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June 22, 2026
Verizon Wireless is on the hook for $190 million after a federal jury in the Eastern District of Texas found that it infringed a patent covering a way for cellphone calls to switch between Wi-Fi and cellular networks.
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June 18, 2026
A divided Sixth Circuit panel Thursday wiped out a lower court's order blocking an Ohio law barring social media companies from allowing children under 16 to create accounts without parental consent, ruling that the measure does not run afoul of the Constitution.
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June 18, 2026
Louisiana is asking a federal appellate court to lift its block on a state law that requires social media platforms to verify users' ages and bans them from allowing minors to create or maintain accounts without parental permission.
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June 18, 2026
A German nonprofit research organization tried Wednesday to persuade a North Carolina federal court not to hand Lenovo and its subsidiary Motorola a pretrial win, arguing that the organization's asserted patents for wireless audio communications are inventive and offer specific technical solutions.
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June 18, 2026
A Florida federal judge refused to hand a decisive win just yet to either the state or technology groups challenging a law punishing social media websites for blocking political candidates, sending the dispute — which has already made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court — to a September bench trial instead.
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June 18, 2026
Heading into her second year running the federal agency that manages spectrum and a $42 billion push to expand broadband deployment, Arielle Roth has her hands full.
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June 18, 2026
DirecTV and a coalition of state attorneys general urged the Ninth Circuit not to narrow a district court preliminary injunction blocking Nexstar's purchase of Tegna, arguing the only way to preserve competition while the case proceeds is a full block, not one restricted to 31 overlapping broadcast markets.
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June 18, 2026
Iraq has won an international tribunal's award in an arbitration brought by Orange SA under the France-Iraq bilateral investment treaty, with a unanimous panel dismissing all of the telecommunications company's claims exceeding $950 million, according to Debevoise & Plimpton LLP.
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June 18, 2026
Internet service provider Gateway Fiber has asked the Federal Communications Commission to step in and declare that a Minnesota city can't decide that its cable franchise agreement ordinances suddenly apply to broadband providers now.
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June 18, 2026
Mint Mobile is facing a proposed class action alleging that it is baiting customers into ordering home internet with nonexistent advertised discounts and overcharging them.
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June 18, 2026
A pair of former WideOpenWest Inc. stockholders have sued the cable and broadband provider's controlling shareholder in Delaware Chancery Court, alleging a 2025 take-private deal unfairly shortchanged minority investors and allowed insiders to capture the future value of the company for themselves.
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June 17, 2026
An Illinois federal judge has refused to toss a putative class action accusing a global advertising technology company of breaking federal wiretap law by transmitting Americans' sensitive information to Chinese e-commerce giant Temu, finding it plausibly alleged the conduct violated a U.S. Department of Justice regulation restricting bulk data transfers to foreign adversaries.
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June 17, 2026
The FCC has granted the California Public Utilities Commission extra time to respond to a petition from AT&T after the state agency told the federal one that the telecom titan hadn't been upfront about the reason California has declined to retire AT&T's copper network in the state.
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June 17, 2026
School and library funding advocates are increasingly worried about a potential effort to wind down the E-rate subsidy as the Federal Communications Commission reexamines the program's future.
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June 17, 2026
Apple and Google urged the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday to reject consumers' request to depose their respective CEOs, Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai, and other executives in antitrust litigation accusing Google of shutting out rival search engines, arguing that the appeal is unwarranted and the repeated deposition demands are unjustified "harassment."
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June 17, 2026
A company making devices that scan the ground for utility lines before digging has been granted an exemption from the Federal Communications Commission's rules for ultra-wideband transmission.
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June 17, 2026
Hilton Grand Vacations is facing a proposed class action in Washington federal court alleging it flooded customers on the National Do Not Call Registry with telemarketing calls.
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June 17, 2026
The Federal Communications Commission is asking for public input on Goodyear's request to use its tire-mounted sensor system on unlicensed telecommunications devices so it can collect critical tire safety data more quickly.
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June 16, 2026
The Federal Communications Commission said that "toy drones" manufactured in foreign countries or using parts from overseas will no longer fall under an FCC ban on most drones produced outside the U.S.
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June 16, 2026
California officials urged the Federal Communications Commission to reject AT&T's push to escape state rules that the company says are blocking its transition from copper to fiber networks.
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June 16, 2026
Consumers want a California federal judge to preserve their antitrust claims accusing Google of shutting out rival search engines that offer better privacy safeguards and no ads, arguing they don't yet need to articulate damages each has borne because it's "impossible" for them not to have been harmed.
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June 16, 2026
The Texas Supreme Court has granted a request from Chamberlain Hrdlicka White Williams & Aughtry to review lower court rulings that left the firm on the hook for $700,000 in a breach of contract dispute with a cost-cutting consultant, which the firm claims should have received no more than $40,000.
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June 16, 2026
A trade group representing commercial, scientific and testing laboratories in the U.S. has asked the Federal Communications Commission to narrowly tailor the language of a planned rule that would restrict accreditation for labs that test communications equipment.
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June 16, 2026
European Union lawmakers voted Tuesday to approve legislation implementing the bloc's safeguard-bolstered trade deal with the U.S. founded on a series of tariff cuts, moving one step closer to implementation that is expected before the end of the month.
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June 15, 2026
The Ninth Circuit must undo a lower court's ruling that killed an antitrust suit brought by Facebook users after the district court judge found the novel theory propping up the suit held no water, the users have said, and that Facebook's parent company cannot defend the lower court's "usurpation of the jury's role."