Technology

  • June 30, 2026

    Dems Grill NTIA Head Over Stalled BEAD Applications

    The BEAD program was on everyone's mind on Capitol Hill when National Telecommunications and Information Administration head Arielle Roth appeared before a House subcommittee Tuesday morning for an oversight hearing, with Democrats questioning her about when states could expect to get their money.

  • June 30, 2026

    UNC Escapes Bias Suit From Native American Ex-Professor

    A federal judge tossed Tuesday a Native American professor's suit claiming the University of North Carolina declined to renew his contract because he was a vocal critic of the institution, ruling he failed to rebut UNC's argument that he lost his job for changing course material without permission.

  • June 30, 2026

    Ex-Palo Alto Insider Trader Avoids Prison After 9th Circ. Trip

    A California federal judge resentenced an ex-Palo Alto Networks engineer Tuesday, 17 months after the Ninth Circuit upheld his securities fraud conviction but threw out his 18-month sentence, saying it now "doesn't make any sense" to incarcerate the 51-year-old given his failing health and family obligations.

  • June 30, 2026

    Cellspin Settles Challenges To Its Patents At PTAB

    Three companies that challenged a series of Cellspin Soft Inc. patents for publishing data on websites have settled their disputes at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board after the board agreed to review the patents earlier this year.

  • June 30, 2026

    Last 'Big 6' Advertiser Settles FTC Group Boycott Claims

    The Federal Trade Commission announced a settlement Tuesday resolving claims that Havas Media Group USA LLC colluded with other advertising agencies to demonetize "disfavored political viewpoints" using brand safety standards, making Havas the last of the industry's "Big Six" to cut deals in the sweeping campaign against alleged censorship of conservatives.

  • June 30, 2026

    FCC Plans To Build 'Superband' With Major Spectrum Auction

    The Federal Communications Commission plans to vote on whether to auction 160 megahertz of spectrum for new wireless services at its July meeting, part of an envisioned "superband" of prime midband airwaves ready for commercial use by 2030.

  • June 30, 2026

    SAG-AFTRA Wants House Panel To Advance AI Deepfakes Bill

    The president of actors union SAG-AFTRA spoke to a congressional subcommittee Tuesday to press the need for a bill to allow for the removal of deepfakes from the internet, framing the advent of digital replicas of people as a fundamental alteration in the methods of human interaction that cannot be ignored by lawmakers.

  • June 30, 2026

    FCC Set To Streamline Info On Broadband 'Nutrition' Labels

    The Federal Communications Commission next month will consider revamping broadband "nutrition" labels of cable service performance crafted during the Biden administration to purportedly make them less confusing, according to a Tuesday blog post.

  • June 30, 2026

    Calif. Will Lock In Biz Tax Credit Limit, Halve Min. Tax For LLCs

    California will expand its sales and use tax base to include prewritten software, make permanent its business tax credit limit and halve the $800 minimum tax for limited liability companies, under the last budget that Gov. Gavin Newsom signed as the state's chief executive.

  • June 30, 2026

    Judge Rejects Uber's Bid To Strike Location Tracking Patents

    A California federal court has declined to invalidate a pair of location tracking technology patents asserted against Uber Technologies Inc., disagreeing with the company's claims that the patents are abstract and finding instead that each covers a "technical solution to a technical problem."

  • June 30, 2026

    DOJ Defends Live Nation Deal As Boosting Competition Sooner

    The Justice Department offered its formal defense of the controversial midtrial settlement that allowed Live Nation to keep its Ticketmaster subsidiary, telling a New York federal judge the deal frees up artists and venues much faster than any remedy state attorneys general could achieve through their jury win.

  • June 30, 2026

    High Court Remands Geofencing Cases In Wake Of New Rules

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered Texas' highest criminal court and the Eleventh Circuit to take fresh looks at a pair of criminal convictions in light of the justices' ruling this week that geofence warrants demanding smartphone users' location data are "searches" under the Fourth Amendment.

  • June 30, 2026

    Atlas Data's Daniel's Law Notices Not Spam, Judge Rules

    A New Jersey federal court has found that Atlas Data Privacy Corp.'s flurry of thousands of takedown notices do not constitute a "spam attack," dismissing counterclaims brought by database providers alleging that the company was abusing a New Jersey judicial privacy law in violation of state and federal statutes.

  • June 30, 2026

    SpaceX, Feds Say Texas Is Proper Venue For Land Swap Suit

    A D.C. federal court on Tuesday ordered expedited briefing over motions by SpaceX and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service seeking to transfer to the Southern District of Texas a lawsuit from environmental groups challenging their land-exchange deal there.

  • June 30, 2026

    Canada, Germany Pledge Closer Cooperation On Chips

    Canadian and German officials signed a joint declaration committing to work together on policy matters involving semiconductor supply chains, according to a Tuesday news release by the Canadian government.

  • June 30, 2026

    Digital Realty Pays $3.5B For Blackstone Data Center Shares

    Digital Realty, represented by Latham & Watkins LLP, will pay $3.5 billion to acquire a stake in three Blackstone data centers fully leased to hyperscalers in northern Virginia, according to an announcement from the companies.

  • June 30, 2026

    Apple Gets High Court Review Of Epic Case Sanctions

    The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to take up Apple's challenge to a California federal court contempt order against it for violating a ban, won by Epic Games, on company policies that barred app developers from steering users to outside payment options.

  • June 30, 2026

    Trump Loses Bid To Remove Copyright Office Leader For Now

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to let the Trump administration remove U.S. Copyright Office leader Shira Perlmutter for now, leaving in place a D.C. Circuit order that allows her to keep leading the office while her lawsuit challenging her firing proceeds.

  • June 29, 2026

    Citibank Defeats Texas Man's $20M NFT Romance Scam Suit

    A New York federal judge Monday threw out a Texas man's suit accusing Citibank NA of ignoring red flags that allowed scammers to siphon nearly $4 million from his family trusts after he fell for a social media romance scam involving nonfungible tokens.

  • June 29, 2026

    Google Faces Privacy Suit Over Nest Cam's Face Detection

    Google's Nest security cameras and doorbells are scanning people's faces and storing their "faceprints" with the help of artificial intelligence without passersby's consent, Virginia residents alleged in a proposed class action filed Monday in California federal court.

  • June 29, 2026

    House Sends Kids Online Safety Bill To Skeptical Senate

    The U.S. House of Representatives on Monday passed legislation to boost online data privacy and safety protections for children and teens, moving the measure along to the U.S. Senate, where key lawmakers have already come out against the proposal for what they say are insufficient mechanisms for holding major technology companies accountable. 

  • June 29, 2026

    FCC Set To Block Call Traffic From Telecom Over Robocalls

    The Federal Communications Commission is ready to block a Denver-based voice call provider from operating in the United States if it doesn't quickly answer the agency's questions about what it's doing to stop illegal robocalls from being transmitted on its network.

  • June 29, 2026

    LA Times Gets OK For $3.85M Privacy Deal With Web Visitors

    A California federal judge gave the final stamp of approval to a $3.85 million class settlement that resolves allegations the Los Angeles Times installed and used several trackers on the browsers of visitors to its website that collected their IP addresses without their consent.

  • June 29, 2026

    ChatGPT Helped FSU Shooter Plan Attack, Survivor Says

    A survivor of the deadly April 2025 shooting at Florida State University alleges OpenAI's ChatGPT program helped the shooter plan the details of his attack on the school's campus and failed to alert anyone to his mental health issues.

  • June 29, 2026

    Rural Network Providers Seek FCC Waiver To Alter Routers

    Now that the Federal Communications Commission has given some telecommunications trade groups permission to make changes to foreign-made routers that the agency has banned from being imported, those groups are asking the agency to let suppliers make the changes themselves.

Expert Analysis

  • Unpacking The Take It Down Act's Compliance Ambiguities

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    The Federal Trade Commission’s recent guidance concerning the Take It Down Act suggests that covered platforms should build removal systems immediately and prioritize compliance, but until courts or regulators provide additional clarity, companies will be navigating a statutory framework that is urgent and uncertain, says Laura-Kate Bernstein at ZwillGen.

  • Protecting AI-Driven Innovation In Life Sciences IP

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    Recent developments, including the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's evolving inventorship standards, and the impact of artificial intelligence on the "person of ordinary skill in the art" standard demand that life sciences companies elevate AI patent strategy to a top priority, says Sandra Haberny at Quinn Emanuel.

  • Opinion

    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.

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