Justices Question Scope Of ISP Liability In $1B Piracy Case

By Ivan Moreno

U.S. Supreme Court justices pressed Cox Communications on whether internet service providers could ever be liable for their customers' online piracy if it defeated a $1 billion case brought by music companies, with Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson questioning the company's attorney Monday if "selling internet services can ever be culpable conduct."

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Analysis

What MDL Judges Can Get Done With A New Civil Rule

By Cara Salvatore

As the first federal procedure rule geared toward multidistrict litigation goes into effect, judges will have a new buffet of best practices to guide them, but little in the way of hand-tying mandates.

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Meta Can't Block 'Disgruntled' Researcher's Depo Responses

By Bonnie Eslinger

A California federal judge overseeing discovery in litigation against social media giants over their impact on youth mental health rejected Meta's bid Monday to block a "disgruntled" former researcher from sharing information it deems attorney-client privileged in an upcoming deposition.

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Fed. Circ. Holds IPR Estoppel Doesn't Bind Patent Office

By Dani Kass

A Patent Trial and Appeal Board trial has no bearing on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's ability to separately reevaluate the validity of a patent, the Federal Circuit ruled on Monday.

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Fed. Circ. Eyes $162K Fee Award To Vizio In Ramey Case

By Ryan Davis

The Federal Circuit on Monday scrutinized a judge's order that a patent owner represented by embattled firm Ramey LLP must pay Walmart Inc.-owned television maker Vizio Inc. nearly $162,000 in attorney fees, with judges debating if the award was justified based on the plaintiff's settlement offer.

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Fla. Jury Rules In Favor Of Megan Thee Stallion Over Deepfake

By David Minsky

A Florida federal jury on Monday awarded $75,000 in damages to Megan Thee Stallion in her trial against online personality Milagro "Mobz World" Cooper, ruling that the rapper's reputation was injured over accusations of lying in court and after a deepfake porn video was shared across the internet. 

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Nvidia Faces More Allegations Of YouTube AI Scraping

By Elliot Weld

The creators of YouTube channel h3h3 Productions and two golf content creators have brought a proposed class action against artificial intelligence and computer chip giant Nvidia, claiming it had improperly scraped their content to train the AI model Cosmos.

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FCC Urged To 'Radically' Redo Submarine Cable Sites Plan

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission lacks jurisdiction to impose stringent new licensing requirements on equipment used at submarine cable landing sites and should abandon the proposal, a key industry group said.

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Chinese Equipment-Testing Co. Slams FCC's 'Bad Lab' Label

By Christopher Cole

An equipment-testing company controlled by the Chinese government chided the Federal Communications Commission for dubbing it a "bad lab" as the FCC looks to block the company's ability to test telecommunications devices flowing into the U.S. market.

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Apple IPhone Buyers Push To Appeal Class Decertification

By Matthew Perlman

Consumers told the Ninth Circuit they need to appeal a district court ruling that decertified a class of iPhone buyers expected to reach 200 million members in an antitrust case over Apple's App Store policies because the ruling was a "death knell" for the case.

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Kessler Topaz To Lead Apple Investors In Siri AI Plans Suit

By Emilie Ruscoe

Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check LLP will represent a putative class of Apple investors who claim the technology giant was overly bullish on its timeline for implementing certain artificial intelligence-based features for its digital personal assistant Siri.

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PTAB Cuts Some Claims In GoPro Camera Patent

By Adam Lidgett

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has invalidated a pair of claims in a GoPro camera aspect ratio patent challenged by a China-based camera company but refused to throw out the first claim of the patent.

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Samsung Accused Of Infringing Security Patents In EDTX

By Adam Lidgett

A Wyoming-based patent owner has hit Samsung with a lawsuit in Texas federal court, claiming the South Korean electronics giant's security platform is infringing a pair of patents on ways to protect data.

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Legal Publisher Says AI Firm Made Improper Use Of Database

By Elliot Weld

Legal publishing and research firm Fastcase hit legal AI tech firm Alexi with a lawsuit in D.C. federal court, claiming it breached a former business relationship and began making improper use of its legal data to become a direct competitor.

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Brief

Justices Ask For Government's Input On AI Copyright Case

By Ivan Moreno

The U.S. Supreme Court has asked for the government's response to an appeal from a computer scientist challenging a refusal to copyright an artwork made by an artificial intelligence system he created.

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Brief

Dish Accused Again Of Breaking 5G Rollout Contract

By Zach Dupont

A communications infrastructure provider claimed in Colorado state court last week that Dish Wireless LLC was wrong to break off a master service agreement between the two over Dish's now-abandoned plan to build a 5G network, rejecting Dish's claims that it was forced to sell its spectrum licenses by the Federal Communications Commission.

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FTC Orders Security Fixes To End Education Data Breach Row

By Allison Grande

The Federal Trade Commission has become the latest enforcer to take action against technology provider Illuminate Education Inc. over a data breach that exposed millions of students' personal information, announcing a deal Monday that requires the company to delete unnecessary data and undertake other security enhancements. 

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Squire Patton Brings On DLA Piper Patent Litigator In SF

By James Mills

Squire Patton Boggs LLP is growing its intellectual property team, announcing Monday it is bringing on a DLA Piper patent litigation attorney as a partner in its San Francisco office.

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Bitcoin Treasury Co. Names New General Counsel

By Lynn LaRowe

Bitcoin Treasury company Strategy announced Monday that it has brought on a new general counsel, the former legal chief of blockchain platform company Chia Network Inc., according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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The Future Of Digital Asset Oversight May Rest With OCC

How the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency handles fintechs' growing interest in national trust bank charters, demonstrated by a jump in filings this year, will determine how far the federal banking system extends to digital assets, and whether the charter becomes a mainstream supervisory pathway, say attorneys at Sheppard Mullin.

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Series

The Law Firm Merger Diaries: How To Build On Cultural Fit

Law firm mergers should start with people, then move to strategy: A two-level screening that puts finding a cultural fit at the pinnacle of the process can unearth shared values that are instrumental to deciding to move forward with a combination, says Matthew Madsen at Harrison.

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Ex-Immigration Judge Accuses DOJ Of Political Retaliation

By Dorothy Atkins

A former Ohio immigration judge sued the U.S. Department of Justice in D.C. federal court Monday, alleging she was discriminated against and unconstitutionally fired for her liberal political beliefs while slamming the Trump administration's recent "unprecedented assault" against longstanding civil service laws that protect millions of federal employees.

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Feature

Meet The Attys Arguing Gov't Subpoena Power At High Court

By Mark Payne

Law360 introduces the lawyers appearing at the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday in a case focused on an anti-abortion crisis center and a state attorney general's attempt to subpoena details on its donors.

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3rd Circ. Says Habba Barred From Serving As Acting US Atty

By Carla Baranauckas

President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer cannot serve as acting U.S. attorney for New Jersey, the Third Circuit ruled Monday in a precedential opinion holding that her appointment violated the Federal Vacancies Reform Act and undermined the constitutional safeguards of Senate confirmation.

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Calif. Ban On Fee-Sharing With 'Alternative' Firms Challenged

By Jack Karp

A new law barring California lawyers and firms from sharing fees with out-of-state law firms owned by nonlawyers is unconstitutional and will harm the state's mass tort lawyers and their clients, according to a lawsuit filed last week.

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White House Crypto Czar Hired Clare Locke Amid NYT Probe

By Aislinn Keely

The tech founder-turned-White House crypto and artificial intelligence czar David Sacks has hired defamation specialists at Clare Locke LLP to combat a New York Times investigation into potential conflicts of interest arising from his personal tech investments and role as a White House policy adviser.

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Suit Against Erika Girardi's Atty Tossed As 'Shotgun Pleading'

By Madison Arnold

A Florida federal court has dismissed a clothing company's abuse of process suit against an attorney of "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" star Erika Jayne for being a shotgun pleading.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court saw a slate of corporate law clashes this past week, from fast-moving injunction fights in consumer product and real estate markets to multibillion-dollar oversight claims against crypto executives and fresh battles over control for two sports teams.

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