FCC Opens 2 Slices Of 900 MHz For Broadband Use

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission opened two portions of the 900 megahertz airwaves for expanded broadband use Wednesday, saying it crafted the new rules to avoid disruption with users in nearby spectrum.

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FCC Pulls 'Zombies' Named By Inspector General Off Lifeline

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission's chief said Wednesday that people wrongly enrolled in Lifeline as identified by the FCC inspector general have been removed from the telecom subsidy program, amid the FCC floating reforms to tamp down fraud.

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Zuckerberg Testifies That Social Media Doesn't Harm Teens

By Craig Clough

Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stand Wednesday in a landmark California bellwether trial on claims his company and Google's YouTube harm children's mental health, saying the current scientific literature shows no causal link between social media and teens' mental health.

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SpaceX Attacks Studies Opposing NGSO Framework Changes

By Nadia Dreid

SpaceX is coming out swinging against other satellite operators who have provided the FCC with studies they say show the new proposed spectrum sharing framework is a bad idea, calling it a "last-ditch effort to muddy the waters" before the agency makes a decision.

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Telecommunications Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn

By Christopher Cole

Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP steered telecom megadeals, among them AT&T's $5.75 billion acquisition of nearly all of Lumen's fiber business, and scored a court victory on media ownership rules, making it a 2025 Law360 Telecommunications Group of the Year.

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Tesla Scores FCC Waiver For EV Positioning Technology

By Nadia Dreid

Tesla has convinced the Federal Communications Commission to make some exceptions to its rules for ultra-wideband devices — specifically a requirement that they be handheld — so that it can use the technology to help its vehicles self-park on charging pads.

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Sen. IP Leads Worry About Outsize Standards Influencers

By Dani Kass

U.S. senators who lead the Judiciary Committee's subcommittee on intellectual property wrote to the head of the American National Standards Institute stressing "the essential importance of integrity, balance and transparency" while developing standards in the U.S.

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DOJ Allowed To Dictate Pay, Term Of Google Search Watchers

By Bryan Koenig

A D.C. federal judge sided with the U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday regarding the key terms of service for the five-member technical committee tasked with observing Google's compliance with mandates to prop up rival search engines with search results and data.

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Ericsson Asks Court To Preempt Acer Suits Over 4G, 5G Patents

By Theresa Schliep

Ericsson Inc. is asking a Delaware federal court for a ruling that it hasn't infringed six patents owned by Acer Inc. covering 4G, LTE and 5G wireless standards, filing its suit shortly after Acer went after Ericsson customers in a separate action.

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Telecom Joint Venture To Pay $2.7B For UK Fiber Company

By Isaac Monterose

Private equity firm InfraVia Capital Partners and European telecommunications companies Telefónica and Liberty Global will use their Nexfibre joint venture to pay $2.7 billion for Substantial Group, which is the "second-largest alternative fiber provider" in the United Kingdom, the acquiring companies announced Wednesday.

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Latham Adds Ex-FCC Commissioner As Partner In DC

By Jack Rodgers

Geoffrey Starks, who stepped down from the Federal Communications Commission last year after 10 years at the agency, has joined Latham & Watkins LLP as a partner, where he'll advise clients on a range of communications matters such as broadband policies, data security and artificial intelligence.

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Opinion

Federal Preemption In AI And Robotics Is Essential

Federal preemption offers a unified front at a decisive moment that is essential for safeguarding America's economic edge in artificial intelligence and robotics against global rivals, harnessing trillions of dollars in potential, securing high-skilled jobs through human augmentation, and defending technological sovereignty, says Steven Weisburd at Shook Hardy.

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Series

Law School's Missed Lessons: What Cross-Selling Truly Takes

Early-career attorneys may struggle to introduce clients to practitioners in other specialties, but cross-selling becomes easier once they know why it’s vital to their first years of practice, which mistakes to avoid and how to anticipate clients' needs, say attorneys at Moses & Singer.

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Barnes & Thornburg Adds 35 Ballard Spahr Attys, 3 Offices

By Tracey Read

Barnes & Thornburg LLP announced Thursday that it has added all 35 public finance lawyers from Ballard Spahr LLP to its government services and finance department in multiple locations around the country, including three new markets in Baltimore, Denver and Phoenix.

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DOJ Atty Fined $500 A Day Over Withheld ICE Detainee ID

By Hailey Konnath

A Minnesota federal judge on Wednesday ordered a U.S. Department of Justice lawyer to pay $500 a day until an immigrant recently released from Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention gets his identification documents returned, according to the case docket.

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8th Circ. Pick Joins List Of Personal Attys Elevated By Trump

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump's latest appellate pick has served as the president's personal attorney and bills himself as "an attorney and strategist who fights for conservative values" on his LinkedIn profile.

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Analysis

Attys React To Test Of Free Speech At Winter Olympics

By David Steele

The Winter Olympics in Milan have delivered the expected drama of national and individual success and defeat, but for sports law experts, one Ukrainian athlete's expulsion stood as a test of the rules governing political protest and personal expression.

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No Verdict Thursday In Goldstein Case

By Jared Foretek

The jury in SCOTUSblog founder Thomas Goldstein's tax evasion trial broke for the weekend on Thursday without reaching a verdict.

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Disqualification Bids Mount For Trio Leading NJ US Atty Office

By Carla Baranauckas

A New Jersey criminal defendant who previously challenged the legality of former interim U.S. Attorney Alina Habba's appointment has now moved to disqualify the three assistant U.S. attorneys overseeing the office, aligning himself with a growing bloc of defendants saying the leadership structure violates federal appointment laws.

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Del. Chancery Court Saw Record Number Of Filings In 2025

By Rose Krebs

Delaware's nationally important Chancery Court saw a record number of case filings in 2025 and has relied on the state's Superior Court to help ease its judges' caseload, the First State's chief justice told legislators on Thursday.

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Doc Fight Delays Trial In $22M McCarter & English Loan Suit

By Brian Steele

The delayed disclosure of thousands of documents has created "a lot of prejudice" against McCarter & English as it fights a $22.5 million professional malpractice lawsuit, and the impending trial must be pushed back again, a Connecticut state judge said Thursday.

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Ill. Justices Face Judge's Suit Over Removal For MAGA Op-Ed

By Emily Sawicki

A retired Illinois state judge who had published a MAGA-leaning opinion column, then was temporarily reinstated to the bench amid a judge shortage, has sued the justices of the state Supreme Court, alleging they deprived him of due process in ordering his removal.

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