NM Offers Infernal Literature Lesson In Meta Trial Closing

By Cara Salvatore

New Mexico wrapped its data privacy trial against Meta on Wednesday by likening the social media company's alleged habitual lying about data protection to the worst of sins in Dante's "Inferno," asking the jury, "Does lying matter?"

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DOJ Partially Backs Apple In Epic High Court Contempt Case

By Bryan Koenig

The U.S. Department of Justice told the U.S. Supreme Court in an amicus brief that the Ninth Circuit wrongly faulted Apple for charging a 27% commission on transactions linked out from apps, but it backed other parts of the California federal court's contempt order won by Epic Games.

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NY Judge Dismisses States' DOGE Treasury Data Access Suit

By Rae Ann Varona

A New York federal judge Wednesday tossed several states' lawsuit that challenged Department of Government Efficiency staff access to U.S. Department of the Treasury data, saying DOGE's dissolution rendered the states' access claims moot and that they failed to allege that any federal funding due to them was ultimately canceled.

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Google MDL Coverage Suit Belongs In Calif., Del. Judge Rules

By Dorothy Atkins

A Delaware state judge has stayed a lawsuit by American International Group subsidiaries seeking a declaration that they're not liable for covering Google's defense costs tied to social-media addiction multidistrict litigation, finding the parties must litigate in California where Google filed its own coverage suit weeks before the insurers.

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Huawei Used Joint Venture Talks For IP Heist, Jury Hears

By Stewart Bishop

Jurors in the corporate criminal trial of Huawei saw evidence Wednesday suggesting proprietary information for Quintel Tech. Ltd.'s technology for improving cell phone reception was used in a patent application by a Huawei engineer amid joint venture talks, as prosecutors continued to assert the Chinese telecommunications giant made trade secret theft one of its central business strategies.

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Senators Seek Probe Of AI Errors In Military Operations

By Elaine Briseño

Democratic lawmakers sent a letter to defense officials expressing concerns that the U.S. Department of Defense has prioritized adoption of artificial intelligence for use by armed forces over effective governance that may have resulted in faulty AI-assisted military operations.

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Md. Governor Calls For Ending Data Centers' Tax Exemption

By Maria Koklanaris

Maryland's governor became the latest state executive Wednesday to back off giving tax breaks to data centers, a development becoming increasingly common as the midterm elections draw near.

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Verizon Asks FCC To Dismiss Data Speed Complaint

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

Verizon has asked the Federal Communications Commission to dismiss a customer's complaint that it violated the commission's rules by reducing the speed on his Verizon plan once his 200-gigabyte data limit was reached.

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Cable Group Opposes FCC Plan For Robocall 'Scorecard'

By Christopher Cole

A major cable industry group blasted a plan by the Federal Communications Commission to let consumers use a "scorecard" to rate their voice service providers' efforts to block robocalls, saying it will divert FCC resources from actual enforcement.

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Electric Cos. Urge FCC To Revamp Call Consent Revocation

By Christopher Cole

Investor-owned electric companies told the Federal Communications Commission it should move forward on a recently proposed rule that would change how call consent revocation applies to different categories of calls.

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Keysight Can't Get Full Fed. Circ. To Review Centripetal Case

By Ryan Davis

The full Federal Circuit will not review a decision upholding the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's finding that Keysight Technologies Inc. failed to show that five claims in a Centripetal Networks LLC cybersecurity patent are invalid, rejecting Keysight's argument that the panel focused on "form over substance."

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Squires Wants Even More Review Of Patent From $253M Case

By Theresa Schliep

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office director again intervened in a case stemming from a Patent Trial and Appeal Board's invalidation of patent claims in a $253 million judgment against GoDaddy, asking the Federal Circuit to remand an appeal over a decision by top judges that revived the claims.

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Crypto Co. Wins Bid To Send $100M RICO Suit To Arbitration

By Joyce Hanson

A California federal court has granted data cloud platform Cerebellum Networks Inc.'s motion to compel arbitration in a former employee's $100 million suit accusing company executives of running a pump-and-dump cryptocurrency fraud scheme.

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Judge Won't Block Feds' Land Exchange With SpaceX

By Madeline Lyskawa

SpaceX and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service can proceed with their planned land swap after a Texas federal judge determined that the groups challenging the deal failed to show that their members would suffer irreparable injury as a result of the exchange.

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Judge Rejects $2.5M Fees For Opt-Out Attys In Chevy Case

By Mike Curley

A Michigan federal judge has rejected a motion from LG Chem and its affiliates for $2.5 million in fees for attorneys who had urged their clients to opt out of a $150 million settlement resolving allegations that Chevrolet Bolt batteries were defective, then to opt back in, saying the attorneys did nothing to materially improve or work toward the deal.

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Gilstrap Says Patent Suit Against NetApp Belongs In Delaware

By Adam Lidgett

A Texas federal judge has shipped to Delaware a suit accusing data storage company NetApp of infringing a half dozen computing systems patents owned by Irish patent-holding company Valtrus Innovations.

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Chinese Laser Parts Subject To Duties, Trade Court Says

By Jack McLoone

Imported components used by a U.S. laser manufacturer don't meet the standards for exclusion from duty orders on aluminum extrusions from China, the U.S. Court of International Trade ruled Wednesday, backing a U.S. Department of Commerce determination.

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OpenAI Looks To End SpaceXAI's Apple Deal Antitrust Case

By Matthew Perlman

OpenAI is urging a Texas federal court to end an antitrust case from Elon Musk's SpaceXAI over a deal integrating ChatGPT into Apple devices, saying the pact is not exclusive and does not block competition from rival chatbots.

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Roblox, Discord Seek To Compel Arbitration In Abuse MDL

By Craig Clough

Roblox and Discord urged a California federal judge Tuesday to send bellwether claims brought by children in a sexual exploitation multidistrict litigation to arbitration, arguing that a federal law protecting sexual assault plaintiffs from forced arbitration does not apply to allegations that online platforms enabled abuse by third-party users.

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Buyers Defend DRAM Price-Fixing Case Against Chipmakers

By Matthew Perlman

Buyers are defending a proposed class action in California federal court that accuses Samsung, Micron and SK Hynix of conspiring to restrict supplies of dynamic random access memory, arguing the companies increased prices by nearly 700% over three years.

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Zillow Starts Renewed Bid To Exit Home Loan Kickbacks Suit

By Isaac Monterose

Zillow Group Inc. and its subsidiaries have filed a new dismissal bid in Washington federal court against a consolidated third amended class action complaint that accuses Zillow of running an illegal kickbacks scheme that provides affiliated brokers with business leads if they push homebuyers to use the company's allegedly overpriced Zillow Home Loans program.

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Microsoft Heads Face Derivative Action Over Inflection AI Deal

By Ben Adlin

Three Microsoft Corp. investors filed a shareholder derivative suit in Washington state court Monday over claims the company's leaders wrongfully approved a March 2024 licensing agreement with Inflection AI Inc. aimed at bailing out Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and entrepreneur Reid Hoffman after their investments in the startup soured.

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Google Ex-Executive Says Bias Led To Layoff

By Benjamin Morse

A former Google sales executive hit the tech giant with a lawsuit in Colorado state court claiming it pushed him out because of his age and retaliated after he complained that his manager was discriminating against him based on his age, sex and religion.

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Oura Rings Lack Tech To Accurately Track Sleep, Suit Says

By Gina Kim

Oura Inc. is falsely marketing its wearable Oura Rings as able to accurately track sleep stages, despite the rings only making predictions based on indirect signals that studies have found to be severely inaccurate, alleges a proposed class action filed Tuesday in California federal court.

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Bessemer Secures $5.75B In New Capital To Back Founders

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Venture capital firm Bessemer Venture Partners on Wednesday revealed that it has raised $5.75 billion in new funding, which will be used to back companies "shaping" the artificial intelligence space.

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Spirit Airlines Gets OK To Sell 27 Planes For $668M In Ch. 11

By Alex Wittenberg

Spirit Airlines on Wednesday secured a New York bankruptcy judge's approval to sell 27 airplanes to two buyers for a combined $668 million.

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Real Estate Tech Co. Files Ch. 11 To Stave Off Foreclosure

By Clara Geoghegan

HouseCanary has filed for Chapter 11 in New Jersey seeking to stop a planned foreclosure auction that the real estate analytics and artificial intelligence company said threatened to "destroy" it.

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Tech CEO Hid Russian Ties To Win Gov't Contracts, Feds Say

By Lauren Berg

The CEO of Virginia-based Oxygen Forensics, which sought contracts with the U.S. Department of Defense and other government agencies, claimed the software company was completely American-owned when it was actually controlled by a group of Russian nationals, the U.S. Department of Justice said Wednesday.

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Akerman Launches Data Governance Division

By Matt Perez

Akerman LLP announced on Wednesday the launch of PineWest Data Intelligence, a service that extends its e-discovery practice into data services for litigation, privacy, governance and transactions.

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Md. Digital Tax Ruling Is A Road Map For Future Challenges

Three Maryland Tax Court rulings that recently struck down the state's digital advertising tax suggest constitutional and statutory vulnerabilities that could be used to challenge newly enacted digital services laws or legislation being considered by other states, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.

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Tracking Trends In State-Level Regulatory Enforcement

State-level enforcement now increasingly involves antitrust, artificial intelligence and data privacy issues, and the key for organizations to reducing risk is having the ability to respond across governance, public affairs, discovery and remediation in multiple states simultaneously, say consultants at FTI Consulting.

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Opinion

Calif. Bill Goes Too Far In Trying To Regulate Attorney AI Use

California’s first-in-the-nation act regulating how attorneys and arbitrators use generative artificial intelligence will likely soon become law, but read broadly, the provisions may dissuade lawyers from employing AI at all, thereby depriving them of key work tools, says Joshua Wurtzel at Schlam Stone.

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Tarter Krinsky Data Breach May Have Affected Health Info

By Andrea Keckley

Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP said in a letter this month that a data breach last year may have compromised protected health information the firm possessed due to its representation of an unnamed healthcare provider.

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'I'm Tired Of This': Judge Scolds Atty In Romantasy Suit

By Theresa Schliep

A New York federal judge has reprimanded counsel for a writer in a failed copyright infringement lawsuit over the "Crave" book series, insisting the plaintiff answer all questions in a deposition over attorney fees and writing that she was "tired of this" and "indeed being jerked around."

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Goldstein Not Leaving Prison Any Time Soon, 4th Circ. Rules

By Jeff Overley

The Fourth Circuit balked late Wednesday at freeing Tom Goldstein from prison as he fights felony convictions, and it rejected fast-track review of the renowned appellate advocate's trial, indicating he'll likely spend substantial time behind bars even if his appeal succeeds.

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Analysis

Newman's Roadblocks Guide Judicial Conduct Reform Bill

By Dani Kass

The Judicial Conduct and Disability Act has worked well in allowing the judicial branch to govern itself for nearly 50 years, but the ongoing suspension of Federal Circuit Judge Pauline Newman has exposed gaps that could be addressed with newly introduced legislation, attorneys say.

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Senate Confirms Abbott Aide To Texas Federal Bench

By Courtney Bublé

The Senate voted 50-47, along party lines, on Wednesday to confirm Angela Colmenero, deputy chief of staff to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, to serve on the Southern District of Texas.

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Fed. Panel At Standstill Over ABA Law School Accreditor Role

By Emma Cueto

A key U.S. Department of Education committee deadlocked Wednesday over whether the American Bar Association council responsible for approving law schools should continue as a federally recognized accreditor, tabling the issue until Thursday after different proposals failed to win majority support.

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