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August 21, 2026
The past week in London has seen former Liberal Democrat MP Mark Oaten sue a fur auction house, private equity and pensions magnate Edmund Truell hit by a commercial fraud claim and Charles Russell Speechlys file a contract claim against two of its previous clients in the Middle East.
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August 20, 2026
The Instagram executive responsible for the algorithm kicked off Meta's defense case Thursday over Tennessee's claims it concealed harm to youths' mental health, testifying the company's efforts to protect children also protect its bottom line.
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August 20, 2026
Corridor Television will pay a voluntary contribution of $27,000 to resolve an investigation from the Federal Communications Commission into whether it submitted misleading information about its participation in three nationwide tests of the Emergency Alert System.
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August 20, 2026
The U.S. Government Accountability Office said in a Thursday report that the U.S. Army has earmarked $3.3 billion this fiscal year for modernizing battlefield communication networks, but lacks enough information to determine if the program is sustainable.
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August 20, 2026
ABC was hoping to get before a D.C. federal judge as early as Friday to make its arguments for a temporary restraining order against the Federal Communications Commission in its retaliation suit, but the court dashed the Disney-owned network's hopes Thursday afternoon by setting the hearing for early October.
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August 20, 2026
A Florida federal judge has dismissed a suit by a man who claimed his co-inventor on a patent covering a method for scoring sports games conspired to remove his name from inventorship, saying no actual consequences of having his name removed were alleged.
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August 20, 2026
A California federal judge has denied a bid from the company that owns video-messaging app Snapchat to escape allegations from a group of YouTube creators that their content was illegally ingested to train artificial intelligence, saying the YouTubers had sufficiently laid out how users encounter measures meant to protect videos.
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August 20, 2026
A California federal judge has denied a former AT&T employee's bid to move his class action suit alleging violations of state labor law over a tobacco surcharge on employee health plans from federal to state court.
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August 20, 2026
Motorola Solutions Inc. is looking to expand its mobile radio fight against Chinese rival Hytera Communications with allegations targeting the H-Series radio Hytera has already been held in contempt for developing with too much stolen source code following its initial multimillion-dollar trade secret trial loss.
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August 20, 2026
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other trade and advocacy groups backed Apple Wednesday with amicus briefs telling the Ninth Circuit to reject an appeal from consumers looking to undo the decertification of a class of roughly 200 million people in an antitrust case targeting App Store policies.
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August 20, 2026
A Pennsylvania federal judge has granted final approval to a historic $117.5 million settlement stemming from a data breach that affected 31 million customers, although he cut approximately $7 million from the class counsel's fee request.
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August 20, 2026
A Connecticut federal judge has given his initial OK to a $14 million settlement Frontier Communications Corp. has reached to end a proposed class action over claims its employee 401(k) plan was overinvested in Verizon Wireless and other telecommunications stocks.
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August 19, 2026
A psychologist told a Tennessee jury considering claims against Meta on Wednesday that it's well accepted in his field that social media use can cause behavior that looks like addiction, and social media is a challenging presence in the lives of 15% to 20% of his patients.
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August 19, 2026
The D.C. federal judge overseeing a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's shutdown of the Digital Equity Act's Competitive Grant Program has put the case on hold until the government relaunches the program without provisions that consider the applicants' race, as it has agreed to do.
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August 19, 2026
Apple has made several changes to its policies for app distribution in Europe, after enforcers found restrictions and fees were blocking competition from App Store alternatives and outside payments methods.
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August 19, 2026
Broadband provider GoNetSpeed has asked the Federal Communications Commission to open a rulemaking proceeding to tackle "ineffective" state regulation of utility pole attachments for broadband equipment.
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August 19, 2026
The Federal Communications Commission will take another look at a trio of years-old petitions challenging the agency's finding that unsolicited advertisements sent to people using online fax services don't violate the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.
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August 19, 2026
A California federal judge overseeing the challenge to Paramount Skydance's $110 billion Warner Bros. Discovery acquisition brought by the Writers Guild of America and state attorneys general urged the parties Wednesday to be "much more reasonable" with discovery disputes, warning that if they aren't, "you will find yourself asked to engage a special master."
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August 19, 2026
A California federal judge refused Tuesday to reconsider dismissing a consumer complaint challenging Paramount's completed merger with Skydance and its planned purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery, holding that the filing of an amended complaint mooted the motion.
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August 19, 2026
A prison phone service provider told a New York federal judge that three field service technicians who installed and maintained telecommunications systems in hospitals and prisons did not agree to a "public works" contract and aren't guaranteed higher pay under state labor laws.
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August 19, 2026
The Federal Communications Commission's Wireline Competition Bureau is seeking public input on a proposal to amend, and possibly curtail, a broadband subsidy for schools and libraries.
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August 18, 2026
The Seventh Circuit on Tuesday concluded Club Exploria's conduct in a long-running Telephone Consumer Protection Act case was inconsistent with its intent to arbitrate as it waited four years to raise arbitration and finding its decision to hire new lawyers "late in the game cannot excuse prior counsel's lack of diligence."
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August 18, 2026
A former Meta executive overseeing responsible innovation testified Tuesday that Mark Zuckerberg iced out her thoughts regarding the harm to teens of cosmetic surgery image filters, but said generally the company's employees are well intentioned when it comes to user safety.
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August 18, 2026
The Federal Circuit's refusal to curb the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office director's power over instituting Patent Trial and Appeal Board challenges has allowed leaders to "wreak havoc" without accountability, top tech companies have warned the U.S. Supreme Court.
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August 18, 2026
Microsoft Corp.'s partnerships with K-12 schools in Washington have allowed the technology giant to collect and profit from swaths of personal student data in violation of state and federal law, according to a proposed class action filed by four minor students who attend public schools in Spokane, Washington.