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August 11, 2025
Rising Star: Jenner & Block's Lauren Greene
Jenner & Block LLP's Lauren Greene helped NBCUniversal block the sale of knockoff "Friday Night Lights" merch and settle a trademark dispute over the "Back to the Future" DeLorean time machine, earning her a spot among the media and entertainment law practitioners under age 40 honored by 极速赛车 as Rising Stars.
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August 11, 2025
Fired PGA Tour Reporter Says Vaccine, Mask Objections Legit
A former PGA Tour on-air talent, who was terminated for not complying with COVID-19 protocols, has told a Florida federal court that a trial is the appropriate vehicle through which to analyze whether her religious objections were "bona fide," and that the question cannot be addressed at the summary judgment stage.
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August 11, 2025
FCC Republican Names Senior Legal Adviser
A Republican on the Federal Communications Commission on Monday named an FCC lawyer and Wiley Rein LLP alum as her new senior legal adviser.
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August 11, 2025
Photographer Says Media Co. Misued His Bitcoin Photo
A professional photographer sued financial media company Benzinga on Monday in Michigan federal court, accusing it of wrongfully using one of his copyrighted photos featuring bitcoin iconography in its online content.
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August 11, 2025
AI Firm Anthropic Can't Get Pause For Early Fair Use Appeal
A California federal judge on Monday denied a request from artificial intelligence firm Anthropic to pause a case over its use of books to train its large language model so it could appeal a ruling saying a jury would decide whether damages were warranted for the company's use of pirated works.
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August 11, 2025
Calif. Judge Shuts Off Some Netflix Patent Claims In Suit
A California federal judge has narrowed Netflix's lawsuit accusing Broadcom of ripping off five software patents, tossing some patent claims for good while giving the streaming company the ability to amend others.
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August 11, 2025
NY Judge Won't Unseal 'Redundant' Maxwell Grand Jury Docs
A New York federal judge on Monday denied the Trump administration's bid to unseal grand jury transcripts and exhibits in the prosecution of Ghislaine Maxwell, who is appealing a 20-year prison sentence for trafficking teenage girls for sex offender and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, concluding that the materials contain almost nothing new.
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August 11, 2025
Rumble Eyes $1.2B Deal For German AI Data Center Operator
Rumble Inc. is exploring an all-stock purchase of Germany-based Northern Data AG backed by legal counsel from Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, in a potential $1.2 billion deal.
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August 08, 2025
3rd Circ. Affirms Toss Of GameStop Website Tracking Suit
The Third Circuit refused to revive a proposed class action accusing GameStop of violating Pennsylvania's wiretap law through its use of third-party software to record website visitors' browsing activities, finding that the plaintiff failed to show that the alleged interception of her non-personal data caused a sufficiently concrete injury.
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August 08, 2025
Missy Elliott Producer Can't Delay Copyright Trial
A Pennsylvania federal judge refused Thursday to delay a copyright trial against music superstar Missy Elliott until after a sanctions motion is decided, leaving the trial set for Aug. 25.
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August 08, 2025
Fired Copyright Office Director Takes Fight For Job To DC Circ.
The ousted head of the U.S. Copyright Office brought the fight over President Donald Trump's termination of her to the D.C. Circuit on Thursday, where she asked for an emergency injunction to reinstate her while she challenges her "patently unlawful removal."
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August 08, 2025
Ex-Ga. ICE Doc Ends Slander Suit Against Amazon Podcast
A former physician at a Georgia immigration detention center has settled his lawsuit against a true crime podcast and its host, alleging they defamed him by claiming he performed forced hysterectomies on detainees.
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August 08, 2025
George Clinton Fights Sanctions In Decades-Long IP Battle
Funk legend George Clinton has asked a Florida federal court to reject sanctions and lawsuit dismissal bids from music executive Armen Boladian, arguing that his copyright ownership complaint is not frivolous.
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August 08, 2025
Nielsen Holdings, Spinoff End Data Cutoff Fight In Del.
Nielsen Holdings Ltd. and consumer intelligence spinoff Nielsen Consumer IQ, or NIQ, agreed Friday to dismiss a Delaware Court of Chancery suit that saw the two battle over what a vice chancellor termed a "fairly blatant" NIQ effort to unilaterally sever data flows to Nielsen Holdings and another user.
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August 08, 2025
Consumer Says Gambling Site Can't Force Suit Into Arbitration
A consumer accusing the operator of a casino-oriented gambling website of allegedly creating a dangerous environment that fuels gambling addiction is fighting arbitration, telling an Illinois federal court the agreement does not exist and if it did, it would be unenforceable.
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August 08, 2025
Match Beats Rest Of British Telecommunications Patent Suit
Match.com has defeated the remainder of a lawsuit claiming it infringed a personal profile patent owned by British Telecommunications, saying the last claim at issue didn't pass either prong of the U.S. Supreme Court's Alice test.
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August 08, 2025
Titanic Artifact Ch. 11 Sale Suit Settled For $12M
A Florida bankruptcy judge Friday approved an $11.75 million settlement of a long-standing adversary lawsuit over the sale of artifacts from the Titanic during the bankruptcy of a company that ran popular traveling exhibits about the ship.
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August 08, 2025
Advocates Won't Ask Justices To Revive Net Neutrality Rules
Public interest groups said Friday they have decided not to bring a high court challenge to the Sixth Circuit's decision to overturn the Federal Communications Commission's net neutrality rules, even as they called the ruling "spectacularly wrong."
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August 08, 2025
Latest T-Mobile Deal Suggests DOJ-FCC Spectrum Tension
The Federal Communications Commission declared victory last month in affirmatively clearing T-Mobile's $4.4 billion acquisition of UScellular wireless operations, but the Justice Department appeared far more reluctant in a statement hinting at the wider dynamics of how the Trump administration looks at telecommunications transactions.
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August 08, 2025
Fed. Circ. Undoes LG's $14M Trial Loss, Invalidating Patent
The Federal Circuit on Friday scrapped a $14 million judgment against LG Electronics Inc. for infringing a Mondis Technology Ltd. patent covering a computer display technology, deeming the patent invalid based on an inadequate written description.
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August 08, 2025
Warner Bros. Faces TM Trial Over 'Ugliest House' Show
A Delaware federal judge ruled Friday that Warner Bros. Discovery cannot avoid a bench trial this month over whether its HGTV show "Ugliest House in America" infringes the trademarks of HomeVestors of America Inc., which owns marks for "We Buy Ugly Houses" and "Ugliest House of the Year" for an annual contest.
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August 08, 2025
Why DOJ's US Attorney Moves Are Reaching Critical Point
The Trump administration's strategy of extending U.S. attorney appointments using a pair of laws that allow for interim and acting prosecutors has sparked a constitutional tug-of-war between the executive, legislative and judicial branches that could end up in the U.S. Supreme Court or spur congressional action.
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August 08, 2025
Judge Rebuts 'Intemperate' Language In 'It Ends With Us' Row
A New York federal judge on Friday warned all litigants in actress Blake Lively's defamation case against her "It Ends With Us" co-star Justin Baldoni not to use "intemperate" language and personal attacks in court filings.
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August 08, 2025
Judge Tosses $150M Royalties Suit Against SiriusXM
A Manhattan federal judge has dismissed a suit against SiriusXM from a nonprofit royalty collector alleging $150 million in unpaid royalties, saying the dispute cannot be litigated under a certain section of the Copyright Act.
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August 08, 2025
CFTC Blesses Another Event Betting Website
U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission staff has announced they will not pursue enforcement actions against a prediction market company set to launch as a designated contract market, allowing the company to move forward with permitting users to bet on real-world events, such as entertainment and public policy.
Expert Analysis
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Trump's 2nd Term Puts Merger Remedies Back On The Table
In contrast with the Biden administration, the second Trump administration has signaled a renewed willingness to resolve merger enforcement concerns through remedies from the outset, particularly when the proposed fix is structural, clearly addresses the harm and does not require burdensome oversight, say attorneys at Cooley.
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Reel Justice: 'Oh, Hi!' Teaches Attys To Return To The Statute
The new dark comedy film 鈥淥h, Hi!鈥 鈥 depicting a romantic vacation that turns into an inadvertent kidnapping 鈥 should remind criminal practitioners to always reread the statute to avoid assumptions, meet their ethical duties and finesse their trial strategy, says Veronica Finkelstein at Wilmington University School of Law.
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What To Know About NCAA Deal's Arbitration Provisions
Kathryn Hester at Jones Walker discusses the key dispute resolution provisions of the NCAA's recently approved class action settlement that allows for complex revenue sharing with college athletes, breaking down the arbitration stipulations and explaining how the Northern District of California will handle certain enforcement, administration, implementation and interpretation disputes.
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Opinion
Premerger Settlements Don't Meet Standard For Bribery
Claims that Paramount鈥檚 decision to settle a lawsuit with President Donald Trump while it was undergoing a premerger regulatory review amounts to a quid pro quo misconstrue bribery law and ignore how modern legal departments operate, says Ediberto Rom谩n at the Florida International University College of Law.
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Series
Playing Soccer Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Soccer has become a key contributor to how I approach my work, and the lessons I鈥檝e learned on the pitch about leadership, adaptability, resilience and communication make me better at what I do every day in my legal career, says Whitney O鈥橞yrne at MoFo.
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What To Do When Congress And DOJ Both Come Knocking
As recently seen in the news, clients may find themselves facing parallel U.S. Department of Justice and congressional investigations, requiring a comprehensive response that considers the different challenges posed by each, say attorneys at Friedman Kaplan.
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Series
Law School's Missed Lessons: Learning From Failure
While law school often focuses on the importance of precision, correctness and perfection, mistakes are inevitable in real-world practice 鈥 but failure is not the opposite of progress, and real talent comes from the ability to recover, rethink and reshape, says Brooke Pauley at Tucker Ellis.
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Midyear Rewind: How Courts Are Reshaping VPPA Standards
The first half of 2025 saw a series of cases interpreting the Video Privacy Protection Act as applied to website tracking technologies, including three appellate rulings deepening circuit splits on what qualifies as personally identifiable information and who qualifies as a consumer under the statute, say attorneys at Perkins Coie.
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How The Healthline Privacy Settlement Redefines Ad Tech Use
The Healthline settlement is the first time California has drawn a clear line in the sand around how website tracking must function in practice, so if your site uses tracking technologies, especially around sensitive content like health or finance, regulators are inspecting your website's back end, not just its banner, say attorneys at Baker Donelson.
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Series
Adapting To Private Practice: From ATF Director To BigLaw
As a two-time boomerang partner, returning to BigLaw after stints as a U.S. attorney and the director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, people ask me how I know when to move on, but there鈥檚 no single answer 鈥 just clearly set your priorities, says Steven Dettelbach at BakerHostetler.
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Influencer Marketing Partnerships Face Rising Litigation Risk
In light of recent class actions claiming that brands and influencers are misleading consumers with deceptive marketing practices 鈥 largely premised on the Federal Trade Commission's endorsements guidance 鈥 proactive compliance measures are becoming more important, say attorneys at Olshan Frome.
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7 Ways Employers Can Avoid Labor Friction Over AI
As artificial intelligence use in the workplace emerges as a key labor relations topic in the U.S. and Europe, employers looking to reduce reputational risk and prevent costly disputes should consider proactive strategies to engage with unions, say attorneys at Baker McKenzie.
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Anthropic Ruling Creates Fair Use Framework For AI Training
A California federal court鈥檚 recent ruling that Anthropic鈥檚 use of copyrighted books to train its large language model qualified as fair use provides important guidance for both artificial intelligence developers and copyright holders because it distinguishes between transformative uses and unauthorized uses involving pirated or format-shifted works, say attorneys at Ropes & Gray.
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Series
Playing Baseball Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Playing baseball in college, and now Wiffle ball in a local league, has taught me that teamwork, mental endurance and emotional intelligence are not only important to success in the sport, but also to success as a trial attorney, says Kevan Dorsey at聽Swift Currie.
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Series
Law School's Missed Lessons: Skillful Persuasion
In many ways, law school teaches us how to argue, but when the ultimate goal is to get your client what they want, being persuasive through preparation and humility is the more likely key to success, says Michael Friedland at Friedland Cianfrani.