Meta Must Face Mass. AG's Instagram Addiction Suit

By Chris Villani

Meta Platforms Inc. will have to face a suit brought by the Massachusetts attorney general claiming the company is illegally hooking kids on Instagram, the state's top court ruled Friday.

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Agency Boss Misled Court In Kirk Meme Suit, Fla. Judge Says

By David Minsky

A Florida federal magistrate judge proposed removing portions of a declaration filed by a state wildlife official in an employee's lawsuit alleging she was fired for sharing a meme making fun of slain right-wing political activist Charlie Kirk on social media, finding the false testimony may have influenced the court.

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Fed. Circ. Affirms Roku PTAB Win Over Remote-Control Patent

By Elliot Weld

The Federal Circuit on Friday affirmed a decision from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board that invalidated a set of patent claims covering remote controls that were asserted against Roku Inc.

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Trump Media Pans Truth Social Backers' Bid To Depose Trump

By Bonnie Eslinger

Trump Media & Technology Group urged a Florida state judge to deny a bid by former backers of President Donald Trump's Truth Social platform to stay its July trial over taking the company public, saying the court shouldn't wait on the defendants' too-late appeal related to deposing the president.

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Ark. Asks 8th Circ. To Lift Injunction On Social Media Law

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

The state of Arkansas has asked the Eighth Circuit to undo an injunction blocking a law banning social media platforms from implementing algorithms and other features that can cause users to become addicted to social media or lead to suicide or other types of self-harm.

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Exclusive

Calif. Privacy Audits Starting This Year, Agency's Head Says

By Allison Grande

The California Privacy Protection Agency is continuing to build out its new Audits Division and is aiming to begin conducting checks of businesses' compliance with the state's comprehensive data privacy regime this year, the agency's director recently told Law360 in an exclusive interview. 

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Nexstar-Tegna Judge Shows No Sign Of Unpausing Deal Block

By Bryan Koenig

A California federal judge Friday ordered a seven-day extension of the temporary restraining order blocking broadcast giants Nexstar and Tegna from fulfilling their merger, seeing "no evidence" contradicting the initial reasons for the TRO that DirecTV and Democratic attorneys general want solidified into a preliminary injunction.

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Analysis

Tech's AI Coding Boom On Collision Course With Copyright

By Ivan Moreno

Tech companies embracing generative tools to write their software code — and boasting about it — may be running into a gap in copyright protection: the more they rely on them, the harder it may be to claim exclusive rights when that code is copied or leaked.

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Brief

Prince's Estate, 'Purple Rain' Co-Star Settle TM Suit

By Elliot Weld

The estate of the pop singer Prince has reached a settlement with "Purple Rain" co-star Patty Apollonia Kotero to resolve a suit brought by Kotero over the trademark for "Apollonia."

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Brief

Fed. Circ. Won't Revive Video-Decoding Patent

By Elliot Weld

The Federal Circuit on Friday affirmed a decision by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board that all the challenged claims of a patent covering video-decoding technology are invalid, after the patent owner argued that it had been improperly prevented from using written description support for its arguments.

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CNN Can't Ditch Privacy Class Action Over Tracking Tools

By Dorothy Atkins

A New York federal judge has refused to toss a proposed class action alleging CNN violated the California Invasion of Privacy Act by surreptitiously installing data trackers and sharing the data with third parties including Microsoft for targeted advertising, finding the alleged privacy harm and claims are sufficiently pled.

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3 Valve 'Loot Box' Suits Merged, Hagens Berman To Rep Users

By Ben Adlin

A Seattle federal judge has consolidated three putative class actions accusing gaming giant Valve Corp. of promoting illegal gambling by offering "loot boxes" for its PC gaming titles, and appointed Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP as interim lead counsel for the gamers.

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Colo. Appeals Court Bars Upfront Fees For Police Footage

By Benjamin Morse

Law enforcement agencies cannot require upfront payment before handing over body camera and other recordings tied to police misconduct complaints when disclosure is mandated by state law, the Colorado Court of Appeals found, affirming a win for a local publication against the city of Boulder.

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​​​​​​​Apple Asks To Keep Stay In Epic Case During High Court Bid

By Craig Clough

Apple has asked the Ninth Circuit not to undo its order staying a decision in Epic Games Inc.'s favor while Apple petitions the U.S. Supreme Court to review the ruling that largely affirmed an injunction barring Apple from charging developers "prohibitive" commissions on iPhone app purchases.

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Gambling Tech Co. Seeks To Add Rival In NJ Defamation Case

By George Woolston

A gambling technology company asked a New Jersey state court to add a rival company as a defendant in its defamation suit against investigative firm Black Cube and law firm Calcagni & Kanefsky LLP, accusing the rival of orchestrating a smear campaign in an effort to eliminate competition.

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Former NY Prosecutor Expands Harassment Suit Against DA

By Emily Sawicki

A former prosecutor in Syracuse, New York, has added libel claims to a sexual harassment, discrimination and retaliation suit she brought last year in New York state court against the Onondaga County District Attorney's Office and her supervisor.

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Colliers Accused Of Unfair Firing Over Social Posts On Leave

By Aaron Keller

Real estate and investment juggernaut Colliers International USA LLC fired a senior marketing manager for posting parenting advice under the Instagram name "DiaperDynasty" during her approved 12-week Family Medical Leave Act absence, wrongly accusing her of FMLA fraud, a new lawsuit claims.

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Brief

Closed Captioner Seeks $200K In Atty Fees In Wage Deal

By Benjamin Morse

A former Vitac Corp. employee has urged a Colorado federal judge to award $200,000 in attorney fees after the transcription and closed captioning company settled a class action alleging it didn't pay workers for preparation tasks necessary to perform their jobs.

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Social Media Influencer Gets 6 Years For $20M Ponzi Scheme

By Craig Clough

A social media finance influencer who pled guilty to wire fraud and abetting a false tax filing tied to a $20 million real estate Ponzi scheme was sentenced Friday to six years in prison by an Ohio federal judge.

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FCC Fines Are Just Paper, But 'Still Tigers,' High Court Told

By Christopher Cole

AT&T and Verizon told the U.S. Supreme Court that no matter how the Federal Communications Commission portrays its fines, they amount to binding orders that run afoul of the Seventh Amendment because there's no clear path to challenge them in court.

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Feds Renew Push Against 'Bad Labs' In Equipment Test Rules

By Christopher Cole

A new draft proposal from the Federal Communications Commission would make it even harder for foreign adversaries to take part in electronic device testing if they are located in a country that lacks reciprocal testing agreements with the U.S.

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FCC Says Current 'Audible Crawl' Rule Doesn't Work

By Nadia Dreid

The Federal Communications Commission is thinking about ditching a requirement that video service providers ensure that nontext emergency information that pops up during a TV broadcast comes with an auditory translation for the visually impaired.

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Brief

Viamedia-Comcast Trial Pushed Back At Least A Month

By Nadia Dreid

Viamedia's antitrust fight against Comcast was set to come to a head after more than a decade later this year, but the judge overseeing the matter in Illinois federal court said the media and tech companies will have to wait a month longer to go to trial.

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Spanish Broadcasting System Signs Restructuring Deal

By Vince Sullivan

Radio station operator Spanish Broadcasting System Inc. announced Friday it had entered into a restructuring support agreement with a majority of its secured noteholders to complete a prepackaged debt-for-equity swap plan through a Chapter 11 case, with an option to pivot to a sale of the business.

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DLA Piper Partner Rejects Pregnant Atty's Account Of Firing

By Pete Brush

The DLA Piper partner who fired a pregnant associate said she did so lawfully, telling a Manhattan federal jury her former employee was "in over her head" and disputing that the associate raised pregnancy bias concerns on a termination call.

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Trump Taps Personal Atty For 2nd Circ.

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump announced on Friday evening he's tapping Matthew Schwartz, his attorney in the New York hush money case, for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. 

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Calif. Atty Avoids Sanctions For Filing Bogus Citations With AI

By Matt Perez

A California attorney has avoided sanctions over his use of artificial intelligence for a filing in a civil rights case, which resulted in false citations.

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NJ Justices Won't Review Beasley Allen's DQ From Talc Cases

By George Woolston

The New Jersey Supreme Court has declined to review a lower court's order booting the Beasley Allen Law Firm from multicounty litigation in the Garden State over Johnson & Johnson's talcum powder, according to an order made public Friday.

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6th Circ. Won't Revisit EFAA Ruling Against Adams & Reese

By Patrick Hoff

The Sixth Circuit said it won't reconsider its ruling that a law barring mandatory arbitration of sexual harassment cases kept a former Adams & Reese LLP paralegal's sex harassment and disability bias suit in court, concluding that the firm's objections were already considered.

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Conn. Justices Block Agency's Bias Probe Into Atty Licensing

By Brian Steele

Because citizens blocked the legislature from reviewing court decisions when ratifying the state's 1818 constitution, a Connecticut human rights agency has no power to investigate alleged bias in attorney licensing decisions, the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled Friday in a unanimous opinion.

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Roundup

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

By Laura Stewart Liberty

The past week in London has seen the owner of an oil tanker stuck in the Strait of Hormuz sued by an energy company and an insurer, law firm Boodle Hatfield LLP and two Serle Court barristers sued by a group of Winston Churchill's great-grandchildren, and Welsh Water hit with a fresh class action over polluted rivers.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

Other states might follow the lead of California and break with President Donald Trump's policies in implementing guardrails for state agencies to contract with AI companies. And after three individual indictments last month for selling banned tech to China, Supermicro has hired Munger Tolles & Olson LLP to conduct an independent investigation, assigned its general counsel to lead an internal compliance review, and shaken up its compliance leadership.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Andrea Keckley

Two personal injury firms in Michigan lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions for their work to secure a more than $300 million verdict against a prison health services provider and one of its doctors for refusing to approve a 34-year-old man's surgery while he was detained at a local jail.

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In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On Law360

For those who missed out, here's a look back at the law firms, stories and expert analyses that generated the most buzz on Law360 last week.

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