Telecommunications

  • March 06, 2024

    Net Neutrality Plan Could Receive FCC Vote By April

    As the cable industry again urged the Federal Communications Commission to scrap a Democratic-led plan to restore net neutrality rules, FCC Republican Brendan Carr signaled Wednesday that the proposal could receive a vote as early as April.

  • March 06, 2024

    Network Biz Investor Challenges Board Removals In Chancery

    An early preferred stockholder of PacketFabric sued the network-as-a-service provider in Delaware's Court of Chancery on Wednesday, requesting an order invalidating what it calls a conflicted board cramdown that converted the investor's preferred shares to common stocks and axed its two seats on the company's board.

  • March 06, 2024

    Sony, ISP File Dueling 4th Circ. Petitions Over $1B Verdict

    Cox Communications Inc. has urged the full Fourth Circuit to reconsider a three-judge panel's decision that the internet service provider is liable for willfully contributing to copyright infringement in a lawsuit from music publishers, arguing the panel's conclusion upholding a jury's finding makes the circuit "the most severe" regime in the country. 

  • March 06, 2024

    PTAB Turns Off Dali Antenna Patent In 2 Texas Cases

    A pair of rulings from an administrative board has gutted the language in a patent covering antenna technology that had been at issue in a web of dismissed lawsuits in Texas.

  • March 06, 2024

    Cruz Wants FCC Subsidy System Turned Over To Congress

    Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, on Wednesday floated a plan to convert the Federal Communications Commission's multibillion-dollar subsidy system for low-income telecom services to direct congressional control, citing spiraling costs.

  • March 06, 2024

    Juniper Networks Sued In Del. For Details On $14B HP Sale

    Leaders of artificial intelligence networking platform Juniper Networks Inc. are breaching their duties to stockholders by withholding material information about the company's recently announced $14 billion acquisition by Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co., a Juniper shareholder alleged Wednesday in a Delaware Court of Chancery complaint.

  • March 05, 2024

    Google Keeps Win In 'Lockbox' Privacy Suit At 9th Circ.

    A Ninth Circuit panel on Tuesday refused to revive a proposed class action alleging that Google's "Lockbox" program secretly collected information about Android owners' non-Google app use, saying Google clearly disclosed in its privacy policy that it tracks activity in third-party apps.

  • March 05, 2024

    Judges Unsure On Atty Sanctions In Robinhood Spam Suit

    Class counsel sanctioned $750,000 for helping instigate a spam text suit against Robinhood Financial likely engaged in "shenanigans," a Washington appeals judge said Tuesday, though a colleague on the bench questioned whether those sanctions should stick if Robinhood was nevertheless liable in the case.

  • March 05, 2024

    App Store Users Tell 9th Circ. To Reject Class Cert. Appeal

    Consumers pressed the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday to not take up Apple's appeal of the certification of millions of App Store users, arguing the class action raises none of the issues justifying immediate intervention before trial on allegations targeting the technology giant's iron grip over app distribution on iPhones.

  • March 05, 2024

    UPS, AT&T Can't Avoid ESG Proxy Proposals, But BofA Can

    U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission staff have indicated they won't let UPS and AT&T get out of including shareholder proposals on environmental and social matters from their upcoming proxy statements, while letting Bank of America exclude two ESG-related proposals.

  • March 05, 2024

    Gibson Dunn AI Leader On Weathering The AI Policy Blizzard

    Like a mountaineer leading a team through a snowstorm, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP's artificial intelligence co-chair Cassandra L. Gaedt-Sheckter is guiding companies developing and using artificial intelligence through a blizzard of new laws and regulations coming online in Europe and the U.S., saying that assessing AI risks is the North Star to mitigating them.

  • March 05, 2024

    Senate Dem Sees Votes For Broadband Discount Funding

    A key Democratic senator said late Tuesday he sees momentum growing on Capitol Hill for at least a short-term funding renewal for the embattled Affordable Connectivity Program.

  • March 05, 2024

    House Bills Take Big Swing At TikTok

    On Thursday, the House Energy and Commerce Committee will once again scrutinize TikTok and consider legislation to shore up national security concerns that the technology company decried as an "outright ban."

  • March 05, 2024

    Ill. Atty Tells 1st Circ. Feds Botched Venue For Scam Case

    An Illinois lawyer convicted of receiving proceeds from business email compromise schemes orchestrated by others told the First Circuit on Tuesday that Massachusetts was the wrong place for him to have been tried, urging the appeals court to dismiss the charges underlying the guilty verdict. 

  • March 05, 2024

    FCC Looks To Ban Bulk Billing In Apartment Buildings

    The Federal Communications Commission is considering banning bulk broadband billing in apartment buildings, with the hopes of expanding choice and lowering costs for residents of multi-tenant buildings, FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel said in a release Monday.

  • March 05, 2024

    Ericsson Elevates DOJ Veteran To Compliance Head

    Swedish telecommunications giant Ericsson said Tuesday it has chosen a lawyer from within its own legal department as the next leader of its compliance department.

  • March 05, 2024

    Fried Frank Guides Viavi's £1B Deal For UK Rival

    Communications group Viavi said on Tuesday it has agreed to buy telecom testing specialist Spirent for around £1 billion ($1.26 billion) to strengthen its artificial intelligence expertise and wireless infrastructure work.

  • March 04, 2024

    USPTO Can't See Snapchat 'Spectacles' IP Win Ahead Of Trial

    A California federal magistrate judge rejected Monday the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's bid for a summary judgment win in a lawsuit by Snapchat's parent company seeking to secure trademark rights to the word "Spectacles" for its flagship virtual-reality product, sending the intellectual property dispute to a March 12 bench trial.

  • March 04, 2024

    Apple Inks Deal To End Derivative Suit Over Slow IPhones

    Apple investors are urging a California federal judge to approve a noncash settlement of their derivative shareholder suit claiming the tech giant's top brass secretly slowed older iPhones, saying the deal will bring needed board committee reforms and notify consumers about battery options when their phones' performance degrades.

  • March 04, 2024

    Elanco Urges Justices To Preserve Junk Fax Win

    Pet medicine company Elanco Animal Health Inc. has told the U.S. Supreme Court that its faxed invitations to a veterinarian seminar don't count under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act's prohibition on unsolicited fax advertisements, as the Seventh Circuit ruled in July.

  • March 04, 2024

    No 'Major Questions' Dispute In Net Neutrality, FCC Told

    Despite what Republicans say, the FCC's decision to resurrect Obama-era net neutrality rules that were thrown out by former President Donald Trump's administration does not trigger the major questions doctrine, open internet advocate Public Knowledge told the agency recently.

  • March 04, 2024

    Advocacy Group Pushes FCC For Hearing On Fox License

    The FCC should order Fox Television Stations to turn over the documents that an advocacy group says it needs to build its case that the company's Philadelphia affiliate should lose its license for hawking election conspiracy theories, that group told the agency.

  • March 04, 2024

    OpenAI Judge Denies Writers' Calif. IP Case 'First-To-File' Bid

    A California federal judge ruled Friday that a group of authors suing OpenAI for alleged copyright infringement cannot bar the Microsoft-backed company from defending itself against a similar suit in New York federal court, saying the plaintiffs' argument that the artificial intelligence startup engaged in forum shopping "holds no sway."

  • March 04, 2024

    Feds Urged Not To Let Mobile Cos. 'Centralize' Airwaves

    Mobile networks should not be allowed to amass so much of the airwaves that they inadvertently crowd out national security technologies or sideline shared spectrum models, a group of experts told the U.S. Commerce Department.

  • March 04, 2024

    FCC Inks Anti-Scam Partnership With UK Counterpart

    The Federal Communications Commission said Monday it will work formally with its U.K. counterpart to combat scam robocalls and robotexts, an announcement that came days after reaching a similar agreement with Britain's data privacy enforcer.

Expert Analysis

  • What Lawyers Must Know About Calif. State Bar's AI Guidance

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    Initial recommendations from the State Bar of California regarding use of generative artificial intelligence by lawyers have the potential to become a useful set of guidelines in the industry, covering confidentiality, supervision and training, communications, discrimination and more, say attorneys at Debevoise.

  • Industry Must Elevate Native American Women Attys' Stories

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    The American Bar Association's recent research study into Native American women attorneys' experiences in the legal industry reveals the glacial pace of progress, and should inform efforts to amplify Native voices in the field, says Mary Smith, president of the ABA.

  • Understanding Discovery Obligations In Era Of Generative AI

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    Attorneys and businesses must adapt to the unique discovery challenges presented by generative artificial intelligence, such as chatbot content and prompts, while upholding the principles of fairness, transparency and compliance with legal obligations in federal civil litigation, say attorneys at King & Spalding.

  • Chancery's 'Unfair Deal, Fair Price' Ruling Part Of A Trend

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    The Delaware Court of Chancery's recent decision in In re: Straight Path Communications is the latest in a line of recent post-trial rulings by the court that seem to prioritize a fair price in determining damage awards — even when a transaction has been clouded by an unfair process, say attorneys at V&E.

  • Kochava Ruling May Hint At Next Privacy Class Action Wave

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    The Southern District of California's recent ruling in Greenley v. Kochava and increasing complaints alleging that a consumer website is an illegal “pen register” due to the use of third-party marketing software tools foreshadow a new theory of liability for plaintiffs in privacy litigation, say attorneys at Crowell & Moring.

  • Series

    ESG Around The World: Mexico

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    ESG has yet to become part of the DNA of the Mexican business model, but huge strides are being made in that direction, as more stakeholders demand that companies adopt, at the least, a modicum of sustainability commitments and demonstrate how they will meet them, says Carlos Escoto at Galicia Abogados.

  • The Case For Post-Bar Clerk Training Programs At Law Firms

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    In today's competitive legal hiring market, an intentionally designed training program for law school graduates awaiting bar admission can be an effective way of creating a pipeline of qualified candidates, says Brent Daub at Gilson Daub.

  • Opinion

    A Telecom Attorney's Defense Of The Chevron Doctrine

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    The Chevron doctrine, which requires judicial deference to federal regulators, is under attack in two U.S. Supreme Court cases — and while most telecom attorneys likely agree that the Federal Communications Commission is guilty of overrelying on it, the problem is not the doctrine itself, says Carl Northrop at Telecommunications Law Professionals.

  • Attorneys Have An Ethical Duty To Protect The Judiciary

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    The tenor of public disagreement and debate has become increasingly hostile against judges, and though the legislative branch is trying to ameliorate this safety gap, lawyers have a moral imperative and professional requirement to stand with judges in defusing attacks against them and their rulings, says Deborah Winokur at Cozen O'Connor.

  • What Cos. Should Know About FTC's Proposed Junk Fee Rule

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    The Federal Trade Commission recently announced a notice of proposed rulemaking targeting junk fees and how businesses may advertise prices to consumers — and since it would give the agency powers to seek monetary penalties against businesses that do not comply, companies should look to get ahead now, say Phyllis Marcus and Nicole Johnson at Hunton Andrews.

  • 9th Circ. ERISA Ruling Informs DOL's New Fiduciary Proposal

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    The Ninth Circuit's reasoning in its recent Bugielski v. AT&T decision illustrates the importance of the U.S. Department of Labor's proposals to expand the reach of Employee Retirement Income Security Act third-party compensation disclosure rules and their effect on investment adviser fiduciaries, says Jeff Mamorsky at Cohen & Buckmann.

  • AI Can Help Lawyers Overcome The Programming Barrier

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    Legal professionals without programming expertise can use generative artificial intelligence to harness the power of automation and other technology solutions to streamline their work, without the steep learning curve traditionally associated with coding, says George Zalepa at Greenberg Traurig.

  • Why The Effect Of Vivint Has Been Minimal

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    A survey of recent ex parte reexamination decisions since the Federal Circuit’s 2021 In re: Vivint decision appears to support the court’s conclusion that the ruling was limited in scope and would have limited impact, says Yao Wang at Fish & Richardson.

  • Preparing Law Students For A New, AI-Assisted Legal World

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    As artificial intelligence rapidly transforms the legal landscape, law schools must integrate technology and curricula that address AI’s innate challenges — from ethics to data security — to help students stay ahead of the curve, say Daniel Garrie at Law & Forensics, Ryan Abbott at JAMS and Karen Silverman at Cantellus Group.

  • Series

    ESG Around The World: South Korea

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    Numerous ESG trends have materialized in South Korea in the past three years, with impacts ranging from greenwashing prevention and carbon neutrality measures to workplace harassment and board diversity initiatives, say Chang Wook Min and Hyun Chan Jung at Jipyong.

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