DirecTV says documents produced by Nexstar Media Group and the two companies accused of conspiring with the massive multimedia conglomerate to fix prices for retransmission fees already show that collusion was happening, but Nexstar is dragging its feet on producing the rest.
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DirecTV Says Nexstar Suit Discovery Damning But Incomplete

By Nadia Dreid

DirecTV says documents produced by Nexstar Media Group and the two companies accused of conspiring with the massive multimedia conglomerate to fix prices for retransmission fees already show that collusion was happening, but Nexstar is dragging its feet on producing the rest.

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Wireless Cos. Want FCC Protection In Upper Microwave Bands

By Christopher Cole

Top wireless carriers are seeking assurance from the Federal Communications Commission that it will not craft new rules in the upper microwave spectrum bands that could lead to interference with their licensed use of the airwaves.

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FCC Told Foreign Drone Ban Could Hinder Public Safety Work

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

A nonprofit that donates drones to public safety agencies and science programs has urged the Federal Communications Commission to reconsider a potential ban on foreign-made military-grade drones.

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Hawaii Tour Co. Hit With TCPA Suit Over Robocalls

By Nadia Dreid

Aloha Hawaii Tours has been cold-calling people on the Do Not Call Registry to advertise its travel membership packages in violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, according to a new proposed class action filed in Maryland federal court.

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POLICY & REGULATION

Sierra Nevada Gets FCC OK For High Frequency Flight Sensor

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission gave the green light to Sierra Nevada Co. LLC's request to operate enhanced flight vision systems in the 92-95.5 gigahertz spectrum band.

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Large Cos., Foreign Filers Winning At USPTO, Report Finds

By Dani Kass

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has been leaving independent inventors behind with patent grants, instead favoring large corporations based in the U.S. and abroad, according to a new report from Labrynth.

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LITIGATION

Supreme Court's Apple App Store Pause Lifted After 24 Hours

By Bryan Koenig

Following the expiration of a roughly 24-hour pause on the App Store dispute between Apple and Epic Games, Apple put a 15% commission on the table Thursday to try to comply with a mandate forcing it to dramatically cut what it charges for App Store sales.

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'Anticompetitive Friction': Google Must Fix App Store Search

By Bonnie Eslinger

A California federal judge Thursday ordered Google LLC to streamline the steps for Android users to find rival app stores as part of his court-ordered remedies in antitrust litigation won by Epic Games Inc. against Google, saying the current user process includes "anti-competitive friction" to discourage competition.

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Customers Can't Depose Google, Apple CEOs, 9th Circ. Says

By Gina Kim

The Ninth Circuit has denied a group of consumers' petition for writ of mandamus challenging a lower court's order rejecting their repeated requests to depose Google's and Apple's CEOs and several other executives in antitrust litigation alleging the search engine giant shut out competitors.

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DEALS

DirecTV Says Tegna Board Issue Proves Injunction Is Needed

By Nadia Dreid

DirecTV is pointing the Ninth Circuit toward a recent court order clarifying that when a federal judge told Nexstar and Tegna to remain separate while a challenge to their $6.2 billion merger plays out, that also meant they weren't allowed to put Nexstar execs on Tegna's board of directors.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Series

Going To Hardcore Shows Makes Me A Better Lawyer

While government contracts law and the hardcore scene may seem entirely unrelated, in my experience, both are about community, focus, being prepared for the unexpected and managing chaos, says Isaac Natter at Fluet.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

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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COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Allegheny Health Network

Amazon.com Inc.

Apple Inc.

Arrivia Inc.

CTIA

Canon Inc.

Dell Technologies Inc.

Epic Games Inc.

Expedia Group Inc.

FTI Consulting Inc.

Google LLC

International Business Machines Corp.

LinkedIn Corp.

Microsoft Corp.

Mozilla Corp.

NBCUniversal Media LLC

New York City Bar Association

Nexstar Media Group Inc.

QUALCOMM Inc.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

Sponsors for Educational Opportunity Inc.

Starbucks Corp.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd.

Tegna Inc.

The DIRECTV Group Inc.

Walmart Inc.

Wyndham Hotels & Resorts Inc.

LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Alioto Law Firm

Alston & Bird

Avyno Law

Baker Botts

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Comber Miller

Cooley LLP

Covington & Burling

Cravath Swaine

Cummins & White

DLA Piper

Debevoise & Plimpton

Faegre Drinker

Fluet & Associates PLLC

Foley Hoag

J.P. Ward & Associates

Jones Day

King & Spalding

Kinner & McGowan

Kirkland & Ellis

Latham & Watkins

Law Offices of Lawrence G. Papale

Morgan Lewis

Morrison & Foerster

Munger Tolles

Musick Peeler

Patterson Belknap

Proskauer Rose

Quinn Emanuel

SML Avvocati

Veen Firm

Venable LLP

Wachtell Lipton

White & Case

Wiley Rein

Wilkinson Stekloff

Williams & Connolly

WilmerHale

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

European Patent Office

Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council

Federal Communications Commission

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Los Angeles Superior Court

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

U.S. Department of Defense Office of General Counsel

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

U.S. Senate

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