Google Makes Last DC Circ. Push Against DOJ's Search Win

By Bryan Koenig

Google took one final swing Monday at upending a D.C. federal judge's rulings faulting it for monopolizing online search and forcing it to prop up search engine rivals with data and syndicated results, telling the D.C. Circuit that the U.S. Department of Justice's case targets earned market dominance.

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Catholic Scholars, Ex-Nat'l Security Officials Back Anthropic

By Jared Foretek

Former CIA Director Leon Panetta, ex-national security officials and Catholic theologians on Tuesday all urged the full D.C. Circuit to rehear Anthropic's challenge to the Trump administration's decision to designate the company a supply chain risk, claiming that the company's position strengthens the U.S. government's global edge in artificial intelligence and conforms with Catholic teaching.

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Meta To Rereview MDL Privilege Claims Under Special Master

By Dorothy Atkins

Meta Platforms Inc. has agreed to have an independent special master rereview potentially thousands of documents the company withheld as privileged in social media addiction multidistrict litigation, after a California federal judge criticized Meta's privilege claims and refused to let Meta use an AI tool to rereview 170,000 documents at issue.

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Tech Co. Must Face Ex-Worker's Discrimination Claims

By Melanie Dorsey

A former Telesoft LLC sales director can proceed with claims that she was fired because of her age, sex and disability after 21 years with the technology company, a Michigan federal judge ruled, finding that conflicting explanations for her termination and evidence that younger male employees with worse sales records kept their jobs raised questions for a jury.

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Ashley St. Clair Can't Toss XAI Forum Clause Suit

By Craig Clough

A Texas federal judge refused Tuesday to dismiss xAI's lawsuit accusing political commentator and influencer Ashley St. Clair of violating its terms of service by suing in New York over allegations that Grok generated sexually explicit images of her.

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Amazon Fumbled Employee's Rape Report, Suit Claims

By Ben Adlin

Amazon.com Services LLC failed to adequately investigate an employee's report that a senior manager raped her during a 2023 business trip, and the company then forced her to interact directly with the man after she lodged formal complaints, according to a suit filed Tuesday in Washington state court.

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Authors Bring Copyright Suits Targeting Meta's AI Training

By Elliot Weld

Hundreds of authors have sued Meta Platforms Inc. claiming their works were used improperly to train the artificial intelligence models Llama and Muse, adding to a pile of federal court cases accusing the tech giant of subverting copyright protections to build AI.

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'Extraordinary' Design Patent Expert Perry Saidman Dies At 81

By Theresa Schliep

Perry J. Saidman, a vanguard in the field of design patent law and described by his peers as a one-of-a-kind "mensch" with a quick wit and sharp sense of humor, has died. He was 81.

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Squires Grants 10 Patent Review Bids, Rejects 2 Others

By Ryan Davis

In his latest round of decisions, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires has granted 10 petitions seeking review of patents and denied two others, both on discretionary grounds.

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FBI, FTC Tip Sites Vulnerable To Spying, Sen. Wyden Warns

By Rae Ann Varona

The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Federal Trade Commission's online tip lines and other government websites are vulnerable to spying, U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said in a letter urging the executive branch to upgrade security technology for the websites.

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FCC Making 'Zero' Plans To Ease Political Robocall Rules

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission said Tuesday it does not intend to float changes to its anti-robocall rules to allow AI-generated political calls to consumers ahead of the midterm elections after a conservative group made the proposal in August.

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FCC Urged To Maintain Radio Station Ownership Caps

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

Two organizations representing musical artists have asked the Federal Communications Commission to keep media ownership limits on radio station groups in place.

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Sinclair Says 5G Broadcast Bid Rests On 'Speculation'

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

TV station chain Sinclair Inc. has opposed a petition before the Federal Communications Commission that would allow low-power TV stations to use the emerging 5G Broadcast standard, saying petitioners haven't provided evidence that would help the agency evaluate the technology's risk of potential interference. 

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Rural Telecom Providers Worried Over IP Transition Costs

By Christopher Cole

Carriers serving rural areas told the Federal Communications Commission they support the changeover to all-internet phone systems but cannot disproportionately bear the cost burden while larger carriers reap the benefits.

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AirPro Says Rival Used Merger Talks To Build Competing Tool

By Susan Smiley

Counsel for AirPro Diagnostics LLC urged a Sixth Circuit panel on Tuesday to reverse a lower court's summary judgment ruling and allow its breach of contract suit to proceed to trial, arguing that a rival company violated a mutual party agreement by using confidential information disclosed during merger negotiations to develop a competing diagnostic tool.

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Zymergen Investors Win Final OK Of $125M IPO Deal

By Sydney Price

Investors in the now-defunct biotechnology company Zymergen received final approval of their $125 million deal ending claims that the company misled shareholders ahead of its initial public offering, while plaintiffs' attorneys also had their fee request approved. 

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Judge Rejects DOJ Bid To End NAACP Suit Over XAI Pollution

By Tom Lotshaw

The Trump administration can intervene in a NAACP citizen suit alleging X.AI Corp. unlawfully installed dozens of polluting gas turbines to power a data center, but cannot unilaterally dismiss the suit as it claimed, a Mississippi federal judge has ruled.

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Liberty Mutual Escapes Spyware Class Claims

By Matthew Santoni

A website wiretapping lawsuit against Liberty Mutual Insurance was thrown out for lack of standing Tuesday, after a Pennsylvania federal judge found the proposed lead plaintiff hadn't claimed any sensitive, personal information had been captured by software on the insurer's website recording his browsing.

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T-Mobile Beats Spectrum Foe's Antitrust Counterclaims, Again

By Bryan Koenig

Investment firm WCO Spectrum must paint a much wider, more cohesive picture of how T-Mobile's mid-band spectrum practices have anticompetitively edged it out of buying up spectrum leases from high schools and colleges, according to a California federal judge's ruling Monday once again tossing counterclaims lodged in T-Mobile's racketeering suit.

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Squires Orders Remand Of Partial Tesla Win On Camera IP

By Adam Lidgett

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires has thrown out part of a Patent Trial and Appeal Board decision that Tesla showed some claims in a digital camera technology patent were invalid, saying the board has to take another look.

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Ohio Justices Say Moratorium Ends Data Center Site Plan

By Nate Beck

The Ohio Supreme Court on Tuesday unanimously rejected a data center developer's call to force Lordstown, Ohio, to consider a plan for a project submitted days before the village council enacted a ban on the construction of any new data centers.

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London Stock Exchange Can't Nix MayStreet Suit, Judge Says

By Katryna Perera

The Delaware Chancery Court has refused to toss a suit accusing the London Stock Exchange Group PLC and a few of its subsidiaries of luring MayStreet Inc.'s co-founder and former CEO into selling the company with false promises of growth and then failing to honor post-closing obligations under the merger contract.

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Meta Wins Stay Of Wash. Ad Case Amid High Court Cert. Bid

By Ben Adlin

A Washington state judge on Tuesday granted Meta Platforms Inc.'s request to pause a permanent injunction requiring "full compliance" with a state political advertising disclosure law, agreeing to put the requirement on hold while the company asks the U.S. Supreme Court to review the law's constitutionality.

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AI.Law Fights To Keep Patent Suit Alive Against Eve Legal

By Andrea Keckley

Legal tech company AI.Law urged a San Francisco federal judge to deny a bid by its rival Eve Legal to throw out its patent suit, arguing that its claims are patent-eligible because they're more technical than the abstract idea of "using AI to draft legal documents."

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AI Plate Readers Don't Violate Driver Privacy, Tech Co. Argues

By Jonathan Capriel

Fleet management company Motive Technologies Inc. has asked a California federal court to end a proposed class action alleging it violated state privacy laws by secretly running a nationwide license plate surveillance network through its artificial intelligence-powered software, arguing there is no expectation of privacy on public roads.

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Meta Glasses Record Convos Without Being Asked, Suit Says

By Rae Ann Varona

Meta Platforms' artificial intelligence glasses are secretly listening in on people's conversations, according to a user who has alleged in a putative class action filed in California federal court that his glasses recorded several of his communications despite him not saying the smart glasses' trigger words.

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Medtronic Sued Over Insulin Pump Failures

By Emily Field

Two women with diabetes on Monday accused Medtronic of knowingly selling insulin pumps with a known defect that can deliver the wrong amount of insulin that were recalled by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2020.

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Rental App Turo Blamed For Not Clearing Stolen-Car Report

By Matthew Santoni

A Minnesota woman visiting New Jersey was detained by police in front of her child because car-sharing app Turo Inc. failed to clear a "stolen vehicle" flag on her rental car after the owners found it and put it back on the app, according to a lawsuit filed in Pennsylvania state court.

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Metabase, Pediatric Telehealth Biz Sued Over Patient Info Leak

By Gina Kim

Open-source AI analytics company Metabase Inc. and pediatric telehealth provider Blueberry Medical failed to protect patients' personal health information from being exposed during a cybersecurity attack, and waited several weeks to notify affected individuals, alleges a proposed negligence class action filed Monday in California federal court. 

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Colo. Defense Co. Hid Pentagon Funding Cut In IPO, Suit Says

By Zach Dupont

An aerospace and defense company was hit with a proposed securities class action in Colorado federal court Monday alleging the company misrepresented its performance and hid the government's decision to pull funding, leading to the company's stock value plummeting to more than 80% below its IPO price.

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Magellan, Powder Springs To Pay $20M To End Sunoco IP Suit

By Elliot Weld

Energy infrastructure firm Magellan Midstream Partners LP and Powder Springs Logistics have agreed to pay $20.3 million to resolve a judgment against them after a jury trial loss in a patent infringement case brought in Delaware federal court by Sunoco related to gasoline blending patents.

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Wachtell Lipton, Covington Aid Salesforce's $5.66B Braze Buy

By Al Barbarino

Salesforce said Tuesday it has agreed to acquire Braze for a roughly $5.66 billion enterprise value, part of a broader effort to bolster its customer engagement platform, with Wachtell Lipton and Covington advising Salesforce and Davis Polk representing Braze.

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3 Firms Steer $1.97B Tradeweb, Trumid Credit Trading Deal

By Al Barbarino

Tradeweb Markets Inc. has agreed to acquire credit trading marketplace Trumid Holdings for approximately $1.97 billion, as the fixed-income trading platform looks to expand its presence across the bond life cycle.

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Conn. Man Admits To Gambling Away Crypto Investors' Money

By Brian Steele

A Connecticut man has pled guilty to multiple federal criminal charges that he scammed cryptocurrency investors and gambled away more than $1.1 million of their money, court records show.

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CMA Seeks Views On Intersurgical's Teleflex Deal

By Irene Madongo

Britain's antitrust regulator invited comments Tuesday on whether local medical device maker Intersurgical's proposed $530 million acquisition of two businesses could harm competition in U.K. markets.

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UK Wants Apple To Face More Competition For Digital Wallets

By Matthew Perlman

Britain's competition enforcer proposed changes Tuesday that would require Apple to give rival payment services access to iPhones' contactless technology on more viable commercial terms, in an effort to boost competition and spur innovation.

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GAO Rejects Protest Over DHS Geospatial Services Award

By Ganesh Setty

The U.S. Government Accountability Office has rejected a protester's claims that a U.S. Secret Service task order solicitation for geospatial technical support was unclear as to what a "quoter" meant, after the protester referenced work from a subcontractor in its proposal.

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Tariffs Could Be Behind Surge In FTZ Production Filings

As tariffs reshape production sourcing decisions, manufacturers are seeking foreign trade zone production authority at more than twice last year's pace, making it important to consider the potential duty and export benefits, along with review delays and restrictions that can curb savings, say attorneys at Sidley.

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Del. Ruling Shows How AI Meeting Transcripts Can Backfire

In ATG Capital Opportunities Fund v. Lane, the Delaware Court of Chancery reviewed board meeting transcripts generated by an artificial intelligence tool as part of its assessment of the board's motivations, highlighting potential risks of AI-generated corporate records, say attorneys at Debevoise.

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White House AI Accord Could Reshape Reasonable Care

President Donald Trump's recent joint commitment on frontier responsibilities — signed by leaders of Google, Anthropic, Meta and more — may pose legal risks for nonsignatories, as businesses using artificial intelligence may find the accord's safeguards cited against them as evidence of what reasonable care requires, says Peter Schildkraut at Arnold & Porter.

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Kagan: High Court 'Blinded Itself' To Election Ruling Effects

By Katie Buehler

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan criticized her conservative colleagues' approach to deciding election law cases Tuesday, saying they often rule without considering the real-world consequences of their decisions. 

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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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'Petulant' Attorney Behavior Requires New Trial, 5th Circ. Says

By Cara Salvatore

The Fifth Circuit ordered a new trial Friday for a woman who was halted while speaking at a Louisiana local council meeting, saying defense lawyers for two council members threw "a skunk into the jury box" with a bevy of improper maneuvers.

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Feds Offer Up-Front Payments For Fraud Whistleblower Tips

By Lauren Berg

The U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday announced the creation of a whistleblower incentive program offering up-front monetary awards for tips that lead to criminal fraud charges.

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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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