Analysis

Meta's $17B Child Safety Deal Puts Heat On Congress To Act

By Allison Grande

Meta's landmark $17.1 billion settlement of states' claims that it purposely addicted kids to social media mandates many of the safeguards increasingly being required by a growing patchwork of largely contested state child safety laws, boosting not only the profile of these measures but also the push for Congress to enact a more comprehensive fix.

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Fed. Circ. Backs Retailers' Win Over E-Commerce Patent Suits

By Adam Lidgett

The Federal Circuit on Friday refused to reinstate litigation accusing Bath & Body Works and fashion retailer The Buckle of infringing an e-commerce patent, affirming a Texas federal district court's decision to dismiss the legal fight on two separate grounds.

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Fed. Circ. Shifts T-Mobile Patent Settlement Fight To 5th Circ.

By Elliot Weld

The Federal Circuit on Friday sent an appeal from T-Mobile stemming from a patent litigation settlement to the Fifth Circuit, ruling that is proper because the Eastern District of Texas had jurisdiction when the appeal was filed.

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'Exemplary Performance' Earns Google Users' Attys $146.8M

By Bonnie Eslinger

A California federal judge Friday awarded plaintiffs' attorneys $146.8 million in fees after they secured a $425 million jury verdict against Google LLC in a privacy class action covering about 98 million people, calling the one-third fee award "extraordinary" but justified given their "exemplary performance."

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Amazon Beats Calif. AG's 'Ill-Conceived' Injunction Bid

By Bryan Koenig

A California judge refused to block what the state attorney general's office has cast as Amazon's coercive price-fixing imposed on Walmart, Target and others via major brands like Levi Strauss, critiquing enforcers for the "last-minute request" targeting conduct they have not shown is ongoing.

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OpenAI Sued Again Over ChatGPT's Role In FSU Shooting

By Emily Field

Another survivor of the April 2025 shooting at Florida State University that killed two people and left five injured joined the pile of suits facing OpenAI over ChatGPT, saying in her own federal complaint that artificial intelligence fed the shooter's delusions and violence.

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NJ Law Requires Data Centers To Report Utility Usage

By Isaac Monterose

New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill signed a bill into law Thursday that requires data centers in the state to provide the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities with semiannual water and energy usage reports.

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FCC Creates New Innovation Zone In Iowa, Expands Old Ones

By Nadia Dreid

For the first time in five years, the Federal Communications Commission has greenlit the creation of a new "innovation zone," which will give a university an experimental spectrum license that allows it to conduct wireless research, this time at Iowa State University.

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FCC Urged To Act On 5G Broadcast Petition

By Nadia Dreid

Low power TV station operator HC2 Broadcasting wants the Federal Communications Commission to allow low-power broadcasters to transmit local programming via 5G signals if they want to.

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Reform For Upper Microwave Bands Needed Soon, FCC Told

By Christopher Cole

A satellite industry group urged the Federal Communications Commission to move quickly on reforms to rules covering the upper microwave spectrum bands to make it easier to deploy satellite earth stations.

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Roundup

4 Arguments For Benefits Attys To Watch In September

By Kellie Mejdrich

The Fifth Circuit will weigh Louisiana's bid to block telehealth access to the abortion drug mifepristone, while the Fourth Circuit will hear Lockheed Martin's challenge to a trial court decision that kept a pension de-risking suit alive. Here's a look at these and other argument sessions that should be on benefits attorneys' radar next month.

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Uber Text Doesn't Bind Guest Rider To Arbitrate, DC Circ. Says

By Bonnie Eslinger

Uber cannot force into arbitration a passenger who sued over a crash in which he was severely injured when the ride was requested by his wife since he never created an account or agreed to the ride-hailing company's terms of service, the D.C. Circuit said in a published opinion Friday.

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Schwab Vendor Exempt From Ill. Biometric Law, 7th Circ. Says

By Lauraann Wood

The Seventh Circuit agreed Friday that a vendor Charles Schwab uses to authenticate customers' voiceprints is exempt from Illinois' biometric privacy law as it refused to revive claims that the vendor illegally collected callers' data.

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Judge Upholds Robert Bosch Victory In Fuel Patent Trial

By Elliot Weld

A Texas federal judge has refused to grant a Canadian fuel system company a new trial in its patent infringement case against engineering firm Robert Bosch, saying the company had not met the high standard to overturn a jury verdict.

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American Airlines Can't Shake Intellectual Ventures IP Suit

By Theresa Schliep

A Texas federal judge declined Friday to toss a patent infringement suit against American Airlines over in-flight Wi-Fi, finding the patent licensing company Intellectual Ventures has made enough of a case for the suit to proceed.

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Samsung Secures Invalidity Ruling In Mullen Patent Suit

By Adam Lidgett

A Texas federal judge on Friday put an end to a suit alleging that the location-based services on Samsung mobile devices infringe Mullen Industries patents, agreeing with a magistrate judge's determination that the patents were invalid.

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Judge Says BlackRock Stake Doesn't Warrant IP Case Recusal

By Jarek Rutz

A federal judge overseeing several Delaware patent lawsuits brought by Monolithic Power Systems Inc. has decided that he will not step aside despite owning stock in BlackRock Inc., which recently disclosed an ownership stake of more than 10% in Monolithic.

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Uber Cars Not Enough To Establish Venue, Judge Says

By Elliot Weld

A Texas federal magistrate judge has recommended tossing patent infringement claims against Uber Technologies Inc., saying ride-hailing drivers' homes and cars being based in the district was not enough to establish jurisdiction over the company.

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Insurance Tech SPAC Investor Wins Fight To Resell 5M Shares

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court has handed asset manager Meteora Capital Partners LP a summary judgment win in its contract fight with auto insurance technology company Roadzen Inc., finding Roadzen breached a 2023 stock subscription agreement by failing to register shares and later failing to remove restrictions that kept Meteora from reselling them.

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ITC Probes If Apple Stole Tech For Swapping Contact Info

By Jack McLoone

The U.S. International Trade Commission is investigating a claim that Apple's smart devices infringe a patent covering exchanges of contact information, but a judge will first determine whether the company bringing the claim has sufficient U.S. presence, the agency said Friday.

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Apple Is Infringing 5G Tech Patents, Longhorn Affiliate Says

By Gina Kim

Apple was hit with a patent suit in Texas federal court Friday by a Longhorn IP affiliate alleging the Silicon Valley tech behemoth is infringing its innovative 5G wireless technologies that are found in some of the defendant's iPhones and iPads.

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'Friday The 13th' Creators Say Game Publisher Hid Royalties

By Katryna Perera

Creators of the "Friday the 13th" franchise alleged in a Friday suit that a video game publisher withheld up to $4.5 million in royalties from sales of a "Friday the 13th" video game that it was licensed to distribute and destroyed reports that proved how much it owed.

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Roundup

UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

By Megan Norcott

The past week in London has seen shoe brand Crocs bring an appeal against the chief executive of the U.K.'s Intellectual Property Office, singer Alanis Morissette sued by the former head of operations at Live Nation Israel and the son of convicted fraudster Guo Wengui file an appeal against the Chapter 11 trustee controlling his father's bankruptcy estate. 

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Element, Solstice Kill $14.5B Deal, Citing Shareholder Views

By Al Barbarino

Solstice Advanced Materials Inc. and Element Solutions Inc. have terminated the early July deal that would have seen Solstice acquire Element for $14.5 billion in an effort to bolster its capabilities to serve the data center and semiconductor manufacturing industries.

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AI Biz Owner Hits $2.3B Valuation After $240M Funding

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Artificial intelligence startup Owner on Friday revealed that it reached a $2.3 billion valuation after raising $240 million in new funding.

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Don't Miss It: Kirkland, Latham Steer Latest Hot Deals

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

A lot can happen in the world of mergers and acquisitions and equity fundraising over the course of a couple of weeks, and it's difficult to keep up with all the deals.

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FCC Wants To Fine Covered Chinese Cos. $188K

By Nadia Dreid

The Federal Communications Commission wants to fine ZTE and Hytera Communications more than $180,000 for failing to provide the agency with all its various corporate identities after the agency placed both Chinese companies on the covered list.

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NJ Says TikTok Is Withholding Key Child Usage Data

By Carla Baranauckas

New Jersey urged a state judge to force TikTok to hand over detailed user engagement data the state said was essential in proving that the platform's design harmed children, accusing the company of months of evasive answers, shifting explanations and contradictory statements about whether the information even exists.

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Data Center Projects Outstrip Power Supply, CBRE Says

By Nate Beck

Data center projects are increasingly breaking ground despite a dwindling amount of available power, which has extended completion timelines, according to a Thursday report from commercial broker CBRE.

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What 9th Circ. Devas Ruling Means For AI Infrastructure Deals

The Ninth Circuit's recent confirmation of a $2 billion arbitration award in Devas Multimedia's arbitration against a state-owned commercial arm of India’s space agency creates a cross-border enforcement road map for disputes that are bound to arise from the current generation of artificial intelligence infrastructure deals, says Fernanda Merouco at Davis Wright.

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10 Ways To Avoid Privacy Risks Revealed In AI Notetaker Suits

Litigation claiming Otter.ai trained its AI-powered transcription tool on user conversations and a recent complaint alleging Granola’s notetaking bot joined video calls unbeknownst to participants show companies should assess these technologies as communications-capture tools with privacy and wiretap risks, says Jennifer Ruehr at Hintze Law.

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McDermott Closing Health Policy Shop In DC

By Alison Knezevich

McDermott Will & Schulte is closing its healthcare lobbying and consulting shop after a dozen years in business.

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Feature

Rachael Rollins Pitches Scandal As Asset In Comeback Bid

By Taylor Bowie

Rachael Rollins rode a progressive wave to become Suffolk County's district attorney in 2019. After a scandal derailed her stint as Massachusetts U.S. attorney, she's trying to win her old DA post back, and leaning into her alleged ethical missteps as a resume boost.

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Calif. County Judges Recuse From Bias Suit Against DA's Office

By Patrick Hoff

The entire bench of a county court recused itself from a lawsuit alleging the San Francisco District Attorney's Office didn't take appropriate action when a Black employee reported a colleague's use of a racial slur, pushing the trial in the decade-old case to early October.

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House Eyes Vote To Lock Supreme Court At 9 Justices

By Courtney Bublé

The House returns from recess on Monday, and its agenda could include a vote to keep the number of U.S. Supreme Court justices at nine.

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Trump Denied New Bid To Federalize Hush Money Prosecution

By Pete Brush

A New York federal judge on Friday again denied President Donald Trump's bid to move his criminal hush money conviction out of state court, finding as he did earlier that a federal law defense that Trump was operating in his official capacity would be meritless.

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Roundup

GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

KKR will pay a $250 million civil penalty to end allegations that it hid key documentation and entire transactions for merger notification. In the meantime, Apple told an Illinois federal judge that a recent Seventh Circuit decision affirming Samsung's win in a biometric privacy suit means the tech giant should prevail over similar claims. These are among the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

WilmerHale leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a California federal judge held that the U.S. Department of Defense's designation of Anthropic PBC as a supply chain risk to national security was retaliation for the company's public criticism of the Trump administration.

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In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On Law360

For those who missed out, here's a look back at the law firms, stories and expert analyses that generated the most buzz on Law360 last week.

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