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August 10, 2026
A cryptocurrency mining and artificial intelligence data center in rural North Carolina is emitting a cacophony that is destroying local residents' quality of life, according to neighbors who allege the operators have refused to take steps to mitigate the alleged nuisance.
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August 10, 2026
The Ninth Circuit said Monday it lacks jurisdictional authority over Meta's appeal in a social-media-addiction multidistrict litigation at this stage, saying Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act can provide a defense to liability but not immunity from a lawsuit.
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August 10, 2026
The Federal Circuit on Monday refused to restore a content streaming patent Netflix was accused of infringing, agreeing with the Patent Trial and Appeal Board that an earlier patent rendered the claims of the patent invalid.
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August 10, 2026
The Delaware Chancery Court has ruled that data analytics and insurance technology company Verisk Analytics Inc. improperly walked away from its $2.35 billion acquisition of roofing software company AccuLynx and must keep pursuing regulatory approval for the deal.
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August 10, 2026
A Washington federal magistrate judge has partly granted a Colorado aerospace company's bid for more depositions in an intellectual property suit against Boeing over technology used in NASA's moon program, while rejecting broader requests for financial information and documents.
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August 10, 2026
If a consumer is contacted by someone purportedly with the Federal Communications Commission claiming their phone number is being investigated and demanding personal and financial details, it's a scam.
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August 10, 2026
Roblox, Discord and TikTok are urging a Kentucky federal court to throw out a suit alleging a young teen died by suicide as a result of using their platforms, saying the claims are blocked by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.
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August 10, 2026
A Michigan citizen journalist convicted of interfering with police by flying a drone near a law enforcement operation has sued Bay County officials in federal court, arguing that the state's drone law is unconstitutional when used to restrict nonobstructive recording and livestreaming of police.
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August 10, 2026
A Connecticut law firm's efforts to force Google to unmask users who left potentially defamatory online reviews pose a question of "constitutional magnitude," a Hartford state judge heard Monday as the company tried to move a pre-litigation discovery bid to the West Coast.
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August 10, 2026
Fox Corp. has given antitrust enforcers at the U.S. Department of Justice additional time to review its planned purchase of Roku, a deal that values the television streaming platform operator at around $22 billion.
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August 10, 2026
The Delaware Chancery Court last week tackled disputes involving merger settlements, contract claims, controlling stockholders, music rights, prejudgment interest, absentee voting and stockholder standing.
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August 10, 2026
Teledyne Technologies Inc. said Monday it has agreed to purchase Varex Imaging Corp. in a deal valued at about $1.1 billion, with Latham & Watkins LLP and McGuireWoods LLP advising Teledyne and Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP representing Varex.
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August 07, 2026
A bipartisan bill Senate lawmakers introduced Friday aimed at protecting small businesses from threats to their networks would require the U.S. Government Accountability Office to develop a report informing small business owners what federal cybersecurity tools and programs are available to them.
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August 07, 2026
The Seventh Circuit on Friday declined to disturb a lower court's dismissal of a proposed biometric privacy class action from Samsung phone and tablet users, ruling the users hadn't plausibly alleged that Samsung has their data.
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August 07, 2026
Online fundraising platform GoFundMe is using deceptive website design practices to trick consumers into paying optional "tips" that wholly benefit the company and are automatically tacked onto their donations without their explicit consent, according to a putative class action filed in Illinois federal court.
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August 07, 2026
Apple has lost its bid to escape a patent infringement lawsuit over the iPhone's Hide My Email feature after a Delaware federal court on Friday found that a jury needs to answer the questions of the case.
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August 07, 2026
Chicago-based money service business Order Express Inc. has agreed to pay the New York State Department of Financial Services $250,000 for violations of the state regulator's cybersecurity regulation uncovered after a 2022 ransomware attack, the department has announced.
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August 07, 2026
AT&T is hoping to convince the Fifth Circuit to help it get back the $57 million it paid the Federal Communications Commission for selling off people's location data, despite a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that the agency had the right to issue the fine, by arguing it was tricked into paying.
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August 07, 2026
Samsung has urged the U.S. International Trade Commission not to ban imports of its smartphones and tablets that a judge found to infringe a Maxell patent, saying a ban would only benefit a "foreign serial litigant," while Maxell said such an order would safeguard U.S. industry.
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August 07, 2026
A New York federal judge Friday trimmed a proposed investor class action alleging China-based AI company Xiao-I Corp. and its top brass downplayed increasing costs related to its initial public offering, finding that the company's registration statement made disclosures that doom some of the suit's claims.
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August 07, 2026
Comcast has defeated, for now, a lawsuit from a gay former senior manager who alleged his boss belittled him and made disparaging remarks because of his sexual orientation, with a Pennsylvania federal judge concluding his presuit discrimination charges with federal and state civil rights agencies were filed too late.
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August 07, 2026
With under 200 lawyers, Legal Aid of North Carolina found itself at one point receiving over 300,000 calls to its hotline a year from people in need. So when the opportunity arose to deploy AI to help divert at least some of the call volume, the organization's chief innovation officer thought it was time to take a leap of faith and found a pro bono partner in K&L Gates.
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August 07, 2026
Meta Platforms has asked a California federal judge to block a deposition of CEO Mark Zuckerberg in four copyright lawsuits over the company's artificial intelligence training practices, arguing the plaintiffs have not shown he possesses unique firsthand knowledge and have not exhausted other discovery options.
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August 07, 2026
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires has instituted review of four patents and denied six other petitions in his latest round of decisions.
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August 07, 2026
The U.S. Senate Friday confirmed a former acting chief of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration as the U.S. Department of State's ambassador at large for cyberspace and digital policy.