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May 18, 2026
California Attorney General Rob Bonta, one of the state attorneys general in a coalition of states that recently won a jury verdict finding Live Nation illegally established a monopoly over the live music industry, said Monday the next step is a structural overhaul of the conglomerate.
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May 18, 2026
AT&T is asking the Federal Communications Commission to greenlight hardware changes to foreign-made routers, which the agency recently placed on the covered list, arguing the artificial intelligence boom has created a shortage that makes getting replacements difficult.
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May 18, 2026
Disneyland guests hit the entertainment behemoth with a proposed class action in New York federal court Friday alleging it gathered facial recognition data of children who enter its parks without a meaningful way for them to opt out, arguing "the onus of privacy rights should not be on the victim."
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May 18, 2026
Counsel for a putative class of individuals who allege they were wrongfully arrested or detained due to glitches in the state's electronic court system told a North Carolina federal court during a Monday hearing that a county sheriff's office is delaying the release of its own records.
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May 18, 2026
Two GOP lawmakers say the Federal Communications Commission isn't moving fast enough to complete a rule that would effectively let state prisons and jails jam contraband cellphones, but industry pushback remains strong.
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May 18, 2026
Amazon is pushing back after California state enforcers accused the e-commerce company of bullying major brands into pressuring competing retailers to raise prices, arguing the case has never involved price-fixing allegations before.
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May 18, 2026
The debate over the role of injunctions in patent cases remains active in the U.S., and European leaders shouldn't think that there is a "consensus" in the country, said former U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director Kathi Vidal.
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May 18, 2026
A mobile game company that won a $420 million jury verdict in April against a rival over its use of bots and representations that its games relied on skill has urged a New York federal judge to order an increased disgorgement of $1.4 billion, arguing it was "hard to imagine a civil case with a worse defendant."
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May 18, 2026
The New York Times and the Chicago Tribune on Friday urged a New York federal judge to reject Perplexity AI's bid to pare down their copyright and trademark lawsuits, arguing the company cannot blame users for allegedly infringing outputs generated by a system Perplexity itself built with copied news content.
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May 18, 2026
A former top Federal Communications Commission official says it's time for an overhaul of how the agency runs the Universal Service Fund with reforms that should include bringing the program's billions of dollars in yearly revenue collections in-house.
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May 18, 2026
Commissioner Olivia Trusty of the Federal Communications Commission has kept global spectrum policy at top of mind, and her travel schedule shows it.
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May 18, 2026
France's Publicis Groupe has agreed to acquire data collaboration platform LiveRamp at an enterprise value of nearly $2.2 billion, in a deal steered by Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz and Sullivan & Cromwell LLP.
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May 18, 2026
The Federal Trade Commission got an Illinois federal judge to hit pause on its right-to-repair antitrust lawsuit against John Deere, citing ongoing settlement talks less than two months after the company struck a $99 million deal with farmers promising to facilitate independent equipment repairs.
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May 18, 2026
Elon Musk's xAI is asking a California federal court to force a group of women suing over Grok-generated deepfake images of them in sexual situations, saying they haven't shown that proceeding under pseudonyms is necessary to protect their privacy.
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May 18, 2026
Holland & Knight LLP announced Monday it has hired the former co-chair of Wiley's wireless practice in Washington to take the reins of the Tampa, Florida-headquartered firm's telecommunications, media and technology team as chair.
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May 18, 2026
The Delaware Chancery Court this past week handled a broad mix of celebrity estate litigation, merger disputes, investor suits, record demands, sanctions fights and questions over corporate moves away from Delaware.
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May 18, 2026
The Oklahoma attorney general is suing Roblox, saying the massive online gaming platform has failed to take steps to protect its minor users from sexual predation and exploitation from child predators.
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May 18, 2026
In an advisory decision Monday, a California federal jury cleared OpenAI and executives Sam Altman and Greg Brockman of allegations they breached the nonprofit's charitable trust by converting to a for-profit, handing billionaire Elon Musk a defeat in a closely watched three-week trial that threatened to shake up the artificial intelligence industry.
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May 18, 2026
A former healthcare data platform chief strategy officer's amended complaint against the employer failed again to justify bringing three out-of-state individuals into the litigation, the company told a North Carolina federal court, adding that several key claims remain flawed.
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May 18, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday that it won't review an information technology company's bid for full forgiveness of a $7.2 million Paycheck Protection Program loan, letting stand the Third Circuit's decision that the Small Business Administration rightfully denied the request because the company's payments to independent contractors did not count as "payroll costs."
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May 18, 2026
NextEra Energy and Dominion Energy said Monday they will merge in an all-stock transaction that combines two of the largest regulated U.S. utilities, in a roughly $67 billion deal steered by Kirkland & Ellis LLP and McGuireWoods LLP.
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May 18, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected yet another challenge to the Federal Circuit's use of one-line orders to affirm Patent Trial and Appeal Board decisions, a practice CAO Lighting Inc. argued violates the high court's Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo precedent.
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May 18, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected the United Services Automobile Association's appeal of a Federal Circuit decision that wiped out $223 million in judgments it won against PNC Bank and found the mobile check deposit patents at issue invalid for covering only abstract ideas.
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May 18, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday shot down a vehicle identification system patent owner's challenge to the Federal Circuit's reversal of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's decision allowing it to amend claims in two patents challenged by rideshare giant Lyft.
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May 15, 2026
California's top court struck down a proposed class action accusing education technology provider Illuminate of failing to safeguard students' personal and health information, which was exposed in a data breach, finding the plaintiff hadn't sufficiently alleged key elements for his claims under the state's medical confidentiality or data security laws.