Apple Can't Duck DOJ Monopolization Lawsuit

By Bryan Koenig

A New Jersey federal judge refused Monday to let Apple duck the U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit accusing the company of monopolizing smartphone markets, crediting DOJ allegations about the restrictions Apple imposes on iMessage, smartwatch compatibility, mobile wallets, cloud gaming and more.

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Supreme Court May Shape Future Of ISP Liability In Cox Case

By Ivan Moreno

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision Monday to take on a $1 billion battle between major music publishers and Cox Communications Inc. could set new liability boundaries for internet service providers that have faced significant damages for allegedly not curbing users who repeatedly download songs illegally.

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High Court Takes Up $1B Copyright Fight Over ISPs' Liability

By Ivan Moreno

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday granted a petition for certiorari from Cox Communications Inc. that asked the justices to review a Fourth Circuit's conclusion that telecom companies can be liable for copyright infringement for providing an internet connection that leads to music piracy online.

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Justices Allow Chinese Co. To Access Micron's Code Records

By Theresa Schliep

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied Micron Technology Inc.'s efforts to block a Chinese semiconductor maker from accessing paper copies of sensitive source code during patent infringement litigation.

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Justices Decline To Hear Ex-Tesla Worker's Whistleblower Suit

By Katryna Perera

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a petition filed by a former Tesla employee who claimed he was retaliated against for reporting various forms of alleged misconduct at a Nevada factory to both company management and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

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Meta Dodges Authors' DMCA Claim In AI Suit

By Elliot Weld

A California federal judge has granted Meta's request to throw out a Digital Millennium Copyright Act claim in a lawsuit that authors brought to challenge the company's use of their books to train a large language model.

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Teen's Family Can't Stay Anonymous In Grindr Death Suit

By Mike Curley

A Florida federal judge won't let the family of a 16-year-old who was allegedly killed after matching with a 35-year-old man on Grindr proceed anonymously in their suit against the company, saying they haven't shown that their privacy concerns outweigh the public interest in disclosure.

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Xockets Sues Amazon, Claiming Data Patent Infringement

By Elliot Weld

Tech startup Xockets Inc. on Monday hit Amazon.com Inc. and Amazon Web Services Inc. with two lawsuits in Texas federal court, claiming infringement of its data processing unit patents that it said are central to advancing artificial intelligence technology.

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Trump Administration Says Harvard Violated Civil Rights Law

By Chris Villani

The Trump administration on Monday informed Harvard University that it had run afoul of federal civil rights law by failing to protect Jewish and Israeli students on campus from harassment, and threatened to cut all funding from the nation's oldest university.

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FCC Chair Seeks To Deny COVID Waiver In Lifeline Subsidy

By Jared Foretek

Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr is calling on his fellow commissioners to reject a proposal from Lifeline providers to extend the program's COVID-era non-usage rule waiver for one day, saying that moving the cutoff date would cost the public millions of dollars.

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FCC Delays Deadlines To Cap Prison Phone Rates

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission on Monday temporarily waived compliance deadlines for its contested new prison phone rate caps until April 2027.

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Brief

FCC To Screen Regulatory Offenses For Criminal Liability

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission has outlined criteria to decide when regulatory offenses should lead to criminal liability, responding to a White House executive order issued to federal agencies in May.

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Fed. Circ. Affirms Mixed PTAB Rulings On Computing IP

By Adam Lidgett

The Federal Circuit on Monday backed the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's finding that Amazon was able to show a Swarm Technology computer processing patent was invalid but refused to throw out a separate patent.

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TD Bank Suit Doesn't Link Data Sharing To Harm, Judge Says

By Sydney Price

TD Bank has escaped a proposed class action alleging it wrongfully shared customers' personal information with Meta Platforms Inc. for marketing purposes, with a judge ruling that the plaintiff failed to allege what sensitive financial information belonging to him was improperly disclosed.

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Meta Gets Court To Pause Its Challenge To FTC Privacy Order

By Jared Foretek

A D.C. federal judge has agreed to pause Meta's constitutional challenge to the Federal Trade Commission's effort to block the company from monetizing children's data, giving other courts hearing separate cases time to weigh in on the commission's structure and an injunction requested by the company before ruling on dismissal.

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Aspen Hotel Investor Can't Get 2nd Go In $1M Fraud Suit

By Zach Dupont

A Colorado federal judge on Monday dismissed the bulk of claims against a luxury hotel owner accused of stealing more than $1.3 million from a former investment partner, ruling that the claims have already been litigated in New York state court.

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Texas Justices Scrap New-Trial Order For 3 SpaceX Contractors

By Tom Lotshaw

Comments to a jury alleging attorneys planned a "shakedown" do not warrant a new trial for three men awarded less in damages than they hoped after their truck was hit in a crash caused by a commuting SpaceX engineer, the Texas Supreme Court said Friday, saying the men's counsel did not seek redress at the time.

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Del. Justices Uphold State Sale Of Long-Dormant Stock

By Jeff Montgomery

Rejecting a doctor's claim that the risk of a state seizure and sale of his long-unchecked stock was "inherently unknowable," Delaware's Supreme Court preserved on Monday a lower court's finding that the statute of limitations barred his attempt to reclaim securities purportedly worth some $600,000 when sold.

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Mich. Justices Won't Revisit Voter Intimidation Robocall Case

By Danielle Ferguson

The Michigan Supreme Court has said it will not reexamine a case against conservative provocateurs charged with leading a misinformation campaign urging Black Detroiters not to vote by mail in the 2020 election, leaving in place an order finding their actions could be considered voter intimidation.

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RTX Expands Contract Fight With New Breach Claim

By Tom Lotshaw

RTX Corp. said the consulting firm Delaware North America LLC missed deadlines and failed to deliver on an information technology services contract, in a breach of contract counterclaim filed in litigation that Delaware initiated.

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Verizon Says Mich. Town Illegally Rejected Cell Tower

By Nadia Dreid

Communications tower builder Skyway Towers is going after a township in northern Michigan that it says illegally denied its request to build a cell tower for Verizon that the major telecom company needs in order to keep its service in the area reliable.

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Fintech Group Goes To Bat For CFPB's Open Banking Rule

By Jon Hill

A top fintech trade group has fired back in defense of a Biden-era open banking rule that bank groups and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau want struck down in Kentucky federal court, accusing them of twisting the law in a flawed effort to kill off the regulation.

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Proton Joins Fight Over Alleged Apple App Store Monopoly

By Hailey Konnath

Swiss technology company Proton on Monday filed its own proposed class action accusing Apple of monopolizing the markets for iOS app distribution and payment processing, saying this latest suit is needed to ensure Apple changes its App Store policies and permanently end the alleged anticompetitive behavior.

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Battery-Maker Says Award Against Tesla Must Be Enforced

By Joyce Hanson

Matthews International Corp. has asked a California federal court to enforce an arbitral award against Tesla Inc. that guarantees the global battery maker's right to sell its dry battery electrode equipment to parties other than the electric car giant.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Sydney Price

Delaware's Supreme Court was kept busy this past week with litigants' attempts to challenge its previous decisions, as well as those of Delaware's Court of Chancery, which included an argument that the state's high court incorrectly ruled in favor of energy company Boardwalk Pipeline Partners LP by rejecting the Chancery's decision upholding class claims branding the call-in of public shares unfair. In case you missed it, here's the latest from the Delaware Chancery Court.

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Blackstone-Backed Cirsa Prices IPO For $2.9B Market Cap

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Private equity-backed Spanish casino operator Cirsa Enterprises S.A.U. on Monday launched plans for an initial public offering that would give the company a €2.5 billion ($2.9 billion) market capitalization.

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Hong Kong's IPO Surge Creates More Competition For US

By Tom Zanki

Hong Kong led global exchanges on new listings for operating companies in the first half of 2025, partly benefiting from a U.S.-China rift that is prompting more mainland China companies to seek secondary listings in Hong Kong, according to new data released on Monday.

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Chipmaker Wolfspeed Hits Ch. 11 With Plan To Ax $4.6B Debt

By Alex Wittenberg

Semiconductor maker Wolfspeed Inc. filed for Chapter 11 protection in Texas bankruptcy court Monday with a plan supported by its senior lenders to slash about $4.6 billion of debt and emerge from the insolvency proceeding later this year.

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Judge OKs 23AndMe's $305M Genetic Data Asset Sale

By Yun Park

A Missouri bankruptcy judge has given genetic testing company 23andMe Holding Co. approval to sell all its assets to a nonprofit led by co-founder Anne Wojcicki for $305 million, after two full days of testimony and argument about the proposed sale.

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9 Charged With Cyberfraud In Aid Of North Korea

By Julie Manganis

Eight Chinese and Taiwanese nationals and a New Jersey resident have been charged in a cyberfraud scheme on behalf of North Korea, in which they allegedly posed as American information technology workers to get remote jobs with U.S. Fortune 500 companies and one defense contractor, federal prosecutors in Massachusetts announced Monday.

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Crowell & Moring Lands Microsoft Atty For Int'l Trade Group

By Rose Krebs

Crowell & Moring LLP announced Monday that it has hired Microsoft's assistant general counsel for global trade to bolster its international trade group, including its capacity to handle emerging technologies matters.

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What Businesses Need To Know To Avoid VPPA Class Actions

Divergent rulings by the Second, Sixth and Seventh Circuits about the scope of the Video Privacy Protection Act have highlighted the difficulty of applying a statute conceived to regulate the now-obsolete brick-and-mortar video store sector in today's internet economy, say attorneys at DTO Law.

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Trending At The PTAB: Shifts In Parallel Proceedings Strategy

Dynamics are changing between the Patent Trial and Appeal Board and federal courts, with two recent discretionary denials and one Federal Circuit decision offering takeaways for both patent owners and challengers navigating parallel proceedings, say attorneys at Finnegan.

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Series

Adapting To Private Practice: From US Rep. To Boutique Firm

My transition from serving as a member of Congress to becoming a partner at a boutique firm has been remarkably smooth, in part because I never stopped exercising my legal muscles, maintained relationships with my former colleagues and set the right tone at the outset, says Mondaire Jones at Friedman Kaplan.

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Analysis

Justices Face Busy Summer After Nixing Universal Injunctions

By Katie Buehler

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to limit nationwide injunctions was one of its biggest rulings of the term — a finding the court is likely going to be dealing with all summer. Here, Law360 takes a look at the decision, how it and other cases on the emergency docket overshadowed much of the court's other work, and what it all means for the months to come.

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Analysis

The Sharpest Dissents From The Supreme Court Term

By Cara Bayles

The term's sharpest dissents often looked beyond perceived flaws in majority reasoning to raise existential concerns about the role and future of the court, with the justices accusing one another of rewarding executive branch lawlessness, harming faith in the judiciary and threatening democracy, sometimes on an emergency basis with little briefing or explanation.

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Senate Passes Budget Bill, Rebuking National Injunctions

By Courtney Bublé

The Senate voted 51-50 on Tuesday to pass the budget reconciliation bill, including various provisions that seek to greatly restrict the use of nationwide injunctions, which Republicans heavily criticized after district courts repeatedly stalled parts of President Donald Trump's agenda with the legal maneuver.

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Axing Lit Funding Tax Bid Relieves Industry But Fears Remain

By Ryan Boysen

Litigation funders are breathing a sigh of relief after a provision to impose a 41% punitive tax on the $16 billion industry was stripped Tuesday from the massive federal spending bill, but many think the episode is just the prelude to further battles with corporate opponents.

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US Attorney Picks Include Alina Habba And Senator's Son

By Courtney Bublé

The president sent 14 U.S. attorney nominations to the Senate on Tuesday, including Alina Habba, the president's former counselor and personal attorney, for the District of New Jersey and Arch Moore Capito, the son of Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W. Va., for the Southern District of West Virginia.

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Legal Aid Attys Can't Sever Union Ties Over Its Mideast Views

By Emily Brill

A New York federal judge tossed two New York City public defenders' lawsuit against their union, saying the attorneys can't leverage the U.S. Supreme Court's Janus ruling to stop paying the union because they disagree with its stance on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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Apple Backers Raise Price, Privilege Concerns At 9th Circ.

By Bryan Koenig

Trade groups and advocacy organizations have raised a series of concerns with the Ninth Circuit about a federal district court mandate blocking Apple from charging commissions on iPhone app purchases made outside its systems, arguing an Epic Games Inc. injunction redux improperly compels speech, imperils price-setting autonomy and threatens legal privilege.

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Analysis

Top Personal Injury, Med Mal News: 2025 Midyear Report

By Y. Peter Kang

A U.S. Supreme Court ruling over whether personal injury claims can be brought under a RICO statute and a $7.4 billion settlement reached with the Sackler family and Purdue Pharma are among Law360's top personal injury and medical malpractice cases from the first six months of 2025.

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Monthly Merger Review Snapshot

By Matthew Perlman

The U.S. Department of Justice reached the agency's first three merger settlements of the second Trump administration, clearing deals in the technology and aerospace sectors after divestitures, while the Federal Trade Commission put conditions on an advertising merger. Here, Law360 looks at the major merger review developments from June.

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The Top In-House Hires Of June

By Michele Gorman

Legal department hires over the past month included high-profile appointments at Microsoft, Guess and U.S. Steel. Here, Law360 Pulse looks at some of the top in-house announcements from June.

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