Telecommunications

  • October 04, 2024

    7th Circ. Backs Class Decertification In Unpaid Wages Dispute

    The Seventh Circuit declined to upend an order decertifying a class of satellite technicians who accused their employer of shorting them on overtime wages, agreeing that class treatment is improper because of the myriad differences between workers.

  • October 04, 2024

    UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

    This past week in London has seen GMB Union sued by the makers of Tetley Tea after a staff walkout in September, boxer Mike Tyson hit with legal action from a marketing company and the Met Police face a misuse of private data claim from a woman who had a relationship with an undercover police officer. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

  • October 04, 2024

    Taxation With Representation: Gibson Dunn, Weil, Simpson

    In this week's Taxation with Representation, DirectTV buys EchoStar's video business for $10 billion, Marsh McLennan inks a $7.75 billion deal for McGriff Insurance, and PepsiCo closes a $1.2 billion deal to purchase Siete Foods.

  • October 04, 2024

    Justices Take Up Fight Over $1.3B Failed Satellite Deal

    The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Friday to hear a pair of cases asking it to clarify the analysis of a highly technical jurisdictional question, as shareholders of an Indian satellite communications company look to enforce a $1.3 billion arbitral award against a state-owned division of India's space agency.

  • October 04, 2024

    High Court Will Hear TCPA Case Over Online Junk Faxes

    The U.S. Supreme Court said Friday it will review whether district courts must follow a Federal Communications Commission ruling that the Telephone Consumer Protection Act does not prohibit junk faxes that are received only via electronic inboxes.

  • October 03, 2024

    Ex-Twitter Exec's Advice May Sink Bonus Suit Class Cert. Bid

    A California federal judge on Thursday appeared flabbergasted that a former X Corp. executive seeking class certification in a suit over unpaid bonuses had previously advised Elon Musk against paying out the compensation, telling the former executive's lawyer, "I seriously wonder if perhaps you've put him in legal jeopardy."

  • October 03, 2024

    Justices Urged To Ax Google's Ad Tech Subpoena

    A South Carolina agency has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review its challenge of Google's document request in a case accusing the tech giant of monopolizing key digital advertising technology after the Fourth Circuit ruled the agency has to respond.

  • October 03, 2024

    Full Fed. Circ. Won't Look Into PTAB Estoppel Rule

    The Federal Circuit will not reconsider a panel's holding that Patent Trial and Appeal Board rulings can be used to find claims invalid in future U.S. Patent and Trademark Office proceedings.

  • October 03, 2024

    14 States Challenge FCC Over Prison Phone Rate Caps

    Fourteen states from Alabama to Virginia have sued the Federal Communications Commission in the Eighth Circuit over regulations it enacted this summer capping prison phone rates.

  • October 03, 2024

    ISPs Insist FCC Overstepped With Net Neutrality Rules

    Internet service providers told the Sixth Circuit it should reject the Federal Communications Commission's recently passed net neutrality rules because the FCC has failed to show that Congress gave it the authority to regulate broadband as a telecom service.

  • October 03, 2024

    12 Lawyers Who Are The Future Of The Supreme Court Bar

    One attorney hasn't lost a single U.S. Supreme Court case she's argued, or even a single justice's vote. One attorney is perhaps "the preeminent SCOTUS advocate." And one may soon become U.S. solicitor general, despite acknowledging there are "judges out there who don't like me." All three are among a dozen lawyers in the vanguard of the Supreme Court bar's next generation, poised to follow in the footsteps of the bar's current icons.

  • October 03, 2024

    Global M&A Hits Highest Q3 Dollar Volume Since 2021

    The total value of global mergers and acquisitions in the third quarter of 2024 notched its highest level since the same period in 2021, and it was also the strongest quarter so far this year, according to data provided by Dealogic. 

  • October 03, 2024

    CVS Pushed To Unwind Aetna Megadeal, And Other Rumors

    CVS is exploring strategic options that could break up the business, Kleenex's owner explores a sale at a potential $4 billion value, and Ares is in talks to buy 10% of the Miami Dolphins’ parent. Here, Law360 breaks down these and other notable deal rumors from the past week.

  • October 02, 2024

    Credit Repair Co. Owes $50M In CFPB, Mass. AG Case

    The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and Massachusetts' attorney general scored a $50 million win in their suit against a credit repair service and its owner after a Bay State federal judge determined that they violated federal and state consumer protection laws by falsely promising credit score improvements and illegally charging advance fees.

  • October 02, 2024

    Epic's Samsung, Google Cases Over Play Store Linked

    The judge mulling what changes Google will have to make after a jury found its Play Store policies violate antitrust law will also oversee a new case filed by Epic Games accusing Samsung of helping Google preemptively undermine any fix imposed by the court.

  • October 02, 2024

    Gov't Tells Justices That E-Rate Program Is Covered By FCA

    The federal government is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to declare that E-Rate reimbursement fraud is covered by the False Claims Act because the government provides the program's funding.

  • October 02, 2024

    Wi-Fi Has All The Spectrum It Needs, Mobile Group Says

    Wi-Fi performance gains won't come from more unlicensed spectrum use, a new report commissioned by telecommunications trade group CTIA said Wednesday.

  • October 02, 2024

    Google Hit With Renewed Voice Assistant Antitrust Case

    Sensory Inc. has accused Google of illegally maintaining its monopolies over search and the advertising that appears alongside search results in part by blocking rival voice assistant products from running on Android and other devices.

  • October 02, 2024

    Fried Frank, DLA Piper Steer Commercial REIT's $251M Listing

    Shares of real estate investment trust FrontView began trading Wednesday after it priced a nearly $251 million initial public offering within its intended price range, with Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP advising the company and DLA Piper serving as counsel for the underwriters.

  • October 02, 2024

    Top 3 Groups Lobbying The FCC

    The Federal Communications Commission heard from advocates more than 100 times in September on the FCC's effort to clamp down on scam robocalls, rules to spur broadband deployment, revamping the 4.9 gigahertz airwaves, satellite spectrum and more.

  • October 02, 2024

    Madigan Can't Duck Bribery Claims After High Court Ruling

    An Illinois federal judge on Wednesday declined to dismiss bribery charges against former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan after the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling limiting the reach of a bribery statute that once criminalized gratuities, while also refusing to sever his case from his co-defendant's.

  • October 02, 2024

    Bally Sports Owner's Ch. 11 Plan Ditches MLB TV Deals

    A new Chapter 11 plan filed by the owner of Bally Sports-branded regional sports networks would reject all but one of the company's broadcast deals with MLB teams, but would maintain contracts with professional basketball and hockey partners while swapping existing debt for reorganized equity.

  • October 02, 2024

    TikTok Can't End Browser Privacy MDL

    An Illinois federal judge on Tuesday held TikTok and parent company ByteDance to multidistrict litigation in which users claim the video platform's in-app browser illegally tracks activity on third-party sites, and gave the plaintiffs a chance to replead one claim under California law.

  • October 02, 2024

    Class Cert. In Bonus Suit Against X On The Verge Of Failure

    A California federal judge appeared inclined to deny a former X Corp. employee's class certification bid in his suit claiming the social media platform failed to pay promised bonuses after Elon Musk took over, urging the parties to tackle whether a renewed motion is necessary.

  • October 01, 2024

    Meta Must Face Bulk Of Social Media Harms Securities Suit

    A California federal judge on Monday trimmed but refused to throw out a proposed securities class action claiming Meta Platforms Inc. and its executives misled investors about the harmful effects of social media, finding that the investors pointed to plausibly misleading statements regarding mental health and keeping children safe.

Expert Analysis

  • Exploring An Alternative Model Of Litigation Finance

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    A new model of litigation finance, most aptly described as insurance-backed litigation funding, differs from traditional funding in two key ways, and the process of securing it involves three primary steps, say Bob Koneck, Christopher Le Neve Foster and Richard Butters at Atlantic Global Risk LLC.

  • Series

    Teaching Yoga Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Being a yoga instructor has helped me develop my confidence and authenticity, as well as stress management and people skills — all of which have crossed over into my career as an attorney, says Laura Gongaware at Clyde & Co.

  • A Vision For Economic Clerkships In The Legal System

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    As courts handle increasingly complex damages analyses involving vast amounts of data, an economic clerkship program — integrating early-career economists into the judicial system — could improve legal outcomes and provide essential training to clerks, say Mona Birjandi at Data for Decisions and Matt Farber at Secretariat.

  • 4 Sectors Will Likely Bear Initial Brunt Of FTC 'Junk Fees' Rule

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    If the Federal Trade Commission adopts its comprehensive proposed rule to ban unfair or deceptive fees across the U.S. economy, many businesses — including those in the lodging, event ticketing, dining and transportation sectors — will need to reexamine the way they market and price their products and services, say attorneys at Skadden.

  • Action Steps To Address New Restrictions On Outbound Data

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    Companies should immediately assess all their data-based operations so they can consider strategies to effectively mitigate new compliance risks brought on by recently implemented transaction restrictions, including a Justice Department proposal and landmark data legislation, say attorneys at Wiley.

  • E-Discovery Quarterly: Recent Rulings On Text Message Data

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    Electronically stored information on cellphones, and in particular text messages, can present unique litigation challenges, and recent court decisions demonstrate that counsel must carefully balance what data should be preserved, collected, reviewed and produced, say attorneys at Sidley.

  • Keeping Up With Class Actions: A New Era Of Higher Stakes

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    Corporate defendants saw unprecedented settlement numbers across all areas of class action litigation in 2022 and 2023, and this year has kept pace so far, with three settlements that stand out for the nature of the claims and for their high dollar amounts, says Gerald Maatman at Duane Morris.

  • Is The Digital Accessibility Storm Almost Over?

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    Though private businesses have faced a decadelong deluge of digital accessibility complaints in the absence of clear regulations or uniformity among the courts, attorneys at Epstein Becker address how recent federal courts’ pushback against serial Americans with Disabilities Act plaintiffs and the U.S. Department of Justice’s proposed government accessibility standards may presage a break in the downpour.

  • Rebuttal

    Double-Patenting Ruling Shows Terminal Disclaimers' Value

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    While a recent Law360 guest article seems to argue that the Federal Circuit’s Cellect decision last year robs patent owners of lawful patent term, the ruling actually identifies how terminal disclaimers are the solution to the problem of obviousness-type double patenting, say Jane Love and Robert Trenchard at Gibson Dunn.

  • Series

    Swimming Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Years of participation in swimming events, especially in the open water, have proven to be ideal preparation for appellate arguments in court — just as you must put your trust in the ocean when competing in a swim event, you must do the same with the judicial process, says John Kulewicz at Vorys.

  • What 100 Federal Cases Suggest About Changes To Chevron

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    With the U.S. Supreme Court poised to overturn or narrow its 40-year-old doctrine of Chevron deference, a review of 100 recent federal district court decisions confirm that changes to the Chevron framework will have broad ramifications — but the magnitude of the impact will depend on the details of the high court's ruling, say Kali Schellenberg and Jon Cochran at LeVan Stapleton.

  • Manufacturers Should Pay Attention To 'Right-To-Repair' Laws

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    Oregon’s recently passed "right-to-repair" statute highlights that the R2R movement is not going away, and that manufacturers of all kinds need to be paying attention to the evolving list of R2R statutes in various states and consider participating in the process, says Courtney Sarnow at Culhane.

  • New Federal Bill Would Drastically Alter Privacy Landscape

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    While the recently introduced American Privacy Rights Act would eliminate the burdensome patchwork of state regulations, the proposed federal privacy law would also significantly expand compliance obligations and liability exposure for companies, especially those that rely on artificial intelligence or biometric technologies, says David Oberly at Baker Donelson.

  • Social Media Free Speech Issues Are Trending At High Court

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    The U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision examining what constitutes state action on social media can be viewed in conjunction with oral arguments in two other cases to indicate that the court sees a need for more clarity regarding how social media usage implicates the First Amendment, say attorneys at Kean Miller.

  • Recent Wave Of SEC No-Action Denials May Be Slowing

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    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in March granted no-action relief to Verizon and others on the grounds that a director resignation bylaw proposal would mean violating Delaware law, bucking recent SEC hesitation toward such relief and showing that articulating a basis in state law is a viable path to exclude a proposal, say attorneys at Winston & Strawn.

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