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June 18, 2026
A group of authors sued Anthropic, the company behind the artificial intelligence large language model Claude, accusing the firm of ingesting the authors' works illegally via online shadow libraries to use as material to train Anthropic's models.
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June 18, 2026
Heading into her second year running the federal agency that manages spectrum and a $42 billion push to expand broadband deployment, Arielle Roth has her hands full.
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June 18, 2026
DirecTV and a coalition of state attorneys general urged the Ninth Circuit not to narrow a district court preliminary injunction blocking Nexstar's purchase of Tegna, arguing the only way to preserve competition while the case proceeds is a full block, not one restricted to 31 overlapping broadcast markets.
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June 18, 2026
The former CEO of marine park company Dolphin Co. has asked the Delaware Bankruptcy Court to either dismiss the Chapter 11 case of Leisure Investments Holdings LLC or halt parts of the proceedings, arguing that a Mexican appellate court has reinstated an earlier insolvency case and restored his authority over the company's parent entity.
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June 18, 2026
The U.S. Senate Commerce Committee on Thursday approved a bill to codify federal protections for college sports and for athletes' earning abilities, sending it to the full Senate for a possible vote.
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June 18, 2026
The Third Circuit on Thursday held that the Trump administration can legally replace slavery exhibits at Independence Hall National Park in Philadelphia, reversing a lower court's ruling in favor of the city ordering the restoration of the previously removed informational panels.
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June 18, 2026
The IRS, in increasing Meta's income under the periodic adjustment rule for years 2017-2019, is seeking a "do-over" of the Facebook case decided in 2025, valuing the same intangibles the U.S. Tax Court already valued under a different method, Meta argued.
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June 18, 2026
A New York federal magistrate judge has ordered a group of news and magazine publishers to turn over their policies on how artificial intelligence is used in their newsrooms to AI startup Cohere, as Cohere stands accused of improperly using copyrighted news content to train chatbots.
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June 18, 2026
A bill that would create a pathway for reporting AI-generated deepfakes online for removal cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday after a few senators had raised concerns over First Amendment implications but said they believed they could be resolved before a full Senate vote.
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June 18, 2026
Internet service provider Gateway Fiber has asked the Federal Communications Commission to step in and declare that a Minnesota city can't decide that its cable franchise agreement ordinances suddenly apply to broadband providers now.
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June 18, 2026
Meta faced some pushback Thursday from a Massachusetts state judge for comparing Instagram's design to a newspaper publisher's decisions about what to put on the front page, as the company pushed to end the state's lawsuit over alleged harm to youth from social media use.
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June 17, 2026
An Illinois federal judge has refused to toss a putative class action accusing a global advertising technology company of breaking federal wiretap law by transmitting Americans' sensitive information to Chinese e-commerce giant Temu, finding it plausibly alleged the conduct violated a U.S. Department of Justice regulation restricting bulk data transfers to foreign adversaries.
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June 17, 2026
SIMAD Holdings Ltd. won court permission on Wednesday to use some of its available $15.6 million of cash on hand as it races to open the 30 children's summer camps it owns for the season, after a freefall bankruptcy filing earlier this month left in doubt the fate of more than 20,000 campers.
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June 17, 2026
Maya Kowalski, the subject of the Netflix documentary "Take Care of Maya," filed a malpractice suit against her former attorney on Wednesday, accusing him of charging excessive fees and improperly orchestrating an advance funding loan after winning a $213 million judgment.
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June 17, 2026
A former writer on the television show "Matlock" sued CBS Television Studios, its showrunner and its executive producers Wednesday in California state court for allegedly fostering a hostile work environment replete with racist and sexual comments.
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June 17, 2026
Madison Square Garden has been hit with a proposed class action in New York federal court alleging a ransom-driven cyberattack executed by ShinyHunters exposed more than 26 million records containing facial biometric data, threat assessment ratings and detailed profiles of guests, including actor Ben Stiller.
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June 17, 2026
The Cayuga Nation has alleged Caesars Sportsbook engaged in illegal gambling on the tribe's reservation, violated the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act and unlawfully operated within the tribe's territorial boundaries under state law.
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June 17, 2026
The Fourth Circuit refused Wednesday to reopen lawsuits alleging two journalists were fired by a U.S.-funded Middle Eastern media network because they're Iraqi, concluding they couldn't overcome the organization's explanation that the employees violated its social media policy requiring neutrality.
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June 17, 2026
School and library funding advocates are increasingly worried about a potential effort to wind down the E-rate subsidy as the Federal Communications Commission reexamines the program's future.
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June 17, 2026
Athletic apparel company Gymshark pays an "army" of social media influencers to promote its products online without disclosing the ad partnership to viewers, claims a proposed class action filed in New York federal court.
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June 17, 2026
A mediator told a Texas federal court on Wednesday that cheerleading competition organizers and national cheer governing body U.S. All Star Federation Inc. were unable to reach a settlement this month of the organizers' antitrust lawsuit.
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June 17, 2026
A Michigan federal judge has denied Fiat Chrysler's motion to dismiss a proposed class action from drivers claiming that nine models of the automaker's vehicles manufactured between 2021 and 2024 have defective infotainment systems.
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June 17, 2026
A Michigan federal judge has found Eminem's music publishers can proceed with claims accusing Meta of unlawfully putting hundreds of the rapper's songs in Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp music libraries, but dismissed their claims that the technology giant should be liable for users sharing or reusing the songs.
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June 17, 2026
Polymarket and Robinhood may soon face enforcement efforts from Michigan regulators after a federal judge ruled Wednesday that he saw little difference between the prediction market platforms' sports contract offerings and conventional sports betting.
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June 17, 2026
Apple and Google urged the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday to reject consumers' request to depose their respective CEOs, Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai, and other executives in antitrust litigation accusing Google of shutting out rival search engines, arguing that the appeal is unwarranted and the repeated deposition demands are unjustified "harassment."