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June 25, 2026
The Federal Communications Commission moved ahead Thursday on a proposal to preempt reviews of wireline deployments if the agency finds that state and local authorities are unfairly delaying or denying permits.
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June 25, 2026
Rural telecom carriers are going to keep disappearing if the Federal Communications Commission doesn't step in and provide more support for companies operating in rural areas, a trade group has said in the wake of Verizon's purchase of Carolina West.
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June 25, 2026
A website that touts itself as a platform providing the "world's best webinars" is actually sneaking into private videoconferences, secretly recording them and then posting them online for profit, according to a new lawsuit.
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June 25, 2026
Allstate Insurance Co. can't be held vicariously liable for a subcontractor's spam calls to a man on a do-not-call list because the insurer did not know the company had been hired and could not be directly linked to allowing that extra layer of marketing, the Seventh Circuit said Wednesday.
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June 25, 2026
The European Union granted final approval Thursday to its modified version of a trade deal with the U.S. that will cut tariff rates on U.S. goods, albeit with guardrails.
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June 24, 2026
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires has told the Patent Trial and Appeal Board to explain why it found part of a Pictiva Displays organic light-emitting diode patent invalid, after a Texas jury rejected Samsung's invalidity defense and told it to pay $92.6 million for infringing the patent.
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June 24, 2026
The Federal Communications Commission has already found untrue the reasons California has given for why it won't let AT&T stop providing telephone service through legacy copper wires, the telecom giant said Wednesday, arguing the agency should let it go over the state's head and stop using copper lines.
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June 24, 2026
DirecTV is worried that the revamp the Federal Communications Commission has planned for spectrum sharing rules in two bands critical to satellite operations do not provide enough protection against interference and wants the agency to make a few changes.
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June 24, 2026
A new trade group has been created and will advocate in Washington, D.C., for the top priorities of the fast-growing nongeostationary orbit satellite industry, according to a Wednesday announcement.
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June 24, 2026
One of the country's largest prison phone service providers has asked the Federal Communications Commission to waive certain rate caps on inmates' audio and video calls at hundreds of locations, saying it will otherwise be unable to recoup its costs at those sites.
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June 24, 2026
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board found that a patent covering wireless network technology was not unpatentable despite Tesla Inc.'s arguments that it was invalid for obviousness, dealing the company a second blow in two days on its challenges to patents asserted by Intellectual Ventures II LLC.
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June 24, 2026
The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board has refused TextNow Inc.'s bid to register "Touch Mobile" for phones and wireless messaging services, ruling in a precedential decision that the company cannot rely on a canceled registration for the same mark to overcome a likelihood of confusion with another company's existing registration for "Mobile Touch."
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June 24, 2026
Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont announced Wednesday he appointed a new general counsel after his most recent legal leader was named the interim chancellor of the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities system.
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June 23, 2026
Paramount Global is calling on the U.S. Supreme Court to preserve a ruling that only consumers who directly subscribe to audiovisual goods and services can bring lawsuits under the Video Privacy Protection Act, arguing that a more expansive reading would allow plaintiffs to flood the courts and would wrongly "transform" the law into an "unworkable internet-privacy regime."
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June 23, 2026
A Tennessee man brought a proposed nationwide class action against Cintas Corp. on Monday, accusing the Ohio-based workforce apparel and training company of unlawfully barraging phone numbers on the National Do Not Call Registry with telemarketing calls for CPR and first aid training.
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June 23, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision Tuesday clearing Cisco in an Alien Tort Statute suit alleging it helped the Chinese government violate international law is a win for companies that do business in regions with possible human rights issues, experts tell Law360.
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June 23, 2026
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board on Monday declined to invalidate claims in an Intellectual Ventures II LLC patent covering wireless network technology challenged by Tesla, finding that Tesla's obviousness arguments did not pass muster.
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June 23, 2026
There's enough evidence for a judge to find that T-Mobile failed to meet Washington's data breach notification requirements following a 2021 breach, the state said Monday, arguing that text messages the company sent to customers about the incident left out critical information.
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June 23, 2026
Streaming services companies including Disney and Netflix have again prevailed against multiple Texas cities accusing them of evading a state franchise tax, with a Texas appeals court reaffirming that the companies do not need to obtain franchise licenses.
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June 23, 2026
Cox Communications and Charter Communications Inc. have asked the California Public Utilities Commission to kibosh a media advocacy group's petition seeking conditions on their $34.5 billion merger, but the media organization is asking the commission to ignore that request.
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June 23, 2026
A California federal judge overseeing WhatsApp users' allegations that Meta violated their privacy rights appeared open Tuesday to tossing some of the claims, at least for now, saying the proposed class complaint appears to make fraud claims that need to be backed by particularized allegations.
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June 23, 2026
A Florida judge on Tuesday denied Jones Walker LLP's request to exit a lawsuit accusing the firm and one of its partners of using confidential information from a client to create an entity to compete with the client for a $300 million fuel agreement with the government of Guyana.
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June 23, 2026
Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr has told Congress that tanking diversity, equity and inclusion programs across the telecom industry is not only justified but also a policy where Americans find more "common ground" than many lawmakers realize.
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June 23, 2026
A former in-house attorney for AT&T, accused of leaking privileged information to opposing counsel while seeking a share of financial gains from a lawsuit filed 18 years ago against the company, has been charged with violating attorney professional conduct rules.
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June 23, 2026
As the Federal Communications Commission evaluates competition in the telecom sector, a think tank urged the agency not to adopt regulatory policies that treat the market as unfairly skewed toward a few large players.