Technology

  • February 26, 2025

    Snap Investors End Derivative Suit Over Apple Privacy Change

    Executives and directors of Snapchat parent company Snap Inc. have escaped a consolidated shareholder derivative suit alleging the social media company failed to warn investors about the impact that certain iPhone privacy changes would have on its advertising revenue, with a judge signing off on a voluntary dismissal order.

  • February 26, 2025

    Arkansas Hits GM With Suit Over 'Deceptive' Driver Data Sales

    Arkansas' attorney general has become the latest to take aim at General Motors Co. over its data privacy practices, filing a lawsuit in state court Wednesday accusing the automaker of padding its profits by deceptively collecting and selling drivers' private data, which purchasers would then resell to insurance companies.

  • February 26, 2025

    Pornhub Data Privacy Suit Will Go To Arbitration

    A group of foreign companies that allegedly operate the website Pornhub have won their bid to send a proposed data privacy class action into arbitration, after a California federal judge ruled that an arbitrator must decide whether the companies waived their right to arbitration.

  • February 26, 2025

    Card Shuffler Maker Inks $73M Deal To Settle Antitrust Claims

    Scientific Games Corp. has reached a $72.5 million agreement to settle its Illinois federal lawsuit with a would-be rival business that accused the company of monopolizing the automatic card shuffler market, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

  • February 26, 2025

    NJ Tech Co. Misled Investors On NASA Partnership, Suit Says

    Computer chip manufacturer Quantum Computing Inc. was hit with a proposed shareholder class action alleging it overhyped its business relationships, including its partnership with NASA, and lied about its revenues and the progress it made in building a foundry.

  • February 26, 2025

    USDA Unlawfully Purged Climate Info, Advocacy Groups Say

    The U.S. Department of Agriculture has illegally erased scores of data-rich webpages focused on climate change from its websites in a sudden action that denies farmers access to essential information as the country faces extreme weather patterns, according to a lawsuit filed in New York federal court.

  • February 26, 2025

    Senators Want Federal Broadband Money To Be Tax-Exempt

    Telecom companies set to collectively receive billions in federal dollars aimed at subsidizing the build-out of broadband infrastructure won't have to pay taxes on those funds, if a bipartisan group of senators gets its way.

  • February 26, 2025

    LG Ad Co. Tells Del. Justices It Didn't Breach Deal With Firings

    An attorney for TV data company Alphonso Inc. told Delaware's top court Wednesday that the Court of Chancery wrongly ruled last year that the company and its LG Electronics Inc.-controlled board lacked authority to fire five Alphonso co-founder executive officers and two pre-deal employees in a post-deal purge.

  • February 26, 2025

    Broadcasters Say Next-Gen TV Transition Must Move Faster

    It's time to finish up the transition to the next generation of television broadcasting, and the Federal Communications Commission should move things along or the "realistic window for implementation could pass," broadcasters are telling the agency.

  • February 26, 2025

    Skanska JV Owes Ukraine War Cost Hikes, Contractor Says

    A Skanska joint venture is the target of a breach of contract lawsuit from a Microsoft corporate campus construction subcontractor alleging it racked up $10 million in unpaid costs due in part to supply chain disruptions caused by COVID and Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

  • February 26, 2025

    Ex-CFTC Chair Says Congress 'Can Do Better' On Stablecoins

    Senate Democrats questioned the consumer protection provisions included in recently proposed stablecoin legislation at a Wednesday digital asset subcommittee hearing, which saw a former U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission chair argue that lawmakers "can do a lot better" than the existing proposals.

  • February 26, 2025

    Simpson Thacher Adds Partner From Wilson Sonsini

    Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP has picked up a trial litigator from Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC who helped a startup defeat a nearly $460 million trade secrets case over expert testimony involving antibody cancer treatments and secured defense victories in patent cases for companies like Google LLC and HTC Corp.

  • February 26, 2025

    Web Liability Fix Faces 'Persuasive' Test, FCC Expert Says

    It won't be easy for the Federal Communications Commission to weaken tech platforms' liability shield as some Republicans want to do, but the commission could still make changes that courts find "persuasive," a former FCC lawyer now leading a pro-business group said on a blog Tuesday.

  • February 26, 2025

    Fed. Circ. Won't Let Micron Out Of Sharing Source Code

    The Federal Circuit held Wednesday that Micron Technology Inc. can't get out of handing over what the company deemed "highly confidential" source code to Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. Ltd. in an ongoing dispute over flash memory chip patents.

  • February 26, 2025

    GOP-Led House Panel Pushes Easier Rules On Capital Raising

    A U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee invited input Wednesday on a slew of deregulatory bills that seek to ease rules governing private and public securities offerings, drawing plaudits from the Republican majority and mixed responses from Democrats.

  • February 26, 2025

    Albright Won't Rethink Tossing VolP-Pal's Patent Fights

    U.S. District Judge Alan Albright declined to reconsider the court's decision to throw out VoIP-Pal's patent lawsuits against Verizon and T-Mobile, saying Wednesday that the plaintiff has failed to offer any new evidence.

  • February 26, 2025

    Google Photos Service Illegally Scans Facial Data, Suit Says

    Google has been sued in Illinois state court by two residents who claim their privacy was violated through Google Photos' collection and retention of face templates, created to compare the similarity of faces in photos for the purposes of grouping them.

  • February 26, 2025

    Trump Says FCC Right To Probe '60 Minutes' Interview Editing

    President Donald Trump on Wednesday repeated his claim that CBS doctored a "60 Minutes" interview with Kamala Harris last year, likely costing him votes in the November election, and said the Federal Communications Commission is looking "very strongly" into the matter.

  • February 26, 2025

    Banks' Fight Over CFPB Open Banking Rule Put On Pause

    A Kentucky federal judge agreed Tuesday to pause a banking industry challenge to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's open banking rule, giving the agency's new leadership time to review what it wants to do with the Biden-era measure.

  • February 26, 2025

    DOJ Says RealPage Can't Ditch Antitrust Claims

    The U.S. Department of Justice and a group of states are urging a North Carolina federal judge to reject a move by RealPage Inc. and a group of landlords to escape claims that use of the company's software paves the way for collusion on setting rental prices.

  • February 26, 2025

    Ex-Twitter Execs Demand Docs In $200M Severance Fight

    Elon Musk and his social media platform X are trying to dodge perfectly reasonable discovery requests tackling claims that the billionaire fired four former company executives after he bought the social media platform to avoid several benefits obligations, the workers told a California federal court.

  • February 26, 2025

    Google Settles Claims It Fired Bipolar Worker Out Of Bias

    Google has settled a former employee's suit alleging he was unlawfully fired for taking medical leave because of his bipolar disorder following a manic episode, according to California federal court filings.

  • February 25, 2025

    Retailer Pushes To Ax 2,400 Web Tracking Arbitration Claims

    Children's clothing retailer Janie & Jack LLC is attempting to stave off more than 2,400 arbitration claims filed by individuals over the company's allegedly unlawful website tracking practices, telling a California federal court that the website visitors are "weaponizing" an arbitration agreement that doesn't even apply to them. 

  • February 25, 2025

    YouTube, TikTok Evade Deadly 'Challenge' Video Suit, For Now

    A California magistrate judge has dismissed, for now, parents' product liability proposed class action alleging YouTube's and TikTok's reporting features are defectively designed since they did not result in the removal of deadly "choking challenge" videos, finding the suit does not clearly identify the product in question or its alleged design defect.

  • February 25, 2025

    DC Judge Blocks Trump's Federal Funding Freeze

    A D.C. federal judge on Tuesday issued a preliminary injunction blocking the Trump administration from implementing a federal spending freeze while a group of nonprofits challenge the freeze, calling the measure "ill-conceived from the beginning."

Expert Analysis

  • Opinion

    Antitrust Posturing Against Algorithmic AI Should End

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    President-elect Donald Trump needs to rein in the federal government's antitrust crusade against algorithmic AI, sending the message that antitrust enforcement must be grounded in evidence and real harm, says attorney David Balto, a former Federal Trade Commission assistant director of policy and evaluation.

  • Risk Disclosure Issue Remains After Justices Nix Meta Case

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    After full briefing and argument, the U.S. Supreme Court recently dismissed Facebook v. Amalgamated Bank as improvidently granted, leaving courts with the tricky endeavor of determining when the failure to disclose a past event in an Item 105 risk disclosure is materially misleading, say attorneys at Lowenstein Sandler.

  • Think Like A Lawyer: 1 Type Of Case Complexity Stands Out

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    In contrast to some cases that appear complex due to voluminous evidence or esoteric subject matter, a different kind of complexity involves tangled legal and factual questions, each with a range of possible outcomes, which require a “sliding scale” approach instead of syllogistic reasoning, says Luke Andrews at Poole Huffman.

  • Netflix Dispute May Alter 'Source' In TM Fair-Use Analysis

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    ​The Ninth Circuit’s upcoming decision in Hara v. Netflix​, about what it means to be source-identifying​, could change how the Rogers defense protects expressive works that utilize trademarks in a creative fashion, says Sara Gold at Gold IP.

  • Back To The Future? Antitrust Enforcement Under Trump 2.0

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    While the transition to the second Trump administration's antitrust policy should be accompanied by less uncertainty, we're unlikely to get a full sense of the true focus and tenor of competition enforcement under Trump 2.0 before late next year, say attorneys at Simpson Thacher.

  • FTX Exec's Sentencing Shows Pros And Cons Of Cooperation

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    The sentencing of former FTX tech deputy Gary Wang, whose cooperation netted him a rare outcome of no prison time, offers critical takeaways for attorneys and clients navigating the burgeoning world of crypto-related prosecutions, says Andrew Meck at Whiteford.

  • What Bisphenol S Prop 65 Listing Will Mean For Industry

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    The imminent addition of bisphenol S — a chemical used in millions of products — to California's Proposition 65 list will have sweeping compliance and litigation implications for companies in the retail, food and beverage, paper, manufacturing and personal care product industries, say attorneys at Alston & Bird.

  • Fed. Circ. Ruling Shows Importance Of Trial Expert Specificity

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    The Federal Circuit’s recent ruling in NexStep v. Comcast highlights how even a persuasive expert’s failure to fully explain the basis of their opinion at trial can turn a winning patent infringement argument into a losing one, say attorneys at Barnes & Thornburg.

  • Think Like A Lawyer: Note 3 Simple Types Of Legal Complexity

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    Cases can appear complex for several reasons — due to the number of issues, the volume of factual and evidentiary sources, and the sophistication of those sources — but the same basic technique can help lawyers tame their arguments into a simple and persuasive message, says Luke Andrews at Poole Huffman.

  • Tracking The Uncertainty Of The FTC's Negative Option Rule

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    The fate of the Federal Trade Commission's final rule requiring businesses that utilize negative options to provide consumers with a simple cancellation method remains in limbo as it faces multiple legal challenges and the threat of possible congressional action looms, say attorneys at Manatt.

  • Trending At The PTAB: Collateral Estoppel Continues Evolving

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    We are starting to see brighter lines on collateral estoppel involving Patent Trial and Appeal Board proceedings, illustrated by two recent cases that considered whether collateral estoppel should apply to factual findings on prior art from the PTAB in a later district court litigation, say attorneys at Finnegan.

  • Series

    Gardening Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Beyond its practical and therapeutic benefits, gardening has bolstered important attributes that also apply to my litigation practice, including persistence, patience, grit and authenticity, says Christopher Viceconte at Gibbons.

  • Takeaways From DOJ's Intervention On Pricing Algorithm Use

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    A recent U.S. Justice Department amicus brief arguing that a Nevada federal judge wrongly focused on the nonbinding aspect of software company Cendyn Group's pricing algorithm underscores the growing challenge of determining when, if ever, pricing algorithms are legal, say attorneys at Rule Garza.

  • Equitable Mootness Insights From Greenlit Ch. 11 Plan Appeal

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    A Texas federal court recently allowed a challenge to ConvergeOne's Chapter 11 bankruptcy plan to proceed because it wouldn't disrupt the IT company's confirmed plan or harm creditors, reinforcing the importance of judicial restraint in applying equitable mootness where limited relief is possible, say attorneys at Parkins & Rubio.

  • Litigation Inspiration: Reframing Document Review

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    For attorneys — new ones especially — there is much fulfillment to find in document review by reflecting on how important, interesting and pleasant it can be, says Bennett Rawicki at Hilgers Graben.

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