Analysis

March Madness Ends, But College Athlete Pay Fights Rage On

By Chris Villani

The NCAA crowned its basketball champions this week, but college sports is no closer to sorting out thorny player compensation questions, causing some university leaders to rethink their opposition to collective bargaining for athletes.

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FCC Opens Probe Into Competition In Telecom Markets

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission said it wants to focus on barriers to new entrants in the communications market as it crafts a new report on the state of competition in the industry, with a focus on broadband service.

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Musk Wants Altman Out, Not To Boost 'Himself Personally'

By Hailey Konnath

Elon Musk said Tuesday he wants OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stripped of his title and "all equity and other personal financial benefits" to be awarded to OpenAI's nonprofit if Musk wins his case claiming OpenAI duped him, saying he isn't after "a remedy directed to benefiting himself personally."

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Stability AI Says Garbled Pics Don't Support Getty Claims

By Bonnie Eslinger

Stability AI urged a California federal judge Tuesday to toss six claims from a sprawling lawsuit alleging the artificial intelligence company misused millions of Getty Images' photos, arguing garbled AI images featuring Getty's watermark don't amount to trademark dilution, trademark infringement or violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

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Brief

Dow Jones Wins Order For More Months Of Perplexity AI Logs

By Ivan Moreno

A Manhattan federal judge has ordered Perplexity AI to turn over seven additional months of internal user‑activity logs in a copyright lawsuit brought by Dow Jones and other publishers, rejecting Perplexity's argument that producing the data would be unduly burdensome.

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LinkedIn Users Sue Over Secret Browser Extension Tracking

By Lauren Berg

LinkedIn is facing two proposed class actions in California federal court alleging the networking platform has touted its anti-fraud and anti-data scraping efforts as cover for its surreptitious scanning of users' browser extensions, which often contain sensitive information, before sharing that data with third parties.

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USA Today Escapes Website User Tracking Suit, For Now

By Allison Grande

A California judge has shut down a proposed class action accusing USA Today of deploying tracking technology that illegally transmits information about website visitors' browsing activities to third parties, finding that the plaintiffs had failed to allege the type of concrete injury necessary to sustain their claims, while leaving the door open for their pleadings to be amended.

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Feds Say Iranian Hackers Are Targeting 'Critical' Infrastructure

By Hailey Konnath

A handful of federal agencies issued a joint cybersecurity advisory Tuesday warning that Iranian-affiliated hackers are taking aim at "critical infrastructure," including drinking water and wastewater systems, leading to multiple disruptions across various sectors.

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Microsoft, Others Tell Court To Reject Epic-Google Deal

By Bryan Koenig

Microsoft, advocacy groups and economists pushed back on the revised settlement between Epic Games and Google that would open up the Play Store to competition, vouching instead for at least parts of the injunction Epic won in California federal court but is now looking to replace.

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Fox Pushes For Ruling On Transfer Bid In Newsmax Case

By Matthew Perlman

Fox Corp. is urging a Wisconsin federal court to issue a ruling on its pending bid to transfer Newsmax Broadcasting LLC's case accusing it of pressuring cable and streaming providers into not carrying the rival right-leaning broadcaster.

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FTC Must List Potential Remedies In Amazon Antitrust Case

By Matthew Perlman

A Washington federal court ordered the Federal Trade Commission to respond to Amazon's discovery request asking for a list of remedies enforcers intend to seek in the antitrust case alleging its merchant rules drive up online retail prices.

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Coalition Urges DC Court To Enforce Voice Of America Order

By Katherine Smith

A coalition of journalists, federal employees and their unions has urged a D.C. federal judge to enforce an order requiring the Trump administration to share its plan for reinstating more than a thousand journalists and staff at Voice of America, arguing that the administration has "disregarded" its responsibility to do so.

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'Bachelor' Editor Hits Warner Bros. With Wage Suit

By Benjamin Morse

Warner Bros. Television Group and related entities failed to pay required wages and premium compensation under an industry labor agreement, a former assistant editor on "The Bachelor" alleged in a California state court complaint.

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Delaware Chancery OKs $190M Meta Privacy Settlement

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court on Tuesday approved a $190 million settlement resolving long-running stockholder claims that Meta Platforms Inc. mishandled user privacy and board oversight in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, closing out a case that had stretched more than seven years and reached the second day of trial.

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DOD Opposes DJI's Push To Undo FCC Product Ban

By Ganesh Setty

The U.S. Department of Defense urged the Federal Communications Commission to reject DJI's reconsideration petition after the FCC restricted much of the China-based drone maker's business in the U.S., saying the government's underlying national security determination is correct.

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7 Can't Take Part In FCC Subsidy Programs After Convictions

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday blocked seven people convicted of crimes from participating in the agency's numerous subsidy programs that are meant to bolster telecom service throughout the United States.

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Holland & Knight Hires Broadcasters Trade Group VP In DC

By Jack Rodgers

Holland & Knight LLP has hired the National Association of Broadcasters' vice president of public policy in Washington, D.C., as a partner with its public policy and regulation group, the firm said Tuesday.

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BakerHostetler Adds Davis Wright Privacy Pro In LA

By Gina Kim

BakerHostetler announced Tuesday it has welcomed data privacy litigator Spencer Persson from Davis Wright Tremaine to its digital assets and data management practice group as partner, bringing in years of experience handling high-stakes privacy matters that will beef up the firm's privacy and digital risk class action and litigation team. 

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Legal Theories In Social Media Verdicts Hold Clues On Impact

Although the two verdicts in cases in New Mexico and California involving Meta and Google are being lumped together, they rest on fundamentally different legal theories, and that distinction determines how their effects may be felt in other jurisdictions, says Mark Morgan at Day Pitney.

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DLA Piper Offered Pregnant Atty 'Dignified' Exit, Jury Told

By Pete Brush

A former DLA Piper associate who claims she was unlawfully fired after announcing her pregnancy was offered a chance to transition out of the firm "without anyone knowing that her work was subpar," a partner told a Manhattan federal jury Wednesday.

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Spencer Fane Adds 75 Attys Through Tie-Up With Okla. Firm

By Tracey Read

Missouri-headquartered Spencer Fane LLP announced Wednesday that it plans to combine with Southwest firm Conner & Winters LLP on July 1 in its largest tie-up to date and its third already in 2026.

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AEG, BigLaw Atty In Hot Seat As Live Nation Trial Nears End

By Stewart Bishop

Live Nation on Wednesday concluded its defense case with glowing testimony about it from the manager for rap star Drake, while the Manhattan federal judge overseeing the case said rival company AEG Worldwide and a Hogan Lovells lawyer may face sanctions for revealing confidential information about a witness.

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DOJ's Lead Google Attys Both Leave Agency Same Day

By Bryan Koenig

The lead attorneys on both of the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division's monopolization cases against Google left the agency Wednesday or said they would be doing so.

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Mich. Federal Judge Pleads No Contest In Drunk-Driving Case

By Gina Kim

A Michigan federal judge pled no contest Wednesday to a misdemeanor drunken-driving charge in Emmet County court in connection with an incident where he crashed his Cadillac and registered a 0.27% blood alcohol level, apologizing and saying he "looks forward" to continuing his judicial service.

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ABA, State Bars Blast DOJ Proposal To Block Bar Probes

By Emily Sawicki

The American Bar Association and a chorus of state and local bar groups have come out against a proposed rule that would allow the U.S. Department of Justice to pause and review state-level ethics complaints against its attorneys, calling the proposal "unlawful and unconstitutional."

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ABA Rates Montana Judicial Pick 'Not Qualified'

By Courtney Bublé

Katie Lane, senior legal counsel at the Republican National Committee who has been tapped for a federal judgeship in Montana, is the first nominee to receive a majority "not qualified" rating by the American Bar Association in the second Trump administration.

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NY Panel Backs DLA Piper's $482K Fee Win In Malpractice Suit

By Dorothy Atkins

A New York appellate court affirmed Tuesday the dismissal of a Chinese software company's legal malpractice suit against DLA Piper, along with a $482,000 sanctions order against the company and its counsel, noting that the company's frivolous claims also drew a $635,000 sanctions ruling in "mirror" federal court litigation.

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Bondi To Skip Epstein Deposition After DOJ Cites AG Exit

By Courtney Bublé

Former Attorney General Pam Bondi will not sit for her scheduled deposition next week on the Epstein files now that she has left the role, and the Justice Department has asked the House Oversight Committee to withdraw its subpoena.

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Trump Asks NY's Top Court To Toss AG's 'Flawed' Fraud Case

By Lauren Berg

President Donald Trump on Wednesday asked New York's highest court to throw out New York Attorney General Letitia James' "deeply flawed" civil fraud judgment entirely after a lower appellate court tossed what it called an "excessive" $489 million penalty against the president, his sons and his real estate companies.

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