Apple Urges High Court To Nix App Store Contempt Order

By Craig Clough

Apple urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to overturn a Ninth Circuit ruling that upheld a civil contempt order stemming from its decision to charge commissions to developers' transactions that steer users to cheaper outside payment methods to make purchases, saying it shouldn't be punished for violating the "spirit" of an injunction.

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Feds Want Justices To Skip Google 'Settled Expectations' Row

By Adam Lidgett

The federal government is telling the U.S. Supreme Court that Google didn't meet the appropriate standard to get the Federal Circuit to look at the company's challenge to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's policy of using the age of patents as a reason not to review them.

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Fed. Circ. Saves Broadcom IP Suit, Says License Was Intact

By Theresa Schliep

The Federal Circuit on Monday breathed new life into a company's patent and copyright infringement case against Broadcom Inc., saying in a precedential opinion that the plaintiff company didn't lose its right to bring the action when it switched its business to intellectual property enforcement.

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9th Circ. Says Hyundai, Kia Parent Cos. Can't Slip Theft MDL

By Craig Clough

The Ninth Circuit on Monday found that a district court wrongly dismissed insurers' claims against the Korea-based parent companies of Kia and Hyundai alleging their vehicles were susceptible to theft, saying the lower court must conduct further analysis to determine if it can exercise personal jurisdiction over them.

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SpaceXAI Drops Apple In Antitrust Claims For OpenAI Deal

By Spencer Brewer

SpaceXAI on Monday dropped its claims that Apple breached antitrust laws by signing a deal with OpenAI to integrate ChatGPT into the iPhone but kept its claims against OpenAI Foundation intact.

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Facebook Third-Party Apps Took User Data, Jury Told

By Cara Salvatore

A technology expert testified Monday in New Mexico's data privacy trial against Meta that Facebook third-party app developers "rampantly" farmed user data and that the social media giant closed investigations of dubious developers without action.

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FCC Crafts Spectrum Plan For Drone 'Dominance'

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission's staff has agreed to waive agency rules for a federal testing program it says will give a boost to the "dominance" of the U.S. drone industry.

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FCC Eyes Reg Waiver For Maritime Locating Devices

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission is looking at waiving restrictions on maritime equipment to allow for a new device for rescues at sea.

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Certifying Body Lied About Being US-Based, FCC Says

By Nadia Dreid

Derycom Certification Services lied about its ties to China in order to receive the Federal Communications Commission's authorization to serve as a telecommunication certification body, which requires an organization to be based in the United States, the agency said.

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Verizon Backs AT&T Transition Plan For IP Networks

By Nadia Dreid

Verizon says it approves of AT&T's plan for the Federal Communications Commission to establish an "interim, conditional pathway" to encourage local phone companies to switch away from legacy networks to internet-based ones.

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FINRA Pressed To Tighten 'Finfluencer,' AI Communications

By Jessica Corso

A coalition of state regulators has urged the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority to more closely monitor how broker-dealers use social media and artificial intelligence to communicate with the public as FINRA considers providing its members with more leeway on customer outreach.

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Pa. Warns Data Center Growth Could Overwhelm Supply

By Nate Beck

The Pennsylvania Public Utilities Commission said in a Monday report that the state's electric grid by 2030 will carry a risk of outage nearly six times greater than a reliability standard for the region allows, based on the likeliest scenario to follow a rush of data center-driven electricity demand.

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Motor Vehicles Lead Product Liability Litigation, Report Says

By Emily Field

An overall rise in recalls of motor vehicles tracks with an increase of product liability lawsuits over autos in recent years, as motor vehicle lawsuits made up half of all product liability lawsuits outside multidistrict litigation filed in 2025, according to a new report by Lex Machina.

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1st Circ. Says Hearst Info Sharing May Not Trigger VPPA

By Julie Manganis

The First Circuit appeared likely on Monday to affirm a lower court's finding that Hearst Television Inc.'s news and weather apps are not violating a 1980s-era video privacy law by disclosing users' email and geolocation data to marketing partners, suggesting that's not enough information to link individuals to specific viewed material.

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5th Circ. Frees Ericsson Insurers In Terrorism Funding Row

By Spencer Brewer

The Fifth Circuit found that multiple insurers have no duty to defend Ericsson Inc. against claims the company funded foreign terrorist organizations, saying that the suit brought by two groups of American victims of terrorist attacks alleged the company committed grave harm.

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Under Armour Can't Duck Suit Alleging Massive Data Breach

By Rae Ann Varona

A Maryland federal judge has denied Under Armour's bid to nix a proposed class action alleging a November data breach leaked the personal information of more than 72 million of its consumers and employees, saying the plaintiffs sufficiently claimed the breach caused them harm such as identity theft.

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Renaissance Learning Beats Student Data Privacy Suit

By Corey Rothauser

A California federal judge has dismissed a proposed class action accusing education software company Renaissance Learning Inc. of unlawfully collecting and sharing students' personal information, finding that the families' allegations did not support their privacy, wiretapping or unjust enrichment claims.

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National Instruments Reaches $28M Deal Over Hidden Bids

By Katryna Perera

National Instruments Corp., two former executives and a class of investors have reached a $28 million deal to resolve claims that the company repurchased stock while concealing from investors that it was considering being acquired.

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Quinn Emanuel Ends Ex-Binance CEO Suit Over $1.5M Bill

By Caroline Simson

Quinn Emanuel has quietly dropped its lawsuit against former Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao, in which it asked a court in Washington, D.C., to enforce an arbitral award of nearly $1.5 million in unpaid attorney fees and other costs.

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Hyliion Investors End Suit Over Data Center Deal

By Isaac Monterose

A proposed class of Hyliion Holdings Corp. investors has voluntarily dropped its suit against the linear generators company, which was accused in Texas federal court of overhyping a data center partnership with an artificial intelligence infrastructure company.

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Leidos Settles Ex-Worker's Tobacco Fee Suit

By Kellie Mejdrich

Information technology company Leidos has struck a deal to settle an ex-worker's proposed class action alleging violations of federal benefits law over a roughly $600-a-year health plan surcharge on employees who used tobacco, parties told a Virginia federal court.

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Missing Agreement Sinks Conn. IT Firm's No-Poach Suit

By Brian Steele

An information technology company failed to prove the existence of an oral agreement that a subcontractor would not pursue its clients, defeating its claims over the loss of a municipal contract with the town of Hamden, Connecticut, a state court judge ruled.

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Zumba Video Buyers Seek Initial Nod For $2.7M Privacy Deal

By Allison Grande

A certified class of over 4,500 on-demand video purchasers who allege Zumba illegally divulged their personal information to third parties pressed a Florida federal judge to approve a $2.7 million settlement they claim is "in a league of its own" and outpaces prior deals under federal video privacy law.

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Mobileum Ex-CFO Seeks More Than $2M In Legal Fees

By Jarek Rutz

Former Mobileum Inc. Chief Financial Officer Andrew Warner has sued the company in the Delaware Chancery Court, seeking more than $2 million in legal fees tied to a federal criminal case and accusing Mobileum of reversing its position after repeatedly recognizing his right to have those expenses advanced.

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Samsung Seeks Toss Of Dua Lipa Copyright, TM Suit In Calif.

By Adam Lidgett

Samsung has argued that pop singer Dua Lipa's suit over the use of an image of her face on boxes containing Samsung televisions should be thrown out, saying her trademark and copyright claims fall short.

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Cop Pitches Nationwide Class In Flock Privacy Lawsuit

By Kelcey Caulder

Flock's surveillance network invades the privacy of the public and enables law enforcement employees to track people for improper reasons, according to a proposed class action filed in Georgia federal court.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court this past week saw disputes over allegedly fabricated board approvals at a telecom infrastructure startup, insider trading and child safety at Roblox Corp. and ownership of artificial intelligence technology used in legal proceedings.

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Dell-Backed Group Taking Baldwin Private In $7.7B Deal

By Al Barbarino

A group backed by Sequence Holdings and DFO Management, Michael Dell's family office, has agreed to acquire a majority interest in The Baldwin Group Inc. in a transaction valued at roughly $7.7 billion, including debt, with at least five law firms advising, Baldwin announced Monday.

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Latham, Skadden Prep Bamboo Insurance's $700M IPO Target

By Nate Beck

Bamboo Insurance Services, a Utah home insurance company backed by European private equity firm CVC Capital Partners, unveiled plans Monday to raise up to $700 million in an upcoming initial public offering guided by Latham and Skadden.

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Thryv Selling White, Yellow Pages Units To PE Firm For $142M

By Al Barbarino

Thryv Holdings Inc. said Monday it has agreed to sell its print directories business to Los Angeles-based investment firm Carolwood LP for $142 million in cash, with Holland & Knight LLP advising Thryv and Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP advising Carolwood.

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DC Inks $9.3M Deals With 2 More Landlords In RealPage Case

By Isaac Monterose

The District of Columbia has agreed to $9.3 million worth of settlements for its antitrust claims against two landlords it accused of using RealPage Inc.'s revenue management software for rent price-fixing, the city's attorney general announced Monday.

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9th Circ. Orders Review Of Border Patrol Facebook Records

By Brandon Lowrey

A Ninth Circuit panel on Monday conditionally vacated a man's conviction for illegally entering the U.S., ordering a district court to determine whether the government withheld evidence about the involved Border Patrol agents' activity in a Facebook group that joked about migrant deaths and hurled racist and sexist slurs.

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Legora Plans 'Full Ontology Of Law And AI-Native Citator'

By Matt Perez

Sweden-based Legora, which offers a legal artificial intelligence platform, announced on Monday an upgrade to its software's ability to accurately cite case law, which includes the hiring of a team of attorney-editors.

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Former DOJ Antitrust Leader Rejoins Winston Taylor

By Christine DeRosa

The former deputy director of litigation for the U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division, who was lead counsel for antitrust trials involving Live Nation-Ticketmaster and Google, has returned to Winston Taylor, the firm said Monday.

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Latham Brings On Ex-Gibson Dunn IP Atty In NY

By Gina Kim

Latham & Watkins LLP has announced it's growing its intellectual property litigation practice with a partner in New York who joins from Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, bringing years of patent and technical trade secret litigation experience and representing industry titans including Nvidia and Western Digital.

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AI And AML: Governance Plays Critical Role In Innovation

Financial institutions adopting artificial intelligence for anti-money laundering compliance should implement governance specific to individual use cases, testing, documentation and human oversight to manage regulatory and enforcement risks as agentic tools expand, say attorneys at Paul Hastings.

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FTC Focus: A Shift In The Pricing Disclosure Terrain

Recent state and Federal Trade Commission developments spotlight materially different ways in which personalized pricing might be addressed, which could result in an increasingly fragmented regulatory landscape in which businesses face differing disclosure obligations and substantive restrictions depending upon the jurisdiction, say attorneys at Proskauer.

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Loper Bright Unlikely To Upend DEA Rescheduling Challenges

As cannabis industry stakeholders await a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration ruling on broader cannabis rescheduling, the U.S. Supreme Court's 2024 decision in Loper Bright to eliminate judicial deference to agency decisions should not dramatically affect cannabis rescheduling litigation risk, but it could marginally strengthen proponents' hand if the DEA denies rescheduling, say attorneys at Dentons.

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Big Biz Coalition Backs Litigation Funding Disclosure Rule

By Ryan Boysen

Big U.S. businesses and insurers like Amazon, Anthropic, Chubb and Walmart asked the federal judiciary on Monday to tighten disclosure requirements for litigation finance, claiming the lack of guardrails allows funders to operate "in the shadows."

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Indiana Atty Hit With $10K Sanction Over False Citations

By Andrea Keckley

An Indiana federal judge on Friday adopted a magistrate judge's recommendation to sanction a local attorney $10,000 after finding that five briefs in a consumer credit case included citations to nonexistent cases.

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Jackson Lewis Removes Ex-Atty's Bias Suit To Federal Court

By Patrick Hoff

Jackson Lewis PC has moved a former associate's suit accusing the firm of refusing to accommodate her temporary work restrictions following her medical leave to California federal court, saying state court wasn't the right venue for dispute.

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Bove Rejects Recusal Bid Tied To DOJ Whistleblower Claims

By Courtney Bublé

U.S. Circuit Judge Emil Bove declined Monday to recuse himself in a Third Circuit immigration case, saying the attorneys for the petitioner are "recycling a failed pre-confirmation political smear" on him.

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State Farm Attorney Sanctioned $999.99 For AI Hallucinations

By Jonathan Capriel

An attorney for State Farm who filed several motions citing nonexistent cases and fabricated quotes generated by AI software must pay a $999.99 sanction, a Los Angeles judge ruled, an amount one cent below the threshold that would have triggered a mandatory notice to the State Bar of California under state law.

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Ex-Moses & Singer Partner Gets 10 Months For Tax Crimes

By Craig Clough

A Connecticut federal judge Monday sentenced a former Moses & Singer LLP partner to 10 months of imprisonment and ordered him to pay more than $3.1 million for failing to file personal income tax returns, the U.S. attorney's office announced.

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