'News To Me': Instagram CEO Unaware Its Attys Deleted Data

By Dorothy Atkins

Instagram's CEO appeared to be taken by surprise Tuesday during a California federal jury trial over claims Meta hid social media's harms, after the states revealed that Instagram's in-house counsel removed data from a teen-safety presentation before presenting it to minimize his "litigation exposure risk," saying "this is all news to me."

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Ex-Intel President's AI Chip Co. Hit With $50M Breach Verdict

By Bonnie Eslinger

A California state court jury has found a Silicon Valley computer chipmaker led by Intel's former president owes $50 million for terminating its deal with FICT Ltd. for semiconductor substrates, in a mixed verdict that also determined the Japanese electronics manufacturer did not fulfill all its obligations under the agreements.

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Albright Cements Lyft's $1M Trial Loss Over Ride-Hailing IP

By Dani Kass

A Texas federal jury rightly found that Lyft Inc. infringed Quartz Auto Technologies LLC's ride-hailing patent and should pay $1 million for doing so, U.S. District Judge Alan Albright has ruled.

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Meta Should Keep Research Internal, Data Whiz Tells Jury

By Cara Salvatore

A high-ranking Meta data analyst told a Tennessee jury Tuesday that the social media giant shouldn't release its user research publicly because he saw during a famous leak the danger that such research will be "misinterpreted and misrepresented."

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Publishers Say Google Would Gut Web Traffic To Win AI Race

By Jared Foretek

A lawyer for education tech company Chegg Inc. told a D.C. federal judge Tuesday that Google LLC would likely rather cannibalize its search engine supply — and the whole internet in the process — than lose the artificial intelligence "arms race" Tuesday.

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Calif. Data Broker Tool Sign-Ups Hit 500K As Deletions Begin

By Allison Grande

Data brokers in California have deleted "tens of millions" of records since their obligation to comply with requests made through a new consumer data deletion tool kicked in earlier this month, the state's privacy regulator said Tuesday, while announcing that registrations for the first-of-its-kind platform had reached the half-million mark.

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Bid For FCC Preemption 'Dead On Arrival,' Minn. City Says

By Christopher Cole

A Minneapolis suburb called on the Federal Communications Commission to reject a broadband provider's request for FCC preemption in a local franchise dispute because of court rulings declaring that broadband does not qualify as a telecommunications service.

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City Of Austin Backs Improving Emergency Alert System

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

The city of Austin, Texas, has asked the Federal Communications Commission to improve its geolocating requirements for emergency alert systems, saying its systems are facing several challenges and require more precise location information.

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4th Circ. Blocks FCC Campaign Ad Pricing Guidance

By Lauren Berg

While political candidates are entitled to the lowest advertising rate radio and television stations can charge, political parties and joint fundraising committees with noncandidate members are not, a split Fourth Circuit ruled Tuesday, wiping out recent Federal Communications Commission guidance.

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Dropbox Escapes Cloud Patent Trial Set For Sept.

By Elliot Weld

A California federal judge has ruled that Entangled Media could not prove that Dropbox infringed a patent covering cloud-based data storage under an alternative theory, calling off a Sept. 8 trial date since Entangled had already received a ruling against it on literal infringement.

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Snap Pixel Suit Dropped Amid Calif. 'Judge-Shopping' Claims

By Allison Grande

A plaintiff suing Snap in the Central District of California over its alleged deployment of website tracking pixels has voluntarily ended his lawsuit, on the heels of the company accusing his counsel of engaging in "forum shopping" to avoid appearing before a judge who's advised against a broad reading of the state's wiretap law.

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3 Firms Will Lead Charter Cyberattack Claims For Now

By Brian Steele

Attorneys with Milberg PLLC, Scott+Scott Attorneys at Law LLP and Hausfeld LLP will serve as class counsel, at least temporarily, in a consolidated class action alleging that hackers stole more than 40 million private records through a cyberattack on Charter Communications Inc., a Connecticut federal judge has ruled.

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Judge Concerned About Misinformation In RealPage Case

By Isaac Monterose

A Tennessee federal judge has instructed a settlement administrator in the rent price-fixing litigation against RealPage and others to send out new notices informing eligible class members they have not been left out of deals worth more than $359 million, finding counsel representing intervenors in the case may have wrongfully told parties they've been excluded.

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Del. Justices Say SPAC Proxy Claims Came Too Late

By Katryna Perera

The Delaware Supreme Court on Tuesday affirmed the dismissal of a special purpose acquisition company suit seeking damages tied to a $1.4 billion deal with an autonomous vehicle software provider, finding the plaintiff waited too long to sue.

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Tesla Can't Avoid Revival Of Home Fire Suit, Calif. Panel Says

By Y. Peter Kang

A California appeals panel has ruled that a Los Angeles judge properly revived a suit accusing a Tesla employee of causing a house fire during an equipment installation, saying plaintiff's counsel's trial tardiness was caused by "excusable neglect."

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Oura Ring Maker Says Ex-CEO Must Arbitrate Stock Claims

By Joyce Hanson

The manufacturer of the Oura Ring personal health and fitness tracking device has asked a Delaware federal court to order its ex-CEO to arbitrate claims accusing his former company and related entities of orchestrating a scheme to strip him of voting power.

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Carl Sagan's Widow Sues Over Luma AI Ad's Use of His Voice

By Bonnie Eslinger

Carl Sagan's widow sued Luma AI on Tuesday in California federal court for allegedly using audio ‌of the renowned astronomer's voice in an ad without permission, saying the law must stop those who would exploit her husband's reputation and intellectual integrity "for their own crass, self-serving commercial purposes."

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Athena Bitcoin Hit With Texas Class Suit Over ATM Scams

By Sydney Price

A Texas resident has hit crypto ATM operator Athena Bitcoin with a proposed class action accusing it of failing to flag transactions that exceed its daily transaction limits, which allowed scammers to dupe him out of nearly $30,000 that has not been returned.

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Health Exec Says CFO, Atty Knew Wage Claim Was Wrong

By MJ Koo

A former corporate officer has sued his ex-colleague and the colleague's attorney in Connecticut state court, alleging they named him as a personal defendant in a federal wage lawsuit without any factual basis and with the intent to pressure his company into settling claims it disputed.

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2 Firms Guide Windjammer's $350M Smart Parking Co. Sale

By Isaac Monterose

Private equity investor Windjammer Capital will sell its smart parking infrastructure company IPS Group Inc. to online commerce platform Nayax Ltd. in a $350 million all-cash, no-debt sale guided by Kirkland & Ellis LLP and Reed Smith LLP, Windjammer and Nayax announced Tuesday.

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Autonomous Freight Biz Raises $200M In Series D Round

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Autonomous trucking company Gatik on Tuesday revealed it had closed its latest funding round after securing $200 million in investor commitments, a move that comes as demand for driverless commercial freight increases.

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Emerald AI Hits $1.05B Valuation In $150M Series A Round

By Nate Beck

Emerald AI, a company developing software to reduce or change power usage of AI data centers while electric grids are under stress, said Tuesday that it raised $150 million in a funding round valuing the company at $1.05 billion.

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NY Telecom Faces Call Traffic Blocking, FCC Warns

By Christopher Cole

A New York-based telecom has apparently been sending illegal calls from abroad over its network and faces the possibility of downstream providers blocking all of its traffic, the Federal Communications Commission said.

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Pa. AG Says Snapchat Hooks Kids With 'Ephemeral' Posts

By P.J. D'Annunzio

Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday announced Tuesday that Pennsylvania is suing Snapchat for allegedly harming kids by turning them into compulsive users afraid to miss "ephemeral" posts on the popular app that disappear in time.

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Anthropic Appoints New General Counsel

By Matt Perez

Artificial intelligence giant Anthropic, which is behind the chatbot Claude, has appointed a new general counsel, with her predecessor moving into a role coordinating with international governments.

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Cooley Life Sciences Atty Joins Foley & Lardner In San Diego

By Adrian Cruz

Foley & Lardner LLP announced that a life sciences attorney with over 30 years of experience has jumped to the firm's San Diego office as a partner from Cooley LLP.

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Why Data Centers Must Focus On Water Stewardship

Reducing overall water use is important for data center developers and operators, but comprehensive water stewardship — including cooling system operation, chemical treatment, wastewater discharge, maintenance activities and interactions with municipal water infrastructure — is rapidly becoming both a regulatory expectation and a business imperative, say attorneys at Baker Donelson.

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Navigating Rising AI Use In Pro Se Employment Suits

As federal pro se employment filings climb, largely due to increased use of artificial intelligence, defense attorneys can combat AI misuse by building AI-specific protective order language, screening documents for hidden prompt injections and seeking sanctions over fabricated citations, says Ashley Prickett Cuttino at Ogletree.

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What To Know As Legal Duty To Consider AI Takes Shape

While the U.K. Jurisdiction Taskforce’s recent statement on liability for artificial intelligence harms is nonbinding for both U.K. and U.S. lawyers, it highlights the importance of being able to distinguish between the availability of a tool and a professional obligation to use it, say Jonny Frank and Michael Costa at StoneTurn.

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Opinion

'Plain Meaning' Requires Plainer Meaning In IP Litigation

The Federal Circuit's recent decision in Socket Solutions v. Import Global highlights the frequent ambiguity surrounding courts' references to "plain meaning" in patent claim construction — an ambiguity that should be resolved by courts, not litigants, say attorneys at Klarquist Sparkman.

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Firm Revenue Climbs 12.4% In First Half Of 2026

By Daniel Moritz-Rabson

Record billing rate gains, strong demand and increased productivity fueled a successful start to the year for the legal industry, according to a report released Tuesday.

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Florida AG Slams Bar Complaint Against DHS Counsel

By Madison Arnold

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier wrote to the executive director of the Florida Bar to criticize a recent complaint made to the bar against James Percival, general counsel of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, for attacking judges.

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Legal Watchdog Lodges Bar Complaint Against Jeanine Pirro

By Hailey Konnath

The Legal Accountability Center said Tuesday that it filed a bar complaint against U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro, claiming that she abused her position to unjustifiably target Democratic lawmakers after they released a video reminding members of the military and intelligence community that it's their duty to refuse unlawful orders.

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6th Circ. Says Judge Can't Escape Teen Mock Arrest Suit

By Susan Smiley

A Sixth Circuit panel on Monday allowed to proceed a Michigan federal lawsuit filed against a Detroit judge who handcuffed a 15-year-old student and subjected her to a mock trial after she fell asleep in his courtroom, ruling that judicial immunity does not protect him.

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Watchdog Wants NY Judge Ousted Over Retaliatory Suit

By Rose Krebs

The New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct has determined a state judge should be removed from office for filing a retaliatory defamation suit against an eye-care worker who had lodged an ethics complaint over the judge refusing to wear a mask in an office in 2021.

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NY Times Says EEOC Dragging Feet On Anti-White Bias Info

By Grace Elletson

The New York Times Company has sued the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, claiming the anti-discrimination watchdog flouted federal law by failing to respond to requests for records of communications with conservative legal groups and agency efforts to investigate claims of bias against white workers.

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Colo. Judge Ships $8.3M Messner Reeves Fraud Suit To Utah

By Zach Dupont

A Colorado federal judge granted a motion Monday from law firm Messner Reeves LLP to move a lawsuit accusing the firm of stealing more than $8 million as part of a fraudulent loan scheme to Utah after finding the venue was the proper forum to litigate the claims.

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Tort Report: Mass. Jury Delivers Record Amazon Crash Verdict

By Y. Peter Kang

A record personal injury verdict against Amazon in a crash case and Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler's upcoming sex abuse trial lead Law360's Tort Report, which compiles recent personal injury and medical malpractice news that may have flown under the radar.

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