White House Must Restore Press Passes To CNN, Others

By Jared Foretek

A D.C. federal judge ordered the White House to immediately reinstate White House access for CNN, Politico and MS Now on Thursday morning, writing that the outlets were likely to succeed in claiming that their abrupt ban from the building last week violated their Fifth Amendment procedural due process rights.

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Paramount Judge Won't 'Rubber Stamp' States' Merger Deal

By Dorothy Atkins

A California federal judge questioned state enforcers Thursday about the details of their proposed settlement to resolve antitrust litigation challenging Paramount Skydance's planned $110 billion purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery, telling counsel, "The court isn't a rubber stamp," and "I've got questions, and I'm not the only one."

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Nintendo Wins $4.5M Default Against Reddit Moderator Archbox

By Ben Adlin

An Arizona resident and Reddit moderator known as archbox must pay $4.5 million to Nintendo of America Inc. for allegedly making and distributing illegal copies of Nintendo Switch video games, according to a default judgment handed down Wednesday by a Washington federal judge.

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Wachtell-Advised People Scraps $18B Take-Private MGM Bid

By Nate Beck

People Inc. said it has withdrawn a June proposal to purchase all public shares of MGM Resorts International and take the company private, with advice from Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz. 

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Deals Rumor Mill

PE And Activist-Driven Moves Lead The Week's Deal Rumors

By Al Barbarino

Activist investors are turning up the pressure on companies including Six Flags Entertainment and Knife River, while private equity firms GTCR and Reverence Capital are weighing a sale of asset manager Allspring Global Investments, and Clayton Dubilier & Rice and Warburg Pincus are in talks to jointly acquire Canaccord Wealth.

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Issa Copyright Bill Looks To Combat Foreign Website Piracy

By Elliot Weld

A California lawmaker has introduced a bill that would allow U.S.-based copyright holders to seek federal court declarations that foreign websites are engaged in copyright piracy and then to have the sites blocked in the U.S.

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Roundup

ITC Takes On Patents, Trade Secrets In Large Decision Drop

By Dani Kass

The U.S. International Trade Commission issued a flood of decisions this week on investigations in which imports are being evaluated to see if they infringe patents or misappropriate secrets, including three cases where it will reconsider holdings from administrative law judges.

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Analysis

Calif. Bill Deals Blow, But Not Knockout, To Tracking Suits

By Allison Grande

A California bill awaiting the governor's signature is poised to reduce the swell of litigation under the California Invasion of Privacy Act, but the narrow scope of the pending lawsuit ban leaves open other avenues for plaintiffs to target the widespread use of website tracking technologies.

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FTC Eyes Tech Cos.' Profits In Fight Against Online Scam Ads

By Sarah Jarvis

The Federal Trade Commission said Thursday it wants input on whether it should update rules for preventing impersonation scams online, homing in on ad optimization tools that have helped scammers net billions from consumers while allowing tech companies to "internalize the revenue but externalize the risk."

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TikTok Loses Bid To Trim Kids' Data Privacy Suit In Calif.

By Rae Ann Varona

A California federal judge on Thursday refused TikTok's bid to trim claims from a proposed class action alleging that the platform exploits the private information of users under 13, saying at a hearing that the question of whether previous TikTok settlements bar the plaintiffs' claims should be saved for later.

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Brief

Ticketmaster Offers Sheeran Refunds After Mass. AG Demand

By Julie Manganis

Ticketmaster will facilitate refunds to customers who no longer want to attend pop star Ed Sheeran's two concerts this weekend at Gillette Stadium, in Foxborough, Massachusetts, following a demand letter from the state's attorney general, her office said Thursday.  

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RICO, Antitrust Suit Over Pa. Sen's Ph.D. Scholarship Culled

By Bryan Koenig

A Pennsylvania politician's lawsuit against the University of New Brunswick, its officers and a former Ph.D. candidate is down to a single claim, against the doctoral candidate, after an Oklahoma federal judge rejected the other allegations focused on suggestions of academic fraud in the politician's own Ph.D. scholarship.

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Game Publishers Eye Doc Request In Valve Antitrust Case

By Joyce Hanson

Video-game publishers accusing Valve Corp. in a federal antitrust lawsuit of manipulating arbitration pacts with gaming customers have questioned the gamers' bid for access to the publishers' purportedly protected materials as the gamers fight a separate case against the digital content company.

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Google, Ex-Engineer End Suit Over Pregnancy-Loss Firing

By Ben Adlin

Google LLC and a former software engineer who sued the company over allegations that she was wrongfully fired for taking time off following the unexpected loss of a pregnancy agreed to dismiss the worker's lawsuit with prejudice, according to a Western District of Washington filing in the case Wednesday.

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Bipartisan Senate Bill Aims To Tighten Telecom Cybersecurity

By Christopher Cole

A bipartisan Senate bill filed Thursday would aim to ramp up cybersecurity in the telecom industry by creating a system for providers and suppliers to voluntarily certify that they meet security standards.

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FCC Warns Broadcasters To Comply With Renewal Guidelines

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

The Federal Communications Commission has warned broadcast licensees to comply with renewal processing guidelines, but nevertheless directed the Media Bureau to process five pending applications that failed to prepare their compliance records properly.

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Cayuga Tribe Fights to Keep Caesars Sports Betting Suit Alive

By Crystal Owens

The Cayuga Nation is asking a district court to reject a bid by Caesars Sportsbook to dismiss the tribe's lawsuit, arguing that the gambling giant's arguments largely rest on a misplaced premise that its New York gambling license allows it to accept wagers from every location within the state.

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Ex-Google CEO's Rape Accuser Can't Undo $12M Arb. Loss

By Craig Clough

A California judge on Thursday told a woman who accused former Google CEO Eric Schmidt of sexual assault that he will not vacate a $12 million arbitration award in Schmidt's favor, saying she appeared to have ignored the arbitrator's orders just like she disregarded his own, and asking, "Why did you do that?"

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FCC Robotics Restrictions Raise AI Compliance Risks

A recent "covered list" update from the Federal Communications Commission places restrictions on foreign-produced advanced robotic devices’ ability to obtain new authorizations, creating a framework that is poorly suited to continuous artificial intelligence updates, and raising several transactional and contractual challenges, says Kim Larsen at Stinson.

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Series

Playing Bid Whist Makes Me A Better Lawyer

As a child, I viewed bid whist as a family tradition and a source of friendly card game competition, but as a lawyer, I see it as a tool that has helped me cultivate skills like communication, teamwork, risk assessment and composure, says Keyonn Pope at Riley Safer.

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Senior Lawyers Survey: Tell Us About Your Career

How are senior lawyers adapting to evolving career paths and emerging technologies? Share your perspective in this five-minute survey.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

O'Melveny & Myers LLP and Reed Smith LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Ninth Circuit overturned a $140 million class verdict against CenturyLink, holding that the company had a reasonable interpretation of the Fair Credit Reporting Act.

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Arkansas Firm 5th To Seal PE Deal With Uplift Investors

By Tracey Read

Arkansas' largest personal injury law firm is the latest legal entity to ink a deal to take private equity investment using Uplift Investors' associated management services organization.

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AI Mishap Has Judge Questioning 'Our Collective Character'

By Julie Manganis

A California attorney was barred from representing the plaintiffs in a Massachusetts insurance coverage dispute and ordered to pay legal costs of up to $10,000 to opposing counsel, after a federal judge found he relied on "inaccurate and fictitious" case cites and holdings in three filings.

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Tarter Krinsky Faces Suit After Disclosing Data Breach

By Andrea Keckley

Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP maintained "intentional opacity" about a recently disclosed cybersecurity attack last year that may have compromised protected health information, a proposed class action alleged in New York federal court.

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A2J At The High Court: Gun Bans, Voting And Civil Remedies

By Marco Poggio

From the right to own semiautomatic rifles to the rules governing voter registration, the upcoming U.S. Supreme Court term will see the justices tackle a broad swath of constitutional and access to justice issues.

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Domino Foods Fights Paul Weiss DQ Bid In Price-Fixing MDL

By Madison Arnold

Domino Foods is pushing back on an attempt to disqualify its counsel from Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP in a sugar price-fixing multidistrict litigation, arguing Hershey, J.M. Smucker and other food makers filed the motion as a "strategic attempt to gain tactical advantage" at a critical point in the dispute.

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Duane Morris To Settle Employee's Tax Withholding Claim

By Asha Glover

Duane Morris LLP has agreed to private mediation to settle a proposed class action by an employee who alleged that the firm failed to withhold taxes for workers who were misclassified as partners, according to a notice.

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Roundup

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

By Megan Norcott

The past week in London has seen Glencore Energy sue a refinery for allegedly defrauding it out of more than $236 million worth of crude oil, the former CEO of ankle-tag maker Big Technologies file a defamation claim against the company, and property investment group Hunter Jones hit by a claim from the Financial Conduct Authority. 

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

Wilson Sonsini topped a list of law firms that have alumni attorneys working at six of the country's most prominent tech companies. And general counsel at most large companies expect to increase their litigation budgets next year.

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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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