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March 17, 2026
Verizon must continue to face the bulk of a proposed class action over alleged "email bomb attacks" targeting its business customers, after a New York federal judge found that the nonprofit pressing the suit had established a concrete injury stemming from the data breach and had adequately asserted a trio of negligence, contract and California consumer protection law claims.
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March 17, 2026
GCI Communication Corp. won't have to continue to provide service to an Alaskan Native village in the state's eroding coastal lowland after its population moved on to new territory that was gained in a land swap with the federal government, the Federal Communications Commission has ruled.
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March 17, 2026
A California federal judge laid out the ground rules for an upcoming April jury trial on Elon Musk's claims OpenAI duped him into donating $38 million, barring evidence regarding the "wealth or lack thereof of any party," unless the dispute reaches the punitive damages stage, which the judge called "unlikely."
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March 17, 2026
China's ability to monitor foreign visitors from the moment they step onto its soil will make it harder for U.S. officials to navigate next year's critical treaty-making conference on radio spectrum rules in Shanghai, experts told the U.S. Senate Tuesday.
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March 17, 2026
Democratic lawmakers proposed legislation Tuesday that would give courts more power to review settlements reached in government antitrust cases, after the U.S. Department of Justice recently cut a pair of controversial deals, including with Live Nation last week.
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March 17, 2026
Apple urged a California federal judge to sanction iPhone users' counsel over their allegedly "unrelenting and increasingly egregious" subpoena efforts in antitrust litigation accusing Google of suppressing rival search engines with anticompetitive deals, arguing the consumers are fishing for evidence to try to improperly reinstate Apple as a defendant.
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March 17, 2026
Google moved to tee up a dismissal bid aimed at cutting key targeted policies from New York federal court antitrust claims from rival advertising placement technology providers, arguing that its "sophisticated" competitors cannot get around a four-year statute of limitations pegged to the U.S. Department of Justice's lawsuit.
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March 17, 2026
Eversheds Sutherland has hired a former Winston & Strawn LLP partner in Washington, D.C., who spent almost 19 years before her last role with Squire Patton Boggs, according to a Tuesday announcement.
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March 17, 2026
Two New York counties must face a Cayuga Nation member's discrimination lawsuit in a dispute over 911 access, a federal district court judge determined, saying his allegations of slow response times are enough to allege an injury.
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March 16, 2026
The Federal Communications Commission urged the Fifth Circuit to toss a conservative group's latest challenge to the Universal Service Fund, calling the suit "no more persuasive" than the last attempt to overturn the fund, which was rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court.
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March 16, 2026
U.S. Senate Democrats have called on Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr to resign for warning the FCC could pull broadcast licenses over news organizations' coverage of the Iran war, with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer calling the agency chief's comment "vindictive, fascist stuff."
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March 16, 2026
A New York federal judge has dismissed a suit accusing an artificial-intelligence-based call center software maker of patent infringement, finding the asserted patent was invalid under the Supreme Court's Alice test.
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March 16, 2026
Elon Musk's xAI puts profits above all else by knowingly serving pedophiles who use the Grok generative artificial intelligence platform to transform ordinary photographs of children into child sexual abuse material they can trade with other predators across the internet, according to a lawsuit filed Monday in California federal court.
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March 16, 2026
An Illinois federal judge has dismissed Trustybell GmbH's suit accusing a digital notarization company of infringing its patent for video identity verification, saying it does not meet eligibility requirements.
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March 13, 2026
AT&T says it would be a bad idea for the Federal Communications Commission to make new rules requiring companies to deploy caller ID authentication methods that don't rely on internet-based networks, since the industry is working hard to move away from non-IP networks.
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March 13, 2026
A Texas federal judge on Thursday refused to invalidate five wireless charging patents that a jury found Samsung had infringed and that were the basis of a $192 million damages award.
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March 13, 2026
EchoStar should have set aside some of the $40 billion it plans to make from spectrum sales to AT&T and SpaceX to repay the companies who were supposed to be building Dish Network's 5G network, which EchoStar and Dish have now abandoned, a think tank has told the FCC.
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March 13, 2026
A voice service provider can no longer send call traffic through U.S. networks after originating and failing to block unwanted robocalls, the Federal Communications Commission said.
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March 13, 2026
Connecticut lawmakers are one-third of the way through the state's three-month legislative session, and already, bills targeting social media, artificial intelligence, prediction markets, private equity and hospital ownership are stacking up at the statehouse.
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March 13, 2026
A mobile provider will shell out $60,000 and set up a compliance plan after acknowledging it violated the Federal Communications Commission's international common carrier rules by not securing an FCC authorization before selling services.
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March 12, 2026
The Ninth Circuit on Thursday scrapped part of an injunction halting a groundbreaking California law requiring social media platforms to bolster privacy protections for children, finding that the tech trade group behind the lawsuit wasn't likely to succeed on its First Amendment challenge to the statute's coverage definition and age estimation mandate.
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March 12, 2026
The plaintiff's attorney in a bellwether trial accusing Meta Platforms Inc. and Google LLC of harming children's mental health encouraged a California jury during closing arguments Thursday not to buy the defendants' focus on his client's difficult childhood, saying it only weakened her to their social media "addiction machine" like a vulnerable gazelle being hunted by lions.
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March 12, 2026
On the heels of the New York attorney general's accusations that Washington-based Valve Corp. promotes illegal gambling through its popular video game franchises, gamers filed two putative class actions in Seattle federal court similarly targeting the entertainment giant's use of "loot boxes."
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March 12, 2026
Broadcasters have a lot on their plates as they move to the next TV standard, but chief among their worries will be protecting content from piracy, a security group formed by the major networks told the Federal Communications Commission.
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March 12, 2026
Sprawling artificial intelligence data centers will require larger shares of U.S. energy consumption in the coming years, but telecom networks also need more capacity and resilience if the U.S. wants to fuel an AI boom, a think tank said Thursday.