Media & Entertainment

  • June 12, 2026

    Kennedy Center Owes $17M, Washington National Opera Says

    The Kennedy Center has refused to return $17 million in funding to the Washington National Opera that the performing arts center managed under the parties' since-terminated affiliation agreement, the opera company said in a complaint at the U.S. Court of Federal Claims. 

  • June 12, 2026

    PTAB Cites Oscar, Emmy In Upholding Zaxcom Recording IP

    The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has declined to invalidate claims in Zaxcom Inc.'s patents covering technology for wireless recording audio, finding that Academy and Emmy awards that Zaxcom received for the technology defeat the challenges to them. 

  • June 12, 2026

    Eutelsat Seeks 'Relative' Payments For Upper C-Band Moves

    The FCC ought to stick with its plan of paying companies who agreed to quickly clear out of the upper C-band "relative" to their contribution, but that doesn't mean using the same percentages it did to dole out payments for clearing out of the lower C-band, one satellite company said.

  • June 12, 2026

    'Demonstrably Untrue' Claim Ends Google Teen‑Harm Fee Bid

    A Florida federal judge has shut down an Orlando firm's bid to get a cut of a pending settlement in a suit alleging Google LLC and a chatbot company caused a teen's suicide, rejecting the firm's "demonstrably untrue" statement supporting its bid.

  • June 12, 2026

    Washington Post Subscribers Sue Over Surveillance Pricing

    As The Washington Post's print subscriptions declined and many readers moved online, the company has betrayed readers' loyalty by harvesting their personal information to determine how much more they might tolerate paying to renew their subscriptions, according to a proposed class action filed in Washington, D.C.

  • June 12, 2026

    ACLU Of Pa. Sues DHS, CBP Over Probe Into Online Critics

    The American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania sued U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in Pennsylvania federal court on Friday, saying they failed to respond to a records request seeking copies of subpoenas for the identities of anonymous social media users who criticized the agencies.

  • June 12, 2026

    InterDigital Patent Suit Against Disney Paused For Dolby Feud

    A California federal judge has paused a patent infringement suit brought by wireless technology outfit InterDigital Inc. against The Walt Disney Co. while letting play out a dispute involving a request from Dolby to declare one InterDigital patent invalid, as well as Disney's challenges over two other patents at the patent office.

  • June 12, 2026

    9th Circ. Judge Doubts Google Rival's 'Broad' Antitrust Suit

    A Ninth Circuit judge appeared skeptical Friday of efforts to revive allegations that Google harmed market competition for digital advertising by booting a now-defunct advertising app from its Play Store, saying Google has many rivals in the "very broad" proposed market and asking the plaintiff: "So what's the injury?"

  • June 12, 2026

    Judge Questions Pentagon Claim Press Escorts Curbed Leaks

    A D.C. federal judge pressed a Trump administration attorney to back up her claim that restricting reporters' access to the Pentagon has driven down the amount of classified information reaching the press, saying Friday that he'd seen nothing suggesting that unfettered access to the building was connected with leaks.

  • June 12, 2026

    Ice Cube's BIG3 Basketball League Inks $290M SPAC Deal

    BIG3's legal adviser Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP and Graf Global Corp.'s counsel White & Case LLP are guiding a deal that will take professional 3-on-3 basketball league BIG3 public through a merger with the special purpose acquisition company, the parties said Friday.

  • June 12, 2026

    Judge Demands Proof $1.8B Trump Settlement Fund Is Dead

    A Virginia federal court judge ordered the federal government Friday to submit in writing that it won't create a $1.8 billion payment fund to settle President Donald Trump's tax leak suit against the Internal Revenue Service. 

  • June 12, 2026

    Bloggers Say EBay Stalking Settlement Has Fallen Apart

    A Massachusetts couple who were stalked and harassed by eBay employees after publishing blog posts critical of the online retailer's management asked a Massachusetts federal judge on Friday to reopen their suit against the company and several executives, saying a proposed settlement has collapsed.

  • June 12, 2026

    Jury Rejects Nielsen's TV Audience IP Case Against TVision

    A Delaware federal jury has cleared TVision Insights Inc. from claims by The Nielsen Co. that it infringed a patent covering audio recognition software with its products for getting data on TV audiences.

  • June 12, 2026

    UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

    The past week in London has seen the FCA bring a claim against a fund manager it accused of providing investment services despite having been banned, an Ardmore unit sue a contractor two days before the construction group's collapse, and shipping and cruise giant MSC hit back at an entertainment company following separate intellectual property litigation in the U.S. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

  • June 11, 2026

    Meta Must Face Porn Studio's IP Suit Over AI Training

    Meta Platforms Inc. can't toss a porn studio's copyright infringement suit accusing the social media giant of downloading the studio's films to train generative artificial intelligence models, a California federal judge ruled Thursday, saying the studio's allegations suffice to infer a "coordinated effort" by Meta to gather data.

  • June 11, 2026

    Tech Group Urges High Court To Block Texas App Store Law

    The Computer & Communications Industry Association on Thursday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to vacate a recent Fifth Circuit ruling permitting Texas to move forward with a law requiring app store owners to verify users' ages, arguing the law is unconstitutional and overly burdensome for its members.

  • June 11, 2026

    Meta Beats Investors' Suit Over AI-Powered Facebook Scams

    A California federal judge tossed a proposed class action alleging that Meta's AI tools enabled investment schemes advertised on Facebook, finding Thursday that his own earlier ruling means that the plaintiffs' state claims are barred under federal securities law.

  • June 11, 2026

    Ex-CEO Seeks To Again Depose Lutnick In Trump Media Suit

    The former CEO of a company that merged with President Donald Trump's Truth Social platform urged a Florida state court on Thursday to again allow him to depose U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, arguing his testimony is highly relevant to the lawsuit over a botched public offering.

  • June 11, 2026

    OpenAI Says High Court Curbed Some News Org IP Claims

    OpenAI told a New York federal judge Thursday that the U.S. Supreme Court's recent Cox v. Sony decision bars a contributory infringement claim brought by four news companies accusing the artificial intelligence company of using their copyrighted materials to train ChatGPT, saying the high court's ruling eliminates the legal theory on which the plaintiffs rely.

  • June 11, 2026

    WWE, Accuser Eyeing Confidential Deal In Sex Abuse Suit

    The former World Wrestling Entertainment legal staffer accusing the company and founder Vince McMahon of sexual abuse and trafficking may consent to the defendants' long-sought effort to drag the dispute into arbitration, the parties jointly told a Connecticut federal judge on Thursday.

  • June 11, 2026

    GlobalStar Opposes FCC Review Of 2 GHz Satellite Order

    The Federal Communications Commission should ignore a request to rethink its rejection of a plan that would bring sweeping changes to the "Big LEO" satellite rules, an American satellite telecom is telling the agency.

  • June 11, 2026

    Amazon Didn't Infringe 'The Love Zone' TM With TV Show

    A Manhattan federal judge has dismissed a suit brought by a New York radio personality who hosts a show called "The Love Zone" against Amazon Studios and Paramount over a television episode that featured a fictional radio show of the same name, saying there wasn't a risk that the episode would harm the reputation of the real-life radio show.

  • June 11, 2026

    Fla. Justices Lower Bar For Ex-Marvel CEO's Damages Bid

    The Florida Supreme Court ruled that the former CEO of Marvel Entertainment doesn't need to show "clear and convincing" evidence to add a punitive damages claim against his neighbor, saying Thursday the lower court doesn't act as a trier of fact at the pleading stage of a lawsuit. 

  • June 11, 2026

    Amazon Reaches Deal To End Workers' Genetic Privacy Suit

    Amazon has agreed to end a lawsuit alleging that it violated Illinois genetic privacy law by seeking information about job applicants' family medical history, according to a federal court filing.

  • June 11, 2026

    Judge Doubts Need For Discovery In Digital Equity Suit

    A Washington, D.C., federal judge struggled to find a reason for plaintiffs challenging the Trump administration's shutdown of the Digital Equity Act's Competitive Grant Program to get discovery in their lawsuit, suggesting the question of the program's constitutionality appeared to be a purely legal question, as the government suggested.

Expert Analysis

  • 3 Misconceptions About Justices' FCC Fines Ruling

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    The U.S. Supreme Court's June 4 Federal Communications Commission v. AT&T decision rejecting AT&T’s and Verizon’s argument that the commission's forfeiture process violates the Seventh Amendment has yielded three common reactions that misunderstand the decision as a matter of law and how the FCC actually operates, says Samuel Feder at Jenner & Block.

  • Series

    Cow Horse Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Moving an unwilling 800-pound cow while riding a horse at high speed is exhilarating, a little unhinged and, at least for me, a surprisingly effective training ground for litigation — both demand focus, preparation over rigid planning and the willingness to act despite fear, says Ashley Zitrin at Glenn Agre.

  • Vax Ruling Offers Employer Tips For Handling Political Speech

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    A California appeals court's recent decision in Rademacher v. ABC, rejecting a "General Hospital" actor's suit alleging he was terminated for opposing a vaccine policy, demonstrates the importance of the employer's process, including neutral policies, documentation, and evidence of who knew what and when, say attorneys at Krevolin Horst.

  • Unpacking The Take It Down Act's Compliance Ambiguities

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    The Federal Trade Commission’s recent guidance concerning the Take It Down Act suggests that covered platforms should build removal systems immediately and prioritize compliance, but until courts or regulators provide additional clarity, companies will be navigating a statutory framework that is urgent and uncertain, says Laura-Kate Bernstein at ZwillGen.

  • A Look At The Court's Next Steps In Live Nation Antitrust Case

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    Following a recent jury verdict that Live Nation and Ticketmaster operated as a monopoly to fix ticket prices, a New York federal court stands to weigh Live Nation's bid for a new trial, approve the U.S. Department of Justice's March settlement with the defendants, and impose remedies that include full structural separation, say attorneys at Crowell.

  • Checking For AI Errors Is Now A Two-Way Street

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    A handful of recent federal and state cases demonstrate the importance of checking for errors generated by artificial intelligence not only in your own court submissions, but also your opponent's, as well as when catching opposing counsel's AI mistakes could result in an award for attorney fees, says Tamara Barago at Hollingsworth.

  • Celebs May Need Federal Protection To Fight Voice Deepfakes

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    Deepfakes and digital replicas are increasingly misappropriating celebrities' voices for commercial purposes, but unless federal right of publicity protections are developed, celebrities are left to rely on ill-equipped trademark and state law, say attorneys at Brown Rudnick.

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    The Biz Court Digest: Shoring Up Corporate Law In Maryland

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    Launched more than 20 years ago to improve complex corporate adjudication, Maryland's Business and Technology Case Management Program has been a solid success in some areas, but there always is room for improvement, says Bill Krulak at Miles & Stockbridge.

  • How End Of SEC 'Gag Rule' Affects Free Speech Certiorari Bid

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    The Securities and Exchange Commission's recent rescission of the so-called gag rule, which forbade defendants in settlements from denying the SEC’s allegations, may sway the outcome of a petition to the Supreme Court in a case challenging the rule on First Amendment grounds, say attorneys at Troutman.

  • 2nd Circ.'s Embedded Video Ruling May Protect Publishers

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    The Second Circuit's recent decision in Richardson v. Townsquare, dismissing an infringement claim arising from an embedding of a YouTube-hosted interview, reaffirms a potent defense for publishers who regularly use social media platforms' embed functionality, says Amanda Harris at Jassy Vick.

  • Product-Or-Content Question Is Pivotal In AI Litigation

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    A growing range of civil cases against OpenAI address the question of whether the output of a generative artificial intelligence system is a product, subject to traditional tort doctrine, or third-party content — and the framing courts adopt will shape software liability well beyond AI, says David Meldofsky at Lawsuit Informer.

  • Citron Founder Verdict Tests Reach Of 'Half-Truth' Fraud

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    A California federal jury's conviction this week of Citron founder Andrew Left may be remembered less as a conventional manipulation prosecution than as a case about how far the "half-truth" doctrine can reach when applied to modern market speech, says Elisha Kobre at Sheppard.

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    Competing At Poker Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Playing poker in male-dominated rooms taught me to treat skepticism as background noise when my opponents seem to underestimate me, to apply pressure when it matters and to adapt without losing strategic discipline — skills that are all indispensable in restructuring and insolvency matters, says Alexis Gambale at Pashman Stein.

  • FTC Sweep Signals Increased 'Made In USA' Claim Scrutiny

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    After the Federal Trade Commission's recent enforcement sweep targeting allegedly deceptive "Made in USA" claims, companies should expect continued scrutiny of both traditional and digital marketing channels, coupled with sustained focus on supply chain transparency and claim substantiation, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.

  • Revisiting TransUnion's Underused Standing Rule, 5 Years On

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    The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals' recent use of the U.S. Supreme Court’s now five-year-old TransUnion v. Ramirez rule specifying that the "mere risk of future harm" isn't concrete enough to support a damages claim presents an opportunity to revisit this underutilized standing rule, say attorneys at Horvitz & Levy.

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