Live Nation Tells Jury It's A 'Fierce' But Legal Competitor

By Pete Brush

Live Nation does not illegally pressure concert venues or artists to use Ticketmaster and its other services, its counsel told a Manhattan federal jury Tuesday, calling the entertainment giant a "fierce, lawful, legitimate" competitor as a closely watched antitrust trial opened.

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Skadden Hit With Sanctions Over 'Vexatious' Gaming Suit

By Ivan Moreno

A Manhattan federal judge has sanctioned Papaya Gaming and its attorneys from Skadden for what the court said was a "blatant" attempt to relitigate claims in Virginia that had already been dismissed in a false advertising dispute in New York with Skillz Platform, one of its competitors.

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Meta Atty's Slip Reveals Social Media Trial Plaintiff's Identity

By Craig Clough

An attorney for Meta Platforms on Tuesday revealed the highly guarded full name of the plaintiff in a landmark bellwether trial accusing its Instagram platform and Google's YouTube of harming children's mental health, prompting the Los Angeles judge overseeing the case to strike it from the record and order everyone in the courtroom not to reveal it.

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Calif. Privacy Agency Hits Sports Media Co. Over Data Tracking

By Allison Grande

The California Privacy Protection Agency on Tuesday announced its first enforcement action involving students' data privacy, hitting a youth sports media company with a $1.1 million penalty for allegedly failing to provide consumers with a sufficient way to opt out of the sale and sharing of their personal information for targeted advertising and other purposes. 

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Ex-Truth Social Exec Fights WaPo Defamation Suit Subpoena

By Abigail Harrison

A former executive of Truth Social's parent company told a North Carolina federal court Monday that Trump Media's last-minute bid to depose him in its high-profile defamation lawsuit against The Washington Post is actually a tactic to avoid sanctions in an unrelated lawsuit against him and other major media outlets.

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Ye's Ex-Worker 'Not Sure' Of Own Declaration In Wages Trial

By Rae Ann Varona

A construction project manager suing Ye for retaliation and unpaid wages after he was fired from working at the rapper's Malibu home testified in a Los Angeles courtroom Tuesday that he's "not sure" if someone else signed a declaration filed under his name in the case.

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Another YouTuber Sues Runway AI Over Alleged Scraping

By Elliot Weld

A YouTuber is suing artificial intelligence video generator Runway AI, alleging that it bypassed YouTube's technological measures to download video files in order to train its systems.

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USTR Warns Of Rampant Sports Broadcast Piracy

By Jack McLoone

The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative on Tuesday issued its latest list of overseas "notorious markets" selling illicit and counterfeit goods, focusing on the proliferation of pirated sports broadcasts ahead of this year's FIFA World Cup.

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Accenture Paying $1.2B Cash For Ziff Davis' Ookla Unit

By Al Barbarino

Accenture said Tuesday it will acquire Ookla, a Seattle-based provider of internet data products, from Ziff Davis, in a deal that Accenture said will give customers insights into network metrics that are increasingly critical in the age of artificial intelligence. 

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ClearPlay, Dish Face Off At Fed. Circ. Over $469M Verdict

By Nadia Dreid

The Federal Circuit is set to decide whether to reinstate a $469 million jury verdict that was wiped out by a Utah federal judge weeks after a jury awarded it to ClearPlay over claims Dish Network infringed the company's patents for technology that skips over sex and swearing in movies.

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XAI Presses Judge To Block California's AI Disclosure Law

By Elliot Weld

XAI has told a California federal judge that the state had fallen short of its obligations to inform the court and the company if it planned to institute any enforcement actions when responding to a court order, with xAI reiterating its request for the court to block a law that would require data used to train artificial intelligence be disclosed.

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Brief

Copyright Licensing Org. Unveils AI-Use Options For Colleges

By Ivan Moreno

The Copyright Clearance Center on Tuesday unveiled a new content licensing option for artificial intelligence systems used by colleges and universities.

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Monthly Merger Review Snapshot

By Matthew Perlman

The U.S. Department of Justice got its antitrust case against Live Nation and Ticketmaster teed up for trial, as a court continues mulling the department's settlement last year in a case challenging a deal by Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and lawmakers call for scrutiny of Paramount Skydance's blockbuster acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery.

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Apple Asks 9th Circ. To Rethink Part Of App Store Injunction

By Matthew Perlman

Apple asked the Ninth Circuit to reconsider part of a panel decision that largely affirmed an injunction in the case being brought by Epic Games Inc. that blocked the tech giant from charging developers "prohibitive" commissions on iPhone app purchases made outside its payment systems.

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Union Fund Drops Boston Globe Pension Dispute

By Katherine Smith

A union pension fund has dropped its lawsuit alleging that the Boston Globe failed to pay monthly contributions and provide records of the hours its employees worked, according to a filing in D.C. federal court.

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CEO Of Trump-Tied SPAC Must Face SEC Suit

By Jared Foretek

A former Trump business associate will have to face a U.S. Securities and Exchange lawsuit over his failure to disclose his SPAC's merger discussions with the president's media company to investors in 2021, after a Washington, D.C., federal judge denied his motion to dismiss the complaint.

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House OKs Effort To Ease Broadband Builds On Federal Land

By Christopher Cole

The U.S. House voted Tuesday to direct land management agencies to study how they can ease the process for allowing broadband infrastructure to run through public lands.

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FCC Asks If Int'l Regulatory Barriers To Space Biz Are Fair

By Nadia Dreid

The Federal Communications Commission is wondering if other countries are treating U.S. satellite companies with the same equality that the United States has shown to satellite entrants from other nations and whether the agency ought to do something to level the playing field.

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Iridium Challenges 'Spectrum Hoarder' Ligado's SkyTerra Plan

By Christopher Cole

Iridium has urged the Federal Communications Commission to reject Ligado Networks' push for a carveout from licensing rules to allow AST to build a new satellite constellation in the L-band airwaves, saying it could interfere with other users.

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Brief

Optimum Wants FCC Conditions On Nexstar-Tegna Deal

By Nadia Dreid

If the Federal Communications Commission approves Nexstar and Tegna's $6.2 billion megamerger, it must also put tight restrictions on the companies' plans to hike up retransmission consent fees, one cable and internet provider is telling the agency.

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Breyer Rips Musk Atty For 'False Impression' To Twitter Jury

By Bonnie Eslinger

U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer blasted Elon Musk's counsel Tuesday in a trial over Twitter investors' allegations that Musk intentionally tanked its stock, telling the lawyer she'd created a "false impression" with the jury by questioning an ex-Twitter attorney about her right to speak with plaintiffs' counsel while under oath.

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Venue Operator Seeks Toss Of Wembley Arena Vendor Suit

By Jarek Rutz

A venue management company urged the Delaware Chancery Court on Tuesday to dismiss a lawsuit accusing it of sabotaging food service contract extensions at two major entertainment venues, arguing the governing agreement simply does not impose the obligations the plaintiff claims were breached.

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Tenn. Team Left Out In Minor League Contraction Plans Appeal

By David Steele

A Tennessee-based minor league baseball club has asked a New Jersey federal judge to enter final judgment on the dismissal of a suit against an opposing team owner to clear the path for an appeal.

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Dems Want Investigation Into DHS Location Data Buys

By Tom Lotshaw

Dozens of Democratic lawmakers on Tuesday asked a federal watchdog to investigate whether the U.S. Department of Homeland Security restarted a program to buy location data on Americans without warrants.

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Social Media Trial Raises Key Product Safety Questions

The trial underway in a California state court against Meta and Google is unprecedented, because it marks the first time a jury has been asked to consider whether social media platforms' engagement-maximizing design can be treated as a product safety issue, or whether it is inseparable from protected expression, says Gary Angiuli at Angiuli & Gentile.

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Aligning Microsoft Tools With NYC Bar AI Recording Guidance

The New York City Bar Association’s recently issued formal opinion, providing ethical guidance on artificial intelligence-assisted recording, transcription and summarization, raises immediate questions about data governance and e-discovery for companies that use Microsoft 365 and Copilot, say Staci Kaliner, Martin Tully and John Collins at Redgrave.

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Judge Questions DOJ Stance In ABA's Intimidation Suit

By Jared Foretek

A Susman Godfrey LLP attorney told a district judge that the Trump administration's recent double-reversal on its executive orders targeting law firms proved that attorneys fighting government action face a real and ongoing threat and urged the judge not to toss a suit from his client, the American Bar Association, to end the "Intimidation Policy."

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DOJ Seeks Power To Block State Bar Probes Of Agency Attys

By Jake Maher

The U.S. Department of Justice is seeking to pause and review state-level ethics complaints against its attorneys to combat what the agency called "weaponization" of ethics processes, a proposal that drew concerns from ethics scholars for overstepping states' authorities.

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Analysis

Wheeling & Appealing: The Latest Must-Know Appellate Action

By Jeff Overley

If this month's circuit calendars were a March Madness bracket, we'd struggle to pick the top-seeded showdown. Big Pharma against the False Claims Act, or big business against President Donald Trump's visa fees? A big bank's view of "human life wagers," or en banc review in a State Farm class action?

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Bondi Subpoenaed To Testify On DOJ's Epstein Investigation

By Lauren Berg

The House Oversight Committee on Wednesday voted to subpoena U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to testify about the U.S. Department of Justice's investigation into deceased child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, with five Republicans joining their Democratic colleagues to compel Bondi's testimony.

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Analysis

Trump's FCA Expansion Plan Heightens Compliance Risk

By Sarah Jarvis

In light of the Trump administration's record False Claims Act enforcement haul, companies should be especially mindful of a planned expansion in the scope of enforcement and the false compliance certification risks that may bring, attorneys say.

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SEC, PCAOB Auditor Enforcement Plummeted In 2025

By Sarah Jarvis

Both the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board saw decreases in accounting and auditing enforcement activity in 2025, including sharp decreases in SEC settlements and PCAOB fines for auditing actions.

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Comey, James Urge 4th Circ. To Reject Indictment Revival Bid

By Emily Sawicki

Former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James have urged the Fourth Circuit not to revive criminal indictments filed against them last year in the Eastern District of Virginia, arguing they were fatally flawed because they were brought by a federal prosecutor who was not lawfully in that position.

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Appeals Panel Debates NJ's Duty In Prosecutor Ethics Case

By George Woolston

A New Jersey appellate panel on Wednesday weighed whether it was in the state's best interest to represent an assistant prosecutor in an ethics proceeding, questioning how a prosecutor is different from any other attorney called before the disciplinary board.

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