San Francisco's city attorney and others sued President Donald Trump's social media platform Truth Social in California state court Monday, asking a judge to block its "unprecedented" scheme that grants customers who pay $100,000 per month early access to the president's and other high-level officials' social media posts.
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SF Sues To Block Early Access To Trump's Truth Social Posts

By Dorothy Atkins

San Francisco's city attorney and others sued President Donald Trump's social media platform Truth Social in California state court Monday, asking a judge to block its "unprecedented" scheme that grants customers who pay $100,000 per month early access to the president's and other high-level officials' social media posts.

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DC Circ. Says Copyright Board Must Explain Allocations

By Adam Lidgett

The D.C. Circuit on Tuesday threw out a judicial copyright board's decision on how it divided cable retransmission payments from 2014 through 2017, faulting it for how it did a final step in determining allocations among claimants.

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Salt-N-Pepa Copyright Bid May Get New Life From 2nd Circ.

By Pete Brush

A Second Circuit judge said Tuesday the New York federal judge who quickly dismissed Salt-N-Pepa's bid to reclaim music copyrights from Universal Music Group's UMG Recordings "was incorrect" to dismiss the hip-hop duo's lawsuit for at least two albums.

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Tyra Banks Says Netflix Misquoted Her Pact Like It Edited Doc

By Craig Clough

Tyra Banks has told a California federal court that Netflix and the producers of an "America's Next Top Model" docuseries used the same misleading tactic in their dismissal motion that they allegedly used onscreen: removing key material from the middle of statements to change their meaning.

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Meta Celebrates 'Abuse' Of Atty-Client Privilege, Judge Told

By Dorothy Atkins

A California federal judge ordered Meta on Tuesday to rereview privilege designations on 300 documents in social media addiction litigation, after plaintiffs' lawyers cited a "culture of privilege abuse" epitomized by Instagram swag hats embroidered with "a/c priv" — the shorthand used to log withheld documents.

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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

High Court Told Sony Win In $500M Patent Case Flouted Law

By Ryan Davis

The owner of a patent that Sony's PlayStation controllers were cleared of infringing has told the U.S. Supreme Court that the Federal Circuit's decision applied a rule found nowhere in the statute governing functional patent claims or in high court precedent.

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Big Tech Backs Samsung At Fed. Circ. Over Patent Injunctions

By Dani Kass

Top technology companies and various industry groups have urged the Federal Circuit to deny Collision Communications an injunction after the patent owner's $445.5 million infringement verdict against Samsung, saying an injunction would undermine U.S. Supreme Court precedent.

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3rd Time's A Charm As Netflix Gets PTAB To Ax DivX Patent

By Adam Lidgett

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has ruled that Netflix was able to show that all the claims in a DivX streaming patent were invalid, following two previous decisions to the contrary and two trips to the Federal Circuit.

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PRIVACY & CONSUMER PROTECTION

Dartmouth Inks $750K Deal Over Oracle Data Breach

By Lauren Berg

Nearly 97,000 people whose sensitive information was exposed in a 2025 Oracle Corp. data breach asked a Texas federal judge to give his final blessing to a $750,000 settlement resolving their claims against Oracle subscriber Dartmouth College.

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Samsung TV Buyer Files False Ad Suit Over 'Mini LED' Label

By Gina Kim

A Samsung customer filed a proposed fraudulent misrepresentation class action in New Jersey federal court Tuesday, alleging the company falsely advertised some of its M Series televisions as having advanced Mini LED technology when they do not, saying independent testing confirmed limited contrast and brightness.

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EMPLOYMENT

'Chicago Fire' Production Co. Doesn't Pay Properly, Suit Says

By Lauraann Wood

The production company behind "Chicago Fire" has been hit with a proposed collective wage lawsuit in Illinois federal court claiming the company keeps intentionally inaccurate records and illegally fails to pay for all the work its employees perform on set.

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TELECOMMUNICATIONS

FCC Seeks $25K For Radio Jamming During Alleged Burglary

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission floated on Tuesday a $25,000 fine against three people who, it said, used radio signal jamming devices while apparently trying to impede police during a jewelry store burglary last year in Texas.

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Cities Say Local Permits Not 'Hurdle' To Broadband

By Nadia Dreid

The nation's cities, counties, towns and villages are not pleased with the Federal Communications Commission's decision to work on a proposal that would allow the agency to preempt local reviews of wireline deployments if the FCC thinks localities are dragging their feet.

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Telecom Looks To Retire Legacy Phone Lines In NH, Maine

By Christopher Cole

A regional telecom provider has asked the Federal Communications Commission to approve a technology transition that would let the company switch out legacy systems for internet protocol networks in Maine and New Hampshire.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

4 Opinions Showcase Hurdles To Trademarking Names

Four opinions issued by the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board this year show that names are only registrable as trademarks when they point to the applicant and to nobody else, says Anton Hopen at Trenam Law.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Seyfarth Says Data Breach Exposed Social Security Numbers

By Hailey Konnath

Seyfarth Shaw LLP has disclosed a recent data breach that exposed the names and Social Security numbers of at least 300 individuals, according to notices filed with the Texas and California attorneys general.

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Mich. Fed. Judge On 1-Year Leave Over Drunken Driving Case

By Jack Karp

U.S. District Judge Thomas L. Ludington is taking a one-year paid leave of absence from the bench following his misdemeanor conviction for drunken driving, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan announced Tuesday.

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Womble Bond Can't Quit Dutch Client With TM Trial Looming

By Hayley Fowler

Womble Bond Dickinson can't withdraw from a trademark feud that's dragged on for more than five years between U.S. and Dutch software companies, a North Carolina federal judge ruled, saying the firm's exit at this late stage "would be completely disruptive."

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COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

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AT&T Inc.

Acushnet Holdings Corp.

Alliance for Automotive Innovation

Amazon.com Inc.

Best Buy Co. Inc.

City Attorney of San Francisco

Cloudflare Inc.

Computer & Communications Industry Association

Consolidated Communications Holdings Inc.

CrowdStrike Holdings Inc.

Darty PLC

Discord Inc.

DivX LLC

EE Ltd.

Fidium

FilmOn PLC

Garmin Ltd.

Getty Images Holdings Inc.

GlobalLogic Inc.

Google LLC

Hutchinson Technology Incorporated

Instagram Inc.

Inter IKEA Systems BV

Los Angeles Unified School District

Major League Baseball Inc.

Marriott International Inc.

McDonald's Corp.

Meta Platforms Inc.

Microsoft Corp.

MillerKnoll Inc.

NBCUniversal Media LLC

Nasdaq Inc.

National Association of Counties Inc.

National Collegiate Athletic Association

National League of Cities

National Retail Federation Inc.

Netflix Inc.

Oracle Corp.

Public Broadcasting Service

Roblox Corp.

Roku Inc.

SAP AG

SAS Institute Inc.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

Snap Inc.

Sony Group Corp.

Tesla Inc.

The Software & Information Industry Association

TikTok Inc.

Twitter Inc.

Universal Music Group NV

VTel Wireless Inc.

Verizon Communications Inc.

WNBA Enterprises LLC

X Corp.

YouTube Inc.

eBay Inc.

LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Adams & Reese

Arnold & Porter

Ashurst Perkins

Baker & Hostetler

Blank Rome

Bursor & Fisher

Caldwell Cassady

Charhon Callahan

Clare Locke

Clement & Murphy

Covington & Burling

Cowan Liebowitz

Crowell & Moring

DLA Piper

Eckert Seamans

Ellis & Winters

Erise IP

Gibson Dunn

Goodwin Procter

Greenberg Traurig

Kendall Law Group PLLC

Kopelowitz Ostrow

Kramer LLP

Lanier Law Firm

Larson & Gaston

Lewis Brisbois

Lieff Cabraser

Lowenstein & Weatherwax

Lutzker & Lutzker

McDermott Will & Schulte

Milberg PLLC

Mitchell Silberberg

Morrison & Foerster

Munger Tolles

O'Melveny & Myers

Pillsbury Winthrop

Quinn Emanuel

Seyfarth Shaw

Shulman Rogers

Sidley Austin

Squire Patton

Taft Stettinius

Trenam Law

WilmerHale

Wilshire Law Firm

Womble Bond

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Bureau of Land Management

California Attorney General's Office

California Supreme Court

Copyright Royalty Board

Federal Communications Commission

New Jersey Attorney General's Office

Patent Trial and Appeal Board

Texas Attorney General's Office

U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

U.S. Supreme Court