Nvidia Investor Sues Over CEO's Fling With Suspected Spy

By Hailey Konnath

An Nvidia shareholder Monday filed a proposed class action against the company and Chief Executive Officer Jen-Hsun "Jensen" Huang over Huang's alleged affair with a suspected Chinese spy, claiming that the chipmaker misled investors as to national security concerns and risks to the company's reputation.

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Justices Won't Review Sony's Defeat Of $500M Patent Suit

By Ryan Davis

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear an appeal of a decision that Sony's PlayStation controllers don't infringe a computer input device patent, shutting down the patent owner's bid to revive the $500 million case.

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Justices Pass On Chance To Assess Muldrow's Effect On PIPs

By Vin Gurrieri

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a former information technology employee's invitation to clarify whether workers' placement on performance improvement plans that don't result in termination or changes in pay and benefits can sustain bias suits under a worker-friendly high court ruling from 2024.

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Fed. Circ. Backs Google's Partial PTAB Win Over Sonos

By Dani Kass

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board properly upheld claims of a Google wireless network technology patent in the company's long-running fight with Sonos, the Federal Circuit said Monday.

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Tesla Asks 11th Circ. To Vacate $243M Fatal Crash Verdict

By Mike Curley

Tesla Inc. is urging the Eleventh Circuit to vacate a $243 million verdict against it in a fatal crash involving one of its vehicles, saying the driver's recklessness, not any defect in the vehicle, caused the collision in the Florida Keys.

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Suno Accused Of 'Breathtaking' Elvis, Eminem IP Infringement

By Dorothy Atkins

Elvis Presley and Eminem's music rights owners have hit Suno Inc. with separate lawsuits in California federal court, alleging the startup's artificial intelligence-powered music generating tools rip off the artists' voice, image and likeness on "literally a breathtaking scale," and are demanding hundreds of millions of dollars in statutory damages.

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OpenAI, Local Officials Hid $20B Data Center Push, Suit Says

By David Aaro

OpenAI and the local government used secret meetings and nondisclosure pacts to keep plans for a massive South Georgia data center under wraps, a trio of Peach State residents said in a new lawsuit.

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MVP: Latham's Andrew Clubok

By Tracey Read

Andrew Clubok was a key player on the Latham & Watkins LLP team that won a complete dismissal of a precedent-setting securities class action for DocuSign Inc. that accused the software company and its top brass of misleading investors about its post-pandemic growth prospects, earning him a spot as one of the 2026 Law360 Technology MVPs.

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Permitting Bill Passes First Procedural Senate Vote

By Gautama Mehta

An overhaul of the federal permitting process aimed at reducing red tape in infrastructure and energy projects cleared its first procedural vote in the U.S. Senate by a margin of 73 to 25 on Monday.

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USTR Keeps China Import Relief As Trade Talks Continue

By Dylan Moroses

The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative took steps Monday to extend the product exclusions for certain Chinese imports from tariffs installed during President Donald Trump's first term, and to delay another two months port fees and tariffs on cranes associated with China's shipbuilding sector, according to published notices.

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State Agencies Fight Co.'s Bid For Phone Number Resources

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

Public service agencies in Arizona, Maine and the District of Columbia have asked the Federal Communications Commission to deny NumberBarn's bid for access to phone number resources, which would give the company the right to directly assign phone numbers, saying several issues concerning its fitness remain unresolved.

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Network Group Calls For 'Clear' Permit Timelines, Fee Cuts

By Christopher Cole

A trade group for advanced networks and data centers urged the Federal Communications Commission to press ahead with rules that could effectively hasten local permits and reduce paperwork fees stemming from broadband projects.

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Wireless Growth Leads To Call For Rethink Of FCC Rural Aid

By Christopher Cole

A trade group for major mobile carriers told the Federal Communications Commission that explosive private-sector growth in fixed wireless access calls for the agency to reorient its approach to subsidizing network deployment in hard-to-reach areas.

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USTR Extends Vietnam Section 301 IP Investigation

By Dylan Moroses

The U.S. Trade Representative is extending its investigation into Vietnam's trading practices for three more months, according to a notice published Monday.

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FCC Atty Shifts To Chair Carr's Office As Legal Adviser

By Christopher Cole

A legal adviser for a Federal Communications Commission member has moved over to a similar role in FCC Chair Brendan Carr's office.

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Justices Won't Review DOD, Subcontractor Software Feud

By Madeline Lyskawa

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to review a dispute over rights to healthcare software for a U.S. Army veterinary records system, after the Federal Circuit held a defense subcontractor failed to present a valid contract claim.

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In 1-Word Order, Fed. Circ. Declines To Save Co.'s LED Patent

By Theresa Schliep

The Federal Circuit on Monday left in place the invalidation of claims in an LED tube lamp patent owned by Jiaxing Super Lighting Electric Appliance Co., issuing a one-word order that affirmed an ex parte reexamination decision from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

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TikTok Beats Website Creation IP Suit With Alice Invalidation

By Dani Kass

A California federal judge has dismissed patent litigation against ByteDance and its TikTok unit, saying the website creation patents they were accused of infringing are invalid.

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U. Mich. Student's AI Bias Claims Survive In Part

By Melanie Dorsey

A University of Michigan student who claims she was wrongly accused of using artificial intelligence to write course papers because of writing characteristics associated with her anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorders can proceed with her disability discrimination claims, a Michigan federal judge ruled Monday.

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Calif. Panel Won't Reinstate Schools' Social Media Suits

By Mike Curley

A California state appeals court has declined to revive claims from four school districts in California, Florida, Washington and Rhode Island against Meta, Google, Youtube, Snapchat and TikTok over children's mental health, agreeing with a lower court that they cannot pursue negligence and nuisance claims.

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Meta Looks To Toss Facial Data AI Training Claims

By Celeste Bott

Meta Platforms Inc. has urged an Illinois federal judge to throw out a proposed class action accusing it of illegally harvesting Facebook and Instagram users' facial data to train artificial intelligence models, arguing that the plaintiffs cannot show their specific photos were used and that the company is exempt from Illinois' biometric privacy law because of its financial services subsidiary.

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British Columbia Says OpenAI Shooting Suit Must Stay In US

By Jonathan Capriel

OpenAI shouldn't be allowed to escape a California federal court lawsuit accusing it of encouraging an 18-year-old to commit a mass shooting at a British Columbia school, the Canadian province argued, saying the most important evidence, the shooter's chat logs and company internal review records, are in the United States.

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Coca-Cola Secretly Let Tech Giants Track Data, Suit Says

By Bonnie Eslinger

The Coca-Cola Co. has been hit with a proposed class action in California federal court alleging it violated the privacy of visitors to its websites by allowing tech giants like Meta, Google, TikTok, and Microsoft to track and collect the users' data even if they'd opted out of nonessential cookies.

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Pinterest Top Brass Hit With Derivative Suit Over AI, Ad Claims

By Hailey Konnath

Another Pinterest shareholder has filed a derivative complaint against the company's top brass, this time claiming they made false and misleading statements about the performance of Pinterest's artificial intelligence-driven product suite, in addition to other misleading statements about advertising and tariffs.

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Fintech Platform Stiffed Acting CEO On Way Out, Suit Says

By Julie Manganis

A former interim leader at financial technology platform Advisor360 said in a lawsuit filed in Massachusetts state court that he was promised a retroactive pay bump for stepping into what was effectively an interim CEO role last year, only to be ousted after he sought to enforce the deal.

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LGBCoin Defendant Hit With Sanctions Over Fake Citations

By Carolina Bolado

A Florida federal judge Monday handed investors in a "Let's Go Brandon" meme coin a win when he sanctioned LGBCoin Ltd. for bad-faith litigation tactics by entering a default judgment against the company.

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Belichick's Ex Says Airbnb Hosts Leaked Ring Footage

By Julie Manganis

A Massachusetts couple who rented a home on Airbnb to Jordon Hudson while her relationship with ex-New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick was still not public shared Ring camera footage of the NFL legend that subsequently went viral and exposed their romance, according to a lawsuit accusing the property owners of invasion of privacy and breach of contract.

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Datavault AI's Ousted CEO Challenges Removal In Del.

By Jarek Rutz

Datavault AI Inc.'s chief executive officer has sued the company's chairman and directors in Delaware Chancery Court, alleging they pushed him out through unauthorized actions and improperly called board meetings while locking him out of company systems.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court last week cleared the way for Cloudflare Inc. to seek immediate review of an injunction blocking a stock restructuring designed to preserve its founders' control, while setting a January hearing in a similar dispute over Meta Platforms Inc.'s plan to create nonvoting shares.

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Book Publishers Win $19.5M Default Judgment Against WeLib

By Ivan Moreno

A Manhattan federal judge on Monday ordered online "shadow library" WeLib to pay 13 major publishers $19.5 million for copyright infringement and directed hosting and internet service providers to disable its domains, handing the publishers a default judgment designed to shut the site down.

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Mitsui Joins Bank To Buy Chip Materials Maker For $11.6B

By Al Barbarino

Mitsui Chemicals said Monday it has teamed up with the government-owned Development Bank of Japan to purchase semiconductor materials maker JSR for about $11.6 billion, including debt. 

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HealthSpan's Surgery Partners Bid Now $6B Amid Rival Offer

By Nate Beck

HealthSpan Partners, an affiliate of nonprofit system Bon Secours Mercy Health, raised its offer to $6 billion Monday in a proposed acquisition of short-stay surgical facility owner and operator Surgery Partners, after a third party made an unsolicited bid.

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Lifeline Providers Call On FCC To Withdraw Floated $10M Fine

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

AirVoice Wireless and TAG Mobile called on the Federal Communications Commission to withdraw the allegations that the companies defrauded a federal program and the "grossly disproportionate" fines against them.

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DOJ Says Lyft Drivers 'Insult And Demean' Disabled Riders

By Rae Ann Varona

The U.S. Department of Justice sued Lyft Inc. Monday in California federal court for $53 million, accusing the ride-hailing company of discriminating against passengers with disabilities, including former U.S. Circuit Judge David Tatel, whom the DOJ said was twice denied a ride because of his guide dog.

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Justices Turn Down 'Antifa' Activist's Bid For Pretrial Release

By Parker Quinlan

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a self-described "antifa" member's argument that he should be released from jail while he awaits trial on charges that he cyberstalked and threatened a social media supporter of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

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What FTC Publicis Deal Means For Data Infrastructure M&A

The Federal Trade Commission's recent proposed resolution to its concerns over Publicis' $2.2 billion acquisition of LiveRamp shows how the FTC may treat deals involving important data infrastructure layers, even when the parties operate at different levels of the technology stack, say attorneys at Wilson Sonsini.

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How Power Grid Delays Are Reshaping Data Center Deals

Texas' pause on permits while it studies data centers' effect on its electrical grid highlights the nationwide problem of yearslong interconnection delays, where the ways developers, investors and customers bridge that gap — and decide who bears the risk when it widens — increasingly determine whether a deal works, say attorneys at King & Spalding.

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Key Themes In State Bank Supervisors' AI Exam Framework

The Conference of State Bank Supervisors' artificial intelligence supervisory framework introduces a set of optional questions and procedures for examiners, and it may bring meaningful consistency in how financial institutions' AI use and integration will be examined, say attorneys at Cooley.

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Meta, TikTok Cases Show How AGs May Redefine Governance

The Meta Platforms settlement and TikTok lawsuit addressing social media harms to minors highlight that state attorneys general are not merely extracting payments, but are also using litigation and settlements to impose durable product, institutional and policy change, say attorneys at Snell & Wilmer.

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Del. Dispatch: No Safe Harbor For Another Conflicted Deal

The Delaware Court of Chancery's recent decision preliminarily enjoining a planned recapitalization of Cloudflare that would preserve the control of the company by its founder-controlling stockholders highlights that Delaware's new safe harbor statute for conflicted transactions doesn't protect founders or independent directors from liability, say attorneys at Fried Frank.

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Character.AI Ch. 11 Tests New Model For Preserving AI Value

Character.AI's bankruptcy is charting a path for preserving value in an artificial intelligence business that depends on retaining unfinished technology and the employees who know how to develop it, while accounting for the firm's failure and its consequences for creditors, says Diane Dick at University of Iowa College of Law.

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How NYC Consumer Bill Could Expand Private Claims

New York City's proposed Power Act could expose companies to sweeping private claims under its prohibition on unfair, deceptive, and abusive acts and practices, making regulatory compliance reviews and litigation-risk planning essential for businesses serving city residents, says Brian Turetsky at Hinshaw.

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High Court Disbars Judicial Watch Founder Larry Klayman

By David Minsky

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday disbarred Judicial Watch founder and Florida conservative activist attorney Larry Klayman following his 18-month suspension issued last year by the D.C. Court of Appeals. 

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Firms Must Face RICO Claims In Asbestos Fraud Suit

By Emily Field

An Illinois federal judge on Friday held that Simmons Hanly Conroy LLP and Sokolove Law must face racketeering claims brought by a Los Angeles industrial pipe manufacturer alleging that the firms brought baseless asbestos claims, finding that an antitrust doctrine shielding those who petition the courts does not apply.

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DOJ's Civil Division Head Joins Agency Exits After Midterms

By Jack Karp

The leader of the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Division, Brett A. Shumate, on Monday became at least the fifth top DOJ official to step down following Republicans' defeat in last week's midterm elections.

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Trump Eyes OLC Chief For Texas Judgeship After Midterms

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump is considering the head of the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel for a federal judgeship in Texas, a process that started right after the Democrats won big in last week's midterm elections.

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Goldstein Says Gov't Conceded Key Trial Errors

By Jared Foretek

SCOTUSblog co-founder Thomas Goldstein told the Fourth Circuit that the federal prosecutors who netted 12 tax and mortgage fraud convictions effectively conceded they hid evidence by steering a key witness to new testimony mid-trial and had reversed their stance on jury instructions, two key issues in Goldstein's appeal.

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AAA Says Consumers' Monopoly Claims Lack Factual Support

By Caroline Simson

The American Arbitration Association is lashing out against consumers who accuse the institution of monopolizing the consumer arbitration services market, telling a federal judge on Monday that they should be sanctioned for including "false, misleading, and unsupported allegations" in an amended complaint.

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Wash. Panel Nixes $10K Sanctions On Monsanto PCB Attys

By Rachel Riley

A Washington Court of Appeals panel has overturned a combined $10,000 in sanctions against four attorneys who defended Monsanto from chemical poisoning claims, concluding Monday that the trial court overstepped its authority by personally punishing the lawyers for late disclosure of expert witnesses.

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