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March 23, 2026
Echoing a recent Fifth Circuit ruling, a Maryland federal judge has held that written consent to receive telemarketing calls is not required under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, reversing a decision to certify a class of consumers against a dental plan marketer.
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March 23, 2026
Statutory penalties for emails sent in violation of Washington state's Commercial Electronic Mail Act, which bars messages with false or misleading subject lines, will fall from $500 per email to $100 under a measure signed into law by Gov. Bob Ferguson on Monday.
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March 23, 2026
An investor's securities fraud suit accusing STMicroelectronics of failing to acknowledge pandemic-related declines in demand will proceed after a New York federal judge rejected the semiconductor manufacturer's bids for dismissal and reconsideration.
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March 23, 2026
A Texas federal court has refused to dismiss a case from Branch Metrics, accusing Google of blocking competition from its Android search product, after finding the company does not have to make a general search engine to have standing for its antitrust claims.
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March 23, 2026
A California judge on Monday sanctioned an attorney for the plaintiff in a bellwether trial alleging Meta Platforms and Google's social media platforms harm children's mental health, fining him $1,100 and keeping him off the plaintiffs' steering committee for violating court rules by twice filming inside the courthouse.
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March 23, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court refused Monday to review rulings from a California federal judge and the Ninth Circuit dismissing a lawsuit accusing Google of anticompetitively paying Apple not to produce its own search engine.
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March 20, 2026
After six full days deliberating in a California bellwether trial over allegations that Meta Platforms Inc. and Google LLC harm children's mental health through their social media platforms, the jury submitted a question to the judge potentially indicating it may be leaning in favor of finding one or both defendants liable.
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March 20, 2026
Broadcast behemoth Nexstar had plenty to celebrate in Washington, D.C., on Thursday with twin regulatory approvals pivotal to its plan to take over rival Tegna, but even if the deal survives legal challenges, it will face scrutiny in local TV markets.
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March 20, 2026
Individual website publishers suing Google won't have to set aside 10% of any winnings in the sprawling advertising placement technology antitrust multidistrict litigation after a New York federal judge said that the certified class of publishers was embellishing its contributions in seeking the set-aside.
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March 20, 2026
State enforcers asked a California federal court Friday to stop Nexstar Media Group Inc. from integrating with rival broadcast company Tegna Inc., after the companies closed their $6.2 billion merger despite a pair of lawsuits challenging the deal.
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March 20, 2026
The past week in London has seen an ex-professional footballer revive a dispute with Charles Russell Speechlys, Virgin Media face a group data protection claim after hundreds of thousands of customers' personal details were exposed online for months, and Mishcon de Reya sued by a real estate private equity firm founded by a former Morgan Stanley executive.
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March 19, 2026
The Federal Communications Act dooms every bit of an internet and phone service provider's suit accusing T-Mobile of interfering with and slowing down its signals, the Fourth Circuit said Thursday, declining to revive the litigation.
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March 19, 2026
The conservative group that sued the Federal Communications Commission to have the Universal Service Fund declared unlawful wants the agency to set the percentage that phone companies have to contribute next quarter at zero, arguing that the program is not legal.
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March 19, 2026
Families of U.S. civilians and service members killed or wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan allege in a lawsuit filed in D.C. federal court that telecommunications giant Ericsson made protection payments to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group, helping to fund the terrorist groups' efforts to kill and kidnap Americans.
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March 19, 2026
Attorneys who represented classes of people who say they received harassing phone calls from real estate agents in violation of federal telemarketing laws are asking for way too much of the $20 million settlement, according to the California federal judge who tore into them Wednesday.
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March 19, 2026
Nokia and Warner Bros. on Thursday agreed to end a legal fight in Delaware federal court after the Hollywood studio earlier this month lost its bid to toss claims that it infringed a set of the Finnish company's video-coding patents.
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March 19, 2026
U.S. senators next week will consider sending to the floor two bills designed to beef up satellite security, one of which had already gained bipartisan backing in the U.S. House of Representatives during the last Congress.
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March 19, 2026
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires said foreign governments cannot file patent challenges under the America Invents Act, providing the reasoning for his February rejection of a Chinese company's proceeding against an LG touch screen patent.
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March 19, 2026
A public interest group has urged the Federal Communications Commission to add more protections for 911 service to an upcoming rule paving the way for all-internet-based phone networks, though it still says the underlying rule is unwarranted.
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March 19, 2026
A coalition of state enforcers on Thursday sued to block Nexstar Media Group Inc.'s planned $6.2 billion purchase of rival broadcast company Tegna Inc., alleging the move would create a "broadcast behemoth" with the ability to raise television prices for consumers and control content.
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March 18, 2026
It doesn't matter if the warrant that a D.C. magistrate judge issued to pinpoint the location of a man who was later convicted on drug trafficking and firearms charges was legal because law enforcement thought that it was, the D.C. Circuit has ruled.
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March 18, 2026
Macy's must face a consumer class action accusing the retail giant of breaking a Washington state law prohibiting certain spam emails, a Seattle federal judge ruled Wednesday, declaring that Washington's Commercial Electronic Mail Act is neither unconstitutional nor preempted by federal law.
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March 18, 2026
The U.S. Department of Commerce has doled out many billions of dollars for broadband projects and has been asking for public input about how to spend roughly $21 billion in unspent funds, but there is no target date to unveil any decisions, the federal official in charge of spending the money said Wednesday.
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March 18, 2026
A Second Circuit judge on Wednesday expressed surprise when an OpenAI attorney couldn't explain whether the company's artificial intelligence system duplicated Raw Story Media Inc.'s news articles while allegedly removing copyright management information from the online reports.
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March 18, 2026
A telecom company has asked a Delaware bankruptcy judge to let it delay a $100 million payment owed to satellite operator Inmarsat, arguing that Inmarsat's alleged breach of a key settlement agreement undermined the value of the deal and caused potentially significant harm.