Jury Picked For Meta Social Media Addiction Trial

By Bonnie Eslinger

A landmark federal trial in California over allegations that Meta social media platforms harm children's mental health is ready to begin after a jury was impaneled Wednesday — a selection process in which no prospective juror would say that Facebook or Instagram are safe for kids.

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SAP Should Face AI Co.'s Trade Secret Case, Judge Says

By Adam Lidgett

An artificial intelligence software company's suit in the Northern District of Texas claiming three former employees swiped trade secrets and took them to SAP should move forward, a federal magistrate judge has said.

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PayPal Wins Final Dismissal Of Merchant Rules Antitrust Suit

By Sydney Price

PayPal on Wednesday beat for good a proposed class action over its alleged restrictive merchant agreements, with a California federal judge finding that the third version of the suit still fails to establish the consumers' standing to bring antitrust claims.

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Deal Reached In Class Action Over Botched Calif. Bar Exam

By Emily Sawicki

A settlement has been reached in a proposed nationwide class action brought by bar applicants against the proctor of the botched February 2025 California bar exam, one month after the California State Bar settled its claims against the proctor.

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Disney, Warner Fight AI Co.'s Bid To Trim Copyright Case

By Ivan Moreno

Disney, Warner Bros. and NBCUniversal urged a California federal court on Wednesday to reject Midjourney's bid to narrow their copyright lawsuit, arguing the artificial intelligence company is misreading the U.S. Supreme Court's March ruling limiting secondary copyright liability for internet service providers and that the decision does not foreclose claims of intentionally promoting infringement.

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Analysis

Trump Pick Sets Stage For More Fights Over FCC's Power

By Christopher Cole

A move by the White House to fill the third Republican vacancy on the Federal Communications Commission — but leave a long-empty minority seat on the five-member board unfilled — sets up what will likely be more pitched battles over not only the FCC's powers, but its future composition.

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SpaceX On Hunt For More Spectrum

By Nadia Dreid

SpaceX is hungry for more spectrum, telling the Federal Communications Commission it ought to set "aggressive, technology-agnostic" buildout milestones in order to get new wireless satellite services to market just as the company unveils plans to build its own terrestrial network.

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Apple Gets Brief Pause In App Store Case From High Court

By Matthew Perlman and Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

The U.S. Supreme Court issued a brief stay Wednesday in a case from Epic Games targeting Apple's App Store policies, after the district court refused to put the case on hold while the justices review a contempt order against Apple.

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Tekion Can't Update CDK Dealer Software Monopoly Claims

By Matthew Perlman

A California federal court refused a request from auto dealership software provider Tekion Corp. to amend its antitrust case accusing CDK Global LLC of monopolization, finding Tekion already had access to the information it wants to add.

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Canadian Tech Co. Beats Investor Suit Over Alleged AI Hype

By Katryna Perera

Canadian technology services firm Telus Digital has escaped a suit accusing it of misleading investors about its artificial intelligence capabilities, with a New York federal judge finding that the suit's challenged statements are inactionable.

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ITC Judge Finds Asus Infringed Netgear Wi-Fi Patent Claims

By Theresa Schliep

An administrative law judge for the U.S. International Trade Commission made an initial finding that Taiwanese electronics manufacturer Asus and another Wi-Fi device seller infringed claims in a couple of patents licensed to Netgear. 

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NJ Justices See No Mental State Tie To Daniel's Law Damages

By George Woolston

The New Jersey Supreme Court held Wednesday that there is no mental state required for damages to be established under the state's judicial privacy law, answering a question that the Third Circuit said could help the federal appeals court determine the law's constitutionality.

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Sprint Can't Shake Cogent's $24M Fiber Contract Claims

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court has refused to dismiss Cogent Infrastructure LLC's contract claims against Sprint over a disputed fiber optic network deal, finding that an accounting firm's earlier decision on a roughly $24 million purchase price adjustment does not block Cogent from pursuing broader claims that Sprint misrepresented the nature of the fiber arrangement.

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WSJ Says Binance Sued Because It's Unhappy With Facts

By Stewart Bishop

The publisher of the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday urged a Manhattan federal judge to deep six a defamation suit brought by Binance over reporting about internal investigators at the crypto exchange who were allegedly fired after flagging Iranian sanctions violations, saying the company is just unhappy with the way the Journal reported the facts.

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Spotify Urges Permanent Toss Of Rapper's Bot-Streaming Suit

By Taylor Bowie

A rapper alleging that Spotify allows fraudulent bots to manipulate streaming data once again failed to show how his commercial association with the platform ascends to a "special relationship" under California law, Spotify said in a motion to permanently dismiss the amended complaint filed Tuesday.

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Cloudflare Investors Seek Block On Founder Control Plan

By Jarek Rutz

Cloudflare stockholders urged the Delaware Chancery Court on Wednesday to block a recapitalization that would let the technology company's co-founders sell billions of dollars in stock while retaining voting control, while the company argued the plan is a fair effort to keep its longtime leaders engaged.

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Edible Brands Hit With Privacy Lawsuit Over Web Tracking

By Kelcey Caulder

The company behind Edible Arrangements is facing a class action in Georgia federal court for allegedly using tracking tools to collect and share the data of website visitors without authorization.

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Trump Sued Over 'Corrupt' $100K Early Truth Social Access

By Craig Clough

Online news outlet The Intercept and the Freedom of the Press Foundation sued President Donald Trump Wednesday in New York federal court, accusing him of violating the Constitution with an "extraordinary, corrupt, and unconstitutional" scheme by allowing paying customers to receive advance access to official presidential announcements through Truth Social.

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Brief

Zuckerberg Must Sit For Deposition In AI Copyright Suits

By Ivan Moreno

A California federal judge has rejected Meta Platforms' attempt to prevent a deposition of CEO Mark Zuckerberg in four artificial intelligence copyright cases, adopting arguments from publishers and authors who contend Zuckerberg has firsthand knowledge of company decisions concerning Meta's AI development efforts.

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AI Coding Startup Lovable Raises $400M At $13.3B Valuation

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Swedish artificial intelligence coding platform Lovable on Wednesday revealed that it reached a $13.3 billion valuation after raising $400 million in its latest funding round.

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CodeRabbit Hits $1.5B Valuation After $143M Funding Round

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Artificial intelligence code review company CodeRabbit, advised by Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC, on Wednesday revealed that it reached a $1.5 billion valuation after raising $143 million in its latest funding round.

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10th Circ. Upholds Phone Search In Child Porn Case

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

The Tenth Circuit upheld an Oklahoma man's child pornography convictions Wednesday, rejecting his arguments that police unlawfully prolonged a traffic stop and obtained an overly broad warrant to search his cellphone.

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How Data Broker Laws Are Reaching Consumer-Facing Cos.

As states, most recently New Jersey, expand the scope of data broker laws to cover some customer data sharing, consumer-facing companies should reassess advertising, vendor and partner arrangements to determine whether they trigger registration, contracting and governance obligations, says Sam Castic at Hintze Law.

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9th Circ. Ruling Exposes A Flaw In Federal Trade Secrets Law

The Ninth Circuit's recent decision in Comet Technologies v. XP Power, addressing a difference between the federal Defend Trade Secrets Act and California's Uniform Trade Secrets Act, shows why the DTSA's requirement that claimed trade secrets not be readily ascertainable is inherently problematic, say attorneys at Buchalter.

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How New Counter-Drone Rule Will Reshape Event Security

A new interim final rule on counter-unmanned aircraft systems creates one of the most structured regulatory frameworks yet adopted for mitigating unauthorized drone activity, with implications for law enforcement, airport and stadium operators, drone companies, and public event organizers, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.

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Anti-DEI Group Asks FTC To Probe Law Fellowship Program

By Dorothy Atkins

An advocacy organization against diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives filed an antitrust complaint with the Federal Trade Commission Wednesday, accusing Sponsors for Educational Opportunity of engaging in anticompetitive practices by allegedly colluding on DEI metrics and falsely advertising its program.

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Baker Botts Atty Cleared Of Defamation In Inventor's Suit

By Carolina Bolado

A Florida federal judge on Thursday tossed a defamation claim against a Baker Botts LLP patent attorney after agreeing with a magistrate judge's conclusion that an inventor had not shown that the lawyer's comments to a reporter were defamatory.

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NYC Bar Committee Calls For Nationwide AI Rules Framework

By Andrea Keckley

A New York City Bar Association committee concluded in a policy paper published Wednesday that artificial intelligence tools "may assist legal work but cannot substitute for professional legal judgment," calling for a national framework to be built into the Model Rules of Professional Conduct governing its use.

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Trump Picks Ex-Arkansas SG, Walmart Lawyer For 8th Circ.

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump has announced that he's looking to elevate Judge Lee Rudofsky of the Eastern District of Arkansas to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.

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State Farm Attys Admit Filing Motions Full Of AI Hallucinations

By Jonathan Capriel

A law firm representing State Farm has admitted that its pretrial motions contained citations to nonexistent cases and legal quotes, errors that were seemingly "hallucinations" generated by AI software designed for lawyers and caught by the plaintiff's attorneys as they prepared for trial in a California state court case about fire damage coverage.

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Brief

DOJ Fraud Division To Reach 500 Staffers This Month

By Courtney Bublé

By the end of the month, there will be about 500 attorneys and staff in the U.S. Department of Justice's new fraud division, with more to come as time goes on.

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JP Ward Attorney Exodus Delays Pa. Labor Trafficking Suit

By Matthew Santoni

A "staffing disruption" at the Pittsburgh law firm J.P. Ward & Associates led the firm to request a stay of a labor-trafficking case against hotels in Pennsylvania and West Virginia, after the firm was reduced to one attorney and two staff members, according to court filings.

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