Senate Panel Clears Trump's Pick For 3rd FCC Republican

By Christopher Cole

A key U.S. Senate committee on Wednesday advanced President Donald Trump's nominee for the third Republican seat on the Federal Communications Commission.

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Full 4th Circ. Avoids Constitutionality Of Geofence Warrants

By Nadia Dreid

The full Fourth Circuit was of many minds Wednesday morning as it ruled to co-sign the appellate court's previous finding upholding the use of a so-called geofence warrant to pinpoint a man's location in order to bring robbery charges against him.

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9th Circ. Won't Revive Phone Number Privacy Suit Against X

By Rae Ann Varona

The Ninth Circuit on Wednesday declined to revive a Washington resident's putative class action that accused Twitter Inc., now called X, of deceptively obtaining his phone number, saying in an unpublished opinion that a state law he leaned on prohibited the fraudulent collection of telephone records, "not numbers."

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FCC Could Ban Foreign Adversaries' Testing Labs

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission plans to vote in May on whether to ban U.S. operations of telecom equipment test labs owned by foreign adversaries.

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CEO Asked How Rivals Can Possibly Match Google Money

By Bryan Koenig

Google CEO Sundar Pichai testified Wednesday that the Justice Department's proposed monopolization fixes amount to a "de facto divestiture" of the company's entire search intellectual property, only for the D.C. federal judge to wonder how rival search engines could hope to match its financial resources.

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TikTok Exec Calls Facebook, Instagram 'Complements'

By Jared Foretek

A TikTok executive said Wednesday that his company views Facebook and Instagram as "complements" to the Chinese-owned short-form video platform rather than direct competitors playing in the same market, in testimony that largely supported the Federal Trade Commission's claim that Meta dominates personal social networking services.

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Local Gov'ts Say FCC Must Tread Lightly On Deleting Regs

By Nadia Dreid

The FCC is flying by the seat of its pants a little too much as it seeks to slash unnecessary regulations, a coalition of local governments have come together to tell the agency, saying that the docket "does not meet the requirements of the Administrative Procedure Act."

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Senate Bill Would Make FCC List Foreign Foes' Telecom Stakes

By Christopher Cole

The U.S. Senate will consider a bipartisan bill to direct the Federal Communications Commission to publish a list of foreign adversaries' ownership stakes in regulated companies.

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Senate Bill Moves Ahead To Beef Up FCC Disaster Reports

By Christopher Cole

A bipartisan bill to require the Federal Communications Commission release more data on disaster-related network outage reports cleared a U.S. Senate committee Wednesday.

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Calif. Privacy Agency Inks Cooperation Pact With UK Authority

By Allison Grande

The California Privacy Protection Agency has taken its latest step toward boosting its collaboration with data protection authorities around the world, announcing Tuesday that it had reached an agreement with the U.K.'s privacy regulator to compare investigative methods, research into new technologies and other vital tools.

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Apple Defied App Store Injunction For Revenue, Judge Says

By Lauren Berg

A California federal judge Wednesday agreed with Epic Games that Apple violated her order blocking App Store rules that prevent developers from steering users to alternative payment options, and has now barred Apple from collecting any fees on outside-app purchases and referred the matter to federal prosecutors for possible criminal contempt proceedings.

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Meta Engineers Call WhatsApp Hack 'Unprecedented' At Trial

By Dorothy Atkins

Meta Platforms engineers testified Wednesday during a California federal jury trial over how much Israeli spyware-maker NSO Group owes Meta for hacking 1,400 WhatsApp users' devices that they spent days working around-the-clock to combat NSO's "unprecedented" spyware attack.

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Roundup

3rd Circ. Preview: NJ To Defend ICE Contractor Law In May

By Ryan Harroff

The Third Circuit's argument lineup for May will see the state of New Jersey defend a law barring its immigration detention centers from contracting with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, while Rutgers University seeks to keep its victory over claims it falsely inflated its business school's ranking.

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Monthly Merger Review Snapshot

By Matthew Perlman

Enforcers opened high stakes court proceedings against Meta Platforms and Google for monopolization claims that could force the tech giants to sell pieces of the companies, while also moving ahead with several challenges and reviews of pending deals in other industries. Here, Law360 looks at the major merger review developments from April.

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Brief

Akin Atty Returns To FCC To Lead Wireline Bureau

By Nadia Dreid

After three years in private practice, the Federal Communications Commission has welcomed an Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP attorney back to the agency as the newest head of the commission's Wireline Competition Bureau.

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Series

Adapting To Private Practice: From DOJ Enviro To Mid-Law

Practitioners leaving a longtime government role for private practice — as when I departed the U.S. Department of Justice’s environmental enforcement division — should prioritize finding a firm that shares their principles, values their experience and will invest in their transition, says John Cruden at Beveridge & Diamond.

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Susman Godfrey Urges Court To Reject Trump's Dismissal Bid

By Hailey Konnath

Susman Godfrey LLP has pressed a D.C. federal court not to kill the firm's suit challenging President Donald Trump's executive order targeting the firm, arguing that the government's "meritless" dismissal motion "goes to great lengths to distract from the indisputable truth" that the order is "blatantly unconstitutional."

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Marshals Service Pick Vows To Protect Judges Amid Tensions

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump's nominee for director of the U.S. Marshals Service, Gadyaces Serralta, stressed to Democrats on Wednesday that the agency's mission to protect judges and enforce court orders would not change under his leadership despite increasing criticism of the bench from the president and other policymakers.

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Analysis

Wheeling & Appealing: The Latest Must-Know Appellate Action

By Jeff Overley

Spring has sprung for appellate arguments over the White House's pruning and shearing of agencies, part of a bountiful circuit calendar in May, when appeals courts will also tend to defamation drama involving a pro golfer, antitrust suits against drugmakers and hotels, and a nine-figure patent verdict against Apple Inc.

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Dem Reps. Urge Court To Block IRS-ICE Info-Sharing Pact

By Anna Scott Farrell

House Democrats and two organizations that help immigrants prepare tax returns urged a D.C. federal court to block the Internal Revenue Service from sharing with immigration enforcement agencies the names and addresses of people suspected of being in the country illegally.

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Exec Says MyPillow Attys Can't Use AI Mistakes To Delay Trial

By Thy Vo

A former Dominion Voting executive said MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell shouldn't be allowed to delay a June defamation trial because his attorneys face potential sanctions for a brief that used artificial intelligence, arguing recent executive orders against law firms suggest the defamation claim would face "extreme prejudice" from a delay.

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Wis. Justices Suspend Judge Charged With Blocking ICE

By Jack Karp

The Wisconsin state judge who was arrested and charged for allegedly helping an unauthorized migrant evade arrest by federal immigration officers has been temporarily suspended by the state's highest court.

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FTC Transfer Stripped From House Judiciary Reconciliation

By Courtney Bublé

A provision to transfer the Federal Trade Commission's antitrust functions to the U.S. Department of Justice was stripped out of the House Judiciary Committee's budget reconciliation bill on Wednesday.

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Philly Judge Under Fire For Promoting Wife's Cheesesteak Biz

By James Boyle

Pennsylvania's judicial ethics board has accused a Philadelphia judge of using his position on the bench to promote a cheesesteak restaurant opened by his wife and named in honor of his late parents.

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Calif. Bar Seeks Credits, Lower Pass Score After Exam Fiasco

By Craig Clough

The California Bar has asked the state's supreme court to help it account for rampant technical difficulties on the February 2025 bar exam by approving a lower passing score and allowing the bar to give test-takers credit for some questions they left blank.

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