Match Group To Pay $14M, Simplify Cancellations In FTC Deal

By Sydney Price

Dating app developer Match Group Inc. will pay $14 million and has agreed to simplify its account cancellation process and cease locking consumers out of paid-for accounts to resolve the Federal Trade Commission's claims launched against it nearly six years ago.

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EBay, Former Execs Must Face Bulk Of Harassment Case

By Julie Manganis

A Massachusetts federal judge has trimmed some defamation and damages claims brought by a pair of bloggers against online retailer eBay in a lawsuit over the company's alleged campaign of retaliation over their coverage, but will allow most of the case to proceed to trial.

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OpenAI, Microsoft Beat Musk's RICO Claims In For-Profit Fight

By Gina Kim

OpenAI and Microsoft again beat Elon Musk's racketeering claims in his lawsuit challenging OpenAI's now-abandoned pivot to a for-profit enterprise, after a California federal judge said Tuesday the amended allegations do not provide details on how the companies ran the enterprise through a pattern of racketeering activity.

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Paramount Investor Gabelli Sues Redstone, Skydance In Del.

By Jeff Montgomery

A fund of Paramount Global investor Mario Gabelli sued National Amusements Inc. successor Harbor Lights Entertainment, Shari Redstone and others in Delaware's Court of Chancery on Wednesday, seeking damages tied to the recently closed $8.4 billion Paramount-Skydance Media merger.

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Media Matters Judge 'Troubled' By FTC Subpoena Args

By Bryan Koenig

A D.C. federal judge reacted with incredulity Wednesday to Federal Trade Commission arguments that Media Matters can't challenge a subpoena unless the agency itself sues to enforce it, adding during a hearing that the FTC can't ignore its current leadership's recent history of targeting progressives.

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Rising Star: Covington's David Lefebvre

By Sue Reisinger

Covington & Burling LLP's David Lefebvre's practice sits at the center of the changing landscape of media and entertainment programming and includes participating in forming the recent multibillion-dollar Disney joint venture with Reliance Industries in India, earning him a spot among the practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

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Cardi B Should Have To Drop Song From Album, Musicians Say

By Adam Lidgett

Two music creators who claim Cardi B's song "Enough (Miami)" infringed a song they wrote in 2021 want a Texas federal court to force her to leave the hit off her upcoming album, saying there would be more harm to them than her if the song went on the record.

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Carmen Electra, Other Models End Suit With Strip Clubs

By Matthew Santoni

A group of models including Carmen Electra have officially dropped their lawsuit claiming that a trio of Philadelphia strip clubs misappropriated their likenesses for advertisements, according to filings in Pennsylvania federal court Wednesday.

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DC Circ. Upholds Toss Of Video Privacy Suit Against Paper

By Allison Grande

The D.C. Circuit has refused to revive a proposed class action accusing the Washington Examiner of illegally sharing website visitors' video-viewing information with Meta, finding that the plaintiff had failed to show that she "subscribed" to the content that she accessed online rather than through her newsletter subscription.

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Whoop's Health Tracker Accused Of Sharing Users' Data

By Lauren Berg

Health and wellness company Whoop Inc., whose wearable devices track and collect users' heart rate, movement, blood pressure and other health metrics, is secretly sharing that data and other user information with an undisclosed third party, according to a proposed class action filed Wednesday in California federal court.

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Flores Cites Gruden's Win Averting Arbitration In NFL Suit

By Elaine Briseño

Fired former Miami Dolphins coach Brian Flores sent a letter to the Second Circuit arguing the recent decision by the Nevada Supreme Court not to send the dispute of former Las Vegas Raiders coach Jon Gruden to arbitration is pertinent to his efforts to avoid arbitration in his discrimination lawsuit against the NFL.

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Tribe Says Studio Mogul Can't Demand Jury In $2.8M Debt Suit

By Aaron Keller

The Mohegan Tribal Gaming Authority says a former Hollywood studio mogul can't ask a jury to hear a $2.8 million gaming debt lawsuit because tribal law does not allow civil jury trials and because the indebted gambler's defenses don't qualify for a jury trial in Connecticut state court, either.

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FCC Waives Local Radio Ownership Cap In East Texas

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission will allow an acquisition of several commercial FM radio stations in east Texas to go through by waiving the agency's local ownership cap, the agency said Wednesday.

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Cloud Services Co. Asks FCC To Grant Numbering Access

By Christopher Cole

OXIO Inc. is seeking to bring its cloud-based telecom services to the U.S. market, but needs the Federal Communications Commission to authorize the mobile numbers its customers would use.

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Regulating Online Activity After Porn Site Age Check Ruling

A recent U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding an age verification requirement for accessing online adult sexual content applied a lenient rational basis standard, raising questions for how state and federal courts will determine what kinds of laws regulating online activity will satisfy this standard going forward, say attorneys at Hogan Lovells.

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DC Circ. Ruling Augurs More Scrutiny Of Blanket Gag Orders

The D.C. Circuit’s recent ruling in In re: Sealed Case, finding that an omnibus nondisclosure order was too sweeping, should serve as a wake-up call to prosecutors and provide a road map for private parties to push back on overbroad secrecy demands, says Gregory Rosen at Rogers Joseph.

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6 Tips On Drafting Machine Learning Patents Post-Recentive

While the Federal Circuit's decision in Recentive v. Fox narrows the scope of patent-eligible machine learning applications, there are several drafting and prosecution strategies that may help practitioners navigate Section 101 challenges, say attorneys at BCLP.

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Series

Law School's Missed Lessons: Negotiation Skills

I took one negotiation course in law school, but most of the techniques I rely on today I learned in practice, where I've discovered that the process is less about tricks or tactics, and more about clarity, preparation and communication, says Grant Schrantz at Haug Barron.

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Should Judges Explain En Banc Votes? 6th Circ. Can't Agree

By Carolyn Muyskens

Two Sixth Circuit judges clashed Tuesday over appellate judges writing opinions to explain their votes on en banc petitions, as one longtime judge called the practice "offensive to our system of panel adjudication."

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Kelley Drye Hit With Class Action Over Client Data Leak

By James Boyle

Poor security measures and inadequately trained employees at Kelley Drye & Warren LLP contributed to a data breach that exposed the personal information of clients earlier this year, according to a complaint filed in New York state court seeking to form a class action.

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NJ US Atty Defends Status, Says She Is 'Validly Serving'

By Ryan Boysen

Acting New Jersey U.S. Attorney Alina Habba has hit back against criminal defendants who claim her contentious appointment violates the U.S. Constitution, saying everything is above board and a "lengthy period of acting service is not unusual."

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Water Law & Real Estate: A Special Report

By Real Estate Authority Staff

What's more summery than a trip to the shore? That's where Law360 Real Estate Authority has headed — not for a break, but for a special section looking at waterfront real estate, from coastal development challenges to big projects and the lawyers keeping them on course.

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Analysis

Decision In $50B Yukos Case Raises Interesting Question

By Caroline Simson

The D.C. Circuit's decision last week reviving Russia's bid to escape litigation to enforce $50 billion in arbitral awards has raised what experts say remains a "very open" question — are U.S. courts obligated to defer to foreign courts that affirm an arbitral award issued under their law?

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GSA Strikes Anthropic Deal For Access To Generative AI

By Sarah Martinson

The U.S. General Services Administration has made a deal with artificial intelligence developer Anthropic for the company to offer its generative AI tool Claude to all three branches of the federal government, including courts, at the cost of $1 for a year.

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How They Won It

How A Flowchart Won $14.5M In Fla. Woman's Fraud Suit

By David Minsky

In Mireya Cambero's lawsuit against her ex-husband Jose Fernando De Matos, her attorneys at Miami-based Diaz Reus LLP had to prove fraudulent transfers but avoid confusing a jury with voluminous, uninteresting business filings. The best way to do it, they decided, was to organize their evidence in an easily digestible flowchart.

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NY Civil Rights Advocates Want ICE Holding Space Shut Down

By Marco Poggio

New York City immigrant rights advocates are calling for the closure of what appears to be an unofficial detention center for noncitizens hosted in a federal building in Lower Manhattan following a federal court injunction Tuesday that ordered U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement to "meet baseline conditions" inside the facility.

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Fla. Detention Center Still Blocks Atty Access, Groups Say

By David Minsky

Civil rights groups Wednesday urged a Florida federal court to grant attorneys access to detainees located at an Everglades-based immigrant detention center in a proposed class action complaint, saying people confined at the facility aren't able to petition for their release.

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Trump Taps Democratic Commissioner As Acting FERC Chair

By Keith Goldberg

President Donald Trump on Wednesday named Democratic Commissioner David Rosner as acting chair of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, citing his support for expanding the electric grid to better serve data centers and artificial intelligence, which is an administration priority.

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