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October 21, 2025
Uber MDL Judge Sets Litigation Funding Disclosure Deadline
A California federal judge ruled Tuesday in multidistrict litigation accusing Uber Technologies Inc. of failing to prevent drivers from sexually assaulting passengers that plaintiffs' counsel must disclose any ties to third-party litigation funding companies by next week, but stopped short of ordering all plaintiffs' counsel to affirmatively deny any connection.
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October 21, 2025
Comcast Can't Yet Defeat Ad Market Power Abuse Claims
An Illinois federal judge has refused to hand Comcast a pretrial win in long-running litigation accusing the company of refusing to work with advertisers that don't use the cable provider's internal advertising system, ruling that the platform at issue is one-sided and that a damages expert dispute is best resolved at trial.
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October 21, 2025
Chancery Bars No-Notice Removals Of 2 Co. Directors
Ruling that "trickery" and "sandbagging" are out of order as boardroom and corporate governance tools, a Delaware vice chancellor on Tuesday invalidated the no-notice removal of two company directors from a five-member information tech company board.
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October 21, 2025
Crypto Miner Bgin Blockchain Prices Downsized $30M IPO
Cryptocurrency mining company Bgin Blockchain Ltd. on Monday announced the pricing of its initial public offering, saying that it now expects to raise roughly $30 million, or $6 per share, about $20 million less than it initially projected.
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October 21, 2025
Sony Music Says DSW 'Sprinted' With IP Suit To Forum-Shop
Sony Music Entertainment has urged an Ohio federal court to dismiss a suit that seeks a judgment declaring DSW's social media posts did not infringe the music label's copyrights, saying the footwear company filed suit to gain a "perceived tactical advantage" hours after Sony Music said it was preparing a complaint.
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October 21, 2025
Apartments.com Operator CoStar Beats Video Privacy Suit
A Missouri federal judge tossed a proposed class action alleging the operator of Apartments.com unlawfully shared data about the visitors to the rental website, holding that CoStar Realty isn't covered by the federal Video Privacy Protection Act because it's not a videotape business.
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October 21, 2025
Senate Panel Clears Aviation Safety Bill After DCA Collision
A Senate committee advanced legislation Tuesday that would mandate aircraft-tracking technology in all aircraft, alongside fresh audits of Federal Aviation Administration and military procedures, a response to January's deadly midair collision between a U.S. Army helicopter and an American Airlines regional jet near Washington, D.C.
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October 21, 2025
FTC's Holyoak Thinks US Enforcers Should Stick To US Law
Federal Trade Commission member Melissa Holyoak suggested Tuesday that the Republican-led agency is unlikely to nudge its international peers to block mergers on its behalf, as it was accused of doing previously.
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October 21, 2025
Wilkes University Faces Class Action Over Data Breach
A Pennsylvania university was hit with a proposed class action in federal court after announcing it had suffered a data breach early this year, potentially affecting more than 27,600 current and former students.
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October 21, 2025
Foreign Robocall Task Force Bill Gets Through Sen. Committee
The Federal Communications Commission is one step closer to being directed to funnel funds toward reducing spam robocalls that originate overseas after the Senate commerce committee said yes to a bill with a handful of amendments Tuesday.
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October 21, 2025
Risking Sanctions, Patent Owner Skips Google Bench Trial
A location tracking patent owner did not show up for a bench trial on Google's equitable defenses to his infringement claims Tuesday, despite a New York federal court order saying he could be sanctioned if he did not make an appearance.
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October 21, 2025
ISPs Put Almost $90B Into Networks Last Year, Report Says
Internet service providers are putting their money where their mouth is when it comes to investing in infrastructure, according to an industry lobbying group, which recently released a report finding that ISPs poured nearly $90 billion into broadband infrastructure last year.
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October 21, 2025
NTIA Looks To Surpass Budget Law's FCC Auction Target
A top U.S. Department of Commerce official said the nation's spectrum management agency is aiming to go even further than Congress' mandate to identify 500 megahertz of spectrum for private auction under this year's budget reconciliation bill.
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October 21, 2025
Investors Tell Chancery CytoDyn Board Ignored Drug Scheme
Stockholders of CytoDyn Inc. have filed a consolidated derivative complaint in the Delaware Chancery Court, accusing the company's leadership of wrongfully refusing to investigate and sue its former CEO and others over an aligned scheme to mislead investors about the company's flagship drug.
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October 21, 2025
UberEats Stole Pics From Nearly 2 Dozen Photogs, Suit Says
A group of nearly two dozen professional photographers slapped Uber with a copyright suit in Florida federal court Tuesday, claiming the company displayed their photos on the UberEats food delivery service platform without permission or compensation.
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October 21, 2025
Full Fed. Circ. Won't Rehear $125M Medtronic Patent Verdict
The full Federal Circuit has declined to revisit a panel decision that overturned a $125 million patent infringement judgment against Medtronic's CoreValve unit, letting stand a precedential opinion addressing the doctrine of prosecution history estoppel.
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October 21, 2025
Cybersecurity Co. Wants Sanctions For 'Frivolous' Patent Suit
A Georgia-based cybersecurity firm facing allegations that it ripped off a software developer's patent called for sanctions Tuesday against the developer for his "frivolous" lawsuit, arguing his complaint misrepresents the "clear and unmistakable" language of a deal to give the company use of the technology.
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October 21, 2025
Willkie-Led Cloud Data Biz Veeam Buys Securiti AI For $1.73B
Private equity-backed information technology company Veeam Software, advised by Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, on Tuesday unveiled plans to acquire data privacy management software company Securiti AI in a $1.73 billion deal.
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October 21, 2025
FCC Urged To Rescind Pulling Of Equipment Testing Labs
Several entities linked to China urged the Federal Communications Commission to reconsider pulling their authorizations to run equipment testing labs in the U.S.
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October 21, 2025
Coinbase Pays $375M For Echo Amid 'Full-Stack' Crypto Push
Coinbase said Tuesday it has acquired blockchain fundraising platform Echo for approximately $375 million, as the cryptocurrency giant makes its latest push to create a "full-stack" solution for crypto investors.
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October 21, 2025
Finance Co. Says Chubb Must Pay Its Part Of $5M Wire Loss
Financial services company Robert W. Baird & Co. told a Wisconsin federal court that a Chubb unit has wrongly refused to cover any of the company's more than $5 million loss stemming from fraudulent wire instructions, noting that AIG, its primary insurer, already paid a $2.5 million sublimit.
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October 21, 2025
Fed. Circ. Upholds Coca-Cola Win In Drink Dispenser IP Case
The Federal Circuit on Tuesday backed a Georgia federal court's finding that Coca-Cola's Freestyle drink dispensers do not infringe a patent on a beverage machine that can recognize users and pour customized drinks.
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October 21, 2025
Judge Agrees With United That Wage Suits Are Linked
A suit accusing United Airlines of conspiring to underpay workers is related to another case in which flight attendants are bringing a grievance to arbitration without the Teamsters' support, a California federal judge ruled, turning down a worker's arguments that the cases didn't overlap.
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October 21, 2025
PE Giants Ink $18.3B Deal For Hologic Amid Megadeal Blitz
Hologic Inc. said Tuesday it will be acquired by a private equity consortium in a deal valuing the Wachtell-advised medical technology company around $18.3 billion, marking one of the largest leveraged healthcare buyouts in recent years.
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October 20, 2025
USCIS Guidance Gives Scope Of New $100K H-1B Fee
The $100,000 fee requirement for H-1B visas that took effect last month applies to new H-1B petitions filed on behalf of applicants who are outside the United States, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said Monday.
Expert Analysis
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Series
Traveling Solo Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Traveling by myself has taught me to assess risk, understand tone and stay calm in high-pressure situations, which are not only useful life skills, but the foundation of how I support my clients, says Lacey Gutierrez at Group Five Legal.
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Latest PTAB Moves Suggest A Subtle Recalibration
Recent decisions from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, as U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires transitions into his new role, offer new procedural and substantive tools for patent owners in procuring patent rights and enforcing them against would-be petitioners, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.
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NY Zelle Suit Highlights Fraud Risks Of Electronic Payments
The New York attorney general's recent action against Zelle's parent company, filed several months after the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau abandoned a similar suit, demonstrates the fraud risks that electronic payment platforms can present and the need for providers to carefully balance accessibility and consumer protection, say attorneys at Weiner Brodsky.
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Opinion
Courts Must Continue Protecting Plaintiffs In Mass Arbitration
In recent years, many companies have imposed onerous protocols that function to frustrate plaintiffs' ability to seek justice through mass arbitration, but a series of welcome court decisions in recent months indicate that the pendulum might be swinging back toward plaintiffs, say Raphael Janove and Sasha Jones at Janove Law.
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Series
Law School's Missed Lessons: Client Service
Law school teaches you how to interpret the law, but it doesn't teach you some of the key ways to keeping clients satisfied, lessons that I've learned in the most unexpected of places: a book on how to be a butler, says Gregory Ramos at Armstrong Teasdale.
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How Occasional Activists Have Reshaped Proxy Fights
The sophistication and breadth of first-time activist engagement continue to shape corporate governance and strategic outcomes, as evidenced across corporate annual meetings this summer, meaning advisers should anticipate continued innovation in tactics, increased regulatory complexity, and a persistent focus on board accountability, say attorneys at MoFo.
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How The FTC Is Stepping Up Subscription Enforcement
Despite the demise of the Federal Trade Commission's click-to-cancel rule in July, the commission has not only maintained its regulatory momentum, but also set new compliance benchmarks through recent high-profile settlements with Match.com, Chegg and Amazon, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.
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Enter The Wu-Tang Ruling That May Change Trade Secret Law
A New York federal court's recent holding that a Wu-Tang Clan album qualifies as a trade secret provides the first federal framework for analyzing trade secret claims involving assets valued primarily for exclusivity, potentially reshaping Defend Trade Secrets Act jurisprudence for the digital economy, says Jason Bradford at Jenner & Block.
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Opinion
New US-UK Tech Deal Offers Opportunities To Boost Growth
The recently announced U.S. and U.K. Technology Prosperity Deal, encouraging businesses on both sides of the Atlantic to work together toward technological advance, will drive both investment in U.K. capabilities and returns for U.S. investors, says Peter Watts at Hogan Lovells.
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ConvergeOne Ruling May Disrupt Backstop Fee Approach
A Texas federal court's recent ruling in ConvergeOne has the potential to seriously disrupt previously accepted market practice when it comes to sourcing new capital for a restructuring, while offering a nebulous market test for a new approach, say attorneys at Ropes & Gray.
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Shutdown May Stall Hearings, But Gov't Probes Quietly Go On
Thanks to staff assurances under the Government Employee Fair Treatment Act, the core work of congressional investigations continues during the shutdown that began Oct. 1 — and so does the investigative work that is performed behind closed doors on Capitol Hill, say attorneys at Jenner & Block.
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Series
Adapting To Private Practice: 3 Tips On Finding The Right Job
After 23 years as a state and federal prosecutor, when I contemplated moving to a law firm, practicing solo or going in-house, I found there's a critical first step — deep self-reflection on what you truly want to do and where your strengths lie, says Rachael Jones at McKool Smith.
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How Courts May Interpret Data-Driven Healthcare Fraud Suits
As the U.S. Department of Justice and other agencies increasingly turn to data mining as an enforcement tool, courts will have to determine how far data alone can take a fraud case, and sound theory, clinical expertise and institutional context will play an important role, say Jaime Jones at Sidley and Andrée-Anne Fournier and Atang Gilika at Analysis Group.
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Breaking Down The Intersection Of Right-Of-Publicity Law, AI
Jillian Taylor at Blank Rome examines how existing right-of-publicity law governs artificial intelligence-generated voice-overs, deepfakes and deadbots; highlights a recent New York federal court ruling involving AI-generated voice clones; and offers practical guardrails for using AI without violating the right of publicity.
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What 2 Recent Rulings Mean For Trafficking Liability Coverage
Two recent federal district court decisions add to a growing number of courts concluding that Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act claims may trigger coverage under commercial general liability policies, rejecting insurer arguments regarding public policy and exclusion defenses, says Joe Cole at Shumaker.