AGs Seek Emergency Block On Paramount-Warner Bros. Deal

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

A dozen Democratic attorneys general are seeking an emergency temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction to block Paramount Skydance's controversial proposed $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. while litigation continues.

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Writers Guild Joins Fray Against Paramount-Warner Merger

By Bryan Koenig

The Writers Guild of America's East and West branches piled Tuesday against Paramount Skydance's proposed $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery in a California federal court complaint adding buy-side claims of harming screenwriters to state attorneys general allegations focused on film distribution and basic cable.

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Analysis

News Orgs Need To Show AI Uses More Than Just Facts

By Elliot Weld

News organizations suing artificial intelligence companies for allegedly infringing their copyrighted content for AI training must show that chatbots are using the organizations' prose as opposed to merely uncopyrightable facts, or that the practice is diluting the market for human-made journalism, experts told Law360.

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Alex Jones' Co. Balks At Sandy Hook Victims' Stay Appeal

By Emlyn Cameron

Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' media company has urged the Texas Supreme Court to reject a bid by victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting to license his website, Infowars, to The Onion, arguing the request is defective and the satire publication is already damaging the brand.

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Google Faces Another AI Copyright Suit By Publishers

By Adam Lidgett

Book publishers and legal novelist Scott Turow have lodged a copyright infringement suit alleging Google used their works to train its artificial intelligence model Gemini following an earlier suit they launched against Meta.

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White House Unveils New AI Cybersecurity Clearinghouse

By Hailey Konnath

The White House has launched a clearinghouse for both the government and the private sector that's aimed at identifying and patching cyber vulnerabilities using artificial intelligence, according to an announcement made Tuesday.

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Analysis

The Biggest Telecom Developments Of 2026: Midyear Report

By Christopher Cole

A key high court win for the Federal Communications Commission and its plans to reshape the regulatory code, reorder the nation's telecom priorities, and take broadcasters to task for purported leftward leanings all headlined a busy first half of 2026 in telecom law.

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Fed. Circ. Won't Revive Eyewear Tech Patent Claims

By Adam Lidgett

The Federal Circuit on Tuesday shot down an attempt to bring back claims in a patent covering a sensor in eyewear meant to detect human eye movement, affirming a Patent Trial and Appeal Board decision that the claims were obvious.

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Insurer Ducks Models' Advertising Claims Against Strip Club

By Aaron Keller

A Connecticut federal judge has handed Clear Blue Specialty Insurance Co. a win in six professional models' attempts to access a strip club's $1 million policy pursuant to a settlement in an underlying false association and false advertising lawsuit, saying an exclusion for "exhibitions and related marketing" insulates the insurer.

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'Bulletproof Hosting' Providers Indicted For Aiding Hacks

By Allison Grande

A trio of Russian nationals and the "bulletproof hosting" services they operated have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Ohio on charges that they helped facilitate cyberattacks against banks, hospitals and other critical infrastructure operators across nearly two dozen states and several countries, leading to more than $62 million in losses, according to court documents unsealed Tuesday.

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StubHub, CEO Sued Over Ties To Big-Time Ticket Scalpers

By Craig Clough

A proposed class action filed in New York federal court Monday accuses StubHub Holdings Inc. and its CEO, Eric H. Baker, of misleading consumers by promoting the ticket marketplace as a fan-to-fan platform while failing to disclose financial ties to large-scale professional ticket resellers.

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YouTube's 'Ad-Free' Service Is 'Littered With Ads,' Suit Says

By Rae Ann Varona

Videos streamed on YouTube's paid "ad-free" monthly subscription service are still "littered with ads" that often have nothing to do with the content being watched, subscribers alleged in a proposed class action filed Tuesday in California federal court.

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Google Judge Streamlines Voice Assistant Tech Antitrust Suit

By Lauren Berg

Software developer Sensory can pursue antitrust claims alleging Google illegally maintains monopolies over voice assistant and similar technology markets, but not its broader claims involving the general search and advertising markets, a Washington, D.C., federal judge ruled.

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Apple Can Subpoena 14 Fed. Agencies In Antitrust Suit

By Rae Ann Varona

A retired New Jersey federal judge Tuesday denied the federal government's bid to quash subpoenas Apple is seeking in the government's smartphone monopolization lawsuit against the tech giant, finding the government's justifications for withholding the discovery unpersuasive.

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Calif. Extends Sunset Date For Job Creation Biz Tax Credit

By Jaqueline McCool

California extended the sunset date for a tax credit program that allows qualifying businesses to claim income tax credits if the business hires workers and invests in the state under a bill signed by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom.

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Northwestern Prof Alleges Pro-Palestinian Stand Cost Tenure

By Grace Elletson

Northwestern University denied tenure for a journalism professor and set him up for termination because he spoke openly about his support for Palestinians and blocked police from clearing a student encampment protesting the institution's ties to Israel, according to a suit filed in Illinois federal court.

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Fiber Group Tells FCC To Vet State Pole Dispute Policies

By Nadia Dreid

Congress has given states the power to claw back control over pole attachment rules from the Federal Communications Commission through so-called reverse preemption, but a fiber broadband group says the agency needs to make sure those states have adequate regulations in place when it comes to settling disputes.

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DC Circ. Asked To Force FCC's Hand On Petition Against Fox

By Christopher Cole

An advocacy group urged the D.C. Circuit Tuesday to compel the Federal Communications Commission to review Fox's character fitness as a broadcast licensee after its Philadelphia TV station aired Fox News' 2020 cable election coverage rather than let stand a staff level decision dismissing the group's petition.

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DirecTV's Collusion Case Against Nexstar Survives Dismissal

By Matthew Perlman

A New York federal court has refused to toss DirecTV's antitrust case accusing Nexstar Media Group of using a pair of broadcast station owners to demand excessive retransmission fees, after a split Second Circuit panel revived the claims.

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Brief

Broadcasters, Fire Chiefs Press For AM Radio In Cars

By Christopher Cole

Dozens of broadcasters and emergency responders converged Tuesday on Capitol Hill to push for passage of a bill requiring automakers to continue manufacturing vehicles with AM radio capability.

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Auto Policy Doesn't Cover Tour Bus Assault Cases, Court Told

By Hope Patti

An auto insurer told a Texas federal court on Tuesday that it has no duty to defend or indemnify a Mexican band or its members against three lawsuits brought by former crew members who say they were sexually assaulted on a tour bus by the lead musician's son.

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Blanche Called Anti-Weaponization Fund 'Mistake,' Per Durbin

By Courtney Bublé

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said on Tuesday the anti-weaponization fund created as part of the president's settlement with the IRS was "a mistake," according to Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., after his meeting with Blanche.

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Justices Seek More Funds Over Increased Threats, Talk Ethics

By Courtney Bublé

U.S. Supreme Court Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Elena Kagan made rare Capitol Hill appearances Tuesday, discussing the court's budget request for fiscal 2027, the "shadow docket" and ethics issues.

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Quinn Emanuel, Spiro Ousted From CoStar Copyright Fight

By Elliot Weld

A California federal judge has disqualified Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP and its attorney Alex Spiro from representing a commercial real estate platform in a copyright infringement suit brought by CoStar, agreeing that the firm's representation of CoStar in a different case should result in its removal from this one.

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Bronx Defenders Union OKs Strike 1 Year After Last Walkout

By Andrea Keckley

The Bronx Defenders has become the third New York City-based legal aid organization to authorize a strike this month, which comes just one year after the group's most recent walkout.

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Brief

Trump Lawyer Matthew Schwartz Confirmed To 2nd Circ.

By Courtney Bublé

The Senate voted 50-45, along party lines, on Tuesday to confirm Matthew Schwartz, one of President Donald Trump's personal attorneys and a partner at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

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Ky. Law Prof Wants Court To Block Judge For Dean Pick

By Hailey Konnath

A University of Kentucky law professor asked a federal court to block U.S. District Judge Gregory Van Tatenhove from becoming the next law school dean, claiming that the appointment has "stripped the faculty" of their credibility on the basis of peer review.

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Calif. Bar Settles With Administrators Of 'Disastrous' Bar Exam

By Andrea Keckley

The State Bar of California has reached a settlement with the administrators of its "disastrous" February 2025 bar exam, whose array of highly publicized technical glitches prevented hundreds of aspiring lawyers from completing the test.

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