Advocates Worry FCC Poised To Float E-Rate Phaseout

By Christopher Cole

School and library funding advocates are increasingly worried about a potential effort to wind down the E-rate subsidy as the Federal Communications Commission reexamines the program's future.

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Goodyear Seeks FCC Waiver For Tire Safety System

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

The Federal Communications Commission is asking for public input on Goodyear's request to use its tire-mounted sensor system on unlicensed telecommunications devices so it can collect critical tire safety data more quickly.

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FCC Gives California More Time To Weigh In On Copper Lines

By Nadia Dreid

The FCC has granted the California Public Utilities Commission extra time to respond to a petition from AT&T after the state agency told the federal one that the telecom titan hadn't been upfront about the reason California has declined to retire AT&T's copper network in the state.

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Auger Device Maker Granted Ultra-Wideband Rule Waiver

By Christopher Cole

A company making devices that scan the ground for utility lines before digging has been granted an exemption from the Federal Communications Commission's rules for ultra-wideband transmission.

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Hilton Facing Class Action Over Marketing Calls

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

Hilton Grand Vacations is facing a proposed class action in Washington federal court alleging it flooded customers on the National Do Not Call Registry with telemarketing calls.

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Ad Seller Can't Shake Wiretap Suit Over Temu Data Transfers

By Allison Grande

An Illinois federal judge has refused to toss a putative class action accusing a global advertising technology company of breaking federal wiretap law by transmitting Americans' sensitive information to Chinese e-commerce giant Temu, finding it plausibly alleged the conduct violated a U.S. Department of Justice regulation restricting bulk data transfers to foreign adversaries.

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Google, Apple Call CEO Depo Bids 'Harassment' At 9th Circ.

By Dorothy Atkins

Apple and Google urged the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday to reject consumers' request to depose their respective CEOs, Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai, and other executives in antitrust litigation accusing Google of shutting out rival search engines, arguing that the appeal is unwarranted and the repeated deposition demands are unjustified "harassment."

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Trump's AI Order Is Strategic, Not Merely Deregulatory

Although the framework presented in President Donald Trump’s recent executive order on artificial intelligence is styled as voluntary and innovation-friendly, it creates a new soft-power mechanism for bringing the most capable AI systems into closer alignment with federal security priorities, says Jesse Lemon at The Beckage Firm.

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Texas AG's Payola Theory May Reach Beyond Music Platforms

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton recently issued investigative demands to five major music streaming platforms, appearing to invoke the payola concept as a consumer protection theory against the streaming business, a novel application that could extend to other companies monetizing on ranking, visibility or recommendation placement, say attorneys at Benesch.

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Opinion

Rule Of Law Requires Gov't Engagement With Bar, Not Retreat

A federal agency's absence from national and local bar conferences, most recently illustrated by the U.S. Department of Justice's withdrawal from a New York City Bar Association white collar conference, disserves the bar, the government lawyers themselves and, ultimately, the administration of justice, says Muhammad Faridi at Linklaters.

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Full Fed. Circ. To Hear Immigration Judges' Firing Challenge

By Ganesh Setty

The Federal Circuit on Wednesday agreed to conduct en banc review over the firing of two immigration judges, after the Merit Systems Protection Board ruled that they constituted inferior officers who are subject to at-will removal by the president.

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No Discipline For DOJ Atty's 'Lapse Of Judgment' In ICE Case

By Emily Sawicki

A Rhode Island federal prosecutor who knowingly withheld information about a detainee's criminal history at the behest of immigration enforcement, leading to an "unfounded attack" against a federal judge by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement following the detainee's release, violated his duty of candor but will not face discipline, the district's chief judge determined.

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Trump Halts Clayton Director Hearing Over Blue-Slip Dispute

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump directed Jay Clayton, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, not to appear for his confirmation hearing Wednesday on his nomination to be director of national intelligence, in part over a blue-slip issue.

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Maya Kowalski Sues Ex-Atty Over Fees, Funding Loan

By Carolina Bolado

Maya Kowalski, the subject of the Netflix documentary "Take Care of Maya," filed a malpractice suit against her former attorney on Wednesday, accusing him of charging excessive fees and improperly orchestrating an advance funding loan after winning a $213 million judgment.

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Sanctioned IP Atty Tells Fed. Circ. 'Integrity' On The Line

By Elliot Weld

An attorney who was sanctioned in a trade dress infringement case due to what a judge said were his repeated misrepresentations has asked the Federal Circuit to lift the penalties against him and his client, saying his "professional and personal integrity, and my family, depends on it."

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Bosch Receives First DOJ Declination Under New Policy

By Sarah Jarvis

German technology company Bosch on Wednesday became the first company to avoid criminal prosecution under a new U.S. Department of Justice enforcement policy after it cooperated with the federal government and agreed to pay $36 million to settle allegations it improperly exported technology products to sanctioned Chinese company Huawei.

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DOJ's Pot Shift Leaves Key Questions For Cannabis Industry

By Sam Reisman

The Trump administration's recent moves to relax federal restrictions on marijuana through the administrative process will have unclear ramifications for all industry players unless Congress steps in to rewrite cannabis law, attorneys heard Wednesday.

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