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February 21, 2024
FCC Considers Adding Missing Persons To Emergency Alerts
The Federal Communications Commission plans to introduce a new code to the Emergency Alert System to allow information about missing or endangered persons to be widely disseminated.
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February 21, 2024
FCC Looks To Finalize 'All-In' Cable Pricing Disclosures
The Federal Communications Commission plans to vote next month on controversial rules to require cable companies to post "all-in" prices on marketing materials and subscriber bills.
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February 21, 2024
AT&T Says Satellite Cell Coverage Must Rely On Leases
The Federal Communications Commission will soon vote on new rules allowing satellite companies to use spectrum to beef up mobile connectivity, helping eliminate "dead zones."
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February 21, 2024
House Leaders Create Bipartisan AI Task Force
The House of Representatives is forming a bipartisan task force on artificial intelligence, with leaders in the lower chamber planning to explore ways to maintain America's lead on AI while considering "guardrails" for the technology.
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February 21, 2024
Crown Castle Proxy Spat Pits Paul Weiss Against Cadwalader
Crown Castle Inc.'s board has rejected four board nominees of one of its co-founders, Ted Miller, as a proxy fight pits the communications infrastructure company and its Paul Weiss counsel against Miller and Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP.
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February 21, 2024
IMedia Gets OK For Ch. 11 Liquidation Plan
A Delaware bankruptcy judge on Wednesday approved home shopping business iMedia Brands' liquidation plan after hearing objections from unsecured creditors and others had been resolved.
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February 20, 2024
Liberal Justices Hint Chevron Deference Hanging By A Thread
In the U.S. Supreme Court's latest battle royal over administrative powers, left-leaning justices at oral arguments Tuesday openly suggested that the landmark legal doctrine underpinning modern rulemaking might soon shrivel up, clearing the way for industry-led challenges to regulations on the books for decades.
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February 20, 2024
Fubo Wants Sports Giants' 'Unlawful' Streaming Plan Blocked
The streaming company Fubo asked a New York federal court on Tuesday to block a joint venture under which ESPN, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery would combine sports portfolios into one streaming app, claiming that the plan would harm competition and result in higher prices for consumers.
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February 20, 2024
Apple Asks For Discovery Pause During Class Cert. Appeal
Apple is urging a California federal judge to halt discovery in a sweeping App Store antitrust suit while the company appeals the class certification granted earlier this month.
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February 20, 2024
DirecTV Slams Studies Showing No 12 GHz Interference
DirecTV is defending its supremacy in the 12 gigahertz band, pushing back against analysis showing that terrestrial 5G use of the band wouldn't lead to interference in a new filing with the Federal Communications Commission.
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February 20, 2024
Judge Says He'll Mull $10M Fine For Racist Robocaller
An Idaho white supremacist has been found liable by a Montana federal court for sending out thousands of racist robocalls in an attempt to sway public opinion against Black and Jewish political candidates, with a fine that could top $10 million to follow.
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February 20, 2024
FCC Urged To Revisit Caps On Duplicate FM Broadcasts
Musicians and small radio stations are pressuring the Federal Communications Commission to reinstate limits scrapped three years ago on FM stations airing duplicate content, but face pushback from the broadcast lobby.
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February 20, 2024
Ericsson, Lenovo IP Row Halted Amid Federal Probe
A lawsuit alleging that Lenovo is infringing Ericsson's video technology was halted by a North Carolina federal court, which reasoned that a federal probe that will look into the same issues as the suit should be completed before the litigation can proceed.
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February 20, 2024
GOP, Democratic Reps. Team Up To Decry Punted FISA Vote
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act's controversial Section 702, which gives the government a backdoor to intercept American communications without a warrant, is set to expire soon, and a bipartisan group of lawmakers says it's time they be allowed to vote on a version of the reauthorization that would add privacy protections.
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February 20, 2024
4th Circ. Orders Redo On Sony's $1B Music Piracy Damages
Cox Communications Inc. is liable for contributing to copyright infringement against Sony Music Entertainment and others, but a Virginia federal court went too far by applying vicarious liability as well and needs to redo its $1 billion damages determination, the Fourth Circuit ruled Tuesday.
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February 20, 2024
Epic Calls Apple's $73M Fees Bid An Overreach
Epic Games blasted Apple on Friday for seeking $73.4 million in legal fees following the pair's California federal court antitrust battle over App Store payment fees, arguing that antitrust claims like Epic's are immune from legal fees and that Apple cannot wrap its demands in successful contract breach counterclaims.
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February 20, 2024
Justices Give Feds Time In Texas, Fla. Social Media Law Fights
The U.S. Supreme Court has set aside time for the federal government to weigh in on looming oral arguments in cases to determine the constitutionality of controversial Texas and Florida laws that restrict social media companies' ability to curb users' speech.
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February 20, 2024
EU Approves Orange's €18.6B Spanish Telecoms JV
Europe's competition enforcer on Tuesday approved a deal for Orange SA and MasMovil Ibercom SA to combine their operations in Spain through a €18.6 billion ($20.3 billion) joint venture after the companies agreed to sell spectrum to a growing mobile operator in the country.
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February 20, 2024
FCC Panel To Focus On AI's Consumer Impact
The Federal Communications Commission set a consumer advisory panel back into motion Tuesday, with the impact of artificial intelligence on the telecom industry as a top priority.
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February 20, 2024
Justices Won't Hear Apple Patent Challenge In $576M Case
The U.S. Supreme Court refused Tuesday to consider if Apple should have been barred from joining a successful challenge to network security patents in a $576.5 million case, turning down cybersecurity company VirnetX Inc.'s argument that Apple's petition was filed too late.
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February 16, 2024
FCC Needs Enforcement Ombudsman, Ex-Agency Atty Says
The Federal Communications Commission should consider a wide range of enforcement-related reforms, including creating an ombudsman's office to help companies navigate disputes that crop up during FCC investigations, a former agency general counsel has argued in a new industry-backed paper.
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February 16, 2024
Samsung Ordered To Arbitrate Hundreds Of BIPA Claims
An Illinois federal judge has ordered Samsung Electronics to arbitrate 806 customers' biometric-privacy claims and to pay the American Arbitration Association for fees it owes in the slew of disputes, ruling that the company can't refuse to arbitrate under its own binding agreements.
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February 16, 2024
Fed. Circ. Revives Comcast Patent Case, And Warns Its Atty
The Federal Circuit on Friday revived a patent suit against Comcast over voice recognition technology, finding that a lower court misinterpreted the patents, and reprimanded a Comcast attorney from Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP for exceeding word counts in a brief in a related case.
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February 16, 2024
FCC Offers Incentives So Small Carriers Can Use Spectrum
The Federal Communications Commission's new program to encourage spectrum licensees to divvy up their unused airwaves for sublease to smaller and more rural carriers is now up and running and accepting applications.
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February 16, 2024
States Defend Authority To Bring Texas Google Ad Tech Case
State enforcers have told a Texas federal court they have standing to sue Google for allegedly violating federal antitrust law with its control over key digital advertising technology, arguing that states play an important role in enforcing the statutes and that Google's dismissal bid is unfounded.
Expert Analysis
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Opinion
Congress Needs To Enact A Federal Anti-SLAPP Statute
Although many states have passed statutes meant to prevent individuals or entities from filing strategic lawsuits against public participation, other states have not, so it's time for Congress to enact a federal statute to ensure that free speech and petitioning rights are uniformly protected nationwide in federal court, say attorneys at Skadden.
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5 Insider-Threat Reminders After Recent DOJ Prosecutions
Three recent U.S. Department of Justice actions may well lead to much greater scrutiny of companies in which insiders engage in a variety of corporate misconduct, including conducting or enabling cybercrimes, which will likely fall not just on government contractors, but across industries and geographies, say attorneys at Paul Weiss.
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Some Client Speculations On AI And The Law Firm Biz Model
Generative artificial intelligence technologies will put pressure on the business of law as it is structured currently, but clients may end up with more price certainty for legal services, and lawyers may spend more time being lawyers, says Jonathan Cole at Melody Capital.
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Section 214 Order Solidifies FCC's Role In National Security
In its recent approval of an order to collect foreign ownership information from international Section 214 authorization holders, the Federal Communications Commission demonstrates its formal commitment to improving efforts to protect national security and international telecommunications services, say attorneys at Mayer Brown.
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Why Ericsson DPA Breach Is Precedent-Setting
Swedish telecommunications company Ericsson recently faced several penalties for breaching a deferred prosecution agreement, revealing a sobering new precedent for when the U.S. Department of Justice will find an entity in noncompliance, so companies should be prepared to revisit pre-resolution disclosures, say James Koukios and Sarah Maneval at MoFo.
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Metaverse Presents New Challenges For Data Preservation
With regulators increasingly requesting data — and recordings — from virtual meeting applications, and cracking down on employee use of ephemeral messaging, companies have hints of what's to come for metaverse-generated data and should consider the technological capabilities of the metaverse and governance of its data, says Timothy Taylor at Holland & Knight.
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Failed Tegna Deal Reveals Increasing Merger Review Hurdles
A deeper look at how the Tegna-Standard General deal derailed during merger review suggests some practical steps that firms should consider to close transactions when dealing with multiple federal agencies operating under a whole-of-government antitrust enforcement approach, say Jody Boudreault and Katherine Dutcher at Baker Botts.
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A Lawyer's Guide To Approaching Digital Assets In Discovery
The booming growth of cryptocurrency and non-fungible tokens has made digital assets relevant in many legal disputes but also poses several challenges for discovery, so lawyers must garner an understanding of the technology behind these assets, the way they function, and how they're held, says Brett Sager at Ehrenstein Sager.
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Opinion
High Court's Ethics Statement Places Justices Above The Law
The U.S. Supreme Court justices' disappointing statement on the court's ethics principles and practices reveals that not only are they satisfied with a status quo in which they are bound by fewer ethics rules than other federal judges, but also that they've twisted the few rules that do apply to them, says David Janovsky at the Project on Government Oversight.
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G7 Russia Restrictions May Further Complicate Compliance
New sanctions and export controls announced at the G7 summit targeting parties that help Russia circumvent existing restrictions signal continued multilateral commitment to intensifying economic pressure on Russia, and underscore the increasing compliance challenges for companies that pursue Russia-related opportunities, say attorneys at Ropes & Gray.
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A Look At Corwin Cleansing After Chancery Edgio Ruling
The Delaware Chancery Court's denial of Corwin cleansing in an action seeking post-closing injunctive relief in the Edgio stockholders case has potentially significant implications for corporations and their boards in the negotiation of investment agreements with significant stockholders, say attorneys at Cleary.
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Opinion
Time For Law Schools To Rethink Unsung Role Of Adjuncts
As law schools prepare for the fall 2023 semester, administrators should reevaluate the role of the underappreciated, indispensable adjunct, and consider 16 concrete actions to improve the adjuncts' teaching experience, overall happiness and feeling of belonging, say T. Markus Funk at Perkins Coie, Andrew Boutros at Dechert and Eugene Volokh at UCLA.
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Tips For In-House Legal Leaders In A Challenging Economy
Amid today's economic and geopolitical uncertainty, in-house legal teams are running lean and facing increased scrutiny and unique issues, but can step up and find innovative ways to manage outcomes and capitalize on good business opportunities, says Tim Parilla at LinkSquares.
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The Multimillion-Dollar Patent Consequences Of 'A' Vs. 'The'
Two Federal Circuit cases last month provide exemplary applications of both the general rule and its exception when interpreting the exact meaning of the indefinite articles "a" and "an" in patent claims, say attorneys at Shearman.
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What Associates Need To Know Before Switching Law Firms
Excerpt from Practical Guidance
The days of staying at the same firm for the duration of one's career are mostly a thing of the past as lateral moves by lawyers are commonplace, but there are several obstacles that associates should consider before making a move, say attorneys at HWG.