Meta, YouTube Lose Bid To Void $6M Addiction Verdict

By Lauren Berg

Meta Platforms Inc. and Google cannot overturn a landmark verdict finding them liable for harming the mental health of a young woman who says she became addicted to their social media platforms as a child, a Los Angeles judge has ruled.

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Warren Asks SEC To Delay SpaceX IPO Over 'Troubling' Risks

By Dorothy Atkins

U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren called on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to delay SpaceX's anticipated $75 billion initial public offering until steps are taken to protect investors and market integrity, expressing concerns that the company's books contain "troubling gaps," and the IPO poses "unique and precedent-setting" risk.

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NHK Says Seagate Antitrust Revival 'Cries Out' For Justices

By Bryan Koenig

NHK Spring wants the U.S. Supreme Court to take on a Ninth Circuit decision reviving Seagate Technology LLC's hard drive component price-fixing lawsuit, arguing that U.S. antitrust law cannot touch overseas sales whose only American connection is their partial negotiation in the country.

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FanDuel Must Face Patent Infringement Suit Over Apps

By Bonnie Eslinger

A New Jersey federal judge has trimmed a lawsuit alleging FanDuel unlawfully uses WinView IP Holdings' patented technology for online and mobile gambling, allowing claims for direct infringement of two patents to proceed while tossing claims for willful and indirect infringement of those same patents.

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Conviction Gets Toshiba Malicious Prosecution Suit Tossed

By Bryan Koenig

A California federal judge permanently dismissed a former printer toner salesman's lawsuit accusing Toshiba of manufacturing a criminal case against him and others to maintain an illegal monopoly, ruling Tuesday that the antitrust claims are time-barred and the malicious prosecution allegations are undone because the salesman was initially convicted.

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GoSecure's Patent Case Should Stay Alive, Judge Says

By Adam Lidgett

A Texas federal judge has suggested that Austin-based CrowdStrike Inc. shouldn't be allowed to escape a suit accusing it of infringing a computer system monitoring patent, saying the allegations are sufficient at this point to avoid dismissal.

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SpaceX Rocket Base Ruining Wildlife Habitat, Green Groups Say

By Spencer Brewer

Environmental advocacy organizations told a D.C. federal district court Wednesday that Space Exploration Technologies Corp.'s use of formerly protected land near the Texas coast would endanger vulnerable wildlife, saying SpaceX's occasional rocket explosions spew debris directly into protected habitat.

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Analysis

IP Notebook: Cox's Reach, 'Top Gun' Appeal, 'Lazy' Videos

By Ivan Moreno

This round of Law360's review of emerging copyright and trademark issues looks at the ripple effects from the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on secondary copyright liability and highlights looming high court bids over "Top Gun" and Roberto Clemente's likeness on commemorative license plates.

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FCC Grants ISP Biz Waiver On Router Hardware For 1 Year

By Nadia Dreid

The Federal Communications Commission has come through and granted NCTA — The Internet & Television Association members a waiver allowing them to make changes to foreign-made routers after granting similar permission to telecom titan AT&T.

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Use 'Great Care' In Covered List Changes, Rural ISPs Tell FCC

By Christopher Cole

Rural internet service providers want the Federal Communications Commission to make sure only companies posing known risks are barred from interconnecting high-speed networks as the FCC looks to expand a national security program.

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Cop Urges Justices To Strike Down Burden-Shifting Precedent

By Grace Elletson

A Black police officer asked the U.S. Supreme Court to take up his case alleging he was fired out of race bias, claiming the Sixth Circuit was too quick to accept the argument that rap videos he posted online were the reason for his termination.

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PTAB Upholds 1 Stratasys Patent, Axes Claims In Another

By Adam Lidgett

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has invalidated certain claims in a 3D printing patent owned by U.S.-Israeli company Stratasys, but agreed to keep the claims in another patent alive in challenges launched by a Chinese company accused of infringement.

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Grindr Says Arbitration Order In Teen Death Suit Was Proper

By Y. Peter Kang

The Grindr dating platform criticized a bid to undo an arbitration order lodged by the estate of a 16-year-old girl who was tortured and killed after a 35-year-old man allegedly used the app to lure her to his home, saying case law cited by the estate was not precedential.

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Accenture Pushes For Arbitration In WhatsApp Privacy Suit

By Caroline Simson

Irish technology consulting company Accenture PLC on Tuesday pressed a California federal judge to nix proposed class claims brought by WhatsApp users alleging privacy violations or send the matter to arbitration, as the users said that they will fight to at least keep certain state law claims in court.

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Zillow-Redfin Noncompete Deal Sank Stock, Investor Claims

By Isaac Monterose

A proposed class of Zillow Group Inc. shareholders accused the property listings company of making an anticompetitive noncompete agreement with rival Redfin Corp., which caused the federal government to file an antitrust suit and Zillow's common stock value to drop.

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Data Security Biz Valued At $12B After $600M Funding Round

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Data security company Cyera announced Wednesday that it reached a $12 billion valuation after raising $600 million from investors in its latest funding round, quadrupling the company's valuation over the last 18 months.

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5 Firms Guide AI Startup Robseek's $1B SPAC Merger

By Al Barbarino

Robseek Intelligence Inc. has agreed to go public through a merger with blank-check company QuasarEdge Acquisition Corp. in a deal valuing the AI company at about $1 billion pre-money equity, with five law firms advising across the U.S., China and offshore jurisdictions. 

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Figure, Sixth Street Team Up On $717M Kiavi Mortgage Deal

By Al Barbarino

Figure Technology Solutions said Wednesday it is acquiring residential real estate lender Kiavi in a $717 million deal that pairs a blockchain-native capital markets platform with an AI-driven mortgage origination engine, with the backing of private credit firm Sixth Street and three law firms advising. 

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FCC Says Chinese Lab Falsified Reports Via Copy-Paste Ploy

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission has started the process of pulling U.S. certification from an equipment testing lab based in China that the agency claims submitted false test reports for devices by copying other reports.

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Greenberg Traurig Hires 2 IP Litigators From Goodwin Procter

By Lauren Berg

Greenberg Traurig LLP announced Wednesday that it had brought on two veteran litigators from Goodwin Procter LLP to its New York office, bolstering its intellectual property litigation practice as the law evolves to keep pace with ever-changing technological innovations.

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Protecting AI-Driven Innovation In Life Sciences IP

Recent developments, including the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's evolving inventorship standards, and the impact of artificial intelligence on the "person of ordinary skill in the art" standard demand that life sciences companies elevate AI patent strategy to a top priority, says Sandra Haberny at Quinn Emanuel.

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Unpacking The Take It Down Act's Compliance Ambiguities

The Federal Trade Commission’s recent guidance concerning the Take It Down Act suggests that covered platforms should build removal systems immediately and prioritize compliance, but until courts or regulators provide additional clarity, companies will be navigating a statutory framework that is urgent and uncertain, says Laura-Kate Bernstein at ZwillGen.

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Opinion

Agentic AI And Securities Law: Steps Congress Should Take

Agentic artificial intelligence technology doesn't fit comfortably into the existing securities regulatory landscape, so Congress should avoid repeating the mistakes that led to the legal uncertainty crypto companies and investors have faced over the past decade-plus by providing a legislative framework before AI fully matures, says Joseph A. Hall at Davis Polk.

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PowerSchool Data Breach Ruling Underscores PE Liability

The recent California federal court decision in PowerSchool, where Bain Capital was unable to dismiss claims relating to a data breach based in part on Bain's preinvestment activities, is an important addition to the line of cases addressing investor liability for acts of a portfolio company, says Mark Kelley at MoloLamken.

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O Brother, Where Art DAO? Jurisdiction Issues Abound

While there is a dearth of decisions examining a decentralized autonomous organization's citizenship for diversity jurisdiction purposes, Second Circuit case law has defined citizenship for other unincorporated entities, which may guide how courts evaluate an increasing number of cases involving DAOs, says Michael Mix at Morrison Cohen.

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Fla. Driver Ruling Shows Renewed Focus On Privacy Standing

A Florida federal court's recent dismissal of a class action alleging that private driving records had been improperly used in violation of the Driver's Privacy Protection Act suggests that companies defending against privacy class actions in Florida may reconsider Article III challenges at the dismissal stage, say attorneys at Sidley.

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Susman Godfrey Beats, Seward & Kissel Matches Milbank Pay

By Tracey Read

At least four more firms have joined the associate pay raise bandwagon, with Seward & Kissel LLP matching the salary scale recently set by Milbank LLP, and Susman Godfrey LLP exceeding it.

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Judicial Noms Say Biden Won, But Critics Fault Their Caveats

By Courtney Bublé

Three district court nominees on Wednesday said President Joe Biden won the 2020 election, a departure from other judicial nominees in the second Trump administration, but court watchers on the left took issue with how they couched those statements.

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Camp Mystic Fights Sanctions Over 'Burn In Hell' Atty Remark

By Lynn LaRowe

Camp Mystic and parents of a girl killed in flooding there last summer faced off Wednesday over whether the camp should be sanctioned because its attorney said a plaintiff's lawyer would "burn in hell" and for other alleged misconduct in litigation over flooding deaths at the Texas camp.

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Ga. Federal Judge Faces 2nd Set Of Impeachment Articles

By Kelcey Caulder

A Georgia congressman has filed articles of impeachment against a federal judge who was reprimanded for having sex with a police officer in her Atlanta chambers within earshot of staff, the second lawmaker this week to do so. 

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Unions Rally As 5 Shops Approach Contract Deadline

By Andrea Keckley

Legal service providers across New York City gathered in City Hall Park on Wednesday afternoon as five unions represented by the Association of Legal Advocates and Attorneys approach their deadlines for a new contract at the end of the month.

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'Anti-ICE Vigilantes': DOJ Says Law Clerks Aided Noncitzens

By Lauren Berg

Two state court clerks in Utah are facing criminal charges after federal prosecutors say they acted as "self-appointed anti-ICE vigilantes" by helping noncitizens leave the courthouse by a back door to evade arrest by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to the newly unsealed case.

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Morgan & Morgan Atty Again Blocked From Harvard Suit

By Carolyn Muyskens

A Massachusetts judge rebuffed a Morgan & Morgan PA attorney's second attempt to appear in a lawsuit over the theft of body parts from a Harvard Medical School morgue, saying he would not reconsider his earlier decision to bar the attorney over an incident in a separate court involving fake AI-generated case citations.

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