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December 11, 2024
Big Tech, 'Censorship' Animate Trump FTC Picks
President-elect Donald Trump's picks Tuesday to lead and join the Federal Trade Commission show he plans to continue Washington's focus on antitrust enforcement against major technology platforms, while also signaling a potential shift toward more populist Republican concerns alleging that Big Tech censors conservative voices.
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December 11, 2024
Dems, GOP Agree That China Cyberspying Is A Problem
For all their disagreements, Republicans and Democrats were largely singing the same tune Wednesday afternoon at a Senate hearing on the security of the nation's communications networks — that they're worried, and the government needs to get to work on a solution.
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December 11, 2024
Palo Alto Networks Seeks Exit From Investors' 'Vague' Suit
Cybersecurity company Palo Alto Networks and three of its executives have asked a San Francisco federal judge to toss a consolidated proposed investor class action over allegedly concealed "headwinds," arguing that its investors failed to show they'd known the company would eventually lower certain financial projections.
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December 11, 2024
Ex-Rep. TJ Cox Reaches Plea Deal On Fraud Charges
Former U.S. Rep. T.J. Cox reached a deal with California federal prosecutors and agreed to plead guilty to two charges and pay up to a $3.5 million fine over allegations he stole from his companies and took illegal campaign contributions, according to a plea agreement filed Wednesday.
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December 11, 2024
Tesla Stockholder Contests $345M Musk Pay Fight Fee In Del.
A Tesla Inc. stockholder has asked to intervene in the Delaware Court of Chancery class derivative case that scuttled CEO Elon Musk's 10-year, $55.6 billion compensation plan, citing objections to court approval of a stock or cash fee award for class attorneys worth $345 million.
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December 11, 2024
Ga. Judge Refuses To Reconsider Toss Of Patient Data Suit
A Georgia federal judge has refused to reconsider the dismissal of a proposed class action alleging Piedmont Healthcare Inc. unlawfully shared patients' health data with Facebook via the company's tracking pixel tool.
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December 11, 2024
Uber Worker Can Arbitrate Firing Claim, Calif. Court Says
A California state appeals court backed a trial court's move to revive a former Uber employee's arbitration dispute with the company claiming she was fired for complaining about sex bias, ruling an arbitrator was wrong to find she attempted to restart the clock on her allegations.
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December 11, 2024
SEC Sues Disbarred Calif. Atty And Son For Securities Fraud
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has filed a suit against a father-son duo and a broker for allegedly running a Ponzi-like scheme disguised as an investment company for a start-up content streaming app, raising over $17 million from at least 40 investors.
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December 11, 2024
Google Targeted New Parents For Layoffs, Calif. Suit Says
Google was sued in California state court Wednesday by a former training manager who says the tech giant chose her and six colleagues for layoffs last year because of their decisions to take parental leave.
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December 11, 2024
Character.AI Encouraged Child To Kill His Parents, Suit Says
Two minors and their parents sued Character.AI, its founders and Google in Texas federal court, alleging the "dangerous" technology exposed the children to hypersexualized and violent content, with a chatbot character even encouraging one of the kids to kill his parents because they limited his screen time.
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December 11, 2024
Legal Ed Cos. Shared Customers' Data, Suit Claims
Two companies offering continuing legal and professional education content have been hit with a class action in Georgia federal court over allegations that they nonconsensually disclosed customers' identities and video viewing information to Meta Platforms Inc. for its advertisers' use.
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December 11, 2024
Justices Asked To Reject Roku Petition Challenging ITC
There's no reason the U.S. Supreme Court should review the "unremarkable" decision backing up the U.S. International Trade Commission's power to ban the import of patent-infringing software, a company has told the justices, saying that streaming television company Roku's questions are "redundant."
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December 11, 2024
Movie Producer Asks 11th Circ. To Reverse YouTube's IP Win
A movie producer urged the Eleventh Circuit on Wednesday to revive his copyright claims against YouTube, arguing that the platform has a duty under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to locate additional infringing clips in its video library after receiving a takedown notice.
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December 11, 2024
FCC Eases Some Credit Rules For Rural Broadband Funds
The Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday changed letter of credit requirements for broadband subsidy programs in order to make it easier for rural providers to access capital.
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December 11, 2024
WordPress Parent Must Restore WP Engine's Access
A California federal judge issued a preliminary injunction on Tuesday restoring WP Engine's access to WordPress while the web hosting company pursues its antitrust allegations against WordPress parent Automattic and CEO Matthew Mullenweg, claiming it was blocked from the site after refusing to pay millions of dollars to Automattic.
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December 11, 2024
Fed. Circ. OKs Intel's Partial PTAB Loss
The Federal Circuit on Wednesday shot down Intel's appeal of a Patent Trial and Appeal Board decision that found the company failed to show that numerous claims of a patent on battery-saving technology for computer processors are invalid.
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December 11, 2024
White House Wants US Chips In Gov't Supply Chain
The Biden administration is asking for suggestions on how best to encourage government contractors to "scale up their use" of American-made microchips in a new request for information Tuesday, looking to drive demand as the 2022 CHIPS and Science Act incentivizes new domestic supply.
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December 11, 2024
FCC Allows Full 6 GHz Band For Unlicensed Wireless Devices
The Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday opened two more slices of the 6 gigahertz airwaves to power unlicensed wireless uses ranging from augmented reality to body-worn technologies.
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December 11, 2024
MoFo Adds Group Of 7 Lawyers From Goodwin Procter In NY
Morrison Foerster LLP is expanding its emerging companies and venture capital practice on the East Coast, announcing Wednesday it is bringing in a group of seven lawyers from Goodwin Procter LLP in New York.
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December 11, 2024
Del. Bar Urged To Push Back On Musk's Chancery Criticism
Nearly 100 legal professionals, mainly plaintiffs bar attorneys and law professors, have called on the Delaware State Bar Association to defend the state's chancellor against attacks that tech and social media billionaire Elon Musk launched after a stinging defeat of his nearly $56 billion, multiyear Tesla Inc. package in January.
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December 11, 2024
FTX Settles With Congressional PACs In Ch. 11
FTX reached more than a dozen settlements in November with various political action committees, including deals with the Democratic-aligned Senate Majority PAC and the House Majority PAC worth $3 million and $6 million, respectively, the bankrupt crypto company told a New York bankruptcy court.
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December 11, 2024
Justices' Cold Feet On Nvidia, Meta Leaves Attys Guessing
The U.S. Supreme Court threw out a second securities case on Wednesday by refusing to issue a ruling in a Nvidia Corp. case with no explanation on its change of heart, leaving the defense bar to guess at the court's motivation and its potential implication for the future of high court securities cases.
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December 10, 2024
Paul Hastings Says Biz Waived Privilege On Malpractice Docs
Paul Hastings LLP has called on a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge to force GenapSys Inc., known as Redwood Liquidating Co. since its bankruptcy, to turn over documents that it had inadvertently produced in a legal malpractice suit alleging that the law firm improperly drafted board documents that led to the "demise and liquidation" of the genetic-sequencing company.
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December 10, 2024
Robinhood Seeks Arb. For Remaining Meme Stock MDL Suits
Stock trading platform Robinhood urged a Florida federal court to send to arbitration the seven remaining individual suits brought against it as part of a multidistrict litigation over the platform's decision to freeze trading in certain so-called meme stocks amid a social-media fueled run on shares of those issuers.
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December 10, 2024
US Sanctions Chinese Hacker, Employer For Firewall Exploits
A Chinese national is facing federal charges and U.S. sanctions, with prosecutors accusing him of scheming to exploit tens of thousands of firewalls, including those the government noted Tuesday protected sensitive systems of companies that run oil rigs and vital infrastructure.
Expert Analysis
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Copyright Questions Surround AI Music Platform Suits
If recent lawsuits filed by the Recording Industry Association of America against two artificial intelligence music platform developers — who maintain that use of copyrighted works to train AI models constitutes fair use — go to trial, this novel issue will make for potentially precedent-setting decisions, says intellectual property lawyer Eric Lane.
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Litigation Strategies In View Of New Double Patenting Rulings
Recent Federal Circuit decisions, including in Allergan v. MSN, raise several issues that patent owners should understand and consider addressing proactively regarding obviousness-type double patenting, at least in their prosecution strategies, say attorneys at Dentons.
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Promoting Diversity In The Selection Of ADR Neutrals
Excerpt from Practical Guidance
Choosing neutrals from diverse backgrounds is an important step in promoting inclusion in the legal profession, and it can enhance the legitimacy and public perception of alternative dispute resolution proceedings, say attorneys at Lowenstein Sandler.
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Series
Playing Ultimate Makes Us Better Lawyers
In addition to being fun, ultimate Frisbee has improved our legal careers by emphasizing the importance of professionalism, teamwork, perseverance, enthusiasm and vulnerability, say Arunabha Bhoumik and Adam Bernstein at Regeneron.
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Tracking The Slow Movement Of AI Copyright Cases
The tech community may be expecting a prompt resolution on whether products generated by artificial intelligence are a fair use of copyrighted works, but legal history shows that a response to this question — at the heart of over 30 pending cases — will take years, say attorneys at White & Case.
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E-Discovery Quarterly: Recent Rulings On Metadata
Several recent rulings reflect the competing considerations that arise when parties dispute the form of production for electronically stored information, underscoring that counsel must carefully consider how to produce and request reasonably usable data, say attorneys at Sidley.
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The 3rd-Party Bankruptcy Release Landscape After Purdue
In its Purdue Pharma ruling prohibiting nonconsensual third-party releases, the U.S. Supreme Court did not comment on criteria to render a third-party release consensual, opening a debate in the bankruptcy courts on the permissibility of opt-out versus opt-in releases, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.
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Comparing Antitrust Outlooks Amid Google Remedy Review
As the U.S. Justice Department mulls potential structural remedies after winning its recent case against Google, increased global scrutiny of Big Tech leaves ex post and ex ante antitrust approaches ripe for evaluation, say Nishant Chadha at the Indian School of Business and Manisha Goel at Pomona College.
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What New Int'l Treaty Means For Global AI Regulation
Lawyers at Bird & Bird consider how global artificial intelligence regulation will be affected by the first international AI treaty recently signed by the U.S., EU and U.K., as well as its implications for business and several issues that stakeholders should be aware of.
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How The Presidential Election Will Affect Workplace AI Regs
The U.S. has so far adopted a light-handed approach to regulating artificial intelligence in the labor and employment area, but the presidential election is unlikely to have as dramatic of an effect on AI regulations as it may on other labor and employment matters, say attorneys at Littler.
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Opinion
PREVAIL Bill Is Another Misguided Attempt To Restrict PTAB
The decade-long campaign against the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's Patent Trial and Appeal Board — currently focused on the PREVAIL Act that's slated for markup in the Senate — is not really about procedural issues, and it is not aimed at securing more accurate patentability decisions, says Clear IP's Joseph Matal, former acting director at the USPTO.
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Striking A Balance Between AI Use And Attorney Well-Being
As the legal industry increasingly adopts generative artificial intelligence tools to boost efficiency, leaders must note the hidden costs of increased productivity, and work to protect attorneys’ well-being while unlocking AI’s full potential, says Ed Sohn at Factor.
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A Novel Expansion Of Alien Tort Statute In 9th Circ.
The Ninth Circuit's Doe v. Cisco rehearing denial allows a new invocation of the Alien Tort Statute to proceed, which could capture the U.S. Supreme Court's attention, and has potentially dramatic consequences for U.S. companies doing business with foreign governments, say attorneys at Ropes & Gray.
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Empathy In Mediation Offers A Soft Landing For Disputes
Experiencing a crash-landing on a recent flight underscored to me how much difference empathy makes in times of crisis or stress, including during mediation, says Eydith Kaufman at Alternative Resolution Centers.
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Series
Being An Artist Makes Me A Better Lawyer
My work as an artist has highlighted how using creativity and precision together — qualities that are equally essential in both art and law — not only improves outcomes, but also leads to more innovative and thoughtful work, says Sarah La Pearl at Segal McCambridge.