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October 03, 2025
Class Suit Accuses Fantasy Site Of Platforming Illegal Gambling
A California resident sued the operators of online platform Sleeper in federal court on Thursday, alleging in a proposed class complaint that the website is masquerading as a daily fantasy sport but is in reality an illegal gambling operation in a state that prohibits sports betting.
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October 03, 2025
Weapons Check Co. Insiders Sued In Del. After System Failure
A stockholder of weapons screening developer Evolv Inc. has sued 20 current and former company directors and officers in Delaware's Court of Chancery, in a five-count derivative suit seeking damages linked to reports that Evolv systems fell short in catching threats.
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October 03, 2025
Trump Admin Hit With Suit Over $100K H-1B Fees
Several groups sued Friday in California federal court to block the Trump administration's recent action slapping on a $100,000 fee for H-1B visas, saying the new price tag was unconstitutionally ordered and will hurt more than just America's tech industry.
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October 03, 2025
OpenAI Looks To Ditch XAI's Trade Secrets Theft Suit
OpenAI Inc. has written off a suit from xAI accusing it of poaching employees in order to steal trade secrets as another attempt by Elon Musk to disrupt OpenAI's efforts to create artificial intelligence that benefits humanity, adding that employees were leaving Musk's company of their own volition.
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October 03, 2025
The Roberts Court At 20: How The Chief Is Reshaping America
Twenty years after John Roberts became the 17th chief justice of the United States, he faces a U.S. Supreme Court term that's looking transformative for the country and its institutions. How Justice Roberts and his colleagues navigate mounting distrust in the judiciary and set the boundaries of presidential authority appear increasingly likely to define his time leading the court.
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October 03, 2025
Taxation With Representation: Kirkland, Paul Weiss, Cravath
In this week's Taxation With Representation, video game maker Electronic Arts agrees to be acquired by the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund, Silver Lake and Affinity Partners; online mortgage giant Rocket closes its acquisition of rival Mr. Cooper Group; and Berkshire Hathaway acquires international energy company Occidental's chemical business.
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October 03, 2025
2 SPACs Hit Public Markets After Raising Combined $320M
Two special purpose acquisition companies began trading publicly Friday after raising a combined $320 million in their initial public offerings, marking the latest in a wave of SPACs to make their public debuts over the recent weeks.
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October 03, 2025
$1T Tesla Pay Proposal Sets Ambitious Goals For Musk
A massive pay proposal for Tesla CEO Elon Musk contains performance metrics that would make it tough for Musk to pull in the maximum pay available, even if the deal gets a green light from shareholders in November. Here are four things about the $1 trillion pitch that have caught attorneys' attention.
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October 03, 2025
3 Firms Build $1.75B Sale Of Insurance Platform Bamboo
White Mountains Insurance Group Ltd. on Friday unveiled plans to sell a majority stake in insurance distribution platform Bamboo to private equity giant CVC Capital Partners in a deal built by three law firms that values Bamboo at $1.75 billion.
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October 02, 2025
Landlords Will Pay $141M To Exit RealPage Rent Pricing Case
Renters have struck over $141 million in deals with landlord companies that were accused of using property management software RealPage's algorithms to fix rent prices and are now asking a Tennessee federal court to give those settlements its blessing.
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October 02, 2025
Biz Org Says DC Circ. Must Rethink T-Mobile's Privacy Fine
The Chamber of Commerce is throwing its weight behind T-Mobile and Sprint as they ask the full D.C. Circuit to rethink the appellate court's decision not to knock out $92 million in fines the telecoms were slapped with for selling users' sensitive location data even after they knew it was being used inappropriately.
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October 02, 2025
Google Fights Push To Get Reports From Gov't Monopoly Suit
Google on Thursday pushed back against a software development company's bid to make the tech giant produce expert reports used in the federal government's lawsuit that resulted in Google being deemed a monopolist in the general search market, saying the reports had no relevance to the present case.
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October 02, 2025
Ad Tech Judge Sees 'Tension' In Google's Economist
A Virginia federal judge told Google's economics expert Thursday that there's "tension" in his assertions that remedies for the company's advertising placement technology monopolies must be narrowly tailored to block the particular anticompetitive findings won by the U.S. Justice Department.
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October 02, 2025
Disability Group To Pay At Least $1M For Misleading Calls
A disability advocacy group will pay at least $1 million to the Federal Trade Commission to wash its hands of claims that it made "tens of millions of illegal calls" to people in order to solicit their business and weren't upfront about why they were calling.
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October 02, 2025
Del. Chancellor Advances Pruned $75B Activision Merger Suit
Delaware's chancellor kept in play late Thursday much of an Activision Blizzard stockholder suit challenging the company's $75.4 billion merger with Microsoft, rejecting multiple dismissal motions, approving others and writing that a "slimmed-down" version of the complaint can go forward — adding, "Game on."
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October 02, 2025
Roblox Faces 2 More Suits Claiming It Lets Predators Slide
Roblox has been hit with two more lawsuits alleging that it fails to stop online predators from using its gaming platform to groom and sexually exploit children, with one brought by a minor who says she was lured to a motel room where she was raped by five men.
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October 02, 2025
Debt Collector's $2.6M Data Breach Deal Gets Final Nod
Debt collection agency and buyer NCB Management Services Inc. and its investors have gotten the final nod to their $2.63 million deal to end consolidated proposed class action claims that NCB failed to protect more than a million consumers after a trove of their personal information was compromised in a ransomware attack.
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October 02, 2025
Tesla Can't Nix Battery Maker's Arbitration Award, Judge Rules
A California federal judge has confirmed an arbitration award that guarantees a battery maker's right to sell its dry battery electrode equipment to parties other than Tesla, rejecting Tesla's contention that an arbitrator disregarded the law when interpreting the companies' intellectual property rights in the equipment.
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October 02, 2025
7th Circ. Bucks SEC Request To Pause Cboe Case
The Seventh Circuit has rejected a bid by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Cboe Exchange Inc. to postpone upcoming oral arguments in a case challenging the SEC's ability to regulate certain Cboe software, telling the parties the arguments will go forward as planned while they discuss a possible deal to end the suit.
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October 02, 2025
Zillow Seeks Info On Compass' Anywhere Deal In Antitrust Suit
Compass Inc. and Zillow Inc., which are battling each other in an antitrust case brought by Compass, have both asked a New York federal judge to rule on Zillow's bid to obtain documents related to Compass' $1.6 billion all-stock acquisition of Anywhere Real Estate Inc.
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October 02, 2025
Top Groups Lobbying The FCC
Lobbying at the Federal Communications Commission slowed in September, continuing a late-summer lag, but several groups kept busy on several issues. Here's a look at a few groups that contacted the FCC at least three times during September and a sampling of what they care about.
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October 02, 2025
Flagstar Customers Want OK On $31M Data Breach Deal
A proposed class alleging Flagstar Bank didn't protect customer and employee information from two data breaches asked a Michigan federal judge Wednesday to give the initial approval for a $31.5 million settlement to resolve the case.
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October 02, 2025
IRS Data-Sharing Case Won't Be Paused For Gov't Shutdown
The U.S. Department of Justice must still submit court-ordered information in a lawsuit challenging the Internal Revenue Service's sharing of tax data with immigration authorities by Oct. 24, a D.C. federal judge ruled, despite the federal government shutdown that began Wednesday.
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October 02, 2025
Merrill Lynch Raid Suit Paused For FINRA Arbitration
A Georgia federal judge stayed Merrill Lynch's case alleging Dynasty Financial Partners, Charles Schwab and a dozen former employees conspired to start a new firm with Merrill's staff and confidential information one day after denying the company's bid for an injunction.
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October 02, 2025
Apple IP Suit Stayed As Appeal In Samsung Case Plays Out
A California federal judge on Thursday stayed litigation claiming certain Apple touchscreen products infringe a Michigan company's patent, while the same company appeals a separate case against Samsung, but the judge tipped his hand by saying the Samsung judge's opinion tossing that dispute "made perfect sense to me."
Expert Analysis
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Compliance Changes On Deck For Banks Under Texas AI Law
Financial services companies, including banks and fintechs, should evaluate their artificial intelligence usage to prepare for Texas' newly passed law regulating AI governance, noting that the enforcement provisions provide for an affirmative defense to liability, say attorneys at Mitchell Sandler.
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Law School's Missed Lessons: Learning From Failure
While law school often focuses on the importance of precision, correctness and perfection, mistakes are inevitable in real-world practice — but failure is not the opposite of progress, and real talent comes from the ability to recover, rethink and reshape, says Brooke Pauley at Tucker Ellis.
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23andMe Fine Signals ICO's New GDPR Enforcement Focus
Many of the cybersecurity failures identified by the Information Commissioner’s Office in its investigation of 23andMe, recently resulting in a £2.3 million fine, were basic lapses, but the ICO's focus on several new U.K. General Data Protection Regulation considerations will likely carry into the future, say lawyers at Womble Bond.
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Midyear Rewind: How Courts Are Reshaping VPPA Standards
The first half of 2025 saw a series of cases interpreting the Video Privacy Protection Act as applied to website tracking technologies, including three appellate rulings deepening circuit splits on what qualifies as personally identifiable information and who qualifies as a consumer under the statute, say attorneys at Perkins Coie.
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Tips For Crypto AI Agent Developers Under SEC Watch
With agents powered by artificial intelligence increasingly making decisions in the cryptocurrency world, there's a chance the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission could use the Investment Advisers Act to regulate this technology in financial services, but there are ways developers can mitigate regulatory risks, say attorneys at Morrison Cohen.
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How The Healthline Privacy Settlement Redefines Ad Tech Use
The Healthline settlement is the first time California has drawn a clear line in the sand around how website tracking must function in practice, so if your site uses tracking technologies, especially around sensitive content like health or finance, regulators are inspecting your website's back end, not just its banner, say attorneys at Baker Donelson.
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AI Infrastructure Growth Brings Unique IP Considerations
The explosive rise of artificial intelligence has triggered an equally dramatic transformation in the supporting infrastructure required to meet growing AI demand, and the technology used in these data centers has its own intellectual property considerations to navigate, says Vincent Allen at Carstens Allen.
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Adapting To Private Practice: From ATF Director To BigLaw
As a two-time boomerang partner, returning to BigLaw after stints as a U.S. attorney and the director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, people ask me how I know when to move on, but there’s no single answer — just clearly set your priorities, says Steven Dettelbach at BakerHostetler.
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Tips For US Investors Eyeing Middle East Data Centers
While Middle East data center investment presents a compelling opportunity in light of renewed U.S.-Gulf cooperation on artificial intelligence and critical technologies, these projects require a nuanced understanding of regional legal and regulatory regimes, says Haykel Hajjaji at Covington.
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Influencer Marketing Partnerships Face Rising Litigation Risk
In light of recent class actions claiming that brands and influencers are misleading consumers with deceptive marketing practices — largely premised on the Federal Trade Commission's endorsements guidance — proactive compliance measures are becoming more important, say attorneys at Olshan Frome.
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5 Consumer Protection Compliance Issues In NY State Budget
Companies that engage with New York consumers should promptly familiarize themselves with new state budget provisions that require finance and retail companies to make certain business practices more transparent and easier for customers to execute, say attorneys at Mintz.
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Balancing The Promises And Perils Of Tokenizing Securities
Tokenizing listed securities offers the promise of greater efficiency, accessibility and innovation, but a recent U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission statement makes clear that the federal securities laws continue to apply to tokenized securities, so financial institutions and technology developers must work together to create clear rules, say attorneys at Orrick.
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How To Increase 3rd-Party Preissuance Patent Submissions
Attorneys Marian Underweiser and Marc Ehrlich, who helped draft the America Invents Act, discuss changes that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office could potentially implement to facilitate its hopes for increased participation in front-end patent challenges.
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How Cos. In China Can Tailor Compliance Amid FCPA Shifts
The U.S. Department of Justice’s recently updated Foreign Corrupt Practices Act enforcement guidelines create a fluid business environment for companies operating in China that will require a customized compliance approach to navigate both countries’ corporate and legal systems, say attorneys at Dickinson Wright.
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7 Ways Employers Can Avoid Labor Friction Over AI
As artificial intelligence use in the workplace emerges as a key labor relations topic in the U.S. and Europe, employers looking to reduce reputational risk and prevent costly disputes should consider proactive strategies to engage with unions, say attorneys at Baker McKenzie.