Technology

  • August 20, 2026

    TikTok's Ex-Legal Head Made Racist Comments, Suit Says

    TikTok and its former head of global legal operations have been accused in a California state court lawsuit of harassment and discrimination based on race and sex by a former legal department employee who claims the executive subjected her and other nonwhite colleagues to an "unrelenting campaign of harassment."

  • August 20, 2026

    Sens. Call On FINRA To Update Rules To Curb Transfer Fraud

    U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., urged the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority to boost consumer protections to prevent brokerage fraud through the Automated Customer Account Transfer Service, pointing to "structural weaknesses" in the system they say bad actors are exploiting to drain customers' brokerage accounts.

  • August 20, 2026

    11th Circ. Denies YouTube Bid For Atty Fees In Copyright Fight

    The Eleventh Circuit on Thursday upheld a Florida federal judge's refusal to award attorney fees to YouTube after the platform defeated copyright claims accusing it of failing to remove pirated films, finding no abuse of discretion in the lower court's analysis.

  • August 20, 2026

    SEC Won't Lift Trading Suspension On Chinese Biotech Firm

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has upheld Nasdaq's decision to delist the stock of Shineco Inc. after the Chinese biotech firm repeatedly violated the exchange's listing requirements, rejecting the company's arguments that a Nasdaq hearing panel reached its decision too quickly and did not properly consider plans for new operations at Shineco.

  • August 20, 2026

    Corridor TV To Pay $27,000 For Emergency Broadcast Misses

    Corridor Television will pay a voluntary contribution of $27,000 to resolve an investigation from the Federal Communications Commission into whether it submitted misleading information about its participation in three nationwide tests of the Emergency Alert System.

  • August 20, 2026

    Ticket Buyers Ask 2nd Circ. To Nix Live Nation Arbitration

    Concertgoers who purchased tickets on the secondary market are asking the Second Circuit to vacate a lower court's decision forcing them to arbitrate their antitrust claims against Live Nation and its Ticketmaster unit.

  • August 20, 2026

    Entertainment-Focused VC Firm Wraps $250M Fund

    Interactive entertainment-focused venture capital firm Makers Fund on Thursday revealed that it has closed its latest fund with $250 million in tow, bringing the firm's total assets under management to $1.5 billion.

  • August 20, 2026

    GAO Says Army Lacks Information To Plan Network Overhaul

    The U.S. Government Accountability Office said in a Thursday report that the U.S. Army has earmarked $3.3 billion this fiscal year for modernizing battlefield communication networks, but lacks enough information to determine if the program is sustainable.

  • August 20, 2026

    Fashion Biz Founder Gets 5 Years For Large-Scale Fraud

    A federal judge in New York sentenced the founder of bankrupt apparel company CaaStle to five years in prison on Thursday after she admitted to deceiving investors about the prospects of her supposed $1.4 billion business to fraudulently raise nearly $300 million.

  • August 20, 2026

    DC Court Says It'll Hear ABC's Arguments Against FCC In Oct.

    ABC was hoping to get before a D.C. federal judge as early as Friday to make its arguments for a temporary restraining order against the Federal Communications Commission in its retaliation suit, but the court dashed the Disney-owned network's hopes Thursday afternoon by setting the hearing for early October.

  • August 20, 2026

    USPTO Tells Fed. Circ. 'Settled Expectations' Is Constitutional

    The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has urged the Federal Circuit to reject Google's constitutional challenge to the office's "settled expectations" policy of taking the age of patents into account when deciding whether to review them, saying the rule is "eminently rational."

  • August 20, 2026

    Judge Tosses Sports Scoring System Patent Case

    A Florida federal judge has dismissed a suit by a man who claimed his co-inventor on a patent covering a method for scoring sports games conspired to remove his name from inventorship, saying no actual consequences of having his name removed were alleged.

  • August 20, 2026

    Nintendo Customer Fights To Keep Tariff Refund Suit Alive

    A Washington federal court should deny Nintendo's attempt to escape a proposed class action seeking reimbursement of costs that customers paid toward President Donald Trump's since-invalidated global tariff regime now that the company is pursuing refunds, a customer told the court.

  • August 20, 2026

    Snap Must Face YouTube Creators' DMCA AI Scraping Suit

    A California federal judge has denied a bid from the company that owns video-messaging app Snapchat to escape allegations from a group of YouTube creators that their content was illegally ingested to train artificial intelligence, saying the YouTubers had sufficiently laid out how users encounter measures meant to protect videos.

  • August 20, 2026

    Latest Squires Order Grants 2 Patent Petitions, Denies None

    U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires has issued a brief bulk order instituting a pair of America Invents Act petitions, including a Google challenge to a Valtrus Innovations patent, and saying he would assess the merits of four other patent challenges.

  • August 20, 2026

    Estee Lauder's TM Suit 'Full Of Detail,' Judge Tells Walmart

    A California federal judge said Thursday he is skeptical of Walmart's motion to dismiss much of Estee Lauder's lawsuit accusing the retail giant of selling infringing beauty products online, saying he is unsure the pleadings are inadequate at this stage because he found them "chock full of detail."

  • August 20, 2026

    Motorola Wants Rival Hytera's Latest Radio Added To IP Fight

    Motorola Solutions Inc. is looking to expand its mobile radio fight against Chinese rival Hytera Communications with allegations targeting the H-Series radio Hytera has already been held in contempt for developing with too much stolen source code following its initial multimillion-dollar trade secret trial loss.

  • August 20, 2026

    Trade Groups Back Apple In 9th Circ. Class Decert. Fight

    The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other trade and advocacy groups backed Apple Wednesday with amicus briefs telling the Ninth Circuit to reject an appeal from consumers looking to undo the decertification of a class of roughly 200 million people in an antitrust case targeting App Store policies.

  • August 20, 2026

    Johns Hopkins Hit With Sex Discrimination, Retaliation Suit

    Johns Hopkins University was hit with a complaint in California federal court alleging it impaired a graduate student's educational access and retaliated against her after she returned from a pregnancy-related leave and accused her former adviser of sexual misconduct.

  • August 20, 2026

    Sangamo Ch. 11 Auction Nets $238M In Offers

    A Delaware bankruptcy judge Thursday agreed to approve a trio of sales that will bring in $52 million in cash for Sangamo Therapeutics, after attorneys representing the life sciences group told the court a competitive Chapter 11 auction ended with four winning bids worth over $238 million.

  • August 20, 2026

    UnitedHealthcare Beats User's Data Privacy Suit, For Good

    UnitedHealthcare Services Inc. permanently beat a proposed class action alleging that its website's third-party tracking pixels shared information about its visitors, after a California federal judge said Wednesday that "the mere collection of plaintiff's generic insurance browsing data is not enough to demonstrate" concrete injury.

  • August 20, 2026

    CREXi Drops 9th Circ. Challenge To Quinn Emanuel DQ

    Property listing company Commercial Real Estate Exchange Inc. has moved to dismiss its own Ninth Circuit mandamus petition, which challenged a lower court's disqualification of CREXi's counsel, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, from a legal battle against rival CoStar.

  • August 20, 2026

    Mitsubishi Electric Agrees To Acquire PCI Energy For $1.4B

    Mitsubishi Electric Corp. said Thursday it has agreed to acquire U.S. energy-management software provider PCI Energy Solutions for $1.4 billion, expanding its presence in the North American power market.

  • August 20, 2026

    Conscious Content's $3M DIP Boost Faces Creditor Pushback

    A Delaware bankruptcy judge Thursday said he would consider ed-tech company Conscious Content Media's request for $3 million in additional Chapter 11 financing next week, after the creditors committee pushed back against the debtor's expedited schedule and said it needed more time to review the request.

  • August 20, 2026

    Patent Holders Sue Data Center Co. Over Cooling Tech

    Two Irish patent-holding companies have accused Sabey Data Center Properties LLC in Virginia federal court of using data center cooling technology in a way that infringes their patents.

Expert Analysis

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    Agentic AI And Securities Law: Steps Congress Should Take

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    Agentic artificial intelligence technology doesn't fit comfortably into the existing securities regulatory landscape, so Congress should avoid repeating the mistakes that led to the legal uncertainty crypto companies and investors have faced over the past decade-plus by providing a legislative framework before AI fully matures, says Joseph A. Hall at Davis Polk.

  • What Colorado AI Law's Major Rewrite Means For Employers

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    Colorado's landmark law regulating employers' use of artificial intelligence tools was recently replaced with a narrower regime that eliminates many burdensome obligations, but still imposes a host of requirements focused on transparency and accountability, say attorneys at Proskauer.

  • Operational AI Washing: The Next Frontier Of Fiduciary Risk

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    While there are still no final Delaware decisions applying Caremark specifically to artificial intelligence governance failures, previous case law provides a blueprint, so the question for boards is whether their governance architectures will satisfy Caremark when the first cases are decided, say attorneys at Akerman.

  • A Look At The Court's Next Steps In Live Nation Antitrust Case

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    Following a recent jury verdict that Live Nation and Ticketmaster operated as a monopoly to fix ticket prices, a New York federal court stands to weigh Live Nation's bid for a new trial, approve the U.S. Department of Justice's March settlement with the defendants, and impose remedies that include full structural separation, say attorneys at Crowell.

  • Checking For AI Errors Is Now A Two-Way Street

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    A handful of recent federal and state cases demonstrate the importance of checking for errors generated by artificial intelligence not only in your own court submissions, but also your opponent's, as well as when catching opposing counsel's AI mistakes could result in an award for attorney fees, says Tamara Barago at Hollingsworth.

  • Green Card Memo Warps Long-Standing Adjustment Process

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    A recent policy memorandum that treats a nonimmigrant visa holder’s decision to seek adjustment of status in the U.S., rather than at a U.S. consulate, as an adverse factor reinterprets existing discretionary frameworks, compounds risks for applicants required to apply abroad and changes practitioner approaches to application preparation, says attorney Jack Jrada.

  • Tips For Protecting Privilege On Multinational IP Teams

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    As recent court rulings illustrate how fact-specific privilege determinations have become in modern legal workflows, corporations with multinational intellectual property teams must take steps to deliberately preserve attorney-client privilege through clear roles, confidentiality controls and disciplined communication practices, say Taylor Stemler and Grace Neumann at Merchant & Gould.

  • Series

    The Biz Court Digest: Shoring Up Corporate Law In Maryland

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    Launched more than 20 years ago to improve complex corporate adjudication, Maryland's Business and Technology Case Management Program has been a solid success in some areas, but there always is room for improvement, says Bill Krulak at Miles & Stockbridge.

  • 2nd Circ.'s Embedded Video Ruling May Protect Publishers

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    The Second Circuit's recent decision in Richardson v. Townsquare, dismissing an infringement claim arising from an embedding of a YouTube-hosted interview, reaffirms a potent defense for publishers who regularly use social media platforms' embed functionality, says Amanda Harris at Jassy Vick.

  • Product-Or-Content Question Is Pivotal In AI Litigation

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    A growing range of civil cases against OpenAI address the question of whether the output of a generative artificial intelligence system is a product, subject to traditional tort doctrine, or third-party content — and the framing courts adopt will shape software liability well beyond AI, says David Meldofsky at Lawsuit Informer.

  • Citron Founder Verdict Tests Reach Of 'Half-Truth' Fraud

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    A California federal jury's conviction this week of Citron founder Andrew Left may be remembered less as a conventional manipulation prosecution than as a case about how far the "half-truth" doctrine can reach when applied to modern market speech, says Elisha Kobre at Sheppard.

  • Series

    Competing At Poker Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Playing poker in male-dominated rooms taught me to treat skepticism as background noise when my opponents seem to underestimate me, to apply pressure when it matters and to adapt without losing strategic discipline — skills that are all indispensable in restructuring and insolvency matters, says Alexis Gambale at Pashman Stein.

  • FTC Sweep Signals Increased 'Made In USA' Claim Scrutiny

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    After the Federal Trade Commission's recent enforcement sweep targeting allegedly deceptive "Made in USA" claims, companies should expect continued scrutiny of both traditional and digital marketing channels, coupled with sustained focus on supply chain transparency and claim substantiation, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.

  • Why IPR Slowdown Has Not Led To More Patent Litigation

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    Despite sustained strength in patent application filings and a decline in inter partes review and post-grant review, 2026 has not seen the anticipated surge in patent litigation in district courts and at the U.S. International Trade Commission, potentially due to four reasons, say attorneys at Sterne Kessler.

  • Revisiting TransUnion's Underused Standing Rule, 5 Years On

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    The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals' recent use of the U.S. Supreme Court’s now five-year-old TransUnion v. Ramirez rule specifying that the "mere risk of future harm" isn't concrete enough to support a damages claim presents an opportunity to revisit this underutilized standing rule, say attorneys at Horvitz & Levy.

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