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June 04, 2025
FCC Hopes To Junk 'Dead Wood' In Cable Regs, Chair Says
The Federal Communications Commission wants to eliminate 77 regulations affecting the cable industry that the FCC's Republican chief says are outdated.
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June 04, 2025
Aerospace Coms Group Asks FCC To Redo Launch Changes
A radio communications group representing the country's largest aerospace companies and defense contractors is asking the Federal Communications Commission to rethink certain recent procedural changes for space launch operations, arguing that more safeguards are needed to protect incumbent flight test operations from potential space launch interference.
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June 04, 2025
Apple Can Shield Info In NJ TikTok Addiction Suit
A New Jersey state court will allow Apple Inc. to inject itself into the state attorney general's high-profile lawsuit accusing TikTok of designing features that harm and cause addiction in children, allowing the manufacturer of the iPhone to argue, away from public view, that certain content in the lawsuit should be redacted.
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June 04, 2025
Judge Won't Block Amazon From Talking To Depo Witnesses
A federal judge on Tuesday rejected the Federal Trade Commission's bid, in its antitrust case against Amazon, seeking to block lawyers representing the e-commerce giant from conferring with witnesses during breaks in their depositions.
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June 13, 2016
DraftKings Can't Escape Automated Text Message Class Suit
An Illinois federal judge on Monday kept alive a putative class action over an alleged automated promotional text message sent by daily fantasy sports giant DraftKings but tossed a claim that the message stole data from recipients, finding that the loss of value for a single text message is too small.
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June 04, 2025
FCC Republican Says He's Leaving Agency This Week
Nathan Simington, one of only two Republicans on the Federal Communications Commission, said Wednesday he will leave the agency at the end of this week.
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June 03, 2025
Fla. Taking Halt Of Teen Social Media Law To 11th Circ.
A Florida federal judge on Tuesday blocked the state from enforcing a new law that would ban children 13 and under and restrict 14- and 15-year-olds from social media after finding the measure is likely unconstitutional, prompting the state's attorney general to immediately appeal the ruling to the Eleventh Circuit.
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June 03, 2025
Orgs. Urge Congress To Tackle Music Royalties On Radio
Radio is the one music platform that doesn't pay royalties for playing music, and it's about time that changes, several groups came together to tell Congress, suggesting a new bill aimed at preventing automakers from phasing out AM radio is the perfect buddy for the royalty legislation.
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June 03, 2025
Foes Urge Court To Assume Google Hid Evidence
Advertisers, publishers and other users of Google's online advertising placement technology come armed with receipts of the search giant's personnel apparently knowingly avoiding their discovery obligations, as the multidistrict litigation plaintiffs tee up a bid to sanction the company with a court presumption that deleted chats hide key evidence of monopolization.
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June 03, 2025
Consumers Defend Amending Apple, Amazon Antitrust Case
Consumers accusing Apple and Amazon of reaching a deal to restrict the sale of Apple devices on the e-commerce site told a Washington federal court there's no need to reconsider letting them amend the complaint despite the original lead plaintiff dropping out of the case.
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June 03, 2025
Ga. Seeks Chance To Defend New Social Media Age Limit Law
The state of Georgia asked a federal judge on Tuesday to hold off on blocking new state-imposed restrictions on minors' use of social media before they take effect next month, suggesting the court should at least unpack how the law might work in practice before deciding whether it violates the First Amendment.
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June 03, 2025
T-Mobile Wants To Duck Counterclaims In Spectrum Fight
T-Mobile wants a California federal court to kill antitrust counterclaims from a telecom the mobile titan has filed a RICO suit against, accusing it of making a series of fake bids to buy licenses for spectrum T-Mobile leases so it will have to buy them or exercise its right of first refusal.
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June 03, 2025
Big 3 Wireless Companies Divvying Up UScellular, FCC Told
T-Mobile, AT&T and Verizon appear to be coordinating to split UScellular among themselves and the Federal Communications Commission needs to review the megadeals in their totality and not just individually, public interest groups said.
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June 03, 2025
FCC Delays Cutoff For 4.9 GHz User Data As It Mulls 5G Intro
The Federal Communications Commission is giving public safety agencies with licenses in the public safety band an additional 30 days to share technical data about their existing radio operations, saying it wants the most accurate information available as it moves forward with reforms in the band.
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June 03, 2025
Tenn. IT Biz Lands $4B Contract For Space Force Work
Tennessee-based Jacobs Technology Inc. has been awarded a ceiling contract valued at up to $4 billion to support the Space Force, the U.S. Department of Defense said.
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June 03, 2025
FCC Urged To Move Faster In Opening Upper C-Band
A Washington, D.C., think tank said the Federal Communications Commission should move quickly to open the upper C-band for mobile 5G use while maintaining protections for aircraft that use nearby airwaves.
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June 03, 2025
Apple Challenging EU's Interoperability Requirements
Apple is challenging new rules imposed by European enforcers that require iPhones and iPads to work more seamlessly with third-party devices, saying the rules create privacy and security risks for users and threaten to hamper innovation.
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June 03, 2025
T-Mobile Can't Shut Down Ex-Employee's Race Bias Case
T-Mobile can't end a former employee's suit claiming she was given a minimal bonus and eventually terminated because she's Black, a Washington state federal judge ruled, saying the company's assertion that she had performance issues was inconsistent with the evidence.
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June 03, 2025
Akoustis' Appeal Of $39M IP Verdict Dropped After Bankruptcy
Radio frequency filter firm Akoustis Technologies has agreed to drop an appeal of a jury's $39 million patent infringement and trade secrets misappropriation verdict in favor of Qorvo Inc. that drove it to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in December.
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June 03, 2025
The Law360 400: A Look At The Top 100 Firms
A rebound in client work sent the nation’s largest law firms into growth mode last year, driving a wave of hiring, mergers and strategic moves that reshaped the top tier of the Law360 400. Here's a preview of the 100 firms with the largest U.S. attorney headcounts.
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June 02, 2025
DOJ Urged To Sue States Over Broadband Rate Caps
Broadband industry groups want the U.S. Department of Justice to bring suit against California and other states pursuing new caps on internet service rates for low-income households, pointing to myriad harms they say the state laws would inflict on consumers.
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June 02, 2025
Amazon Gets A Look At Some Of FTC's Antitrust Suit Theory
A Washington federal judge said Monday the Federal Trade Commission must hand over some information about the underlying legal theories in its landmark antitrust case against Amazon but mostly agreed with the agency that the company's discovery requests were "premature."
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June 02, 2025
Nike Floods Inboxes With Misleading Sales Promos, Suit Says
A Nike customer has filed a proposed class action in Washington state court accusing the sports apparel giant of flooding his inbox with promotional emails with misleading subject lines to trick him into acting quickly to take advantage of discount deals that don't have a legitimate expiration date.
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June 02, 2025
Tech Giants Want 6 GHz Shielded From Spectrum Auctions
As Congress looks to direct the government to sell wide stretches of the airwaves for exclusive commercial use, companies such as Meta, as well as advocacy groups, want lawmakers to continue leaving the upper 6 gigahertz spectrum band alone rather than auctioned to mobile carriers.
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June 02, 2025
Monthly Merger Review Snapshot
The Federal Trade Commission finally dropped its long-pending challenge of Microsoft's purchase of video game developer Activision Blizzard, as enforcers pushed monopolization cases seeking to break up Google, Meta and Live Nation, while also pursuing several traditional merger cases. Here, Law360 looks at the major merger review developments from May.
Expert Analysis
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How Decline Of Deference Will Affect Trump Policymaking
An administrative law regime without Chevron deference may limit the Trump administration’s ability to implement new policies in the short term, but ultimately help it in the long term, and all parties with an interest in regulatory changes will have to take a fresh approach to litigation, say attorneys at Covington.
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7 Ways 2nd Trump Administration May Affect Partner Hiring
President-elect Donald Trump's return to the White House will likely have a number of downstream effects on partner hiring in the legal industry, from accelerated hiring timelines to increased vetting of prospective employees, say recruiters at Macrae.
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How Trump 2.0 May Change Business In Latin America
Companies in Latin America should expect to face more trade restrictions, tighter economic sanctions and enhanced corruption risks, as the incoming administration shifts focus to certain non-U.S. actors, most notably China, says Matteson Ellis at Miller & Chevalier.
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E-Discovery Quarterly: Rulings On Custodian Selection
Several recent rulings make clear that the proportionality of additional proposed custodians will depend on whether the custodians have unique relevant documents, and producing parties should consider whether information already in the record will show that they have relevant documents that otherwise might not be produced, say attorneys at Sidley.
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Opinion
Section 230 Debates Will Continue, With Or Without TikTok
Regardless of whether TikTok is forced to shut down in the U.S. in the coming weeks, legal disputes will continue over social media platforms' responsibility under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act for harms allegedly caused by content shared on their apps, says Carla Varriale-Barker at Segal McCambridge.
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Series
Exercising On My Peloton Bike Makes Me A Better Lawyer
While I originally came to the Peloton bike for exercise, one cycling instructor’s teachings have come to serve as a road map for practicing law thoughtfully and mindfully, which has opened opportunities for growth and change in my career, says Andrea Kirshenbaum at Littler.
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How To Manage During A Trade Dispute With USMCA Partners
Companies can try to minimize the potential impacts of future tariffs on Mexican and Canadian goods, and uncertainty about future trade relations, by evaluating supply chains, considering how they may be modified, and engaging with the new administration over exemptions and the upcoming review of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.
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Reviewing The High Court's Approach To Free Speech Online
As the U.S. Supreme Court began addressing the interplay between the First Amendment and online social media platforms, its three opinions from last term show the justices adopting a nuanced approach that recognizes that private citizens, public employees and online platforms all have First Amendment rights, say attorneys at Jenner & Block.
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Top 10 Legal Issues This Year For Transportation Industry GCs
General counsel must carefully consider numerous legal and policy challenges facing the automotive and transportation industry in the year to come, especially while navigating new technologies, regulations and global markets, says Francesco Liberatore at Squire Patton.
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Exploring Venue Strategy For Trump-Era Regulatory Litigation
Litigation will likely play a prominent role in shaping policy outcomes during the second Trump administration, and stakeholders have several tools at their disposal to steer regulatory litigation toward more favorable venues, say attorneys at Covington.
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Searching For Insight On Requested Google Chrome Remedy
The potential for Google to divest its Chrome browser — a remedy requested by the Justice Department following a D.C. federal court’s finding the company is a monopolist — has drawn both criticism and endorsement, but legal precedent likely supports the former, say attorneys at Ballard Spahr.
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How The UPC, ITC Complement Each Other In Patent Law
Attorneys at Ropes & Gray discuss the similarities and differences between the Unified Patent Court and the International Trade Commission, as well as recent matters litigated in both venues and why parties choose to file at these forums.
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Series
Playing Esports Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Competing in a global esports tournament at Wimbledon last year not only fulfilled my childhood dream, but also sharpened skills that are essential to my day job, including strategic thinking, confidence and networking, says AJ Schuyler at Jackson Lewis.
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An Associate's Guide To Career Development In 2025
As the new year begins, associates at all levels should consider establishing career metrics, fostering key relationships and employing other specific strategies to help move through the complexities of the legal profession with confidence and emerge as trailblazers, say EJ Stern and Amanda George at Fractional Law Firm.
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10 Noteworthy CFPB Developments From 2024
In a banner year for consumer finance regulation, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau made significant strides in its efforts to rein in Big Tech and nonbank financial firms, including via rules regarding open banking, credit card late fees, and buy now, pay later products, say attorneys at Wiley.