Telecommunications

  • November 07, 2024

    AT&T Says Tolling Not Necessary In Workers' OT Suit

    Call center workers shouldn't be allowed to toll the statute of limitations in their collective suit claiming that AT&T failed to pay them overtime, the company told an Illinois federal court, arguing that nothing has precluded purported plaintiffs from chiming in.

  • November 07, 2024

    AT&T Buys UScellular Spectrum Licenses In $1B Deal

    United States Cellular Corp. on Thursday announced that it has agreed to sell a portion of its retained spectrum licenses to telecommunications giant AT&T for $1.018 billion, in a deal built by at five law firms.

  • November 06, 2024

    FTC Pushes For Amazon Docs In Antitrust Case

    The Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday urged a federal court in Seattle to make Amazon hand over documents in the agency's monopolization case against the e-commerce giant, saying its discovery requests aren't unduly burdensome given the breadth of Amazon's alleged anticompetitive conduct.

  • November 06, 2024

    Trump Win Set To Reshape FCC, Push Policies Rightward

    Donald Trump's return to the White House following Tuesday's election will usher in new political appointees at federal agencies to carry out conservative tech and telecom policies, leading to a reshuffling of priorities at the Federal Communications Commission.

  • November 06, 2024

    Customers Look To Preserve Lead Class Action Against AT&T

    AT&T shareholders are telling a Texas federal judge that the company acted with scienter when it allegedly misled investors about the removal of lead-covered copper cables from its network, pushing back on AT&T's motion to dismiss the suit stemming from a drop in the company's stock price.

  • November 06, 2024

    CMA Probing Outbrain's $1B Altice Video Platform Deal

    Britain's competition enforcer is investigating digital advertising technology provider Outbrain's planned purchase of video advertising platform Teads in a deal with European telecommunications company Altice worth around $1 billion.

  • November 06, 2024

    Stifel Balks At CFTC Offer To Settle Text Messaging Case

    Stifel said Wednesday that it has rejected an offer to settle U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission claims tied to off-channel communications use, the latest in an industry sweep that previously saw the boutique investment bank settle with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for $35 million.

  • November 06, 2024

    Ex-Exec Says Do-Nothing ComEd Jobs A Favor To Madigan

    A former Commonwealth Edison executive testified Wednesday that several subcontractors the utility kept on the payroll for years did little to no work and were hired as a favor for former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, bolstered by a series of recordings he captured while cooperating with the government.

  • November 06, 2024

    Telephone Co. Escapes 401(k) Recordkeeping Fee Suit

    An Iowa federal judge tossed a proposed class action alleging mismanagement of a telephone and data company's employee 401(k) plan, concluding Wednesday that workers had not sufficiently backed up allegations of excessive recordkeeping and administrative fees.

  • November 06, 2024

    Telecom Co. Seeks Toss Of Insurer's Marshall Fire Suit

    A Lumen Technologies subsidiary urged a Colorado federal court to toss a Liberty Mutual unit's suit seeking to avoid coverage for underlying actions over the 2021 Marshall Fire, saying the insurer lacks standing because it has not suffered any injury.

  • November 06, 2024

    Corning Hit With EU Probe Over Mobile Phone Glass Deals

    Corning faces an investigation by the European Commission over suspicions the multinational glass producer abused its dominant position in the global market for a glass used to protect mobile phone screens, the antitrust watchdog said Wednesday.

  • November 05, 2024

    Trump Has Official Immunity. What About His Aides?

    Whether the U.S. Supreme Court's decision on presidential immunity extends to subordinates who follow a president's orders has become a more pressing question in the wake of Donald Trump's projected election win, according to legal experts.

  • November 05, 2024

    How Trump Can Quash His Criminal Cases

    Donald Trump's projected victory at the polls also translates to a win in the courts, as the second-term president will have the power to end both of his federal criminal cases. And the U.S. Supreme Court's decision on presidential immunity would shield him from any consequences for ordering his charges to be dismissed, experts say.

  • November 05, 2024

    An Early Look At Trump's Supreme Court Shortlist

    With former President Donald Trump projected to win the 2024 presidential election and the Republicans' success in securing the U.S. Senate majority, Trump may now get the chance to appoint two more justices to the U.S. Supreme Court, cementing the court's conservative tilt for decades to come.

  • November 05, 2024

    GOP's Senate Win Hands Future Of The Judiciary To Trump

    Republicans were projected to take back the White House and Senate and possibly the House early Wednesday, putting the GOP in position to back Donald Trump's agenda and his slate of young, conservative judicial nominees. 

  • November 05, 2024

    The Firms With An Inside Track To A New Trump Admin

    Law firms that have represented Donald Trump and the Republican Party on everything from personal legal woes to election-related lawsuits could see the risks of that work pay dividends as Trump is projected to secure a second term in office.

  • November 05, 2024

    Nunes Can Search Maddow's Devices In Defamation Suit

    A New York federal judge reopened discovery Monday in former Rep. Devin Nunes' defamation suit accusing Rachel Maddow of improperly implying that the California Republican failed to give authorities a package from a suspected Russian agent, saying the MSNBC host's personal devices can be subject to a limited search.

  • November 05, 2024

    Public Interest Groups Press For 60-Day Phone 'Unlocking'

    Three big consumer advocate groups are throwing their weight behind a Federal Communications Commission proposal to require mobile providers to unlock a customer's device within 60 days of their signing up, saying the move would "most benefit lower-income customers."

  • November 05, 2024

    Allow More High Power Use In Shared Airwaves, Org. Says

    The Federal Communications Commission is looking at overhauling the Citizens Broadband Radio Service, and the group that helped develop the standards for it originally says it's time to allow high power use in the midband spectrum.

  • November 05, 2024

    Venezuela Looks To Nix $1.2B Expropriation Claim

    Venezuela is urging a D.C. federal court to toss an investor's $1.2 billion claim accusing the government of unlawfully seizing his assets in the television, education and real estate industries, saying the claim has already been rejected in international arbitration.

  • November 05, 2024

    Nokia Beats Patent Infringement Case Over Router Tech

    A Texas federal jury found Tuesday that a licensing company hasn't proved that certain Nokia internet protocol routers infringe a trio of patents related to technology for transmitting data, handing a win to the telecommunications giant.

  • November 05, 2024

    DC Circ. Wary Of FTC Changes To $5B Meta Privacy Deal

    The Federal Trade Commission faced a skeptical D.C. Circuit panel Tuesday in its bid to modify a $5 billion privacy deal with Meta, with judges questioning why any private company would settle with the agency if the deal could later be reopened.

  • November 05, 2024

    Hagens Berman Defends Bid To Ditch AWOL Apple Suit Client

    A Washington federal judge expressed skepticism on Tuesday that Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP was within its rights to substitute a proposed class representative in an antitrust case against Amazon and Apple earlier this year when the lead plaintiff stopped communicating with the firm.

  • November 05, 2024

    Edge Providers Say Data Centers Key To Network Growth

    Data centers will be buzzing with ever more activity in the coming years, and edge providers like Netflix and Amazon want to make sure that U.S. agencies keep up with the network traffic flow, according to a new filing from their national trade group.

  • November 05, 2024

    GOP Sens. Say NTIA 'Distorting' US Broadband Access

    Senate Republicans are accusing Democratic presidential candidate and Vice President Kamala Harris of "manipulating census data" to conceal the number of people using satellite internet, in their latest attack on the Biden administration and Harris, who they have dubbed the "broadband czar."

Expert Analysis

  • Opinion

    Congress Can And Must Enact A Supreme Court Ethics Code

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    As public confidence in the U.S. Supreme Court dips to historic lows following reports raising conflict of interest concerns, Congress must exercise its constitutional power to enact a mandatory and enforceable code of ethics for the high court, says Muhammad Faridi, president of the New York City Bar Association.

  • Perspectives

    Pop Culture Docket: Justice Lebovits On Gilbert And Sullivan

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    Characters in the 19th century comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan break the rules of good lawyering by shamelessly throwing responsible critical thought to the wind, providing hilarious lessons for lawyers and judges on how to avoid a surfeit of traps and tribulations, say acting New York Supreme Court Justice Gerald Lebovits and law student Tara Scown.

  • New TCPA Rule Faces Uncertain Future Post-Loper Bright

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    The Federal Communications Commission's new rule aiming to eliminate lead generators' use of unlawful robocalls is now in doubt with the U.S. Supreme Court's Loper Bright decision, and the Eleventh Circuit's Insurance Marketing Coalition v. FCC is poised to be a test case of the agency's ability to enforce the Telephone Consumer Protection Act post-Chevron, say attorneys at Baker McKenzie.

  • 'Minimum Contacts' Issues At Stake In High Court FSIA Case

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    In CC/Devas v. Antrix, the U.S. Supreme Court must decide whether a "minimum contacts" requirement should be implied in the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, with the potential to dramatically change the legislative landscape through the establishment of a new and significant barrier to U.S. suits against foreign states, say attorneys at WilmerHale.

  • State Of The States' AI Legal Ethics Landscape

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    Over the past year, several state bar associations, as well as the American Bar Association, have released guidance on the ethical use of artificial intelligence in legal practice, all of which share overarching themes and some nuanced differences, say Eric Pacifici and Kevin Henderson at SMB Law Group.

  • 8 Childhood Lessons That Can Help You Be A Better Attorney

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    A new school year is underway, marking a fitting time for attorneys to reflect on some fundamental life lessons from early childhood that offer a framework for problems that no legal textbook can solve, say Chris Gismondi and Chris Campbell at DLA Piper.

  • Opinion

    This Election, We Need To Talk About Court Process

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    In recent decades, the U.S. Supreme Court has markedly transformed judicial processes — from summary judgment standards to notice pleadings — which has, in turn, affected individuals’ substantive rights, and we need to consider how the upcoming presidential election may continue this pattern, says Reuben Guttman at Guttman Buschner.

  • Series

    Playing Diplomacy Makes Us Better Lawyers

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    Similar to the practice of law, the rules of Diplomacy — a strategic board game set in pre-World War I Europe — are neither concise nor without ambiguity, and weekly gameplay with our colleagues has revealed the game's practical applications to our work as attorneys, say Jason Osborn and Ben Bevilacqua at Winston & Strawn.

  • Open Questions In Unsettled Geofence Warrant Landscape

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    The Fourth and Fifth Circuits recently reached radically divergent conclusions about the constitutionality of geofence warrants, creating an uncertain landscape in which defendants should assert and preserve the full range of conventional Fourth Amendment challenges, says Charles Fowler at McKool Smith.

  • Antitrust In Retail: Why FTC Is Studying 'Surveillance Pricing'

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    The Federal Trade Commission's decision to study targeted "surveillance pricing" should provide greater clarity into the nature of the data aggregation industry, but also raises several issues, including whether these practices are in fact illegal under any established interpretations of U.S. antitrust law, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.

  • Mental Health First Aid: A Brief Primer For Attorneys

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    Amid a growing body of research finding that attorneys face higher rates of mental illness than the general population, firms should consider setting up mental health first aid training programs to help lawyers assess mental health challenges in their colleagues and intervene with compassion, say psychologists Shawn Healy and Tracey Meyers.

  • What 2 Key Rulings Mean For Solicitation Under TCPA

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    Two recent rulings from federal district courts in New York and California — each of which came to a different conclusion — bring to light courts' continued focus on and analysis of when an alleged communication constitutes a solicitation under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, say Felix Shipkevich and Jessica Livingston at Shipkevich.

  • Series

    Collecting Art Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    The therapeutic aspects of appreciating and collecting art improve my legal practice by enhancing my observation skills, empathy, creativity and cultural awareness, says attorney Michael McCready.

  • Secret Service Failures Offer Lessons For Private Sector GCs

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    The Secret Service’s problematic response to two assassination attempts against former President Donald Trump this summer provides a crash course for general counsel on how not to handle crisis communications, says Keith Nahigian at Nahigian Strategies.

  • Managing Sanctions Defense Across Multiple Jurisdictions

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    Companies called before multiple regulators to account for the same conduct in this era of increased global sanctions and import-control enforcement should consider national differences in law and policy, and proactively coordinate their responses in certain key areas, say attorneys at Baker McKenzie.

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