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February 26, 2026
DirecTV went to the top ranks of the Federal Communications Commission in recent days to push against the proposed merger of TV station giants Nexstar and Tegna, calling it a clear threat to local media competition.
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February 26, 2026
The Federal Communications Commission is declining to waive the 25% penalty it slaps on top of regulatory fees from 2023 and 2024 that come in late, dashing the hopes of nearly two dozen companies that had asked the agency to do just that.
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February 26, 2026
India is urging a D.C. federal court not to enforce a nearly $156 million arbitral award issued to Deutsche Telekom AG over a nixed satellite lease and telecommunications deal, arguing that it never agreed to arbitrate this type of dispute and that the deal was nixed over "essential security" issues.
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February 26, 2026
The Federal Circuit will consider a pair of nine-figure patent cases next month, as ClearPlay seeks to revive a $469 million verdict against Dish Network that a judge threw out, while Netlist aims to preserve a $303 million finding that Samsung infringed its patents, and undo decisions invalidating them.
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February 25, 2026
A therapist who treated the plaintiff in a landmark bellwether trial alleging Instagram and YouTube harm children's mental health told a California jury Wednesday that social media use contributed to the plaintiff's struggles, while acknowledging that social media addiction is not a diagnosis formally recognized in her field.
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February 25, 2026
AT&T on Wednesday agreed to allow shareholders to vote on New York City pension funds' proposal requesting a corporate diversity report, quickly settling a suit filed by the funds last week.
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February 25, 2026
Courts issue hundreds of thousands of criminal surveillance orders each year, allowing law enforcement to spy on suspects beyond the bounds of what is normally legal, but a bill reintroduced Wednesday in the U.S. Senate aims to shed light on the process by informing someone when the government wanted their digital information.
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February 25, 2026
Alibaba has been hit with a proposed class action claiming the e-commerce giant sent tens of thousands of text messages to Washington state consumers in violation of the Washington Consumer Electronic Mail Act, which is meant to guard residents against advertising spam.
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February 25, 2026
Latham & Watkins LLP withdrew Wednesday as defense counsel for Netflix in a proposed consumer class action in Illinois federal court claiming Meta cut an illegal deal ceding the video streaming market to Netflix, which is now represented by Munger Tolles & Olson LLP.
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February 25, 2026
Sports streaming's rise and the impact of a fragmenting sports programming marketplace on local broadcasters will get new attention from regulators at the Federal Communications Commission.
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February 25, 2026
T-Mobile waded Wednesday into a high-stakes U.S. Supreme Court fight between its rivals AT&T and Verizon and the Federal Communications Commission, telling the justices that an FCC theory that companies facing penalties can eventually get a jury trial was "unsound."
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February 25, 2026
Cable behemoth Cox Communications has told the California Public Utilities Commission that it needs a final decision by July on its $34.5 billion merger with Charter so that the companies have time to close the deal before their federal merger clearance period expires.
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February 25, 2026
The Federal Communications Commission continues to plow forward with its plan to ban Chinese test labs and telecommunications certification bodies from being used on devices destined for the United States by pulling the accreditation of yet another Chinese test lab.
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February 25, 2026
The Federal Circuit on Wednesday denied a request from Comcast for the full court to review its arguments that a patent infringement case it's facing should be transferred to the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
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February 24, 2026
A YouTube executive testifying in a California bellwether trial over allegations the platform and Instagram harm children confirmed Tuesday that the company's data found the plaintiff viewed over 17,000 advertisements in one year, with her lawyer suggesting the number reflects that she spent an extraordinary amount of time on the platform.
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February 24, 2026
Drone maker DJI has decided not to wait to find out whether the Federal Communications Commission will reconsider its decision to place many of its products on the "covered list" before appealing to the Ninth Circuit the ruling declaring its products suspect.
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February 24, 2026
California's attorney general urged a state court in San Francisco to bar Amazon from engaging in price fixing, citing newly "uncovered" evidence in the state's unfair competition lawsuit that the e-commerce giant allegedly pressured vendors to raise prices on competing retailers' websites.
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February 24, 2026
A federal judge tossed a case accusing Apple, Best Buy and Walmart of breaking a Washington state law meant to protect telephone buyers, ruling in a matter of first impression that iPhones qualify as radio equipment, not telephone handsets, for the purposes of the state's Telephone Buyers' Protection Act.
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February 24, 2026
A California federal judge has refused to grant a favorable judgment to Krisp Technologies Inc. in a case brought against it by Sanas.AI Inc. alleging the former stole trade secrets relating to an accent translation technology during a brief collaboration and is now infringing patents covering that technology.
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February 24, 2026
A Sarasota police detective has moved to dismiss a lawsuit brought by the former chair of the Florida Republican Party accusing her of violating the Fourth Amendment during a 2023 sexual assault investigation, arguing she is protected by qualified immunity and relied on judge-approved warrants.
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February 24, 2026
Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., demanded documents on the Federal Communications Commission's equal time rules and what he called the "alarming prospect" of CBS owner Paramount Skydance Corp. expecting favoritism from agencies as it tries to buy Warner Bros. Discovery.
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February 24, 2026
Verizon has told the Federal Circuit that former acting U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director Coke Morgan Stewart's decision to wipe out the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's invalidation of a patent it challenged was irrational and "drastic."
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February 24, 2026
The Federal Communications Commission told the D.C. federal court that it has sought to comply with a watchdog group's request for records tied to Elon Musk's government-slashing effort but that it would be "unwarranted" to conduct discovery to find out what might still be held back.
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February 24, 2026
The House on Tuesday defeated legislation that would've mandated aircraft-tracking technology in all aircraft, alongside fresh audits of Federal Aviation Administration and military procedures, in response to last year's deadly midair collision between an Army helicopter and an American Airlines regional jet near Washington, D.C.
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February 24, 2026
The Federal Circuit on Tuesday backed a New York federal judge's finding that a Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute artificial intelligence-related patent was invalid as abstract, handing a win to Amazon in the case targeting its Alexa virtual assistant.