EDTX Jury Says Verizon Wireless Owes $190M In Patent Trial

By Adam Lidgett

Verizon Wireless is on the hook for $190 million after a federal jury in the Eastern District of Texas found that it infringed a patent covering a way for cellphone calls to switch between Wi-Fi and cellular networks.

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Valve Gamers Queue Up Bid To Beat Antitrust Arbitration Fight

By Rachel Riley

Hundreds of PC gamers have called on a Washington federal judge to extinguish Valve's lawsuit seeking to bar them from arbitrating antitrust claims, saying the judge has already rejected the video game developer's central argument that arbitrations cannot proceed under the updated user agreement for its Steam digital storefront.

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Del. Court Seeks Copyright Office Input In Cerence Suit

By Adam Lidgett

A Delaware federal court has punted on Microsoft's request to dodge artificial intelligence company Cerence Inc.'s copyright infringement suit over text-to-speech technology, saying the Register of Copyrights needs to take a look at the question of copyright validity.

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FCC Turns Away Effort To Repeal News Distortion Rules

By Christopher Cole

After dismissing an advocacy group's petition asking the Federal Communications Commission to reconsider how it enforces its rules against news distortion, agency staff told the D.C. Circuit Monday that it should not grant the advocates' request to force the agency's hand.

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Uber Board Spawned 'Serial Compliance Offender,' Suit Says

By Linda Chiem

Uber Technologies Inc. executives and board directors have fostered a culture of noncompliance and lax safety that has exposed the ride-hailing giant to thousands of sexual harassment and disability discrimination lawsuits, according to a new shareholder derivative suit in California federal court Monday.

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Md. Voters Can't Weigh In On Data Center Zone, Judge Rules

By Lauren Berg

Voters in Frederick County, Maryland, will not be able to have a say on a data center development zone, a state judge ruled in an order docketed Monday, agreeing with developers that under the county's charter, an ordinance is not a law subject to referendum.

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House Floats Revised Kids' Safety Bill After Bipartisan Deal

By Allison Grande

A pair of influential House lawmakers on Monday introduced a revamped bipartisan version of proposed legislation to boost online safety protections for children and teens, although they drew an immediate rebuke from a U.S. senator leading a similar effort in the upper chamber, who slammed the House proposal as a "toothless and tepid capitulation" to major tech companies.

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Texas Asks Justices To Keep App Store Law In Force

By Spencer Brewer

The Texas attorney general urged the U.S. Supreme Court to allow a state law requiring app stores to block minors from downloading apps without parental consent to remain in effect, arguing Monday that a lower court "committed several errors" in pausing the measure.

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State Telecom Roundup: Before Disaster Strikes

By Nadia Dreid

The last three years have been the worst on record for the United States when it comes to damage from weather and climate disasters, and both the private and public sectors have been trying to find ways to harden the nation's telecommunication networks and keep them running during disasters, as climate catastrophes show no sign of letting up.

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Moving Earth Stations Need More Access To 28 GHz, FCC Told

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission needs to expand the frequencies set aside for vehicle-mounted earth stations used by satellites and one way to do that is by dedicating spectrum on the 28 gigahertz band for that despite mobile carriers' resistance to the idea, a satellite industry group said.

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Fitness Club Tells FCC Verizon Unfairly Charged It USF Fees

By Nadia Dreid

Athletic club chain Life Time has accused Verizon of flouting Federal Communications Commission rules by charging it Universal Service Fund fees for internet service, even though the agency has declared broadband a less regulated type of service that doesn't pay into the subsidy fund.

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Carriers Praise Senate Passage Of Broadband Map Bill

By Christopher Cole

High-speed carriers lauded the U.S. Senate on Monday for approving bipartisan legislation pushing the government to improve maps of broadband service so that federal funding can be more precisely targeted.

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High Court Won't Hear Dolby's PTAB Interested Party Case

By Ryan Davis

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal in which Dolby sought to require Unified Patents to name the interested parties in an unsuccessful patent challenge, leaving intact a Federal Circuit decision that Dolby cannot appeal a validity decision in its favor.

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Xinuos Says Judge Wrongly Recast IBM Copyright Fight

By Elliot Weld

A software company told a Second Circuit panel Monday that a New York federal judge had wrongly used her own arguments to recharacterize its copyright infringement claim against IBM into a time-barred ownership claim and give IBM a win.

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US Silicon Co. Accuses Chinese Biz Of Copying Anode Tech

By Jack McLoone

A California company that claims to have created products allowing for more efficient lithium-ion batteries accused a Chinese company of infringing its patents, asking the U.S. International Trade Commission to block imports of the foreign company's products.

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Chilisin Seeks To Undo Patent Judgments In Cyntec Case

By Adam Lidgett

Chilisin Electronics Corp. says that Cyntec Co.'s failure to disclose an agreement to license a pair of its patents to Apple should nullify judgments against Chilisin in a case where it was found to have infringed the patents.

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Zymergen Investors Get First OK For $125M Settlement

By Sydney Price

Former executives, underwriters and large investors of now-defunct biotechnology company Zymergen received initial approval on Monday of a $125 million deal to end claims that they misled shareholders ahead of the company's initial public offering by approving misstatements about Zymergen's commercial product pipeline.

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Oracle Sued Over Sale Of Coloradans' Cellphone Numbers

By Corey Rothauser

Oracle Corp. has been hit with a proposed class action in Colorado state court accusing the software giant of violating a Colorado telemarketing privacy law by allegedly listing residents' cellphone numbers in a database without their consent and selling them to marketers.

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NJ Medical Center Sued Over Alleged Patient Data Tracking

By Carla Baranauckas

A New Jersey medical center deployed third-party tracking tools on its website to collect sensitive information about users' searches for doctors and medical conditions, appointment requests and patient portal activity without users' knowledge or consent, two patients claimed in a proposed federal class action.

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Wellstar Reaches Deal In Patient Data-Sharing Suit

By Danielle Ferguson

Georgia's largest healthcare system has reached a settlement with a group of anonymous patients who alleged that the confidential health information of "millions" was shared with Meta Platform Inc. without consent using tracking and collection tools, according to a joint notice Monday.

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YouTube Seeks To Exit Wash. Driver's Viral Dashcam Clip Suit

By Rachel Riley

YouTube has urged a Seattle federal judge to free it from a woman's lawsuit alleging she was bullied online over a secretly recorded viral video of her texting while driving, saying she cannot circumvent the platform's protection under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act by leveling a baseless wiretapping claim.

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Marathon, BP Accused Of Using Algorithm To Fix Gas Prices

By Bryan Koenig

Consumers sought Monday to widen the campaign against alleged algorithmic price fixing, in a proposed class action accusing Marathon, 7-Eleven, BP, Albertsons and other fuel retailers of handing over confidential data and pricing decisions to Kalibrate in violation of California state antitrust law.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court this past week handled disputes involving executive compensation, take-private transactions, books and records demands, tender offers and alleged insider misconduct.

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3 IPOs Could Raise $791M Combined As Listings Surge

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Three companies spanning the broadband infrastructure, silver mining and e-scooter industries launched plans Monday for initial public offerings that could raise a combined $791 million if they price as planned during the week of June 29.

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AI Inference Biz Raises $1.5B In Series F Funding Round

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Artificial intelligence inference company Baseten on Monday revealed that it closed its latest funding round after securing $1.5 billion of investor commitments.

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States Defend Live Nation Jury Verdict In Antitrust Case

By Matthew Perlman

State enforcers have urged a New York federal court to reject Live Nation's bid to upend a jury verdict finding the company monopolized key parts of the live entertainment industry, telling the court the jury carefully considered ample evidence and should not be second-guessed.

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Crowell & Moring Adds CIO From Cadwalader

By Christine DeRosa

Crowell & Moring LLP said Monday that it has hired Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP's chief information officer, marking the latest departure from Cadwalader as the firm prepares for a merger next week.

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Cahill Gordon Brings On King & Spalding Patent Partner In DC

By Jack Rodgers

Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP has hired a King & Spalding LLP lawyer who focuses his practice on patent litigation and counseling clients on related issues with technology-focused disputes, the firm announced Monday.

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Dentons Adds Ex-Yuga Labs Legal Chief To Corporate Team

By Katryna Perera

The former chief legal officer of Yuga Labs has joined Dentons as a partner in the firm's corporate practice, where he will advise technology companies, investors and financial institutions in the fintech, digital asset and artificial intelligence spaces.

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What Fed's Fast Track To Account Access Means For Fintechs

Fintechs, stablecoin issuers and other nonbank entities should assess eligibility, compliance demands and operational limits ahead of the Federal Reserve's potential finalization of a payment account framework proposing a faster path to direct access to key payment rails, says Stephen Aschettino at Fox Rothschild.

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Colorado's New Chatbot Law May Be Defined By Its Carveouts

What makes Colorado's conversational artificial intelligence service law worth close attention is what it leaves out, so a thorough scoping analysis may be as important as compliance planning for companies that develop, license or deploy conversational AI, say attorneys at Eversheds Sutherland.

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Risk Reduction Lessons For PE Firms From PowerSchool Suit

A California federal court's recent orders allowing claims against Bain Capital to proceed based on a data breach at its subsidiary PowerSchool indicate that private equity firms need to strategically approach acquisition activities to avoid cybersecurity risks, say attorneys at Womble Bond.

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Recent Cases Clarify When Risk Disclosures Trigger Liability

Several recent decisions highlight circumstances where risk disclosures can constitute actionable misrepresentations, providing clarity on how the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act's safe harbor and the common-law bespeaks caution doctrine apply to risk disclosures, and how publicly traded companies can guard against such claims, say attorneys at Katten.

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Attorney Reprimanded In $256M Defamation Case

By Rachel Rippetoe

A former Conrad & Scherer LLP managing partner must pay an Alabama coal company's attorney fees after being publicly reprimanded by an Alabama federal judge, who found he lied to the court and paid witnesses to change their testimony in his repeated lawsuits against the company.

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NJ Firm Accused Of 'Double-Dipping' On Pelvic Mesh Fees

By Daniel Connolly

Four women allege in a recently filed lawsuit that a New Jersey law firm overcharged them on legal fees related to a settlement in pelvic mesh litigation, and the recent lawsuit also relates to a long-running conflict between lawyers who formerly worked together.

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Justices Seek Input On NJ State Bar Diversity Challenge

By George Woolston

The U.S. Supreme Court has asked the federal government to weigh in on a Garden State appellate court's decision that approved a New Jersey State Bar Association system for fostering diversity in its leadership that was accused of being discriminatory.

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Blanche, Pirro Can't Be DQ'd From Trump DC Shooting Case

By Craig Clough

A D.C. federal judge held Monday that the man accused of attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner can't disqualify U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro and acting Attorney General Todd Blanche from prosecuting him because of their presence at the dinner.

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