Meta Exec Can't 'Rule Out' Addiction But Doubts It, Jury Told

By Cara Salvatore

A Meta safety executive admitted Monday to a Tennessee jury that she cannot "rule out" that addiction may occur with Instagram but said she believes that so far there is no evidence to identify anything beyond "problematic use."

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Pornhub To Pay $120M To End Child Abuse Content Cases

By Dorothy Atkins

The companies behind adult entertainment website Pornhub have agreed to make extensive policy changes and pay $120 million to end certified class claims in California and Alabama by child sex trafficking and sexual abuse material survivors who allege the website profited from crimes committed against them.

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Medtech Group Faults Fed. Circ. Trade Secret Timing Rule

By Ivan Moreno

A medical technology trade group and a University of Texas law professor are urging the full Federal Circuit to revisit a decision that wiped out Insulet Corp.'s trade secret win against EOFlow Co. Ltd. after finding the suit untimely, reversing a $452 million jury verdict that had been reduced to $59.4 million.

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Meta Loses 'Hail Mary' Sanctions Bid On Eve Of AGs' Trial

By Dorothy Atkins

A California federal judge Sunday denied Meta's request for spoliation sanctions against state attorneys general that would've barred a Meta whistleblower from testifying in the upcoming high-stakes social media addiction bellwether trial, ruling that Meta's request was an "obvious" "Hail Mary attempt to eliminate a strong witness" before trial.

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Calif. AG Pans Bid To Pause Social Media Algorithm Limits

By Craig Clough

The California attorney general urged a federal judge to deny requests from TikTok, Meta and Google to block enforcement of a state law barring them from using algorithms to deliver feeds to children, saying the court already denied a preliminary injunction and should not grant one pending the companies' appeal.

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Apple Hit With Derivative Suit Over AI Copyright Infringement

By Hailey Konnath

Apple executives and directors are facing a stockholder derivative action claiming they've been knowingly using copyrighted materials to develop Apple's artificial intelligence services — an unlawful business strategy they knew could lead to litigation from copyright holders, the plaintiff told a California federal court.

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Google To Pay $10M For Spirit Airlines Data To Help AI Models

By Alex Wittenberg

Technology giant Google LLC has won an auction for Spirit Airlines' emails, chats, spreadsheets and other data, offering $10 million for anonymized information it will use to improve its large language models and other products, according to a notice filed Friday in New York bankruptcy court.

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Experts See Looming Legal Disputes Over FCC Party Balance

By Christopher Cole

The U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision to ditch case law shielding independent federal agency members from presidential removal is unlikely to resolve ongoing controversy over White House control of the Federal Communications Commission, experts said Monday.

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Latest Squires Patent Review Order Grants 1, Denies 3

By Theresa Schliep

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires granted one petition for an America Invents Act patent review and rejected three others in his latest order on institution decisions.

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CFTC To Seek Feedback On AI Chip Futures

By Jessica Corso

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is weighing the future of derivatives contracts that could offer artificial intelligence companies a way to hedge their bets on the cost of chips, with the CME Group recently asking for permission to launch such contracts.

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Treasury Plan Would Map Boundaries Of US Stablecoin Market

By Jon Hill

The U.S. Department of the Treasury on Monday floated a proposal to set standards for how and when payment stablecoins may enter the U.S. market, moving ahead on a key unfinished plank of the emerging federal regulatory framework for the stable-value tokens.

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FCC Turns Down Bid To Revisit Campaign Ad Pricing Policy

By Nadia Dreid

The Federal Communications Commission declined a petition asking it to reconsider guidance the agency put out earlier this year about political ads, saying the "central premise" of the request was "wrong many times over."

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'Act Now' To Save FCC School Subsidy, Group Urges Public

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

School and library broadband advocates are urging communities that depend on the E-Rate subsidy that supports high-speed connectivity in learning environments to file public comments in support amid a push by the Federal Communications Commission to dismantle it.

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Broadband Co. Says It's Catching Up After Rural Fund Delays

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

Broadband provider Brightspeed told the Federal Communications Commission that it is on track to meet its obligations under a rural development fund despite ongoing delays.

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Justices Won't Reconsider Verizon's $47M FCC Fine

By Nadia Dreid

The U.S. Supreme Court is not interested in reconsidering how it worded its June opinion upholding the Federal Communications Commission's authority to issue monetary penalties, despite Verizon arguing that the ruling left it between a rock and a hard place concerning the $47 million fine it already paid.

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Kalshi Loses Bid To Block Conn. Enforcement

By Katryna Perera

A Connecticut federal judge has denied a bid from KalshiEX to keep offering sports contracts while it pursues an appeal before the Second Circuit, finding the prediction market's arguments for a stay had already been rejected by the court and that it has not shown it is likely to win on appeal.

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Standing Flaw Sinks Chrysler Website Tracking Row, For Now

By Allison Grande

A California federal judge has tossed, with leave to amend, a proposed class action accusing automaker FCA of illegally divulging Chrysler website visitors' personal information to a data broker, finding that the plaintiff had failed to establish the type of concrete injury necessary to sustain her wiretap and privacy claims.

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JPMorgan Loses State Trade Secret Claims In Data Suit

By Ivan Moreno

JPMorgan Chase Bank cannot pursue state law trade secret claims against a data analytics company over the alleged misuse of credit card data supplied for regulatory purposes, with a Delaware federal judge ruling Monday that the bank still hasn't tied that conduct to Delaware or Ohio.

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Judge Suggests Narrowing Patent Suit Against Southwest

By Theresa Schliep

A federal magistrate judge in the Northern District of Texas has recommended that the court eliminate one patent claim from Intellectual Ventures' infringement lawsuit against Southwest Airlines and foreclose presuit damages for some claims, but otherwise preserved the patent-holding company's case.

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HP Shareholders Seek Final OK For Derivative Suit Deal

By Katryna Perera

Stockholders who accused HP's top brass of misleading investors about sales and profits within the company's supplies division have asked a California federal judge to grant final approval to a deal that will require HP to adopt and maintain certain corporate governance reforms for at least four years.

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Medtronic Rival Seeks Injunction After $382M Antitrust Win

By Bonnie Eslinger

Medical device company Applied Medical Resources Corp. has urged a California federal judge to issue final judgment and impose a permanent injunction against Medtronic Inc. that would block contracts a jury found were used to illegally maintain a monopoly over a surgical device, saying that would end Medtronic's "exclusionary conduct and restore competition."

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Apple Bricked Smartwatches In Software Update, Suit Says

By Gina Kim

Apple has been hit with a proposed class action in California federal court alleging it breached its contracts with customers by intentionally killing updated software support for five generations of its smartwatches and essentially bricking them before the end of the hardware's useful life.

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Judge Stays Ex-Defense Contractor Execs' Whistleblower Suit

By Rachel Konieczny

A Colorado federal magistrate judge granted on Monday a defense contractor's bid to stay two former executives' case against it that claimed the contractor fired them for reporting a $1.9 million fraud scheme on a classified government contract.

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3 Firms Steer Madison Air On $5.4B Airflow Tech Biz Deal

By Al Barbarino

Madison Air Solutions Corp. said on Monday it has agreed to acquire German airflow technology maker ebm-papst at an enterprise value of $5.4 billion, with three law firms steering Madison on the planned expansion of its presence in the European ventilation market.

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Latham-Led Veritas Capital Selling Epiq Solutions For $1.1B

By Al Barbarino

Latham & Watkins LLP-advised Veritas Capital announced Monday that it has agreed to sell Epiq Design Solutions to Polsinelli PC-advised TTM Technologies for $1.1 billion.

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Doxo To Pay FTC $2.1M Over Misleading Ads And Fees

By Sarah Jarvis

Doxo will pay $2.1 million to settle Federal Trade Commission claims that the online bill pay service and two co-founders misled consumers about fees and used deceptive advertising to impersonate billers, the commission announced on Monday, after a Washington federal judge granted partial summary judgment earlier this year.

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DOJ Charges Ga. Man Over $165M Crypto Ponzi Scheme

By Gina Kim

A serial "Ponzi-schemer" is charged with wire fraud for allegedly spearheading a $165 million cryptocurrency scheme that defrauded over 6,000 victims around the world and using the money to make alimony payments and buy expensive cars for his children, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Monday. 

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Ga. Law School's AI Policy Includes Required Course In Tech

By Emily Johnson

The University of Georgia School of Law will now require students to complete a technology course and has mostly banned electronic devices in first-year courses, making it the latest U.S. law school to set policies on how instructors and students can use artificial intelligence.

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Debevoise Hires 2 Former Davis Polk Attorneys For AI Practice

By Matt Perez

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP announced on Monday the hiring of two former Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP lawyers as counsel focused on artificial intelligence in New York and Washington, D.C.

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7th Circ. Ruling May Reduce Litigation Risk For Text Marketers

The recent Seventh Circuit holding in Steidinger v. Blackstone Medical Services that unwanted marketing text messages are not telephone calls under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act may strengthen companies' responses to presuit demand letters and early-stage litigation claims premised on do-not-call text theories, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.

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Recent OCC Charter Approvals Signal Fintech Momentum

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency's recent charter approval for Circle, along with faster Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. review procedures, signals a more workable path to national bank and trust charters, meaning fintech firms should prepare regulator-ready applications and plan for intensified competition, say attorneys at Davis Wright.

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Law Firms See Revenue, Demand Grow In First Half Of 2026

By Anna Sanders

Despite rising expenses driven by artificial intelligence and return to office mandates, the legal industry is performing well in 2026, with U.S. law firms recording a double-digit jump in revenue and strong growth in demand so far this year, according to new survey results from Citi Global Wealth at Work's Law Firm Group.

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Morgan & Morgan Sues Fla. Bar Over Celebrity Ad Ban

By Carolina Bolado

Personal injury giant Morgan & Morgan PA has sued the Florida Bar, claiming a bar rule that bans any use of a celebrity's voice or image in lawyer advertising violates the First Amendment.

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3 NY Injury Firms Get Uber's RICO Suit Tossed

By Lauren Berg

A New York federal judge threw out Uber Technologies Inc.'s lawsuit accusing three personal injury law firms of conspiring with physicians and exploiting passengers to pursue fake or exaggerated injury claims in order to strongarm settlement payouts from the ride-hailing giant.

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Nussbaum-Linked Firms' Ch. 11s Tossed For Bad Faith

By Ben Zigterman

A New York bankruptcy judge has dismissed the Chapter 11 cases of two commercial real estate law firms headed by Mark J. Nussbaum, finding their petitions were filed in bad faith and that the cases instead belonged in an assignment for the benefit of creditors process in New York state court.

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Chattah Can't Serve As Acting Nevada US Atty, 9th Circ. Says

By Emma Cueto

The Ninth Circuit on Monday upheld a lower court ruling that Nevada's top prosecutor was not put in place lawfully and was barred from overseeing the criminal cases giving rise to the appeal, the latest state where courts have shut down attempts by the Trump administration to fill U.S. attorney vacancies without Senate confirmation.

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Clifford Chance Pushes To Send Clawback Suit To Arbitration

By Ryan Boysen

Clifford Chance LLP wants a high-profile partner pay dispute sent to arbitration, accusing two ex-partners who claim they're facing a $6 million clawback demand of "gamesmanship" by filing suit in New York federal court.

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NYCBA Cautions Against Recording Nonclient Calls

By Emily Sawicki

New York City attorneys who have been granted permission may ethically use artificial intelligence to record, transcribe and summarize conversations with nonclients, according to the latest ethics guidance by the New York City Bar Association Monday, which added that just because they can doesn't mean they should.

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