9th Circ. Doubts Kids Agreed To Arb. Roblox Gambling Claims

By Dorothy Atkins

A Ninth Circuit panel doubted Monday a website owner's arguments he is entitled to a trial over whether a putative class of minors agreed to arbitrate their claims Roblox and others operated an illegal gambling business, with one judge asking if the appellant wants 9-year-olds to attest to whether they entered a contract.

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WWE Loses Challenge To Md. Law Bolstering Abuse Suit

By Aaron Keller

World Wrestling Entertainment and its co-founders Vince and Linda McMahon cannot escape a lawsuit alleging complicity in the sexual abuse of "ring boys" in the 1980s and 1990s, a Maryland federal judge ruled Monday, rejecting federal constitutional challenges to an Old Line State law.

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Trump Fights Jack Smith Subpoena In $10B BBC Suit

By Lauren Berg

President Donald Trump on Monday slammed the British Broadcasting Corp.'s subpoena to Jack Smith, who brought election interference and classified document-hoarding charges against the president, saying the former special counsel's testimony is "entirely irrelevant" to the $10 billion defamation lawsuit over the broadcaster's documentary on the 2021 U.S. Capital attack.

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Salsa Composer Says He Kept Rights To 6 Albums

By Carolina Bolado

A Venezuelan salsa composer suing his former business partner and producer for copyright infringement told jurors Monday that he never transferred ownership rights to six albums that he says have been disseminated without consent or payment.

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Drake Ripped Off Chorus 'Word-For-Word,' Songwriter Alleges

By Rae Ann Varona

Drake has been hit with a copyright infringement lawsuit in California federal court by a songwriter who alleges the catchy chorus in the rapper and singer's Billboard-topping song "Janice STFU" ripped off a hook the songwriter wrote, "word-for-word, note-for-note."

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4 Justices Sit Out Appeal, Leaving Copyright Ruling Intact

By Ivan Moreno

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday left intact a far-reaching Fifth Circuit ruling holding that U.S. copyright termination can recapture foreign rights conveyed in a worldwide grant, not by denying an appeal from major music publishers, but because four justices sat out and left the court without enough members to hear the case.

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High Court Skips Blackbeard Shipwreck Copyright Clash

By Hayley Fowler

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a videographer's long-running copyright case over photos and videos they took of the famous pirate Blackbeard's shipwreck off the coast of North Carolina.

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CNN Hit With TM Suit In Texas Over Talarico Town Hall

By Adam Lidgett

CNN has been hit with a lawsuit in Texas federal court accusing it of infringing a trademark on the phrase "Change My Mind" associated with conservative media personality Steven Crowder when the network used it as a backdrop during a town hall with Democratic U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico.

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Roku Accused Of Using Voice AI Tech After Licensing Talks

By Elliot Weld

A voice recognition technology company sued the television streaming provider Roku Inc. claiming its voice remote function infringes several patents covering methods of machine speech recognition and language processing.

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Proskauer Says It Didn't Drop Reddit To Defend Perplexity

By Lauren Berg

Proskauer Rose LLP and Perplexity AI are urging a New York federal judge to allow the law firm to represent the artificial intelligence company in Reddit's suit over alleged data scraping, balking at the social media platform's argument that its one-time law firm can't represent its current opponent.

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NSO Avoids Contempt As WhatsApp Says It's Still Hacking

By Nadia Dreid

An Israeli spyware company isn't going to be held in contempt on allegations it violated a court order restricting its use of WhatsApp because the order wasn't so specific that it banned the company from using accounts it already had, only restricted it from making new ones, a judge has ruled.

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Ad Giant Promises Separate Data Access In FTC Merger Deal

By Bryan Koenig

France's Publicis Groupe SA must guarantee five years of access to "standalone" products of data collaboration platform LiveRamp Holdings Inc. under a Federal Trade Commission settlement Monday clearing the advertising buying giant's $2.2 billion purchase.

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FCC Urged To Consider New Cellphone Radiation Studies

By Christopher Cole

An environmental group told the Federal Communications Commission it has an obligation to scrutinize existing science rather than lean on years-old conclusions as it examines the health effects of cellphone radiation.

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Retired Judges Say DOJ's Ethics Complaint Is Meritless

By Courtney Bublé

A coalition of 61 retired federal judges has admonished the U.S. Department of Justice for filing a complaint against federal judges in Minnesota for speaking to a newspaper about the Trump administration's immigration crackdown in their state.

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Polsinelli Seeks Sanctions For 'Knowingly False' IP Suit

By Elliot Weld

Law firm Polsinelli PC has asked a Tennessee federal judge to sanction a medical device company for advancing what it says were "knowingly false and materially incomplete" positions in a suit accusing the firm of pursuing bad faith patent infringement claims on behalf of a client.

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Atty Used Legal Cred To Prop Up Ponzi Schemes, DOJ Says

By David Aaro

A Florida attorney was arrested Tuesday on charges of using his legal bona fides to help run two Ponzi schemes that swindled investors out of nearly $2 million, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

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Ex-NOLA Injury Atty Gets 32 Months For Staging Crashes

By Christine DeRosa

A former New Orleans personal injury attorney has been sentenced to 32 months in prison for his role in a scheme to fake vehicle accidents with tractor trailers and other commercial vehicles so he could pursue lawsuits and extract settlements.

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