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October 24, 2024
FINRA Says Its Regs Apply To Metaverse, Seeks Comments
Broker-dealers and other firms that are weighing incorporating the metaverse into their business operations should be mindful of how Financial Industry Regulatory Authority rules apply to such activities and reach out with any concerns about regulatory ambiguities, the regulator said Thursday.
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October 24, 2024
LA County DA Moves To Trim Menendez Brothers' Sentences
Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón announced Thursday that he's filing to reduce the life sentences of Erik and Lyle Menendez for murdering their parents in 1989, a move that could make the brothers immediately eligible for parole.
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October 24, 2024
Trade Orgs Back Google's Bid For 9th Circ. Play Store Pause
Trade groups and cybersecurity experts have told the Ninth Circuit to extend the pause on the mandate forcing Google to open up its Play Store and help rival app stores compete through that distribution mechanism, backing Google with amicus briefs warning of major disruptions to the app ecosystem.
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October 24, 2024
Cooper Hefner's $100M Bid To Buy Playboy Brand Is Rejected
The owner of Playboy, PLBY Group Inc., has turned down a reported $100 million offer from Cooper Hefner, the youngest son of late founder Hugh Hefner, to buy the Playboy brand, stating Thursday that the bid is too low.
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October 24, 2024
Bumble App Wants To Dump Straight Women's Bias Suit
Bumble asked a California federal judge Wednesday to throw out a lawsuit alleging the dating app discriminates against straight women by requiring them to make the first move, saying the complaint "betrays a troubling irony" in perpetuating gender-based stereotypes that antidiscrimination laws were designed to prevent.
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October 24, 2024
FCC's Data Cap Study Tees Up Unjustified Ban, Think Tank Says
As the Federal Communications Commission launches an inquiry into how data cap practices affect the public, a free market think tank is stepping into the fray to say it's worried any regulation limiting data caps would be "misguided."
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October 24, 2024
Broadcasters Doubt Legality Of FCC Blackout Reporting Regs
TV broadcasters questioned a Federal Communications Commission plan to require cable and satellite companies to report programming "blackouts" caused by carriage disputes to a central database, saying the agency appears to lack legal authority to impose such a requirement.
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October 24, 2024
Fenway Food Safety Czar Fired For Flagging Rats, Suit Says
A former Aramark food safety manager said in a suit filed Thursday that he was fired because he raised concerns about unsanitary conditions at Fenway Park, a Boston music hall, and the spring training ballpark of the Boston Red Sox.
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October 24, 2024
Dems From Storm-Impacted States Call For Probes Of Misinfo
Democratic lawmakers from states recently impacted by Hurricanes Helene and Milton asked the leadership of three House committees on Wednesday to investigate and hold hearings on the "troubling surge" in the spread of misinformation, scams and conspiracy theories about the storms on social media.
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October 24, 2024
TikTok Won't Get 3rd Circ. Rehearing Of Section 230 Ruling
The Third Circuit on Wednesday turned down TikTok's request for an en banc rehearing of a panel decision that the social media company's "For You Page" algorithm isn't entitled to immunity under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act in a case over a 10-year-old's death.
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October 24, 2024
Elon Musk Escapes Vote-Buying Claims In RICO Suit
Elon Musk has dodged claims in a Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act lawsuit that his attempts to drive up voter registration in swing states by holding a million-dollar giveaway are unlawful, with a California federal judge ruling the allegations had nothing to do with the rest of the case.
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October 24, 2024
Alex Jones Atty Laments Sharing Sandy Hook Families' Info
The lead attorney in conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' Sandy Hook Elementary School defamation trial in Connecticut acknowledged Thursday that he "erred" when he allowed a hard drive containing the plaintiffs' confidential records to be transmitted to other attorneys, an act that led to ongoing disciplinary proceedings that threaten his law license.
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October 24, 2024
FCC Finds Fraught Turf In Planning The Future Of 4.9 GHz
The Federal Communications Commission wants to dedicate unused portions of the 4.9 gigahertz band to both public safety and 5G, but has discovered just how hard it is to please everyone in an era of dwindling spectrum resources.
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October 24, 2024
Crowe & Dunlevy Hires Oklahoma City IP Law Professor
Crowe & Dunlevy has picked up a politically ambitious intellectual property professor from Oklahoma City University School of Law who has previously worked as a litigator for nonpracticing entities and as a patent examiner.
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October 24, 2024
Cigna, Frontier Renew Stalled Merger Bids, Plus Other Rumors
Cigna Group and Frontier Airlines have both restarted once-stalled bids to acquire smaller rivals, rekindling merger rumors spanning the healthcare and airlines industries, while Sports Illustrated's secondary ticket platform wants to borrow up to $50 million to acquire competitor Anytickets. Here, Law360 breaks down these and other notable deal rumors from the past week.
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October 24, 2024
TKO Paying $3.25B For Pro Bull Riding League, Other Assets
Skadden is advising a special committee of TKO Group Holdings on a deal disclosed Thursday that will see the WWE and UFC parent company purchase a professional bull riding league and two other sports companies from Latham-led Endeavor Group in a $3.25 billion all-stock deal.
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October 24, 2024
Mass. Justices Reject Meta, Google 'Wiretap' Claims
Massachusetts' highest court on Thursday found that website operators' use of tracking software like Meta Pixel and Google Analytics does not violate the state's wiretap law, drawing a sharp dissent from one justice who said the legislature will now need to "correct" the court's mistake.
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October 23, 2024
Roman Polanski Settles Claim He Raped Teenage Girl In 1973
Film director and convicted sex offender Roman Polanski has reached a settlement with a woman who says he raped her when she was a teenage girl more than 50 years ago, leading to the dismissal of her lawsuit filed in California court, attorneys for both parties told Law360 on Wednesday.
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October 23, 2024
Common Ownership Dooms Bids For 9 Low-Power Stations
The Federal Communications Commission said it is not approving nine applications for new low-power FM stations because the entities that applied for them appear to actually all be part of the same organization, which violates the agency's rules on owning multiple stations.
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October 23, 2024
Character.AI, Google Face Suit Over Teen's Suicide
A woman claiming her 14-year-old son killed himself after becoming addicted to Character.AI sued the company, its founders and Google on Tuesday, claiming the tech giant is a co-creator of the AI startup's development, marketing and infrastructure, which made the teen believe the artificial intelligence platform's chatbots were real.
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October 23, 2024
Firms Ask DC Court To Nix 'Retaliatory' Canadian Arbitrations
Two plaintiffs' law firms are urging a D.C. federal court to bar the operators of two allegedly illegal online casinos from pursuing "retaliatory" arbitrations in Canada against their clients, arguing they're trying to bully clients into submitting to a non-U.S. friendly arbitral institution.
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October 23, 2024
Venezuelan TV Mogul Charged In $1.2B PDVSA Bribe Scheme
A Florida federal grand jury returned an indictment Wednesday charging a Venezuelan television news network owner with participating in a $1.2 billion scheme to launder funds from Venezuela's state-owned energy company Petróleos de Venezuela SA in exchange for bribes to Venezuelan officials.
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October 23, 2024
Advocacy Group Denies Political Bent In Fox Philly Fight
An advocacy group is coming out swinging against claims its attempts to strip a Philadelphia Fox television station of its license for peddling conspiracy theories about the 2020 election is partisan, telling the FCC that its petition is about the station's deliberate choice "to lie to the American people."
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October 23, 2024
Copyright Board Sees Steady Case Flow Since June 2022
A division of the U.S. Copyright Office that started hearing disputes involving smaller dollar amounts about two years ago has seen a steady flow of claims being filed since it began, most of which focus on pictures and graphics, according to a new report.
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October 23, 2024
Top Human Rights Court Slams Russia Over Int'l Media Rule
An international court has ruled Russia is violating the right to freedom of expression enshrined in European human rights law by forcing independent media organizations to apply "foreign agent" labels to their content in an attempt to discredit them.
Expert Analysis
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Opinion
It's Time For A BigLaw Associates' Union
As BigLaw faces a steady stream of criticism about its employment policies and practices, an associates union could effect real change — and it could start with law students organizing around opposition to recent recruiting trends, says Tara Rhoades at The Sanity Plea.
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How Justices Upended The Administrative Procedure Act
In its recent Loper Bright, Corner Post and Jarkesy decisions, the U.S. Supreme Court fundamentally changed the Administrative Procedure Act in ways that undermine Congress and the executive branch, shift power to the judiciary, curtail public and business input, and create great uncertainty, say Alene Taber and Beth Hummer at Hanson Bridgett.
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Considerations As State AGs Step Up Privacy Enforcement
As new state privacy laws take effect, businesses are facing an increasingly complex patchwork of compliance obligations and risk of scrutiny by attorneys general, but companies can gain a competitive edge by building consumer trust and staying ahead of regulatory trends, say Ann-Marie Luciano and Meghan Stoppel at Cozen O’Connor.
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Lessons From Recent SEC Cyber Enforcement Actions
The recent guidance by the SEC's Division of Corporation Finance is helpful to any company facing a cybersecurity threat, but just as instructive are the warnings raised by the SEC's recent enforcement actions against SolarWinds, R.R. Donnelley and Intercontinental Exchange, say attorneys at O'Melveny.
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9th Circ. Ruling Flags Work Harassment Risks Of Social Media
The recent Ninth Circuit ruling in Okonowsky v. Garland, holding an employer could be liable for a co-worker's harassing social media posts, highlights new challenges in technology-centered and remote workplaces, and underscores an employer's obligation to prevent hostile environments wherever their employees clock in, say Jennifer Lada and Phillip Schreiber at Holland & Knight.
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Trump's Best Hush Money Appeal Options Still Likely To Fail
The two strongest potential arguments former President Donald Trump could raise in appealing his New York hush money conviction seem promising at first, but precedent strongly suggests they will still ultimately fail — though, of course, Trump's unique position could lead to surprising results, says former New York Supreme Court Justice Ethan Greenberg, now at Anderson Kill.
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5 Defense Lessons From Prosecutors' Recent Evidence Flubs
The recent dismissal of Alec Baldwin’s involuntary manslaughter charges, and the filing of an ethics complaint against a former D.C. prosecutor, both provide takeaways for white collar defense counsel who suspect that prosecutors may be withholding or misrepresenting evidence, say Anden Chow at MoloLamken and Jonathan Porter at Husch Blackwell.
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Mirror, Mirror On The Wall, Is My Counterclaim Bound To Fall?
A Pennsylvania federal court’s recent dismissal of the defendants’ counterclaims in Morgan v. Noss should remind attorneys to avoid the temptation to repackage a claim’s facts and law into a mirror-image counterclaim, as this approach will often result in a waste of time and resources, says Matthew Selmasska at Kaufman Dolowich.
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Why The SEC Is Targeting Short-And-Distort Schemes
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's recent crackdown on the illegal practice of short-and-distort trades highlights the urgent need for public companies to adopt proactive measures, including pursuing private rights of action, say attorneys at Baker McKenzie.
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Series
Playing Dungeons & Dragons Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Playing Dungeons & Dragons – a tabletop role-playing game – helped pave the way for my legal career by providing me with foundational skills such as persuasion and team building, says Derrick Carman at Robins Kaplan.
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Considerations When Using Publicly Available Data To Train AI
To maximize the benefits and mitigate the risks of using publicly available data to train artificial intelligence models, companies should maintain a balance between openness and protection, and consider certain best practices, says Michael Cole at Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America.
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Illinois BIPA Reform Offers Welcome Relief To Businesses
Illinois' recent amendment to its Biometric Information Privacy Act limits the number of violations and damages a plaintiff can claim — a crucial step in shielding businesses from unintended legal consequences, including litigation risk and compliance costs, say attorneys at Taft.
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3 Leadership Practices For A More Supportive Firm Culture
Traditional leadership styles frequently amplify the inherent pressures of legal work, but a few simple, time-neutral strategies can strengthen the skills and confidence of employees and foster a more collaborative culture, while supporting individual growth and contribution to organizational goals, says Benjamin Grimes at BKG Leadership.
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How Justices' E-Rate Decision May Affect Scope Of FCA
The U.S. Supreme Court’s eventual decision in Wisconsin Bell v. U.S., determining whether reimbursements paid by the E-rate program are "claims" under the False Claims Act, may affect other federal programs that do not require payments to be made by the U.S. Department of the Treasury, says David Colapinto at Kohn Kohn.
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E-Discovery Quarterly: Rulings On Hyperlinked Documents
Recent rulings show that counsel should engage in early discussions with clients regarding the potential of hyperlinked documents in electronically stored information, which will allow for more deliberate negotiation of any agreements regarding the scope of discovery, say attorneys at Sidley.