Meta Owes $25B After NM Data Privacy Trial

By Cara Salvatore

A New Mexico judge ruled Wednesday that Meta must pay $25 billion for the "systematically broadcast" lies the social media giant offered the public regarding its data privacy practices, including in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

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Anthropic's Lyric 'Mash Up' May Be Fair Use, Judge Says

By Dorothy Atkins

A California federal judge Wednesday appeared open to Anthropic's defense that using copyrighted song lyrics to train Claude AI is fair use, saying during a daylong hearing that "mash-up" lyrics produced by AI might constitute fair use while also questioning how to "slice and dice" the case's scope.

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6th Circ.'s Sutton Floats Class Action Limits At Judiciary Panel

By Jeff Overley

An influential federal judge is proposing new restrictions on class actions that aim to broadly block government policies, judiciary advisers heard at a Wednesday gathering, which also explored transparency ideas affecting legal finance and hard-to-access court records in the red-hot realm of immigration litigation.

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Google Must Provide Limited Depo In Apple Antitrust Case

By Craig Clough

A California federal magistrate judge on Tuesday ordered Google to provide deposition testimony in a proposed class action accusing Apple of monopolizing cloud storage for its mobile devices, although she placed limitations on the topics the plaintiffs can ask nonparty Google about.

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Amazon Says Chinese Videos Reveal TM Suit Payout Scheme

By Ivan Moreno

Amazon has told a Chicago federal judge that it found Chinese-language videos and social media posts in which a China-based operator describes using federal lawsuits to release money from frozen seller accounts, offering a possible explanation for court-ordered transfers the e-commerce giant has challenged in more than a dozen trademark cases.

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OpenAI Asserts ChatGPT Not Liable For 'Third Party' Crime

By Emily Field

OpenAI urged a Florida federal court to dismiss three suits brought over the 2025 mass shooting at Florida State University, saying that AI-powered chatbots aren't liable for the criminal use of factual information, and that ChatGPT can't be considered a product, much less a defective one.

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FCC OKs Relinquished Carrier Status For Carolina West

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission approved the request of Carolina West Wireless Inc. to turn in its designations as an eligible telecommunications carrier following Verizon's purchase of the North Carolina telecom.

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FCC Member Sees Satellite Spectrum Policy Advancing Fast

By Christopher Cole

A member of the Federal Communications Commission told a global gathering of telecom leaders that the U.S. will pursue policies on multiple fronts to make sure the booming satellite industry has abundant spectrum.

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AT&T Asks To Be Freed From California Landline Obligations

By Nadia Dreid

AT&T says it only needs a "modest extension" of the permission the Federal Communications Commission has already given the telecom titan in order to drop its remaining copper line services in California, something state regulators have refused to give the company permission to do.

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Lumos Urges FCC To Preempt Local Project Reviews

By Nadia Dreid

Lumos Fiber says there are counties in Ohio that have so much red tape they're keeping competitive broadband from being deployed there, and it wants the Federal Communications Commission to step in and preempt those rules so it can continue with its planned projects.

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Forced Labor Tariff Lacks Justification, Biz Group Tells Court

By Dylan Moroses

Near-worldwide tariffs deployed by the U.S. government to address imports produced with forced labor should be considered unlawful given that the underlying report for those measures fails to meet statutory requirements, a coalition of small businesses told the U.S. Court of International Trade.

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Intuitive Surgical Strikes $450M Deal In Robot Antitrust Suit

By Craig Clough

Intuitive Surgical said in its quarterly earnings report Tuesday that it reached a $450 million settlement to resolve a hospital class action alleging it monopolized the market for servicing its da Vinci surgical robots, subject to approval by a California federal judge.

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Chinese Light Makers Reach Deal After $1.5M Patent Verdict

By Adam Lidgett

Chinese company Jiaxing Super Lighting has reached a deal to end a patent lawsuit over LED tube lamp products after a Texas federal jury earlier this year awarded the business $1.5 million in damages for infringing one of its patents.

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Deal Staves Off Trial In Snapchat Speed Filter Suit

By David Aaro

Snapchat's parent company and a Georgia man who alleged the app's speed filter feature contributed to a 2015 car wreck that left him seriously injured have reached a settlement, according to a court filing that came two weeks before their legal battle was slated for trial.

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Dish Gets Carrier Signal Patent Invalidated Under Alice

By Elliot Weld

A Delaware federal judge has ruled that a patent covering carrier signal technology that Dish Network is accused of infringing is invalid under the Supreme Court's Alice test, but found that a second patent isn't invalid as abstract.

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EdTech Provider Kaplan Must Face Trimmed Data Breach Suit

By Allison Grande

A Florida federal judge refused to fully toss a proposed class action over a 2025 data breach at online education provider Kaplan, finding that the plaintiffs adequately asserted negligence and contract claims while blocking, for now, allegations that the company unjustly enriched itself and violated California's data privacy law.

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App Can't Get Apple Antitrust Case Sent To DOJ Case's Judge

By Matthew Perlman

A New Jersey federal judge has refused to reassign communal video streaming app Rave's antitrust case against Apple to the same judge overseeing a monopolization case against Apple from the U.S. Department of Justice.

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Czech Search Engine Co. Escapes Suit Over NJ Privacy Law

By George Woolston

A federal judge has thrown out a data privacy firm's lawsuit against a Czech website operator over alleged violations of a New Jersey judicial privacy law, finding the court does not have jurisdiction.

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Data Center Co. Looks To Toss Investors' Gas Wells Suit

By Isaac Monterose

A data center infrastructure company told a Texas federal court to toss a proposed securities fraud class action that accused the company of damaging its stock value because of a hidden gas well transfer deal and a fraud lawsuit filed by New Mexico.

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Gemini Says Crypto Downturn Sank Stock Post-IPO, Not Fraud

By Sydney Price

Crypto exchange operator Gemini Space Station Inc. and some of its current and former executives and directors, including founders Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, say an overall downturn in the cryptocurrency market is responsible for the exchange operator's plans to shift focus to the prediction market, and the risk of the shift was fully disclosed to investors.

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X Says OpenAI Can't Nix IPhone Placement Antitrust Case

By Bryan Koenig

X Corp. and SpaceXAI urged a Texas federal judge Wednesday not to let OpenAI scrap their lawsuit targeting a deal integrating ChatGPT into Apple devices, arguing any attempts to paint the deal as nonexclusive or show it hasn't completely foreclosed the market are factual disputes left to the jury.

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Verisk Denies Fault For Canceled $2.35B AccuLynx Deal

By Jarek Rutz

Verisk Analytics Inc. urged the Delaware Supreme Court on Wednesday to let it abandon its $2.35 billion acquisition of roofing software company AccuLynx, arguing a lower court wrongly blamed it for federal antitrust delays, while AccuLynx insisted the company must keep working to close the deal.

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Marex Says Developer Sank CME Ventures Investment Deal

By Celeste Bott

Financial services firm Marex Capital Markets and two of its executives have sued a British software developer in Illinois federal court, alleging the developer sabotaged a potential investment by CME Group's venture capital arm in Marex's options-trading platform by secretly accusing them of stealing trade secrets, committing fraud and violating exchange rules.

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Colo. Cleaning Equipment Co. Accused Of Shorting Pay

By Zach Dupont

A cleaning equipment company employee claimed in Colorado state court Tuesday that the company violated several state wage laws by not paying employees for hours worked off the clock, failing to properly compensate overtime premiums and more.

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Via, RideCo Settle Ride-Hailing IP Case After $4M Judgment

By Elliot Weld

Canadian ride-hailing software startup RideCo Inc. said Wednesday that it had reached a settlement with rival Via Transportation to close a patent infringement case after a jury issued a $1.4 million award to Via that was later boosted to $4 million.

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Rural Virginia Broadband Co. Files Ch. 11 With $219M Debt

By Vince Sullivan

A provider of broadband, wireless and telephone services to customers in rural Virginia and North Carolina filed for Chapter 11 protection Wednesday in Norfolk, Virginia, saying it owes $219 million to lenders and has a $92 million offer in hand for the purchase of its assets.

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GAO Chides Co. For Apparent AI Use In Navy Contract Protest

By Ganesh Setty

The U.S. Government Accountability Office admonished a protester for inaccurate case citations due to its apparent use of artificial intelligence, in a dispute over how the U.S. Navy evaluated its $166 million proposal for an IT services contract.

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ArentFox Schiff Moves Boston Staff To Renovated Office

By Isaac Monterose

ArentFox Schiff LLP has moved its 100 Boston employees to renovated office space in the city's Prudential Tower, the firm announced Tuesday.

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What $5.7B Apple Verdict Reveals About Patent Risk

A California federal jury's recent $5.7 billion damages verdict against Apple exemplifies the enormous financial exposure that can occur when patent-infringing features are incorporated into many units, though the outcome is ultimately dependent on the strength of the underlying infringement, validity and damages theories, says Michael Dorfman at Barclay Damon.

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FTC's BOTS Act Blitz Raises Stakes For Ticket Resellers

Recent lawsuits and enforcement actions brought by the Federal Trade Commission under the Better Online Ticket Sales Act signal sustained ticket industry enforcement, but industry actors can reduce risk by screening practices and partnerships related to ticket purchasing, and evaluating the scale of their ticket operations, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.

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Immunity May Not Protect Gov't-Backed Cyber Operators

Companies considering participation in a National Coordination Center program that authorizes private actors to conduct offensive cyber operations on the government’s behalf should understand the limits of sovereign immunity and the operational and legal risks lurking in the details and undefined parameters of the program, say attorneys at Steptoe.

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The Law360 Pulse Leaderboard: A Look At The Top Firms

By Rachel Reimer

What makes a firm stand out in the ever-changing legal landscape? Here's a peek at the 2026 Law360 Pulse Leaderboard — the firms that can demonstrate excellence on measures of prestige and the reach and capability of their legal practice.

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Watchdog Can Pursue Jackson Walker Fees, Judge Says

By Clara Geoghegan

The U.S. Trustee's Office has standing to pursue millions of dollars in fees paid to Jackson Walker LLP in cases assigned to a judge who was in an undisclosed romantic relationship with one of the firm's ex-partners, a Texas bankruptcy court has concluded.

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Ex-Employee Of Seyfarth Client Drops Suit Over Data Breach

By Craig Clough

A Texas woman who filed a proposed class action against Seyfarth Shaw LLP over a data breach voluntarily dropped the claims Tuesday without prejudice, according to a filing in Illinois federal court. 

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DOJ Moves To Remove Minn. Judges From Immigration Cases

By Britain Eakin

A top U.S. Department of Justice official has moved to disqualify two Minnesota federal judges from immigration cases, arguing that interviews they gave to The New York Times about the Trump administration's immigration enforcement efforts suggest they can't be impartial.

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FBI Says Fired Agents Acted In Politicized Manner

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

Lawyers for the government argued in a Washington, D.C., federal court Wednesday that an unfair firing suit from two former FBI agents should be tossed because they worked in a politicized manner on the "Arctic Frost" investigation into President Donald Trump's attempts to overturn his 2020 election loss.

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Sen. Blackburn Clears Path For Trump's Tenn. Court Nominee

By Courtney Bublé

Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., has returned her blue slip for a judicial nominee for the Eastern District of Tennessee after an apparent delay.

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​​​​​​​Mamdani Taps Top Judicial Adviser Amid New Ethics Reforms

By Andrea Keckley

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Tuesday that he has appointed a lawyer from the New York University School of Law's Brennan Center for Justice to lead his judicial advisory committee as the mayor's office unveils new reforms to the city's judicial selection process.

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McCarter Beats Estate's Bid To Start $9.75M Interest Clock

By Brian Steele

A Connecticut state court judge has blocked a mall developer's family from filing a formal offer to settle a malpractice suit against McCarter & English LLP for $9.75 million, standing by a November 2025 decision to pause the case while similar litigation proceeds to trial.

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