Google, TikTok, Meta Fight Calif. Law Over Kids' Online Feeds

By Bonnie Eslinger

TikTok, Meta and Google filed separate suits against California Attorney General Rob Bonta in federal court on Thursday seeking to block the state from enforcing a new law's requirement for parental consent before online platforms can deliver personalized content feeds to children, saying the provision infringes on their First Amendment rights.

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Judge Again Rejects Title IX, Class Rep Objections To NIL Deal

By David Steele

The NCAA's $2.78 billion settlement with college athletes who sought compensation for their name, image and likeness survived objections from seven athletes who lodged various claims of discrimination and inadequate representation for future athletes.

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'Love Island' Production Co. Hit With $100M Retaliation Suit

By Hailey Konnath

A former CEO at WPP Media, the company that produces reality television hit "Love Island," has filed a $100 million suit claiming he was pushed out of the firm after he raised concerns about billing practices he called "unsustainable, unlawful and a significant threat to the company."

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Google Offers EU Ad Tech Fixes Without Breakup

By Bryan Koenig

Google tried to mollify European Union antitrust enforcers Friday with the promise of "immediate product changes" to its advertising placement technology business, while arguing against "a disruptive break-up" called for when the European Commission fined the technology giant €2.95 billion ($3.5 billion).

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Campbell's Settles With Politician Who Used Soup Can In Ad

By Gina Kim

The Campbell's Co. on Friday resolved its trademark fight in federal court with a Michigan congressional candidate for using its iconic can design in her campaign, with the defendant agreeing to stop producing, distributing or using any of Campbell's marks and trade dress in connection with any campaign, fundraising and promotional materials.

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Judge Declines To Trim News Orgs' AI Copyright Suit

By Elliot Weld

A Manhattan federal judge declined to grant artificial intelligence firm Cohere's request to trim a copyright suit brought against it by a group of news organizations who say their content was used to train AI models, ruling that the news organizations had provided sufficient examples of allegedly infringing outputs to proceed.

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Lowe's Sheds Suit Over TikTok, Microsoft Trackers

By Allison Grande

A California federal judge has thrown out a proposed class action accusing home improvement retailer Lowe's of illegally sharing website visitors' personal data with TikTok and Microsoft, finding that while the plaintiffs had adequately laid out their wiretap claim, they failed to allege the type of concrete injury necessary to sustain their suit.

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SeaWorld Faces Fla. Suit Over 'Bait-And-Switch' Fees

By David Minsky

A Florida woman has brought a federal proposed deceptive business practices class action against SeaWorld, alleging that the theme park uses "bait-and-switch" tactics to lure customers and tacks on junk fees for ticket purchases.

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NJ Sen. Seeks Fix For Daniel's Law Amid Legal Challenges

By Carla Baranauckas

A New Jersey state senator has introduced legislation intended to rescue Daniel's Law from mounting constitutional challenges, saying the state's judicial-privacy statute has been weakened by 2023 amendments that have spawned confusion, lawsuits and compliance problems for businesses and public agencies.

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Consumers Want 9th Circ. To Recertify Apple IPhone Class

By Bryan Koenig

Apple users want the Ninth Circuit to restore the certification of their antitrust class accusing the technology giant of trapping them within the App Store, arguing a California federal judge improperly front-loaded the identification of individual members, when all that matters is that "nearly 200 million" users were harmed.

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FCC Urged To Add Tribal Window To C-Band Sale

By Christopher Cole

A public interest group has urged the Federal Communications Commission to add a tribal priority window as the agency develops a plan required by Congress to auction off rights to upper C-band spectrum.

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NextNav Asks FCC To Act Now On GPS Backup Proposal

By Nadia Dreid

Geolocation service provider NextNav is butting heads with an artificial intelligence company at the Federal Communications Commission about whether the agency should act now to establish a spectrum-based alternative to GPS or wait and see how an AI-based alternative works out.

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DC Circ. Urged To Block Trump Org. From IRS Leaker's Appeal

By Anna Scott Farrell

President Donald Trump's private business organization should not be allowed to intervene in a former IRS contractor's challenge to his prison sentence for leaking Trump's and other wealthy people's tax returns, the contractor told the D.C. Circuit, saying the organization's participation would unfairly bias the court.

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Aussies Float DST To Push Platforms To Pay News Media

By Kevin Pinner

Australia has proposed a measure analogous to a 2.25% digital services tax aimed at pressuring social media companies and search engines to pay Australian news organizations to publish their work.

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Tribe Fights Enforcement Of Casino Union Recognition Order

By Emily Brill

A California federal judge should forgo enforcing an arbitration award that requires a Native American tribe to work with UNITE HERE at a tribe-run casino, the tribe argued, saying the award is based on a flawed premise.

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UK Firms Drive Transatlantic Appetite For M&A Dealmaking

By Aebra Coe and Chris Villani

The merger announced Monday between British legal giant Ashurst LLP and American law firm Perkins Coie LLP is the latest in a spate of deals driven, in part, by an appetite among global firms to gain a strong presence in the U.S.

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'Astounding' Holland & Knight Conduct Drives Liability Ruling

By Ryan Boysen

Holland & Knight LLP has forfeited a malpractice lawsuit in Alaska by refusing to turn over information to a Native American tribal corporation, with a state judge entering a default judgment as a sanction and calling the firm's conduct "a head scratcher" and "astounding."

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ABA Decries Lawmaker Calls For Impeachments Of Judges

By Courtney Bublé

The American Bar Association said on Monday it's "alarmed" by lawmakers' interest in impeaching judges just because they don't like their rulings.

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Judge Orders Grand Jury Docs Released In Comey Case

By Brandon Lowrey

A Virginia federal magistrate judge Monday ordered the disclosure of all grand jury materials related to the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey, saying government misconduct may have tainted the grand jury proceedings.

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DOJ Backs White House's Military Lawyer Transfers

By Courtney Bublé

A newly released legal opinion from the U.S. Department of Justice says the Trump administration is allowed to detail military lawyers to serve as immigration judges and special assistant U.S. attorneys in the District of Columbia.

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Senator Slams Trump For 'Blowing Up' Wis. US Atty Process

By Courtney Bublé

Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., accused President Donald Trump on Monday of skirting the process to nominate U.S. attorneys in Wisconsin with his pick of a failed Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate for the office that covers Milwaukee.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court and Delaware Supreme Court last week had a dense slate of fiduciary duty battles, merger-process challenges, post-bankruptcy fights and a series of cases probing the limits of fraud pleading, credible-basis inspections and board-level disclosure duties.

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Law School Admission Council Pushes To Toss Antitrust Suit

By Andrea Keckley

The Law School Admission Council is continuing its push to toss a proposed class action accusing it of fixing application fees with its member schools, saying in a Pennsylvania federal court filing last week that the applicant's opposition to its dismissal motion "entirely fails to engage with the incoherence at the core of his case."

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Holyoak Leaves FTC For Interim US Atty In Utah

By Bryan Koenig

Melissa Holyoak left the Federal Trade Commission on Monday to become Utah's interim U.S. attorney, leaving the FTC down to two commissioners, both Republicans, in the Trump administration's latest use of interim U.S. attorney appointments.

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