Comcast Hit With $213M Verdict In Streaming Patent Case

By Adam Lidgett

Comcast is on the hook for $213 million after a Florida federal jury found Thursday that it infringed a rival's patent for a streaming service system, years after the telecommunications giant was cleared by the judge in the middle of an earlier trial.

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11th Circ. Says Ga. Can Enforce Social Media Age Check Law

By David Aaro

The Eleventh Circuit struck down an injunction Thursday that blocked Georgia from enforcing its age verification law for social media platforms, finding that internet trade group NetChoice hadn't shown it was likely to prevail on its legal challenge to the statute.

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Eight States Sue OpenAI Over ChatGPT Safety Risks

By Emily Field

A group of attorneys general of eight states, including Arkansas and Arizona, on Wednesday hit OpenAI with suits alleging that the company knowingly misled the public about the safety risks of its ChatGPT artificial intelligence bot.

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Gov't Urges Justices To Reject Google, Intel Fight Over Fintiv

By Adam Lidgett

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to reject Intel Corp. and Google LLC's challenge to a precedent allowing Patent Trial and Appeal Board petitions to be denied based on related litigation.

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Crowell Faces DQ Bid Over AI Tool At Heart Of Client's IP Suit

By Dorothy Atkins

DeviantArt urged a California federal judge Wednesday to disqualify Crowell & Moring LLP from representing Evox Productions in litigation alleging multiple AI companies used Evox's copyrighted car photos to train artificial-intelligence image generators, arguing the firm "unquestionably" represented DeviantArt and has "sued its own client on behalf of another client."

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FCC To Vote On Adding $162M To Boost Alaska Connectivity

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

The Federal Communications Commission is set to vote on a proposal to pump an additional $162 million into ongoing efforts to expand high-speed internet connectivity in Alaska.

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Justices Stay 4th Circ. Mandamus In FCC Political Ad Case

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

The U.S. Supreme Court has stayed an order from a Fourth Circuit panel that would have required the full Federal Communications Commission to review agency staff guidance requiring broadcasters to offer discount ad rates to political committees tied to candidates.

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Anthropic Urges DC Circ. To Revisit Defense Supply Risk Ban

By Rae Ann Varona

Anthropic has urged the D.C. Circuit to reconsider a split panel's decision allowing the Pentagon to exclude Claude artificial intelligence models from its supply chain, saying the decision, if left standing, puts U.S. companies at risk of punishment for refusing Pentagon demands.

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Tesla Says Gov't Brief Shows USPTO Wants 'Absolute Power'

By Elliot Weld

Electric carmaker Tesla told the U.S. Supreme Court that it should take a case over the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office leadership's discretionary standards for granting or denying patent review, saying a recent government brief illustrates how the office wants "absolute power" when it comes to restricting such reviews.

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Zoom Can't Move Ricoh Patent Suit From Delaware To Calif.

By Elliot Weld

A Delaware federal court denied Thursday a bid from Zoom Communications Inc. to move a patent infringement suit brought by Japanese camera and electronics maker Ricoh Co. Ltd. to California, ruling that keeping the case in Delaware was more convenient.

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Google Will Seek To Pause Ad Tech Case For DOJ Appeal

By Matthew Perlman

Google will ask a New York federal court to pause a scheduled April trial in the private antitrust litigation over its advertising placement technology while it appeals a loss in a similar case from the U.S. Department of Justice in Virginia.

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Medical AI Platforms Report Settlement Amid Discovery Battle

By Julie Manganis

Medical artificial intelligence startup OpenEvidence and competitors Doximity Inc. and Pathway Medical Inc. told a Massachusetts federal judge on Thursday that they have reached a settlement in principle to resolve a contentious lawsuit and counterclaim.

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Music Companies Fight To Continue Influencer Ad Claims

By Adam Lidgett

A group of Warner Music-affiliated record labels and publishers have urged an Ohio federal judge to keep alive copyright claims accusing DSW Shoe Warehouse Inc. of profiting from unlicensed music in influencer marketing campaigns.

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Google Beats T-Shirt Co.'s Suit, Amazon Still Facing IP Claims

By Bonnie Eslinger

An Ohio federal judge overseeing a T-shirt seller's separate intellectual property lawsuits accusing Google and Amazon of copyright infringement issued diverging rulings Wednesday, saying Weekend Warrior Clothing can pursue claims against Amazon over its "Merch on Demand" service, while tossing claims that Google advertised infringing shirts.

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No Sanctions Over Lost Evidence In Tax Software Dispute

By Jack McLoone

A Pennsylvania federal court won't sanction tax software company Avalara Inc. for destroying evidence in an employee poaching suit brought by a rival, as the judge adopted a special master's findings that the rival couldn't show the missing evidence harmed its case.

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Agtech Biz Fights Founder's Receivership Bid In Del.

By Jarek Rutz

HerdDogg urged the Delaware Chancery Court on Thursday to reject its founder's request to put the agricultural technology company into receivership, arguing her current case improperly repeats claims already tossed in another lawsuit, while the founder contended the events underlying her instant petition occurred only after that previous litigation began.

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Mich. Jury In Abuse Damages Trial Told Student Was Groomed

By Melanie Dorsey

An eight-member Michigan federal jury heard competing accounts Thursday of whether a former Wyandotte Public Schools employee groomed and sexually abused a student beginning when she was 15, or only engaged in an inappropriate relationship that does not warrant a multimillion-dollar damages award.

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Redfin Hit With Breach Suit Over Hacked Worker, User Data

By Ben Adlin

A former Redfin Corp. employee filed a proposed nationwide class action against the real estate listings company Wednesday, accusing it of failing to meet "even the most basic requirements of cybersecurity" to protect workers' and customers' personal information from hackers.

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Ex-Microsoft Manager Says Her Bias Complaints Led To Firing

By Ben Adlin

A former Microsoft Corp. engineering manager sued the tech giant in Washington state court Wednesday over claims the company eliminated her role after she raised concerns about race and gender discrimination against women of color.

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4 Firms Steer $6.1B CCC Intelligent Solutions Take-Private

By Al Barbarino

Four law firms are advising on an agreement announced Thursday to take insurance software provider CCC Intelligent Solutions Holdings Inc. private at an enterprise value of about $6.1 billion.

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NYC Comptroller Urges Anthropic To Ease Risks Before IPO

By Nate Beck

New York City Comptroller Mark Levine is urging Anthropic PBC to pause plans for an initial public offering it says could value the company at $2 trillion, calling on the business to first resolve concerns over the technology's governance, safety and development pace.

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Deals Rumor Mill

General Atlantic Targets IPO At $10B Valuation, More Rumors

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Private equity firm General Atlantic is considering a 2027 initial public offering that could value it at up to $10 billion; Amazon is in talks to acquire artificial intelligence company Decart in a transaction that could be worth around $7 billion; and Australian real estate investment trust AirTrunk has delayed its planned Singaporean initial public offering.

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Hughes Satellite Creditors Argue For Right To File Reorg Plan

By Rick Archer

Creditors of Hughes Satellite System told a Texas bankruptcy judge Thursday they should be allowed to propose their own Chapter 11 plan before the bankrupt satellite internet provider runs out of cash.

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Dems Want FTC To Investigate Online Homebuying Industry

By Isaac Monterose

Democratic U.S. Sens. Cory Booker and Elizabeth Warren asked the Federal Trade Commission Thursday to conduct an antitrust investigation into the "anticompetitive and deceptive practices" of the country's online homebuying industry, saying that the FTC needs to employ "every enforcement tool available to restore competition to the entire online real estate marketplace."

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Series

Fintech Regulator Outlook: Collaboration In North Dakota

The recent speed of new digital asset products entering the market continues to introduce compliance challenges, so regulators and companies alike must examine the intersection of artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, collaboration and modernization to navigate regulatory complexity, says Lise Kruse at the North Dakota Department of Financial Institutions.

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Importer Risk Rises As AI Enters Trade Fraud Enforcement

The Trump administration's new data-driven and artificial intelligence-enabled push against tariff evasion raises the stakes for companies with global supply chains, making it crucial that they consider strengthening response protocols, documentation and internal reporting mechanisms, say attorneys at Cooley.

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Parsing The Latest Signals On FTC Section 5 Enforcement

Federal Trade Commission cases brought over the last several years and Commissioner Mark Meador’s recent call for stand-alone Section 5 enforcement suggest businesses should prepare for continued scrutiny of conduct beyond traditional antitrust violations, particularly in essential goods, technology and labor markets, say attorneys at Axinn.

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Cyber Incident Halts Bankruptcy Court Noticing Nationwide

By Hilary Russ

The nationwide system for providing notice to creditors in bankruptcy cases has been disrupted by a cybersecurity incident, and it is not currently known when the outage will end.

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Analysis

Missouri AG Alumni Make Their Mark In Trump 2.0

By Courtney Bublé

Missouri is hundreds of miles from Washington, D.C., but the legal community of the Show-Me State has taken a significant hold in the second Trump administration.

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Norton Rose Beats $100M Suit Over Withdrawn Patent App

By Celeste Bott

Norton Rose Fulbright has defeated a former client's malpractice suit over a missed patent fee payment, after an Illinois state judge ruled that the deadline to sue began before the firm allegedly acknowledged its mistake and dismissed the company's $100 million lawsuit against the firm with prejudice.

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Murdaugh Tells 4th Circ. To Revive Jury Tampering Civil Suit

By Cara Salvatore

Disgraced lawyer Alex Murdaugh asked the Fourth Circuit on Thursday to revive his suit accusing a court clerk of interfering in his murder trial, arguing he has standing because the alleged tampering "destroyed the value" of his $600,000 defense.

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Judge Who Called For Philly DA Probe Rejects Recusal Bid

By Matthew Santoni

A federal judge who called for an investigation of the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office will not reconsider or recuse himself from the underlying habeas corpus case, calling DA Larry Krasner's bid to undo his rulings "frivolous" and "intemperate."

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Would-Be Kavanaugh Assassin Slams Feds' Skewed Facts

By Lauren Berg

A woman accused of trying to kill U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh told the Fourth Circuit that federal prosecutors have presented a "wildly inaccurate description" of a Maryland federal judge's sentencing decision, rejecting their argument that she got off too easy because of her gender identity.

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NYC Sanctuary Policies Survive Trump Admin. Lawsuit

By Rae Ann Varona

A New York federal judge on Thursday tossed the Trump administration's lawsuit challenging New York City policies that the administration alleged unconstitutionally obstruct federal immigration enforcement, saying federal law the administration leaned on does not preempt the sanctuary provisions.

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