTC's authority via enforcement actions remains a risk, say attorneys at Hudson Cook.

  • Series

    Traveling Solo Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Traveling by myself has taught me to assess risk, understand tone and stay calm in high-pressure situations, which are not only useful life skills, but the foundation of how I support my clients, says Lacey Gutierrez at Group Five Legal.

  • Opinion

    Courts Must Continue Protecting Plaintiffs In Mass Arbitration

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    In recent years, many companies have imposed onerous protocols that function to frustrate plaintiffs' ability to seek justice through mass arbitration, but a series of welcome court decisions in recent months indicate that the pendulum might be swinging back toward plaintiffs, say Raphael Janove and Sasha Jones at Janove Law.

  • Series

    Law School's Missed Lessons: Client Service

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    Law school teaches you how to interpret the law, but it doesn't teach you some of the key ways to keeping clients satisfied, lessons that I've learned in the most unexpected of places: a book on how to be a butler, says Gregory Ramos at Armstrong Teasdale.

  • How The FTC Is Stepping Up Subscription Enforcement

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    Despite the demise of the Federal Trade Commission's click-to-cancel rule in July, the commission has not only maintained its regulatory momentum, but also set new compliance benchmarks through recent high-profile settlements with Match.com, Chegg and Amazon, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.

  • Enter The Wu-Tang Ruling That May Change Trade Secret Law

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    A New York federal court's recent holding that a Wu-Tang Clan album qualifies as a trade secret provides the first federal framework for analyzing trade secret claims involving assets valued primarily for exclusivity, potentially reshaping Defend Trade Secrets Act jurisprudence for the digital economy, says Jason Bradford at Jenner & Block.

  • Series

    Adapting To Private Practice: 3 Tips On Finding The Right Job

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    After 23 years as a state and federal prosecutor, when I contemplated moving to a law firm, practicing solo or going in-house, I found there's a critical first step — deep self-reflection on what you truly want to do and where your strengths lie, says Rachael Jones at McKool Smith.

  • Breaking Down The Intersection Of Right-Of-Publicity Law, AI

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    Jillian Taylor at Blank Rome examines how existing right-of-publicity law governs artificial intelligence-generated voice-overs, deepfakes and deadbots; highlights a recent New York federal court ruling involving AI-generated voice clones; and offers practical guardrails for using AI without violating the right of publicity.

  • Mich. Ruling Narrows Former Athletes' Path To NIL Recovery

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    A federal judge's recent dismissal of a name, image and likeness class action by former Michigan college football players marks the third such ruling this year, demonstrating how statutes of limitation and prior NIL settlements are effectively foreclosing these claims for pre-2016 student-athletes, say attorneys at Venable.

  • Series

    Painting Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Painting trains me to see both the fine detail and the whole composition at once, enabling me to identify friction points while keeping sight of a client's bigger vision, but the most significant lesson I've brought to my legal work has been the value of originality, says Jana Gouchev at Gouchev Law.

  • Drug Ad Crackdown Demonstrates Admin's Aggressive Stance

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    Recent actions by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services targeting pharmaceutical companies' allegedly deceptive advertising practices signal an active — potentially even punitive — intent to regulate direct-to-consumer advertising out of existence, say attorneys at King & Spalding.

  • Protecting Sensitive Court Filings After Recent Cyber Breach

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    In the wake of a recent cyberattack on federal courts' Case Management/Electronic Case Files system, civil litigants should consider seeking enhanced protections for sensitive materials filed under seal to mitigate the risk of unauthorized exposure, say attorneys at Redgrave.

  • Midjourney Cases Could Define Fair Use In Age Of AI Images

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    Recently filed litigation over Midjourney's use of artificial intelligence-generated images based on Disney, Universal and Warner Bros.' copyrighted characters display straightforward infringement issues favoring the plaintiffs, but also present an opportunity to clarify the fair use doctrine as it relates to generative AI, says Avery Carter at Arnall Golden.

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