Apple Reaches $250M Deal Over Claims It Overhyped IPhone AI

By Lauren Berg

Apple customers asked a California federal judge Tuesday to greenlight a $250 million settlement resolving claims that the tech giant falsely promised the iPhone 16 would include new artificial intelligence Siri features, saying the "exceptional" deal will put cash in class members' hands and provide free future AI software updates.

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Meta Should Have Warning Label, NM Witness Says

By Cara Salvatore

New Mexico unveiled further details of safeguards it says a court should impose on Meta in a $3.7 billion bench trial, calling an expert witness Tuesday who said displaying a warning pop-up to minors is an idea that's backed by the former surgeon general and desperately needed.

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Musk Sought Control Of OpenAI To Fund Mars City, Jury Told

By Dorothy Atkins

OpenAI President Greg Brockman defended OpenAI's for-profit conversion during a California federal jury trial Tuesday and accused Elon Musk of demanding "unilateral absolute control" over OpenAI to fund his plans for a city on Mars, while acknowledging under examination that Musk proposed his stake would "change quickly" with additional investors.

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Apple Urges Full Fed. Circ. To Undo Original Watch Import Ban

By Dani Kass

A Federal Circuit panel erred when finding the U.S. International Trade Commission properly banned imports of Apple Watches with blood oxygen-monitoring features, the tech giant behind the devices said in a plea for rehearing by the full court.

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9th Circ. Upholds Chip Injunction In Google Contract Case

By Elliot Weld

The Ninth Circuit refused to lift an injunction against Point Financial Inc. barring it from interfering with Google's license to manufacture certain computer chips while a case plays out over Google's contract with a chipmaker that went out of business.

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4th Circ. Says USPTO Doesn't Have To Cough Up PTAB Docs

By Adam Lidgett

The Fourth Circuit on Tuesday said it won't force the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to hand over certain information requested by a nonprofit volunteer about drafts of a decision in a Patent Trial and Appeal Board hearing involving a cybersecurity patent.

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Fed. Circ. Doubts It Can Hear T-Mobile Settlement Scuffle

By Theresa Schliep

A Federal Circuit panel on Tuesday appeared skeptical that it can weigh an appeal stemming from a settlement agreement between T-Mobile and a company that accused it of infringing a Wi-Fi calling patent, even though both sides argued there were grounds for jurisdiction.

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Va. Judge Clears Amazon On 4 Of 5 DivX Video Patents

By Adam Lidgett

A Virginia federal judge has trimmed much of the remainder of a lawsuit accusing Amazon of infringing video processing patents owned by California-based video technology company DivX, but let one of the patents remain at play.

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3 Suits Say Meta, Anthropic Pirating Books In AI 'Arms Race'

By Ivan Moreno

Book publishers and legal novelist Scott Turow hit Meta Platforms Inc. with a proposed class action in New York federal court on Tuesday, accusing it of training its Llama large language models on millions of copyrighted books and articles from pirate sites instead of licensing the material.

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OpenAI Accused Of Giving ChatGPT User Info To Meta, Google

By Hailey Konnath

A ChatGPT user Tuesday filed a proposed class action against OpenAI in California federal court, claiming the artificial intelligence company disclosed private user information to Meta Platforms and Google without users' consent.

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Ligado Satellite Plans Spur New Challenge To FCC Order

By Christopher Cole

A coalition opposed to the Federal Communications Commission approval six years ago of Ligado's plans for a terrestrial network is calling on the White House and Congress to block the network company's new plan to launch a 96-satellite constellation.

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Tower Builders Float Escrow Plan For Failed Dish Contracts

By Christopher Cole

Wireless tower builders urged the Federal Communications Commission to require EchoStar to set up an escrow account to pay them proceeds from spectrum sales to compensate for defunct contracts with its subsidiary Dish.

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FCC Chair Carr Promotes 6 In Key Legal, Policy Roles

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission's staff are playing musical chairs, and it means high-level promotions for a half-dozen legal aides of agency chief Brendan Carr.

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Fed. Circ. Sides With Google In Mobile Device Patent Suit

By Adam Lidgett

The Federal Circuit Tuesday backed a California federal judge's decision to throw out a lawsuit accusing Google of infringing a patent covering a way to pause phone notifications, agreeing the patent was invalid in the first place.

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7th Circ. Backs Dropbox's Warrantless Search For Child Porn

By Gina Kim

The Seventh Circuit on Tuesday ruled a Dropbox user's constitutional rights weren't violated when the company inspected and shared his files containing child sex abuse material to law enforcement without a warrant, noting he gave consent to Dropbox's terms allowing inspection of data to ensure it wasn't being used illegally.

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Sanofi Unit Gets Backup In Fed. Circ. Double Patenting Appeal

By Dani Kass

Canon, Sonos and several other tech and biopharma companies have thrown their weight behind a Sanofi subsidiary's appeal challenging how the Patent Trial and Appeal Board handles obviousness-type double patenting.

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FCC Asks DC Circ. To End Nexstar-Tegna Merger Challenges

By Jared Foretek

The Federal Communications Commission is calling on the D.C. Circuit to dismiss challenges to its approval of the Nexstar-Tegna deal outright, arguing that the appeals court lacks jurisdiction because approval came from its Media Bureau staff rather than the full commission, and thus wasn't a final agency action.

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Software Co. Doxim Inks $5.5M Deal To End Data Breach Suit

By Melanie Dorsey

Credit union customers asked a Michigan federal judge Tuesday to preliminarily approve an amended $5.5 million class settlement resolving claims that software-as-a-service company Doxim Inc. failed to protect sensitive personal information that ended up exposed in a 2023 data breach.

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Judge Blocks Arizona From Policing Prediction Markets

By Aislinn Keely

A Phoenix federal judge on Tuesday barred Arizona officials from enforcing state gambling laws against federally regulated prediction market platforms in an order finding that the federal government is likely to succeed on claims that the event contracts at issue are swaps beyond the reach of state regulators.

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Patient Data Tracking Suit Sent Back To Wis. State Court

By Allison Grande

A Wisconsin federal judge has thrown back to state court a putative class action accusing healthcare providers Hospital Sisters Health Systems and Prevea Health Services of deploying tracking tools that illegally transmitted patients' private information to Google and Facebook, finding that the plaintiffs hadn't alleged a sufficiently concrete injury to remain in federal court.  

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4 Mass. Rulings You May Have Missed In April

By Julie Manganis

Judges in Suffolk County Superior Court's business litigation session in Massachusetts sent two cases to arbitration and weighed in on disputes over trade secrets and tradespeople in recent rulings.

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X, Startup Clash Over Fate Of Twitter Brand

By Jarek Rutz

X Corp. and Operation Bluebird Inc. are urging a Delaware federal judge to take sharply different views of what happened to the Twitter brand after Elon Musk renamed the social media platform X, with X saying the famous name remains protected and Bluebird saying the company gave it up.

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Apple Says Webcam IP, Antitrust Suit Belongs In Calif.

By Bonnie Eslinger

Apple Inc. has urged a New Jersey federal court to transfer a British software company's antitrust and patent infringement case over iPhone camera technology, arguing that the developer signed a license agreement consenting to litigate disputes with the tech giant in the Northern District of California.

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Home Depot Accused Of Helping Police Spy On Customers

By Bonnie Eslinger

Home Depot is running a covert surveillance system using automated license plate recognition technology and feeding that information to a database accessed by law enforcement, a proposed class action filed in California federal court has alleged.

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Pa. Sues Character.ai For Bot Acting Like A Doctor

By P.J. D'Annunzio

The state of Pennsylvania and its medical licensing board have sued Character Technologies Inc. for allegedly allowing an AI chatbot generated on its platform to engage in the unlicensed practice of medicine with members of the public.

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3 Firms Steer Crypto Exchange Bullish's $4.2B Equiniti Buy

By Al Barbarino

Bullish said Tuesday it has agreed to acquire Equiniti in a $4.2 billion transaction steered by three law firms, as the institutional digital asset platform aims to create a global transfer agent for tokenized securities.

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Willkie Guides Bridge Growth's $790M Vehicle

By Grace Dixon

Bridge Growth Partners announced Tuesday that the investment firm raised CA$1.1 billion ($790 million) for a single-asset continuation vehicle under the guidance of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, allowing it to extend its investment in artificial intelligence platform Solace.

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UK Exec Tries To Exit Suit Over Alleged Byju's Fund Transfers

By Rick Archer

A British business executive on Tuesday asked a Delaware bankruptcy judge to dismiss him from a suit over the disappearance of $533 million from an affiliate of education technology company Byju's, saying there is nothing in the case to give a U.S. court jurisdiction.

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Bittrex Seeks To Undo $24M Judgment After SEC Crypto Pivot

By Ben Adlin

Bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange Bittrex urged a Seattle federal judge to toss a $24 million judgment entered as part of a 2023 settlement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, arguing that the agency has since done an "about-face" on crypto and abandoned its position that digital tokens are securities.

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Freshfields Adds Skadden White Collar Lawyer In DC, NY

By Jack Rodgers

Freshfields LLP has hired a Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP white collar defense lawyer, who spent years working as a federal prosecutor investigating corporate financial crime, international money laundering and other related matters.

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AI Data Center Boom May Spur Wave Of Toxic Tort Suits

Nascent litigation matters against data center operators, set against limited government regulation and a growing body of public health research, suggests we may be on the cusp of an era of mass toxic tort claims, with a liability framework firmly rooted in precedent from other industries, says Benjamin Heller at RFZ Law.

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Opinion

Congress Should Ax Privacy Bill For Not Shielding Consumers

The SECURE Data Act should be rejected because, despite Congress' claims, it would not meaningfully rein in data practices, but instead would weaken enforcement, eliminate stronger protections and prioritize data extraction over consumer protection and accountability, say attorneys at DiCello Levitt.

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Building Codes Ruling May Inform AI Copyright Arguments

The Third Circuit's recent decision in ASTM v. UpCodes, finding that republication of copyrighted building codes incorporated into binding law likely constitutes fair use, may help shape intellectual property strategy for standards organizations, rights holders and potentially even AI stakeholders, says Mitesh Patel at Reed Smith.

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The 2026 Lawyer Satisfaction Survey: Make Your Voice Heard

How is your work-life balance? Are you content with your compensation and opportunities for advancement at work? Take the 2026 Law360 Lawyer Satisfaction Survey and share your thoughts.

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DOJ Atty Faces Possible Discipline Over DHS 'Lack Of Candor'

By Lauren Berg

A Rhode Island federal judge, whom the U.S. Department of Homeland Security criticized for releasing a noncitizen with an alleged overseas warrant for homicide, on Tuesday said she is referring an assistant U.S. attorney for disciplinary proceedings for not disclosing the warrant to her beforehand.

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Approach The Bench: Justice Bacon On School Accreditation

By Cara Bayles and Steven Trader

State high courts are responsible for regulating the legal profession in their jurisdictions, and so New Mexico Supreme Court Justice C. Shannon Bacon thinks it's only right that justices reevaluate the principles behind law school accreditation.

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Ga. Justices Sanction Asst. DA For AI Errors In Murder Case

By Lauren Berg

The Georgia Supreme Court on Tuesday sanctioned a Clayton County assistant district attorney for filing briefs that contained nonexistent case citations generated by artificial intelligence in a murder defendant's bid for a new trial, saying the prosecutor's misconduct has "sidetracked" the justices from delving into the merits of the appeal.

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Analysis

High Court Clarity On Subpoenas Creates Murky Path For AGs

By Carla Baranauckas

The U.S. Supreme Court's unanimous decision that the New Jersey Attorney General's Office infringed free speech by asking an anti-abortion nonprofit to release donor names gives nonprofits and companies more leverage for challenging subpoenas at the outset, although the question remains if and how attorneys general and other enforcers can ultimately obtain sought-after information following a constitutional affront.

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SEC Lifts NY Atty's Lifetime Practice Ban

By Katryna Perera

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday lifted a lifetime ban preventing a New York attorney from practicing before the agency, following an attempt to leverage a client's testimony before the SEC.

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