Arbitrator Backs WaPo Columnist Fired After Kirk Posts

By Patrick Hoff

The Washington Post was ordered to rehire an opinion columnist it fired for social media posts she made in the wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination, the columnist's union said Monday, after an arbitrator faulted the newspaper's "rushed" decision to let her go.

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BBC Says Trump's $10B Suit Fails Over Jurisdiction

By Carolina Bolado

The BBC urged a Florida federal court Monday to toss President Donald Trump's $10 billion defamation suit, arguing that it did not air its documentary about the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol in the United States and tried to block unauthorized viewings online.

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Advocacy Groups Seek To Join ABC's Case Against FCC

By Christopher Cole

Two media advocacy groups said Monday they will seek to join a lawsuit that ABC recently filed in D.C. federal court against the Federal Communications Commission alleging First Amendment violations.

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AGs Want Meta's Privilege Claims Reviewed In Bellwether Trial

By Dorothy Atkins

During a break in a jury trial Monday over states' claims Meta hid social media's harm, states' counsel urged a California federal judge to require Meta to re-review all of its attorney-client privilege designations, arguing that "it seems actually logically impossible" that Meta described the wrong standard in only a single document.  

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Former Disney Child Star Alleges Rape By Adult On Film Set

By Gina Kim

A former Disney child actress has sued the entertainment giant in California state court, alleging that nobody protected her while an adult employee twice her age plied her with alcohol and raped her during the filming of a Disney Channel Original Movie, "The Poof Point," when she was 14.

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DivX Fights Uphill For New Patent Trial After Loss To Netflix

By Craig Clough

A California federal judge indicated Monday he is not likely to grant video compression technology company DivX's request for a new trial over anti-copying and image-quality patents after a jury cleared Netflix of infringement in March, disagreeing that he gave faulty jury instructions by using the word "covers" instead of "includes."

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AI Co. Perplexity Moves To Trim CNN Infringement Suit

By Rae Ann Varona

Perplexity has urged a New York federal judge to significantly pare down CNN's lawsuit accusing the artificial intelligence developer of infringing the network's stories, videos and images without permission, saying it can't be held liable for automated responses that its "answer engine" gives to user prompts.

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Sony Sues Kroger Over Influencer Ads With Copyrighted Music

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

Sony Music has filed a copyright suit against grocery chain Kroger, saying influencer ad videos promoting its brands, stores, products and latest sales have been using copyrighted sound bites without permission.

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WikiHow Says ChatGPT Spits Out How-To Guides Verbatim

By Rae Ann Varona

WikiHow has accused OpenAI in New York federal court of mass-scale copying of the how-to instruction site's copyrighted articles to train ChatGPT and generate near- or full-verbatim reproductions of wikiHow's "distinctive" instructional articles.

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10th Circ. Won't Revisit Netflix's 'Tiger King' Fair Use Win

By Ivan Moreno

The Tenth Circuit will not reconsider its ruling that Netflix's use of a 66-second funeral clip in its hit "Tiger King" docuseries was fair use, leaving intact a decision that rejected copyright claims brought by the videographer who shot the video.

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Dems Seek GAO Review Of Federal Agencies Hacking Americans

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and U.S. Rep. Greg Casar, D-Texas, ranking member of the House Oversight Subcommittee on Federal Law Enforcement, have requested that the Government Accountability Office conduct a comprehensive review of federal law enforcement agencies' hacking of Americans' electronic devices.

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Instagram Wants Teen 'Sessions,' Not Time, Tenn. Jury Told

By Cara Salvatore

Instagram's top data scientist told a Tennessee jury Monday that the company's goal is to increase the amount of "sessions" by teens, not their raw amount of time in the app, though he admitted the latter metric has been on the rise.

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DaVita, Patients Get Early Nod In $15M Data Breach Deal

By Hailey Konnath

A Colorado federal judge has given the initial green light to DaVita Inc.'s proposed $15 million settlement with millions of past and present patients who claim the healthcare company didn't adequately protect their personal information, which was exposed in an April 2025 breach, according to an order issued Friday.

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Social Media Giants Denied Pause Of Calif. Kids Algorithm Law

By Emily Field

A California federal judge on Friday again refused to block the Golden State law that bars social media companies from using algorithmic feeds to deliver content to children without parents' consent, telling Meta, Google and TikTok that predictive algorithms that show "interesting" content aren't protected free speech.

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Calif. Appeals Court Signals Wiretap Law Applies To Trackers

By Allison Grande

A California state appeals court appears poised to declare that website tracking technologies generally qualify as pen registers under the state's wiretap law, while finding that the specific trackers at issue in a lawsuit against Variety Media LLC don't fall under this definition because they don't identify the destination of intercepted communications. 

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Microsoft Says Consumer Must Arbitrate Tariff Refund Claims

By Rachel Riley

Microsoft urged a Washington federal judge Friday to force arbitration of an Xbox buyer's proposed class action alleging the company seeks to pocket tariff refunds meant for customers — or toss the case entirely — contending console prices change over time "for a variety of reasons having nothing to do with tariffs."

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Zillow Avoids Trial As Redfin Agrees 'To Reenter Market'

By Bryan Koenig

The Federal Trade Commission told a Virginia federal judge Monday that it had settled its lawsuit challenging a rental listings syndication deal that the agency said amounted to a $100 million payout by Zillow for the smaller Redfin listing service to exit the market.

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Google Says Publishers Can't Get 'Fake Privilege' Discovery

By Bryan Koenig

Google urged a New York federal judge not to grant additional discovery to a group of publishers targeting its advertising placement technology dominance in a wider multidistrict litigation, arguing claims of insufficient detail into corporate policies allegedly hiding evidence are belied by the volume of information already cited.

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DirecTV Opposes Nexstar's High Court Bid In Fee Case

By Matthew Perlman

DirecTV has urged the U.S. Supreme Court not to grant a petition for review in the satellite provider's case accusing Nexstar of working with two other station owners to fix retransmission fees, arguing DirecTV's past licensing deals show it has standing to sue.

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Mich. Judge OKs $100K Deal Over OT Suit Against Strip Club

By Susan Smiley

A Michigan federal judge on Monday gave the green light to a $100,000 settlement resolving a six-year collective action alleging a Detroit strip club violated federal wage laws by misclassifying its dancers as independent contractors, who are paid only in consumer tips, and failing to pay them minimum wage and overtime.

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Ex-Drink Co. Exec Says Part Owner Defamed, Harassed Her

By Grace Elletson

A part owner of a sports drink company spread false accusations that its female CEO used sex to get business opportunities, according to a new discrimination suit the former executive filed Monday in New York federal court.

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Sports Media Co. CEO Will Pay $250K To End SEC Fraud Suit

By Katryna Perera

Icaro Media Group's CEO has agreed to pay $250,000 to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to resolve claims that he used the company to fraudulently raise $22 million from investors through a false narrative about the planned launch of a sports media smartphone application.

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Facebook Investors Move For Class Cert. After High Court Test

By Jessica Corso

Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP and Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP are pushing to lead a class of Facebook Inc. investors who claim to have lost billions of dollars in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, saying they are well-positioned to spearhead the case after defeating a U.S. Supreme Court challenge.

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GoDaddy's Hidden Discount Strategy Hurt Investors, Suit Says

By Katryna Perera

GoDaddy and its top executives have been hit with a proposed shareholder class action alleging they failed to tell investors that the company introduced a discounted promotional price for its one-year dotcom domain contracts to attract new customers, and that the program was slowing total bookings and revenue growth.

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FCC's Trusty Sees Need For Fresh Look At Universal Service

By Christopher Cole

Since taking a seat on the Federal Communications Commission more than a year ago, Olivia Trusty says her travels around some of the most rural parts of the country have convinced her of a need to bring the FCC's universal service programs up to date.

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Aviation Cos. Urge FCC To Pull Ligado Network Order

By Nadia Dreid

The FCC ought to revoke its controversial 2020 order giving Ligado Networks permission to build a mobile satellite network because the company won't be able to build it in a way that meets the "stringent conditions" the agency gave it, a coalition of groups and companies tells the agency.

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2nd Circ. Says Nielsen Unbundling Order Starts Tuesday

By Nadia Dreid

The Second Circuit has declared that the preliminary injunction blocking Nielsen from making Cumulus Media buy its local offerings to gain access to its national radio ratings data will go into effect Tuesday.

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AT&T, Duke Energy To Arbitrate Pole Rate Dispute

By Nadia Dreid

AT&T and Duke Energy are headed for arbitration in the hopes of settling their dispute over the rates the power company charges the telecom behemoth for pole attachments, the Federal Communications Commission has said.

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Spirit Data Sale To Google Draws Objection From Springshot

By Emily Lever

Software company Springshot Inc. has filed a limited objection to the $10 million sale of Spirit Aviation Holdings' business data to Google LLC for artificial intelligence training, saying some of the data being sold could potentially constitute Springshot's intellectual property.

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Legal Center Says DOJ Is Stonewalling Fund Records Request

By Jared Foretek

A voting rights nonprofit is accusing the U.S. Department of Justice of stonewalling a request for records on the Trump administration's attempted "anti-weaponization fund," claiming that the agency has spent the summer unlawfully ducking a Freedom of Information Act submission.

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Galindo Law Files For Ch. 11 After Camp Lejeune Fee Fight

By Ben Zigterman

A Houston-based personal injury law firm sought bankruptcy relief on Monday with more than $50 million in liabilities after a mass tort litigation marketing company sued for over $9 million in fees related to finding potential victims of water contamination at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune.

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Attys Ask Court To Toss Suit Alleging They Stole 1,000 Cases

By Spencer Brewer

Multiple attorneys asked a Texas federal court to toss claims that they conspired to hijack 1,000 cases filed by hurricane survivors who had hired and built cases with a different firm, claiming the firm that brought the suit failed to plead a viable RICO claim.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court last week saw a wave of lawsuits involving corporate oversight, take-private deals, financing transactions, bankruptcy fallout, stockholder voting rights and disputes over control.

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