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October 09, 2025
FCC Looks To Scale Down Broadband 'Nutrition' Label Reg
The Federal Communications Commission will consider making broadband "nutrition" labels a little leaner after the agency during the Biden administration imposed what the industry sees as overly burdensome requirements.
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October 09, 2025
Mobile Game Co. To Pay $25M To End Chancery Investor Suit
A China-based mobile gaming company has agreed to pay $24.75 million to settle a Delaware Chancery Court class action accusing it of engineering a $600 million share buyback that unfairly cemented its control of the company.
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October 09, 2025
Clearview AI's £7.5M GDPR Fine Faces Renewed Scrutiny
A London tribunal has decided that a lower court was wrong to find that the U.K.'s data protection regulator lacked the power to fine Clearview AI Inc. £7.5 million ($10 million) over its collection of images of U.K. citizens from social media without their knowledge.
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October 08, 2025
FCC Tells Justices 5th Circ. Used Jarkesy To Gut Enforcement
The Fifth Circuit erroneously used a major U.S. Supreme Court decision curtailing U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission trials to "severely impair" Federal Communications Commission enforcement in the telecommunications industry, the FCC said in a petition urging the justices to resolve a new circuit split.
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October 08, 2025
GOP Sens. Talk Big Tech Censorship While Dems Talk Kimmel
Senate Republicans convened a committee hearing Wednesday morning to discuss "how Uncle Sam jawboned Big Tech into silencing Americans," but Democrats wanted to talk about censorship of a different stripe and kept pulling the conversation back to Jimmy Kimmel and the Federal Communications Commission.
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October 08, 2025
Decade-Old $139M Telecoms Award Still Unpaid, Court Hears
Intel Capital Corp. and Deutsche Telekom AG are seeking to renew a judgment just shy of a decade old that enforces a roughly $139 million award against one of the founders of a Chinese wireless broadband company, telling a Michigan federal judge that they still haven't received a penny.
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October 08, 2025
'I Don't Want To Be A Referee,' Google Search Judge Says
A D.C. federal judge faced the prospect Wednesday of years more involvement in the U.S. Justice Department's case against Google's search monopoly, saying during a hearing that he's trying to balance avoiding being a "referee" for his remedies decision while preventing "misuses" of data sharing and search syndication mandates.
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October 08, 2025
Software Co.'s Ex-Chair Faces Jurist Ire Over 'Sloppy' Practices
A New York federal judge expressed frustration with the former chairman of The Resource Group International Ltd. in his bid to challenge his ouster from the software investment company following a widely reported sexual harassment scandal, criticizing the executive's "sloppy and irresponsibly careless practices" in the proceeding.
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October 08, 2025
FCC Wants Caller ID Expanded In Anti-Robocall Regs
The Federal Communications Commission will consider expanding the data that consumers receive on caller ID displays as part of a wider effort to stamp out scam robocalls from overseas.
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October 08, 2025
Advocacy Group Sues Trump To Restore Digital Equity Funds
A group advocating for wider broadband adoption has sued the Trump administration for canceling the disbursement of grants under the Digital Equity Act.
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October 08, 2025
2 More States Join Growing US Privacy Regulator Consortium
A bipartisan collective of U.S. regulators that was recently formed to collaborate on the implementation and enforcement of their states' data privacy regimes has swelled to double digits, with the attorneys general of Minnesota and New Hampshire on Wednesday being announced as the group's newest members.
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October 08, 2025
Tech Firm Settles Sale Dispute Over Undisclosed Legal Battles
A cloud technology business has settled its claim that it lost more than £2 million ($2.7 million) buying a telecommunications company after the sellers allegedly failed to disclose legal disputes between clients and a subsidiary which devalued company shares.
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October 07, 2025
Panel Said Congress Was 'Feckless,' 6th Circ. Told In FCC Row
The Sixth Circuit should agree to a full court reconsideration of a panel's decision to back the Federal Communications Commission's expanded data breach notifications for telecom carriers, says a conservative legal organization that believes the panel assumed Congress was legislating "fecklessly."
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October 07, 2025
3rd Circ. Says State Lawmakers Mostly Immune From TCPA
State legislators in certain instances can make robocalls if they want, the Third Circuit has declared after finding that the Telephone Consumer Protection Act's ban on automated and prerecorded texts and calls without consent doesn't apply to them.
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October 07, 2025
Fed. Circ. Ponders Document Sealing In EDTX's Patent Cases
A Federal Circuit panel grappled Tuesday with document sealing practices in patent cases in the Eastern District of Texas, appearing at points skeptical about a digital rights nonprofit's efforts to unseal records in since-concluded litigation involving Charter Communications Inc.
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October 07, 2025
1st Circ. Left In Limbo Over FCC's Prison Phone Rate Caps
First Circuit judges Tuesday questioned the Federal Communications Commission's turnabout in defense of its Biden-era prison phone rate caps and were unsure how to construct a legal ruling with the FCC poised to vote on a policy makeover within weeks.
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October 07, 2025
Ex-Trinoor VP Agrees Not To Solicit Customers, For Now
A former vice president at Georgia-based software company Trinoor LLC agreed Tuesday not to solicit the company's customers for business in a case alleging she stole internal data before joining a competitor firm.
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October 07, 2025
3 Firms Guide Real Estate-Focused SPAC's $200M IPO
Blank-check company BOA Acquisition Corp. II filed plans Monday for a $200 million initial public offering guided by Paul Hastings LLP, Maples and Calder LLP and Proskauer Rose LLP, saying it is seeking to invest directly in real estate and infrastructure assets.
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October 07, 2025
Apple Seeks To Toss IPhone, Watch Buyers' Antitrust Suits
Apple has asked a New Jersey federal court to toss multidistrict antitrust litigation brought by iPhone and Apple Watch buyers, arguing that while they "try in vain to invent" theories about how Apple charges monopoly prices the inflation-adjusted price of the latest iPhone is nearly the same as the first model.
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October 07, 2025
DOJ Backs Patent Rights In Disney's Streaming Antitrust Case
The U.S. Department of Justice urged a Delaware federal court to ensure wireless technology company InterDigital's patent rights are protected when it assesses Disney's antitrust case accusing the company of monopolizing video streaming technology.
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October 07, 2025
Comcast Wins PTAB Fight Against Entropic Receiver Patent
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has found that an Entropic Communications LLC television receiver patent challenged by Comcast is invalid, about a month after the board found that claims in two other patents were also unpatentable.
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October 06, 2025
High Court Declines Challenge To Ore. Secret Recording Ban
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to take up conservative media group Project Veritas' First Amendment challenge to an Oregon law prohibiting secret audio recordings of people's conversations, leaving in place a Ninth Circuit ruling upholding the measure.
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October 06, 2025
Cisco Gets PTAB To Invalidate Ethernet Patent Claims
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has invalidated all claims Cisco Systems Inc. had challenged of an Ethernet patent owned by Lionra Technologies Ltd.
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October 06, 2025
Dish, AT&T Must Give Up Docs In T-Mobile-Sprint Merger Case
An Illinois federal magistrate judge ordered Dish and AT&T to produce key documents in a proposed consumer class action targeting T-Mobile over its purchase of Sprint, finding the material from the wireless companies, especially Dish, to be centrally important to the suit.
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October 06, 2025
Broadcasters Say FCC Can Nix Nat'l Ownership Cap. It's Iffy
Top TV station chains insist the Federal Communications Commission has clear authority to scrap a decades-old cap on national audience share controlled by any one company. But they're wading into a murky legal area almost certain to prompt a flood of litigation.
Expert Analysis
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11th Circ. Ruling Shows Federal Question Jurisdiction Limits
The Eleventh Circuit's recent decision in AST Science v. Delclaux shows why it is extremely difficult for litigants to maintain a state law cause of action in federal court under Supreme Court precedent, says Paul Avron at Berger Singerman.
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From Clerkship To Law Firm: 5 Transition Tips For Associates
Excerpt from Practical Guidance
Transitioning from a judicial clerkship to an associate position at a law firm may seem daunting, but by using knowledge gained while clerking, being mindful of key differences and taking advantage of professional development opportunities, these attorneys can flourish in private practice, say attorneys at Lowenstein Sandler.
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Associates Can Earn Credibility By Investing In Relationships
As the class of 2025 prepares to join law firms this fall, new associates must adapt to office dynamics and establish credible reputations — which require quiet, consistent relationship-building skills as much as legal acumen, says Kyle Forges at Bast Amron.
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Trending At The PTAB: IPR Memo And Its Fed. Circ. Backdrop
There are new rules for when and how evidence other than patents or printed publications can be considered in inter partes reviews, and while this change is intended to reflect current Federal Circuit precedent, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's memo seems to acknowledge tension with last month's Shockwave decision, say attorneys at Finnegan.
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Lessons From 7th Circ.'s Deleted Chat Sanctions Ruling
The Seventh Circuit’s recent decision in Pable v. Chicago Transit Authority, affirming the dismissal of an ex-employee’s retaliation claims, highlights the importance of properly handling the preservation of ephemeral messages and clarifies key sanctions issues, says Philip Favro at Favro Law.
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Opinion
Sometimes Int'l Competition Should Trump Antitrust Concerns
The U.S. Justice Department's approval of HPE's $14 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks shows that a merger that significantly enhances innovation and competitiveness may serve consumer and national interests despite marginally increasing industry concentration, says John Reeves at Reeves Law.
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Series
Quilting Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Turning intricate patterns of fabric and thread into quilts has taught me that craftsmanship, creative problem-solving and dedication to incremental progress are essential to creating something lasting that will help another person — just like in law, says Veronica McMillan at Kramon & Graham.
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Utility Agency Suits May Rise As Calif. Justices Nix Deference
A recent California Supreme Court ruling rejecting the uniquely deferential standard of review accorded to California Public Utilities Commission decisions interpreting the Public Utilities Code will incentivize more litigation against the agency, as long as litigants can show their challenges meet certain requirements, says Thaila Sundaresan at Davis Wright.
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2 Appellate Rulings Offer Clickwrap Enforcement Road Map
Two recent decisions from the Fourth and Eleventh Circuits in cases involving Experian signal that federal appellate courts are recognizing clickwrap agreements' power in spite of their simplicity, and offer practical advice on how companies can sufficiently demonstrate notice and assent when attempting to enforce contractual terms, says Brian Willett at Saul Ewing.
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What 2 Profs Noticed As Transactional Law Students Used AI
After a semester using generative artificial intelligence tools with students in an entrepreneurship law clinic, we came away with numerous observations about the opportunities and challenges such tools present to new transactional lawyers, say professors at Cornell Law School.
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Top Takeaways From Trump's AI Action Plan
President Donald Trump's AI Action Plan represents some notable evolution in U.S. policy, including affirmation of the administration's trend toward prioritizing artificial intelligence innovation over guardrails and toward supporting greater U.S. private sector reach overseas, say attorneys at WilmerHale.
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Reel Justice: 'Eddington' Spotlights Social Media Evidence
In the neo-Western black comedy “Eddington” released last month, social media is a character unto itself, highlighting how the boundaries between digital and real-world conduct can become blurred, thereby posing evidentiary challenges in criminal prosecutions, says Veronica Finkelstein at Wilmington University School of Law.
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Rebuttal
BigLaw Settlements Should Not Spur Ethics Deregulation
A recent Law360 op-ed argued that loosening law firm funding restrictions would make BigLaw firms less inclined to settle with the Trump administration, but deregulating legal financing ethics may well prove to be not merely ineffective, but counterproductive, says Laurel Kilgour at the American Economic Liberties Project.
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5 Ways Lawyers Can Earn Back The Public's Trust
Amid salacious headlines about lawyers behaving badly and recent polls showing the public’s increasingly unfavorable view of attorneys, we must make meaningful changes to our culture to rebuild trust in the legal system, says Carl Taylor at Carl Taylor Law.
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Series
Hiking Makes Me A Better Lawyer
On the trail, I have thought often about the parallels between hiking and high-stakes patent litigation, and why strategizing, preparation, perseverance and joy are important skills for success in both endeavors, says Barbara Fiacco at Foley Hoag.