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May 06, 2025
Senate Tees Up Vote Against FCC Wi-Fi Funding Plan
The Senate on Tuesday advanced a GOP bill to nullify the Federal Communications Commission's program to fund Wi-Fi hot spots for students off-campus through the E-Rate school and library subsidy.
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May 06, 2025
Meta Wins $168M Verdict Against NSO Over WhatsApp Hack
A California federal jury found Tuesday that Israeli spyware-maker NSO Group owes Meta Platforms Inc. $444,719 in compensatory damages and a staggering $167.25 million in punitive damages for hacking 1,400 WhatsApp users' devices.
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May 02, 2025
Republicans Tout Bill To Make App Stores Verify Users' Ages
Two Republican lawmakers introduced a bill Thursday to protect minor app users by requiring app stores and developers to vet their ages through a verification process and seek parental consent before allowing them to download apps or make any purchases.
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May 06, 2025
Bessent Eyes IRS' Technology Budget For Major Cuts
The Internal Revenue Service must cut its bloated technology budget and decrease the agency's overall spending, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told a House Appropriations panel Tuesday.
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May 06, 2025
Uber Paying $700M For Majority Stake In Turkey's Trendyol GO
Uber Technologies said Tuesday that it has agreed to acquire an 85% stake in Turkish online food and grocery delivery platform Trendyol GO for $700 million in cash, as it looks to strengthen its position in a fast-growing food and grocery delivery market.
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May 06, 2025
Ametek To Acquire FARO Technologies In $920M Deal
Industrial technology company Ametek Inc. announced Tuesday that it has agreed to acquire FARO Technologies at an enterprise value of about $920 million, in a move that Ametek said will expand its presence in the fast-growing market for 3D measurement and imaging systems.
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May 06, 2025
Temu Says IP Atty Lied To Bag Settlements For Clients
Chinese e-commerce platform Temu accused a California intellectual property attorney of lying during critical negotiations to get the company to sign settlement deals for a street artist known for using the Mr. Monopoly character and a San Francisco apparel store.
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May 06, 2025
Government IT Provider Hits Ch. 11 Bracing For DOGE Cuts
A government contractor that provides information technology services filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in New York, listing more than $30 million in debt and wracked by uncertainty over potential cuts from the White House's Department of Government Efficiency, a six-figure judgment from a vendor and a three-year-long sale process.
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May 06, 2025
Gene-Editing Co. Synthego Hits Ch. 11 With Sights On A Sale
California-based biotechnology company Synthego Corp. filed for Chapter 11 in Delaware bankruptcy court, listing up to $500 million in debt and outlining a plan to sell its assets to its prepetition lender during the proceedings.
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May 06, 2025
Calif. Agency Hits Retailer In Latest Privacy Enforcement Strike
The California Privacy Protection Agency revealed its second action under a state data privacy law on Tuesday, requiring national clothing retailer Todd Snyder Inc. to pay more than $345,000 and overhaul its business practices to resolve claims that the company mishandled requests by consumers to stop the sale and sharing of their personal information.
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May 05, 2025
Western Digital Fights Uphill To Ax SPEX's $553M Patent Win
Western Digital urged a California federal judge Monday to rethink his tentative decision upholding a jury's $316 million verdict for infringing a SPEX Technologies Inc. data security patent, an award that was upped to $553 million with interest, arguing that the accused products don't perform the same functions specified in the patent.
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May 05, 2025
Apple Hit With Developer Suit After App Store Contempt Order
Apple has been hit with a developer's proposed class action after a California federal judge last week agreed with Epic Games that the tech giant violated her order prohibiting App Store rules that prevent developers from steering users to alternative payment options.
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May 05, 2025
Are Circuits Suddenly Split 11-1 Over Forum Selection Fights?
Holy split! That exclamation would be a reasonable reaction to a new and lopsided divide described by industrial giant Honeywell, which contends that the Seventh Circuit abruptly and erroneously broke with all its sister circuits regarding enforcement of forum selection clauses.
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May 05, 2025
OpenAI Abandons For-Profit Plan After Musk Suit Is Preserved
OpenAI announced Monday that it was no longer pursuing plans to transition the ChatGPT maker into a for-profit enterprise, changing course just days after a California federal judge refused to throw out the bulk of Elon Musk's suit challenging those plans.
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May 05, 2025
8th Circ. Backs Boehringer's Copyright Win Over Software Co.
The Eighth Circuit upheld a district court's conclusion that Boehringer Ingelheim's veterinary arm and other companies did not infringe the copyrights of software company InfoDeli, saying in an opinion Monday that some elements of the online platforms that InfoDeli built were not entitled to protection.
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May 05, 2025
'Punish' NSO For WhatsApp Hack, Meta Tells Jury In Closings
Meta's counsel urged a California federal jury during trial closings Monday to "punish" Israeli spyware-maker NSO Group by awarding "significant" punitive damages, plus $445,000 in compensatory damages, for "vile" conduct hacking 1,400 WhatsApp users' devices, while NSO's counsel argued Meta never lost money and its demands are a PR stunt.
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May 05, 2025
Debt Agency Agrees To $2.6M Deal To End Data Breach Claims
Debt collection agency and buyer NCB Management Services Inc. has agreed to pay $2.625 million to resolve consolidated proposed class action claims it failed to protect more than a million consumers whose personal information was compromised when it was hit with a companywide ransomware attack.
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May 05, 2025
Officials Seek More Depo Time In Live Nation Antitrust Suit
U.S. officials have asked a Manhattan federal court to extend deposition time in a lawsuit accusing Live Nation of anticompetitive practices in ticket sales to live entertainment events, saying they need more hours to seek testimony from several entities and individuals who were recently disclosed in the case.
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May 05, 2025
Traxcell Fights $500K Atty Fee Owed To Verizon At Fed. Circ.
A bankrupt patent-holding company that owes more than $500,000 in attorney fees to Verizon Wireless has told the Federal Circuit that Verizon waited too long after beating its telecommunications patent case to request the fees.
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May 05, 2025
GAO Backs FBI Price Evaluation For IT Support Deal Award
A West Virginia company challenging a $93 million FBI award for information technology services failed to show that the agency erred by rejecting its own proposal for carrying an unrealistically low price tag, the U.S. Government Accountability Office said.
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May 05, 2025
Judge Rejects Media Matters' Bid To Move X's Case
A Texas federal judge has shot down a bid by watchdog Media Matters for America to transfer X Corp.'s defamation case against it to the Northern District of California, saying Media Matters has waived any contractual right to transfer venues it may have had.
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May 05, 2025
Calif. Stations Must Pay $32K Over File Failings, FCC Says
Two California TV stations have agreed to pay over $30,000 and to enter compliance plans after the Federal Communications Commission said they broke agency rules by failing to maintain and upload records regarding commercial limits in children's programming.
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May 05, 2025
USPTO's AI Head Latest To Leave Agency
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's leader for all matters related to artificial intelligence will be departing the agency, according to a source familiar with personnel moves at the agency.
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May 05, 2025
Skadden-Led Crypto Platform EToro Eyes $480M IPO
Crypto-friendly trading platform eToro Group Ltd. on Monday launched plans for an initial public offering that could raise $480 million for the company and its shareholders, marking another sign that the IPO market's recent cold spell is beginning to thaw.
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May 05, 2025
Software Co. Sues After Acquisition Of Allstate's EVB Biz
A software solutions company has sued Allstate Insurance Co. and StanCorp Financial Group Inc. for copyright infringement and breach of contract, telling a California federal court that the insurance giant distributed and reproduced its copyrighted software in violation of a master agreement.
Expert Analysis
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What Insurers Should Know About AI Use In Litigation
As the use of artificial intelligence in litigation evolves, insurers should note standing court orders, instances of judges utilizing AI to determine policy definitions and the application of evidentiary standards to expert evidence that incorporates AI, says Sarah Abrams at Baleen Specialty.
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Coaching Little League Makes Me A Better Lawyer
While coaching poorly played Little League Baseball early in the morning doesn't sound like a good time, I love it — and the experience has taught me valuable lessons about imperfection, compassion and acceptance that have helped me grow as a person and as a lawyer, says Alex Barnett at DiCello Levitt.
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How Fintechs Can Respond To New CFPB Supervisory Rule
Even though a new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule pulling large payment apps into supervision faces an uncertain fate in the new administration, providers should still examine the rule's definitions and prepare for increased compliance costs and more consumer-friendly practices, say attorneys at DLA Piper.
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Courts Must Stick To The Science On Digital Addiction Claims
A number of pending personal injury and product liability lawsuits allege that plaintiffs have developed behavioral addictions to the use of social media and video games — but this is not yet recognized by relevant authorities as an addiction, so courts must carefully scrutinize such claims, say attorneys at DLA Piper.
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Influencer IP Case Risks Judges Becoming Arbiters Of 'Vibes'
The case of Gifford v. Sheil, pending in Texas federal court, involves an influencer alleging that distinctive social media aesthetics constitute protectable property, and reflects a troubling trend: the overreach of intellectual property law in areas better left for creative freedom, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.
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5 Litigation Funding Trends To Note In 2025
Lawyers and their clients must be prepared to navigate an evolving litigation funding market in 2025, made more complicated by a new administration and the increasing overall cost of litigation, says Jeffery Lula at GLS Capital.
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Despite Political Divide, FEC Found Common Ground In '24
The Federal Election Commission, although evenly split between Republicans and Democrats, reached consensus in consequential advisory opinions, enforcement actions and regulations last year, offering welcome clarity on some key questions facing campaigns, PACs and parties, say attorneys at Covington.
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3 Noteworthy Effects Of The 2025 NDAA
The 2025 defense budget includes further restrictions on semiconductor sales to Huawei, requiring companies to rethink customer-base oversight, but other provisions are likely to broaden procurement contract opportunities, say attorneys at Miles & Stockbridge.
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The Blueprint For A National Bitcoin Reserve
The new administration has the opportunity to pave the way for a U.S.-backed crypto reserve, which could conceptually function as a strategic asset akin to traditional reserves like gold markets, hedge against economic instability, and influence global crypto adoption, say attorneys at Duane Morris.
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FTC Privacy Enforcement Takeaways From 2024
In 2024, the Federal Trade Commission distinguished three prominent trends in its privacy-related enforcement actions: geolocation data protections, data minimization practices, and artificial intelligence use and marketing, say Cobun Zweifel-Keegan at IAPP and James Smith at Dechert.
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The Fed. Circ. In 2024: 5 Major Rulings To Know
In 2024, the Federal Circuit provided a number of important clarifications to distinct areas of patent law – including design patent obviousness, expert testimony admissions and patent term adjustments – all of which are poised to have an influence going forward, say attorneys at Knobbe Martens.
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Student Loan Entities In Hot Seat After CFPB Goes To College
While the direction of student loan servicer oversight in the new presidential administration is unclear, recent Consumer Financial Protection Bureau actions still signal heightened regulatory scrutiny at both the federal and state levels of college institutional loan programs, along with their service providers, says attorney Jonathan Joshua.
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Rethinking Litigation Risk And What It Really Means To Win
Attorneys have a tendency to overestimate litigation risk before summary judgment and underestimate risk after it, but an eight-stage litigation framework can clarify risk at different points and help litigators reassess what true success looks like in any particular case, says Joshua Libling at Arcadia Finance.
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Nixing NRC Oversight Of Small Reactors Could Cut Both Ways
A lawsuit in a Texas federal court aims to abolish the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's authority over small modular reactors, which the plaintiffs contend will unleash new and innovative technology — but the resulting patchwork of state regulations could increase costs for the nuclear industry, say attorneys at King & Spalding.
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How DOGE's Bite Can Live Up To Its Bark
All signs suggest that the Department of Government Efficiency will be an important part of the new Trump administration, with ample tools at its disposal to effectuate change, particularly with an attentive Republican-controlled Congress, say attorneys at K&L Gates.